All of those did something different to facebook. None of them attempt to replace it. Googles problem is not that they can't move fast, they already move too fast. Every year they totally rebuild an IM platform and create a new music streaming service.
A SPA supporting deep linking and an access model that provides unauthenticated access to public content should, in principle, be able to be made indistinguishable from a set of classic webpages with the public portion of the app content, from an SEO perspective, at least if one takes the JS rendering ability of the search bot(s) of concern into account.
Why not ? You should check Niman area. Lot of coffee shop where writers and other artists likes de hangout. As said a lot of remote workers are living here. I know some people working for big US tech companies living here.