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Do you believe in coincidence?

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Yesterday something strange happened I was researching about business models for Social Platforms, so I Googled "social business model". I got a Wiki page about "Social Businesses", which are basically welfare-projects, financed by Crowd Sourcing. I haven´t known it before and it wasn´t what I was looking for. So I searched for "Facebook business model" and found great results about what I was looking for (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/ym58jp written in 2006!). After reading I went back to my Facebook page and there was a post, 4 minutes young, from Mark Zuckerberg http://tinyurl.com/6c8e4aq , where he asks his followers to discuss, if the "Social Business"-model is suitable for Facebook with a link to the Wiki page, that I was just viewing some minutes before ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_business ). It had already as many comments as I could scroll. Most people thought he was drunk or something and didn´t take it serious or said it w