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You're one of a few hundred thousand people who think that in the midst of a sea of a hundred million who are just getting used to Facebook.

Luckily, the Internet is free so everybody can use whatever they please. You can even Tweet your Facebook status messages if you don't want to disappoint anybody.

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Although Twitter is minuscule compared to Facebook, because it's always been public by default, its influence may be greater in some ways than Facebook. That's the whole point underlying this article: clearly Facebook has been having some Twitter envy for awhile, and they've decided that if they can't join them, they'll try and beat them.

I get that argument a lot here, and I've written lengthy counterarguments before, but that's not at all the case. Look at the features that Facebook introduced to the Internet. They introduced the public feed in the first place, they introduced status updates, peopletagging, granular privacy settings, friend metadata, a whole slew of features I'm certain I missed or am hesitant to credit Facebook. Without Facebook, you don't have Flickr's photo privacy, you don't have FriendFeed, you don't even have Twitter.

The idea that Facebook thinks it has to "beat" Twitter is ludicrous.

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