Remember AOL Chatrooms?

The problem with a new social network launching every few years is the same as that of dvd players and video game consoles.

They want you to start everything from scratch, even releasing old movies in the new format so you'll want to buy the new blu-ray version of LOTR, which you'll likely have to repurchase in another ten years when the new version is released on the superhdd-laser-violet-disc format. And they don't always offering backwards compatibility, and you'll also have to choose which company's media player you'll go with because they can't play each other's, until one loses and the other wins the "next generation" war, but it still doesn't matter, because you still can't play VHS cassettes on there, so you still have that really old VCR that you haven't quite discarded yet, because there are still a few movies in the format that you want to keep in touch with every now and then.

I mean wtf. Just release ONE thing and do patch-updates to those devices, and let people mingle between networks so they don't have to restart everything every few years. I mean who ever says "Oh, I don't really talk to some of my friends anymore, because they go exclusively to Starbucks and I like Seattle's Best. But sometimes, I go to that cafe at Books-A-Million because I have some photos there that for some reason people are still commenting on.