Instagram and WhatsApp perfectly disprove your point. FB tried very hard to make people use its Instagram clone and failed totally
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Replying to @benedictevans @gavinsblog
And thus it bought it! My argument isn't FB is endlessly innovative; rather, it can build anti-competitive walls with money.
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Also, my argument is that you get forced into product, but that product *design* has impacts on what choices you make there.
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Replying to @benedictevans @gavinsblog
It's something very well established experimentally. Academic/tech conferences are full of true experiments that keep showing this.
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Replying to @zeynep @gavinsblog
“They can get people to do this or that a little more”: trivial observation. “They can make people change behavior” - massive assumption
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As I keep saying, I think you conflate marginal channeling of micro-behaviors with ability to create macro-behaviors or wants.
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Replying to @benedictevans @gavinsblog
In fact, I argue that it's not the broad wants that that change, but what's possible *given* relative stability of human wants/dynamics.
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Replying to @zeynep @gavinsblog
And I argue those are the opposite of stable
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Replying to @benedictevans @gavinsblog
At a fundamental level? Pretty stable. Belonging, status, community, etc. Maslow treated like a joke, but it's good—but layers more mixed.
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What changes is the instantiation: with digital tech, for example, expats/immigrants retain some sense of community with back home etc.
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