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Facebook is becoming the web. Everything you need is there... it is the universe.

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away.

Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

I love Facebook. I could brush my teeth with Facebook.

Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.

I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.

The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.