Did they ever innovate? What other products has Facebook brought to the world outside of Facebook that changed the world?<p>Unless we consider acquisitions such as Instagram, WhatsApp & Oculus. Sure, they have released interesting tech such as React, Thrift, PyTorch, GraphQL but I don't consider these innovations in the sense some on here might.<p>When I think about innovations, I think in terms of consumer products, products that have changed the world. Outside of search, gmail is heavily used, google office is sufficiently used, Google pulled off amazing tech in terms of tech unlike anything anyone has ever seen. Borg, Spanner, etc.<p>Of all the Facebook tech I mentioned the only one that might be somewhat innovative is GraphQL. I'm not a windows/C# person, but it reminds of of "Linq" so it might not be that innovative.