Re:Facebook Is Not Really That Special
by blader on Thursday April 10, 2008 @07:09PM
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I'd parody this with 'Email Is Not Really That Special', but I'm too busy building a profitable company on Facebook.
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Chia pets were profitable. The pet rock, too. That doesn't mean they were important, except to the people who realized the profits.
Re:Facebook Is Not Really That Special
by mattmaroon on Thursday April 10, 2008 @08:52PM
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Email was clearly a paradigm shift, but I wasn't there during its inception. It was well established by the time I got wise.
Okay, that was a little flippant on my part.
I agree with the other two guys that there isn't a whole lot of correlation between profitability and importance.
I just think you're underestimating the importance of social tools that help people communicate more efficiently. I could replace 'Facebook' with 'email' and 'Google' with 'the telephone' and your rant would make about as much sense, but it'd be just as wrong.
“paradigm shift”
You should look that up (i.e. read Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions), because it does not mean what you think it means. (Except when used as a bullshit buzzword by “enterprise” software executives)
You're not forward-thinking out-of-the-box. These best-of-breed phrases are multi-disciplinary across vertical and horizontal markets.
Email has become a broken platform for spam - similar to facebook.