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The cost of parasites was too high for facebook, when weighted against the opportunities: facebook is all about being flat and appealing to the general public, complexities like possible scams are putting off too many potential users. Facebook could not have grown to its present size if it had not killed the platform.

Also they can't share the social graph; the monopoly on the data that they have gathered on us is the whole point/worth/wealth of the company.

If facebook or google run into financial problems (this might happen if tax loopholes are closed, and countries decide that even big companies have to pay real corporate taxes) then these companies will be bailed out as they are 'too big to fail'.



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