This is something that's been on my mind for the last couple days that I think the rest of you need to consider.
I've used the internet since 1992. Those of you old enough to remember the internet in those days know what this means. It means Lynx. NCSA Mosaic. Gopher. Usenet. FTP. Mail you actually had to download. Netscape and Yahoo didn't exist until '94. For most of the later 90's if you wanted to have a website you had something on Geocities. Tripod. Lycos. Search engines were crap and indexes like Yahoo/ODP were manually curated. If you wanted to talk to people you went on Yahoo chat groups and put up with weirdos, or went on phpBBs and put up power-trippy moderators.
I have seen multiple generations of not just sites, but site technologies and paradigms come and go. Facebook is no different.
It is literally just a website. Nothing more. It can be replaced as casually as typing in a different url.
But muh convenience...
But nothing. I never asked for the internet to exist and was getting along fine without it.
YOU, (Facebook) existed in my universe to the extent that you were useful to me.
The long trail of ruins behind them. Yahoo. Juno. Geocities. Myspace. AOL. Facebook is no different. Their acquisitive nature doesn't change the fact that they are built around a flagship product to which the fortunes of all their ancillary products are linked. Eventually they will fail to acquire the new hotness, it will undermine their flagship, the flagship sinks and them with it.
Amazon is different. They too have a trail of ruin behind them but for them the list of ruins is Sears Roebuck & Co, K-Mart (department stores in general), and the 20th century mall. Their principal competitor is Walmart, which is the big box model refined to its leanest, most brutal form. Amazon is basically what Sears was at the turn of the 20th century, and like Sears they'll survive until the landscape changes (Sears was killed by malls only for Amazon to fill the void Sears used to occupy).