Even though I did recently join Facebook, I’m very much of the same opinion as Jason Kottke regarding Facebook vs. the Internet.

As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else, individuals and companies can develop applications which can interoperate with one another through open and freely available tools, protocols, and interfaces. It’s called the internet and it’s more compelling than AOL was in 1994 and Facebook in 2007.

Facebook is the new AOL [kottke.org]