Re:Facebook, It's Like Instagram for Birthdays
by dasil003 on Monday February 13, 2012 @01:30PM
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I don't disagree with any of the rest of your comment, but:
> Isn't that just a nice way of saying that Facebook isn't useful?
No it's not—along two axes. First, I should have said "it doesn't solve an obvious problem", it solves many small problems of varying degrees of obviousness to different people. Second, it is not a unique solver of these problems.
Facebook is definitely useful, but it's not a home run in the way the telephone was because communication is no longer a technical problem.
> Isn't that just a nice way of saying that Facebook isn't useful?
No it's not—along two axes. First, I should have said "it doesn't solve an obvious problem", it solves many small problems of varying degrees of obviousness to different people. Second, it is not a unique solver of these problems.
Facebook is definitely useful, but it's not a home run in the way the telephone was because communication is no longer a technical problem.