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Is an ad-subsidized and for-profit business deeply and fundamentally required to talk to your friends and family? If interacting with friends and family is wha
by folksinger 9y ago
Is an ad-subsidized and for-profit business deeply and fundamentally required to talk to your friends and family?
If interacting with friends and family is what is important, is Facebook the best way to do so?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoIt's not, but it's what we have. Phones are controlled by private for-profit companies too (with different business, though). And the post is funded by taxes. Point being, the business models are not inherent to communication mediums, but due to history, those mediums are provided through the particular business models we have.
- folksinger 9y agoIt is not what we have. We have many other options beyond even the other technologies you've listed. Businesses and products are not prerequisite for interacting with friends and family. What about simply having a conversation in person, mediated only by spoken language? What if you never moved away from your family and could stop by for dinner a few times a week? There are many possibilities beyond just accepting the dictations of a few product managers in Silicon Valley!