{"id":4304,"date":"2012-05-21T18:58:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T23:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2012-05-21T18:58:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T23:58:40","slug":"what-if-facebook-is-really-worth-100-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4304","title":{"rendered":"What if Facebook is really worth $100 billion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Facebook&#8217;s success therefore depends on conformity. Why is Facebook so valuable? Because everyone (even this writer, reluctantly) is on Facebook. Why aren&#8217;t people still on Myspace, or a dozen other social media contenders?<\/p>\n<p>Because the nature of the communication itself requires everyone to be on the same system, just as Microsoft a generation ago forced everyone to use its operating system and software. It is not just the so-called Network Effect, but Facebook&#8217;s raison d&#8217;etre: to advertise one&#8217;s conformity to commercial culture in a way that preserves the illusion of individuality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/atimes.com\/atimes\/Global_Economy\/NE22Dj03.html\">Asia Times Online :: Asian news and current affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s success therefore depends on conformity. Why is Facebook so valuable? Because everyone (even this writer, reluctantly) is on Facebook. Why aren&#8217;t people still on Myspace, or a dozen other social media contenders? Because the nature of the communication itself &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[187,103],"class_list":["post-4304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-facebook","tag-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4305,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions\/4305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}