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It's not really Facebook offering utility though. They offer the same features every other site trying to be the "fabric of the internet" offers and some would
by CoryG89 13y ago
It's not really Facebook offering utility though. They offer the same features every other site trying to be the "fabric of the internet" offers and some would say not as much. It just so happens that everyone you know has a Facebook at the moment.
- Myrmornis 13y agoIf I like watching birds and someone in my village puts up a bird feeder and all the birds go there and he offers to let me come and watch in return for a small payment then I would say that, while the birds are at his feeder, he is offering utility. This remains true even if all the other villagers also put up identical feeders which remain sadly birdless. Whereas If I'm understanding you correctly, you would say that he is offering utility only if the birds are at his feeder because of some unique bird-attracting design features of his feeder which the other feeders lack. That seems to me to be confusing an implementation detail with what actually matters to the user: he just wants access to birds (his friends). He doesn't care why they are where they are.
- mkr-hn 13y agoFacebook replaced AOL for keeping in touch with friends and family at all distances. Something can replace Facebook for that purpose just as rapidly.