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Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, It Needs to Be Broken Up

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Re: Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, It Needs to Be Broken Up

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Post by downer61 »

This is basically the worst possible course of action. Facebook is neither a utility nor monopoly. Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less. Even if Facebook manages to leverage the network effect of its alternative subsidiaries, there will always be the treadmill of evolving trends, and there’s not such thing as one true mode of electronic social interaction.

Re: Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, It Needs to Be Broken Up

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Post by unicornporn »

downer61 wrote: post #2

This is basically the worst possible course of action. Facebook is neither a utility nor monopoly. Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less. Even if Facebook manages to leverage the network effect of its alternative subsidiaries, there will always be the treadmill of evolving trends, and there’s not such thing as one true mode of electronic social interaction.

> Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less.

A lot of harm can be done in one generation. Don't you think the history shows us that?

Re: Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, It Needs to Be Broken Up

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Post by onetimemanytime »

downer61 wrote: post #2

This is basically the worst possible course of action. Facebook is neither a utility nor monopoly. Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less. Even if Facebook manages to leverage the network effect of its alternative subsidiaries, there will always be the treadmill of evolving trends, and there’s not such thing as one true mode of electronic social interaction.

>>Facebook is neither a utility nor monopoly. Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less.

assuming what you said is true, should we allow the next FB a generation of leeway too? A generation here and a generation there...

Re: Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, It Needs to Be Broken Up

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Post by Terr_ »

downer61 wrote: post #2

This is basically the worst possible course of action. Facebook is neither a utility nor monopoly. Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less. Even if Facebook manages to leverage the network effect of its alternative subsidiaries, there will always be the treadmill of evolving trends, and there’s not such thing as one true mode of electronic social interaction.

> Facebook is neither a utility nor monopoly.

I agree: I don't have the same concerns with Facebook as with, say, a monopoly ISP.

That said, in both cases I think there's an opportunity to define customer data as containing a responsibility and liability, so that collecting it is a double-edged activity and there are potential repercussions causing companies to guard its dispersal with more care.

Re: Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, It Needs to Be Broken Up

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Post by quotemstr »

unicornporn wrote: post #4
downer61 wrote: post #2

This is basically the worst possible course of action. Facebook is neither a utility nor monopoly. Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less. Even if Facebook manages to leverage the network effect of its alternative subsidiaries, there will always be the treadmill of evolving trends, and there’s not such thing as one true mode of electronic social interaction.

> Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less. A lot of harm can be done in one generation. Don't you think the history shows us that?

And even more harm can be done in the attempt to avoid harm. Ever read Sophocles?
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