Dan Luu • 1/1/2010

Are closed social networks inevitable?

This article presents an archived conversation debating the inevitability of a closed social network platform dominating the internet. One side argues network effects make a single winner like Facebook inevitable, while the other contends for a distributed, open model for the 'social graph', similar to the internet itself, expressing hope that a company like Google would champion this open approach.

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#social networks #network effects #distributed systems