> But, yeah, they did avoid the obnoxious ads (at first) I think that's debatable, perhaps it wasn't as bad as MySpace at the time, but the facebook I joined i

> But, yeah, they did avoid the obnoxious ads (at first) I think that's debatable, perhaps it wasn't as bad as MySpace at the time, but the facebook I joined in 2008 was fairly obnoxious with advertisers using profile pictures of the users left and right; the thought of it becoming a company the size of Google never crossed my mind back then. In retrospect I think they were very lucky not to lose their userbase and traction to a better service when the advertising and application spam got unbearable.