I suppose they could solve superintelligence and cure cancer and build fusion reactors with it, but that's 100% outside their comfort zone - if they manage to build synthethic conversation partners and synthethic content generators as good or better than the real thing the value of having every other human on the planet registered to one of their social network goes to zero.
Which is impossible anyway - I facebook to maintain real human connections and keep up with people who I care about, not to consume infinite content.
I suppose they could solve superintelligence and cure cancer and build fusion reactors with it, but that's 100% outside their comfort zone - if they manage to build synthethic conversation partners and synthethic content generators as good or better than the real thing the value of having every other human on the planet registered to one of their social network goes to zero.
Which is impossible anyway - I facebook to maintain real human connections and keep up with people who I care about, not to consume infinite content.