Andriy Burkov wonders why Facebook won't die the way MySpace did
burkov · x · 2026-09-16
ML author Andriy Burkov muses on Facebook's strange longevity: no new users, uncool with young people, a dead feed and a content farm on par with Quora—yet Meta stays huge on the back of WhatsApp and Instagram. Contrasting MySpace's rapid death, he asks why Facebook lingers and suspects something fishy.
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