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I doubt in 50 years anyone will know who Zuck is; he's really not that relevant historically. Steve Jobs will be known, Zuck, not from anything he's done yet. Facebook is not original or world changing, it's simply popular. It wasn't the first nor will it be the last social network.

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That may be true, but give the guy a little credit, he created a service that has 750 million active users. How many other people can say that?

I do believe I said it's popular. That's not making history though.

Yeah, creating something thas is popular IS history... people will still remember Michael Jackson... and Facebook... and another bunch of useless extremly popular things.

> people will still remember Michael Jackson

People do and will remember Jackson because of the music with lasting value he left behind, not because they remember listening to that music 20 years ago.

Facebook will, wenn G+ eats its lunch in a year or two, leave nothing tangible, audible or visible behind. Facebook will be just a memory, and memories quickly fade. Do you remember browsing geocities or tripod sites? Exactly. Me neither.

Larry and Sergy, Robyn Li, the iTunes store, the QQ guys, Jerry Yang and David Filo, Ballmer. (note, I'm guessing)

There's tonnes of sites that serve 750 million. No service that has the same amount of activity, but in 10 years a few status updates will seem like usernet does today.

Jeez, you guys don't see the significance of a product having 750 million active users? I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it's historical significance, especially without any precedent.

No precedent? I assume you know of MySpace and the like so what do you mean there is no precedent to Facebook? Or do you mean to a product that has 750 million active users?

MySpace had nowhere near the audience of Facebook, today. And yes, I mean a product that has nearly 750 million active users.

are you serious?

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