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I'm puzzled by the use of the word "own". FB doesn't "own" it's users, which is kind of the point. Users gonna use, and that might be FB, but also could be some
by butterfi 9y ago
I'm puzzled by the use of the word "own". FB doesn't "own" it's users, which is kind of the point. Users gonna use, and that might be FB, but also could be something else. Thinking that FB "owns" their users is similar to LittleThings thinking they were invaluable. It may not end the way you expect (e.g. MySpace, AOL, etc).
- Slansitartop 9y agoIt would be far better if there were a many dozens of Facebooks with roughly equal numbers of users. It would be a much more intelligible market for the small fish to operate in, as the whims of any one algorithm wouldn't be so significant. Unfortunately, the vast majority of internet traffic is controlled by a handful of algorithms controlled by an even smaller number of organizations. Their inscrutable whims can make or break businesses, and that's far to much power for them to have.