Facebook is Columbus?

To follow-up on the Columbus Monday I realize that Facebook is the Christopher Columbus of social media. My reasoning’s are few:

1. Facebook was not the first to bring social media to users 
2. Publicity has partially made Facebook what it is
3. The beginning tactics are questionable

To elaborate, Columbus as most of us know or I believe was not the first explorer to reach America neither, and nor was Facebook the first to the social community. But, how many remember the 1st’s of either and who will be in the history books?

At the times of Columbus reaching America Europe was going thought change and literacy was increasing and distribution of information was also at the peak of its time. This results in wider knowledge of whats happening i.e Columbus found the New World. Facebook has revolutionized the way we expect to interact with friends and associates in a social network. We are currently in the time of unlimited information and content being published instantly Facebook as risen to the top of people’s places to be.  

It is unclear in history book and historian theory whether or not Columbus was making the voyages for gold, glory, or slave trade, but most think he was going it for the better good of humanity. (This would make him a humanist and he was a staunch Catholic) Likewise, Facebook has had flare-ups on whether Mark Zuckerburg stole the idea from fellow student teams and whether or not the proliferation of information is safe. Both are moot points because look where it going and stopping Facebook will not be easy.

I all accounts there are similarities, but how things will play out are the things we will be reading in history books. Let’s just hope the whole story is told not just the “all smiles and sunshine version” we seem to get in textbooks.