I wonder when Facebook and Google will stop shooting themselves. They are in the same boat as they are web 2.0. If they manage to kill the web Google and Facebook will die.
In some parts of the world Facebook is the internet for many. Facebook strategically made deals with ISPs to remove Facebook from datacaps and give priority access.
In India Facebook even sold Facebook-only internet access through a large mobile provider until the Indian government stopped them for data neutrality reasons and rightfully so. [1]
Look at the Facebook Zero project that is targeting many third-world countries, the disguised as charity to help those countries gain wide-spread internet access. [2]
