Facebook's behavior reminds me more of AOL scooping up Time Warner to survive the inevitable mainstream enlightenment and migration to the open web.
Well said! It dawned on me yesterday that we are in the Middle Ages of technologies. Hear me out — what I mean by this is we are in a point in human civilization where a LOT of people use technology, the Internet, computers, computer software...
...and MOST of those people have No.Clue.What.It.Is.
This to me sounds like when the Church dominated people's lives, making everyone live by a book called "The Bible".....
....that only a few monks in their "lofty ivory towers" knew how to read, and everyone else to get it from them.
They (the clergy) were the ones who had the power/privilege to disseminate and translate "the word of God" for the rest, and most people had to just....believe them.
....until the Englightenment