“Move fast and break things” is Facebook’s ethos. In five words, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg shifted the thinking model of the entire tech world.
It used to be all about quality, but now it's about pushing out quick updates with new features, testing the updates on a very large number of beta testers, or even an entire region, and of course releasing updates that fix the inevitable broken ones.
What clearly started with Facebook has now become the driving idea behind the entire tech ecosystem. 
The speed that allows for breakages
With apps being developed in a matter of days and selling for millions of dollars just a few weeks later, it's easy to see why Silicon Valley places such importance on speed.
What do you think about the Windows Insider program, and the responsive builds? A huge database of users who play the role of beta testers, very fast updates and although there are often compatibility issues or rough programming.
And for Facebook, one of the largest companies in the world, speed was the primary idea. But now, everything is about speed. Everyone can track, hack, upgrade and of course, take down opponents, quickly.
To help with this practice, Facebook now has an internal warning system that detects threats coming from smaller businesses, according to The Wall Street Journal.
We don't know much about this technology, other than its ability to spy on competitors in an attempt to dominate the battle to promote new features under the Facebook brand name.
Facebook: The Motivational Message
The new technology came after a meeting held last summer, during which Zuckerberg told his employees: not to let pride get in the way of the needs of its users.
If you understand technology shorthand, you can summarize the message in the following words:
“Don’t be afraid to copy interesting features or competitors.”
Examples that break competitors
Take Snapchat. Facebook has routinely stolen some of Snapchat's best features, like "Stories," which is now available in some form on Facebook, as well as on Facebook-owned Instagram and Whatsapp.
Let's move on: After Meerkat's success at SXSW in 2015, came Periscope, a competing app that was eventually purchased and then integrated into Twitter.
Meerkat could no longer compete and eventually shut down the service. From the remaining parts of the app that couldn't stand the competition came Houseparty, a video chat app that connects you with up to eight friends and lets you host multiple "parties" at once.
Now it's under siege from Facebook, which has developed a competing product, Bonfire, which will launch this fall.
Competitor apps could suffer the same fate, because they don't have the expenses required for continued development, or worse, Facebook could potentially run Bonfire indefinitely, even at a loss, just to break a competitor.
Facebook is not the only company
Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and others are doing exactly the same thing to smaller competitors. Offline businesses can hold onto power for decades, but the speed at which online companies are growing is changing the whole game.
For example, Amazon could cripple the economy if it continues to grow at the same rate. Facebook and Google already account for 20% of every dollar spent on advertising. Twitter continues to operate at huge losses but remains big enough to prevent competitors from creating something similar.
The future doesn't look bright. If we continue to ignore the shift in power, one day we will be at the mercy of a handful of lunatics, competing against each other.
