What We Wrote About Facebook 12 Years Ago
In 2007, a writer for <em>The Atlantic</em> predicted that the social network would dominate as an engine of connection—and an invasive peddler of user data.
The year was 2007, and Myspace was king. With more than 300 million registered users, it was the world’s largest social-networking platform by a mile and, since overtaking Google the previous year, the most visited website in the United States. Friendster had been thoroughly eclipsed. Google’s first attempt at a social network, Orkut, was a domestic flop. Twitter, founded in 2006, still hosted only a fraction of a
