Where is the disintermediation? All this talk of "products" seems to miss the root problem with these social networks - they aren't networks. They are central

Where is the disintermediation? All this talk of "products" seems to miss the root problem with these social networks - they aren't networks. They are centralized databases that are designed that way not for the benefit of the users but as means of simplifying the profit model. Because they all share that same inherent design, they will all share the same fate. The next generation in social networks will be something that is actually a network, until then all that's really going on is "rearranging deckchairs on the titanic."