Judging it as a 'product' implicitly accepts a paradigm of user as product delivered to client - an enclosure business model colonizing non-rival nature. Other business models (e.g. Wikimedia) could be much better enablers of value creation-distribution
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“Maturation points”? Historically, when corporate maturation points coincide with a brazen disregard for the public interest and a long history of flouting laws, it leads to industry-wide regulation. Recall Microsoft.
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It's a product that people don't want, but use a lot
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I don’t know about Denise, but they might have been a party in tipping a presidential election by an enemy foreign power. That’s not a typical growing pain.
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I meant "demise" not Denise. Denise is a always causing problems, forget about her. Go home Denise.
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Partly agree. I'd compare this to IBM selling counting machines to the Reich.
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move fast and break western democracy things
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Maturation pains are an inevitable part of empire-building.
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Agreed. Facebook reminds me of American malls. Not going to disappear anytime soon, although I find them ugly, stultefying, and slightly depressing. Occasionally useful. Only enjoyable in small doses.
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Well, one reason I read your stuff is this refreshing pessimism, often accurate.
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