It really bothers me that the definition of success has changed from profits to followers, friends, and feed count. This crap doesn’t mean anything. Kids are coming out of school thinking, I want to start the next YouTube or Facebook. If a restaurant served more food than everybody else but lost money on every diner, would it be successful? No. But on the Internet, for some reason, if you have more users than everyone else, you’re successful. No, you’re not.
The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals, in Inc Magazine
I wince a little inside quoting Fried, but this is pretty much exactly what I think every time anybody talks about how successful Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are. Popular, yes. Successful, as in they have succeeded? No.
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