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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by freshhawk on Monday June 20, 2016 @01:49AM (#11936257)
I think it's just about network effects. Everyone is on Facebook because everyone is on Facebook.

Although network effects work the other way as well, when people start leaving social networks they collapse exponentially just like they grew exponentially.

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