&gt; <i>We all know how Facebook has disrupted what now seem like quaint forms of friendship, [...], information, [...]</i><p>No, it really, <i>really</i>, has not.<p>&gt; <i>But more than that, Facebook, along with all the start-up successes of Silicon Valley, has also disrupted paradigms of success and power.</i><p>Huh, seriously? Who makes this stuff up?! Maybe the author should get out of SV every once in a while to see that in the rest of the world, the concepts of &quot;success&quot; and &quot;power&quot; have not changed in the last 10 years.