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I don't agree with that. The real anti-Facebook is a combination of email and well formatted RSS feeds. Email for actual legitimate notifications and mail, RSS feeds for news and news type bloggy stuff and blogs.
Why not both? I would prefer to have my emails and feeds in one place, just no status updates.
The real anti-Facebook is Sublevel. But I can forgive Wired for not knowing about it.
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Why not both? I would prefer to have my emails and feeds in one place, just no status updates.
What's stopping you? No reason a mail client can't do RSS as well, is there? (I'm pretty sure some do, or at least did.)
Why "social network" became synonymous of producing and reading news from the life of people?
MySpace and Orkut were not that way. I imagine other social networks from the early 2000's were not that way also.
Interesting; I was not aware of TinyLetter. Though it doe nothing to address the use of Facebook for interpersonal communication, I guess they're referring to the use of facebook to nurture an audience and reach out to them en masse. Would folks consider this approach a practical replacement for RSS-like services, to reach out to a broader audience? Since most ("lay")people don't seem interested in going out of their…
I've been subscribing to tons of RSS feeds for business blogging recently, and while there are similarities, there's just no way I'd accept TinyLetter as a substitute for a feed. First there's the awkward idea of a gigantic email folder hierarchy to store it all. Then there are things like enclosures, a Youtube video, mp3 files, etc. Also, I've noticed that email links (view this in your browser!) tend to rot about 10x as fast and are not indexed by e.g. archive.org. So I dunno, it's just different tech.
Take a scrub to your Facebook friends list and you can get a more powerful TinyLetter.
Practically speaking you'd never un-friend people unless they personally bother you. This is why I hardly check my Facebook timeline. All I use is Messenger which is pretty useful to keep in touch with people you want to.
So, the real anti Facebook is Facebook itself with a fresh start.
This is a great advert for TinyLetter, would love to know if they approached Wired to get this published and how that process went down.
What is happening, and happened years ago, is that many people stopped using Facebook messaging and went back to email. It's easier to get messages via email on smartphones than to run Facebook's app.
Except “good old email” is basically owned by Google now, so there’s small choice in rotten apples.