One gives you a small chance of winning something, the other only gives you entertainment!
For someone to play the Lottery it must spend some money. It’s a small amount that people are willing to pay for the perspective of earning a lot more, even though the chances are minimal! But at least the one who wins had the same chances as everyone else. There is some sense of fairness. Would you spend even one cent if you knew that the jackpot was going always to the same people? I guess not! After all, what’s the point of playing a game that you cannot won!
What happens is that companies like Facebook leave the door open for it's users to create content but, unless you're some Facebook star with a huge number of followers, you wont be getting any reward for the thought and time spent producing. So like on the lottery we all spend voluntarily a little bit of something ours (some more than others) to the great benefit of some few. But in this case the few are always the same people! The owners of a company that isn't just “doing well” but growing billionaire by centralizing everything around it self.
But don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that there is no utility for Facebook or that you should delete your account, after all we all like to check on people we care about and which for some reason are not close enough to meet with. I view Facebook as what it says it is “a book full of faces” a place to see people, to meet people. If Zuckerberg had designed it at the beginning to focus on content such as writing, photography, art, etc… I doubt he would have had a billionaire company by now. Maybe "www.QualityContentBook.com" would have not worked so well. But that’s just me guessing…
Tell me what you think about this billion dollars company’s that have grown them self’s out of competition.