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The CEO of Facebook goes as far as saying he wants it to be a utility: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-the-social-web-utility-company/5152 http://www.zdn

• pdonis 13y ago
  Yes, back in 2007, and on the basis of exposing various API functions that FB has now repeatedly shown that it is willing to arbitrarily restrict or revoke when developers use them in ways FB doesn't like. They are within their rights to do that, but it's not the sort of behavior that's consistent with wanting to be a utility. But even if FB didn't do that, the argument about them being a utility doesn't hold water, because, as nknighthb pointed out upthread, FB could shut down tomorrow and people would simply find other means of social networking. The public utility is the Internet infrastructure itself; that is what would cause huge disruption if it were suddenly shut down or restricted.