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This guy acts like he knows exactly why Facebook succeeded and MySpace failed. And sure, it all seems so predictable in retrospect. But nobody could have predicted the rise of Facebook.

Furthermore, attributing the rise to one cause (Facebook is about sharing) is simplistic and naive. Early Facebook wasn't too different from MySpace. Could have just been luck.




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