Re:Why Facebook sucks
by zaidf on Monday October 15, 2007 @01:08AM
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No sane company would open itself completely after only few years of existence.
First, obviously it is a social networking fest out there and facebook would be scared--even as it leads--of potential competitors. That is a valid reason to not open up.
Secondly, opening up at any level has lots of implications, especially concerning privacy. I would say we should be pretty happy with the direction facebook is going in. Few years into existence and it has built a promising application platform.
To all the folks saying that facebook will die the AOL way: they can, but not with the current team. If a day comes when facebook's existence is threatend because they are not opening up enough, guess what? They'll open up some more.
First, obviously it is a social networking fest out there and facebook would be scared--even as it leads--of potential competitors. That is a valid reason to not open up.
Secondly, opening up at any level has lots of implications, especially concerning privacy. I would say we should be pretty happy with the direction facebook is going in. Few years into existence and it has built a promising application platform.
To all the folks saying that facebook will die the AOL way: they can, but not with the current team. If a day comes when facebook's existence is threatend because they are not opening up enough, guess what? They'll open up some more.