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The Many Near-Deaths of Facebook
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The Many Near-Deaths of Facebook

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Byrne Hobart
Mar 4, 2020
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For anyone who has always been in their target demographic, Facebook has always felt inevitable. It took over Harvard in days, became the dominant social network for US undergraduates within a year. By the time “social networking” was a meaningful business, Facebook had beaten Friendster, MySpace, Orkut, and Google+, and had converged enough with Twitte…

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