For some reason I find it hard to love facebook and I am not sure I understand why. I am certainly not jealous of their (relatively) easier path to glory or I am too suspicious about their lapses in user privacy (most companies had their fair share, including google). Yet I find it easier to like google as a companies and not like facebook at all.
Anyone else feels like this?
I think, to me, facebook reminds me of microsoft too much. They have similarities in the way they work by selectively closing everyone off of their pretty little garden.
I know I'll get downvoted for this, but honestly I think it's all just hivemind at work. There's no reason to hate facebook as much as people do.
Facebook's core business is closed, just like Microsoft's, and yes Google's. People just get seduced by all the 'free' and open services Google provides and forget that their core business is search, which is just as opaque.
