It’s not that some European startups haven’t tried. Americans came up with it first, so it’s the first mover and network effect rule at play, I guess. Facebook is defacto communication across large swaths of the world.
We actually had a Facebook-like social medium called Hyves in the Netherlands, which was very big until Facebook also took off here, indeed probably because of the network effect. I’ve never been a fan of online social networks as a concept, though, so I didn’t like either :p
Maybe we will now get our own evil oligarch-run social network monopolist!
It’s not that some European startups haven’t tried. Americans came up with it first, so it’s the first mover and network effect rule at play, I guess. Facebook is defacto communication across large swaths of the world.
We actually had a Facebook-like social medium called Hyves in the Netherlands, which was very big until Facebook also took off here, indeed probably because of the network effect. I’ve never been a fan of online social networks as a concept, though, so I didn’t like either :p
Maybe we will now get our own evil oligarch-run social network monopolist!