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> because they're afraid of some fly-by-night swindlers who nobody will remember in five years.

Fun fact: I said Facebook would be dead by 2006.

I feel a little obligated, at this point, to admit I was wrong.




Early Facebook did die, though. Facebook today is utterly different from the quasi-private social space for college kids that it used to be. They pivoted from an exciting fad to a boring but pervasive network that wants to handle all your communication.




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