Reports of Facebook’s demise are greatly exaggerated
They have cleaning up to do but it is still a solid product that people use a lot and actually want, a minority flouncing notwithstanding
*Any* product at this scale (public or private) would have such maturation pains
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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
“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. #antitrust
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Partly agree. I'd compare this to IBM selling counting machines to the Reich.
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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.








