“Facebook isn’t useful why do these plebs use it, just get off” has always been stupid and a fad. I don’t know how many pieces I wrote saying that Facebook is very useful, except the business model creates wrong incentives. That problem hasn’t gone away. Not a fad critique.
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Replying to @zeynep @antoniogm
And of course all sorts of considerations seem different in the middle of a pandemic but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to forget about them. Lots of things have tension between short term use and long-term damage, and the market doesn’t work well for fixing them.
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Replying to @antoniogm
The first issue old gatekeeper nostalgia and the post-2016 energy around it. Probably don't disagree there. (I was criticizing all this when Obama used it but anyway..). Lots of weird stuff. I don't know if "Zuck fix this" or "I don't use it and I feel so much better" was worse.
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The second issue, where we disagree, is that the problem isn't the individual trade-off but the collective action/public-goods. The first (above) is people who miss horses. The second is, okay, we have cars, they are useful but do we want suburbs and long commutes and emissions?
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