That's my line! For the last decade decade, people would say, wait you criticize the internet what about the printing press or telephone etc? I'm like, yeah, we quasi-stabilized that one after 1946. Let's do this one before another few global wars?
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I do think all of the pathologies we see today in social media were present in email. Disinformation, the pileons, flamewars. They were just less important because people engaged less in total, but they were a similar proportion of the total activity.
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But regardless, it's an evolutionary process that causes low friction networks to beat high friction ones, and thus to become irrelevant. You can't create a world in which high friction networks win in the market.
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