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blhack on March 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?

Glad I'm not the only one confused by that. I googled "define:socratic" and got "Know thyself"...

So I assume he meant that facebook knew exactly what they wanted to be, as opposed to myspace, who was trying to catch up with facebook.

dingle_thunk on March 26, 2011 [–]

Socratic - as in seriously concerned with a logical journey of discovering the essence of what is important - dismissing irrelevance and having little patience for straggling or argument.

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