That wasn't the insight.
Peter Thiel who is on Facebook board of directors and who invested in Facebook very early argues that's the critical insight.
The fact that you can't see from the outside that's what drove Facebook is only more evidence for it being a nonobvious insight where few outside people agree.
Google+ did more real identity than Facebook.
Google+ was released a lot later. With Google+ it's also quite easy to register an account under a fake name which wasn't true with facebook in the initial days.
With Google+ it's also quite easy to register an account under a fake name which wasn't true with facebook in the initial days.
That's simply wrong, at least if we're talking about the early days of Google+. I was on both in their early days and there were more fake names for longer on Facebook.
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