In my previous articles I mentioned how undeveloped the Instant Messaging Industry is: the dominant player in the market provides a service which could be clearly improved, but it still remains
sleeping in the summit because no serious opponent has yet showed up. Many have presented alternatives, but they have not succeeded in ensuring three of four key aspects that every messaging app should have. But they lack something only Facebook has.
In the United States in the 19th century, Manifest destiny was the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent. As we can see in the allegorical painting above, Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a school book.
And, in my opinion, Facebook is called for its own Manifest Destiny: to conquer and dominate the Instant Messaging Market.
