New comment by frogpelt in "We should replace Facebook with personal websites"

Obviously, this was already tried.

The precursor to Facebook, at least among my peers, were personal blogs on Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, etc and the precursor to that was personal web sites on GeoCities and Tripod. Many of my friends linked to each other's sites and it formed a pseudo-social network.

Facebook was better because you could control who saw your website by limiting your friend list. They had the social framework in place, you just had to sign up. Facebook is also a great place to share local news.

Something like it will probably, eventually replace the local newspaper and TV stations.

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