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I've seen way too many "too big to fail" services fail, to believe Facebook is that much harder to displace. BTW: IBM just announced it's offering Apple comput

• geoelectric 11y ago
  We'll see, of course, but I tend to think that the self-reinforcing nature of social media has different market characteristics than, say, mainframes. Unfortunately, the most obvious comparison--telephone networks--hasn't been a free market for a long time. Though to that point, interoperability between social networks would certainly be a nail in Facebook's coffin. As soon as the service commoditizes to a simple portal all bets are off.