> Except the author doesn't say "like a ponzi scheme" it's unsustainable -- they say it is a ponzi scheme
Not the author, but I've addressed that elsewhere. Anyone who has used Facebook knows that Facebook doesn't solicit money from it's users or return money to it's user. This is hence clearly an analogy, no more than if I said Facebook was crap, a black hole, a dinosaur, or anything else.
> facebook doesn't need each successive generation of advertisers to be bigger than the previous which is what causes ponzi schemes to implode.
I believe the article is saying that Facebook needs each successive generation of users to be bigger than the previous, which is indeed what causes ponzi schemes to implode.
Not the author, but I've addressed that elsewhere. Anyone who has used Facebook knows that Facebook doesn't solicit money from it's users or return money to it's user. This is hence clearly an analogy, no more than if I said Facebook was crap, a black hole, a dinosaur, or anything else.
> facebook doesn't need each successive generation of advertisers to be bigger than the previous which is what causes ponzi schemes to implode.
I believe the article is saying that Facebook needs each successive generation of users to be bigger than the previous, which is indeed what causes ponzi schemes to implode.