the difference between us and friendster is that we're also a cryto, if we achieve some cirtical mass of adoption, people will always use us as a online and day2day currency

on the plus side, if eos, eth runs up very high, it actually attracts bigger investors and makes it harder for the everyday people to buy it or even mine it with creativity, hell you can't mine eos, you have to buy it from 1 billion tokens upfront.

this gives us a big underdog advantage to accumulate a Steemian userbase under the radar, we will have the masses, i see that happening with a great probability

BTW. @dan has a history of supporting his older project, it's unlikely he will try to take down bitshares (which his dad runs) with a new exchange and Steem(which he owns probably own close to 10million steem all up with other duplicate accounts like @freedom, also he stil has a big stake in Steemit Inc, can only guess how much Steem that equates to, but it's big!) with a new fb. It's more likely he will try to integrate Bitshares and Steem into the EOS ecosystem which will validate and help both thrive. In the future you'll start to see bridges of blockchain being build...such a protocol does not exist yet, but I see it coming to fruition and a standard within the next 5-10 years.