Facebook has to be broken down to pieces. I think it has reached a state where it cannot be allowed to continue as a single company being able to observe/monitor public and private communication / social interaction of so many people and not being regulated and controlled by the government.
Would you apply the same logic to government? Government has to be broken down to pieces. I think it has reached a state where it cannot be allowed to continue as a single government being able to observe/monitor public and private communication / social interaction of so many people and not being regulated and controlled by market forces.
> Unless someone forces them to inter-operate, it's winner takes all. So you mandate inter-operation at the same time you break up the biggest, just like we've done with every other natural monopoly.
I find it interesting that phone number portability was introduced long ago but no email or social profile portability.
While social media profile portability is generally impossible, almost all email providers will let you export email as a MBOX that you can then import into your new account.
My idea for a quick fix is to remove likes/dislikes/emoji reactions. If people can't see how others feel about a post/article in an instant, they might have to read and decide for themselves how to feel.
I've been doing this using uBlock Origin's filtering on the social media sites I visit; anecdotally, it makes a significant difference in how much I engage with content that is not highly upvoted. I highly recommend it.
I feel FB is kind of dying anyway. All the trendy/cool/geek people have left FB. Users don't share much stuff anymore. There is this ego fatigue too: people are tired of playing this game of making their life looks cool on FB. It's no coincidence that FB buy WhatsApp, Instagram, Occulus: they have the metrics and they need to move on to something else.
Facebook vectored away from trendy/cool/geek when it stopped requiring an email with .edu. It just took awhile for people to get used to the internet. Old people use it to see photos of their grandkids. It's a bigger and more sustainable user base than young people. Young people turn over. The first person I knew with Facebook is 33 with three children and a mortgage.
Yeah, why don’t opioid addicts just stop? And why don’t fat people just lose weight and eat healthy? And why don’t poor people just stop being poor? Clearly every issue in society is a result of a lack of personal responsibility.
Of all those issues, only opioids are regulated and there seems to be some evidence that drug regulations themselves are part of rise in addictions. I'm not seeing much evidence these days that new laws and giving government more control is a good fix for anything.
On an earnings call earlier last week, Zuckerberg told investors and reporters “how upset I am that the Russians tried to use our tools to sow mistrust,” adding that he was “dead serious” about findings ways to tackle the problem.
I find it interesting that phone number portability was introduced long ago but no email or social profile portability.
While social media profile portability is generally impossible, almost all email providers will let you export email as a MBOX that you can then import into your new account.
Moving your existing emails is not equivalent to phone number portability. Equivalency would be allowing me to take my gmail address and have it point to Proton Mail instead of Gmail.
On the social network side full portability would mean being able to take your profile off of facebook but still having full interoperability with facebook so that users could still see your new posts and vice-versa.
While social media profile portability is generally impossible, almost all email providers will let you export email as a MBOX that you can then import into your new account.
Moving your existing emails is not equivalent to phone number portability. Equivalency would be allowing me to take my gmail address and have it point to Proton Mail instead of Gmail. On the social network side full portability would mean being able to take your profile off of facebook but still having full interoperability with facebook so that users could still see your new posts and vice-versa.
Ahh, I see what you're saying. The issue here is that most people have a company's name baked into their email address–so the equivalent for phone numbers would be like me having to dial the carrier name along with the phone number. There is a solution for this problem: give everyone an email address on their own domain, and allow the service "backing" it to be swapped out (this is what I do-I have an email on my domain, but it's transparently mapped to a preexisting Gmail inbox). Of course, the barrier here is that people are used to email being free and easy to set up, while this solution requires a domain name registration (so, around $10-$15 a year minimum) and some technical knowledge on how to set up MX records.
On an earnings call earlier last week, Zuckerberg told investors and reporters “how upset I am that the Russians tried to use our tools to sow mistrust,” adding that he was “dead serious” about findings ways to tackle the problem. BS. He is only upset that he got caught.
I am more concern with the power he is wielding. He doesn't seem to think things through from other perspectives. The fact he dismissed the possibility of social hacking Facebook to influence others make me think he is surround by yes-men that only whistle to the tune he likes. Unfortunately, I have seen that too many times in startups.