But Facebook is the Internet, right?
The fact that you’ve reached Chapter 8 of this book suggests you know this not to be true, but for many people, this is what they believe. Technically speaking, Facebook is most definitely not “The Internet.” The Internet as a whole comprises many different networks—millions of networks, in fact—and the World Wide Web (WWW) is just part of that whole. And inside that WWW are all the websites that you know and love, including Facebook.
Just as Jupiter sits there in our solar system, sucking in most of the errant space dust and asteroids that swing past it like some astronomical vacuum cleaner, Facebook is this monstrous (in size, not nature … or not always!) presence, drawing in ever more people. And ...
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