It is a fact of life that eventually, all platforms die.
Platforms are powerful, they put people in the same place, crowds of people in and of themselves are powerful. Platforms provide a common place where we can exchange ideas, goods, and services.
Platforms are great businesses.
Facebook is a platform. It is not the first social platform where ordinary people were put in one room and allowed to exchange information freely. Facebook stood on the shoulders of Myspace and Friendster, then it crushed them under its sheer weight.
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