And (3/3) I keep seeing from you (I think) the unqualified assumption that FB has some fundamental *control* of what we do on Facebook, and can make us do X and Y in important ways. And I think any such control is very, very limited - that FB is led by our use, not the reverse.
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Fashion is a retail industry; Facebook is infrastructure—the retail part is users, but not the business. I don’t argue Facebook has control but it certainly has shaping power. But my beef is with the externalities of the business model. 1/
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My metaphor is more a cafeteria. We have appetites, sure, and the cafeteria is selecting food that we are more vulnerable to at the moment (not through deliberation) but we aren’t even buying the food. Plus network effects, so can’t leave. No retail business captures this. 2/2
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And then someone says ‘the host should just put everything out in chronological order and let us choose’. But there are 10k dishes, so that’s a supermarket, not a pot luck.
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I don’t think we have ready-made solutions to the public-goods side of the negative externalities—like choice or transparency. Even more competition! Five competing Facebooks under current incentives might be way worse.
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