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Re:Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting... by endlessvoid94 on Sunday December 02, 2012 @11:42AM (#4861658)
What makes you think facebook is a fad?
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Re:Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting... by muuh-gnu on Sunday December 02, 2012 @12:51PM (#4861880)
All the other similar fads before them.
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Re:Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting... by gojomo on Sunday December 02, 2012 @01:54PM (#4862074)
Facebook has already remained vital and growing longer than the Friendster/MySpace precedents, and the Geocities/Angelfire precedents.

They're looking more like email or the web itself. Or the telephone.

Or did you have other 'similar fad' examples in mind?

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Re:Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting... by JoeAltmaier on Sunday December 02, 2012 @03:04PM (#4862308)
Now that you mention it, email! Its going the way of the 1st-class stamp.
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