(Disclaimer: I am an engineer at Square, but this comment is mostly unrelated to that.) A while ago I read a 2010 New Yorker profile on Mark Zuckerberg [1], wh

(Disclaimer: I am an engineer at Square, but this comment is mostly unrelated to that.) A while ago I read a 2010 New Yorker profile on Mark Zuckerberg [1], which still had a relatively exuberant "make the world more open" rhetoric. How things have changed. I think it's a really good thing that the world in general is lashing back against the share-everything tendency of modern network-platforms. This isn't (or isn't just) about the trails of data that you're putting out because everyone else is also doing it (shameless self-promotion: [2]), but also pushing back against the implicit societal pressure to putting effort into maintaining online presence as "performances" of the self, as Alice Marwick [3] and danah boyd [4] have analyzed, among others. The world doesn't need Facebook, and it doesn't need a Facebook for money. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-fa... [2] https://www.notion.so/The-Bottom-Up-Surveillance-State-8ea9a6e019e14ef7ae4f3ef0ffb35984 https://www.notion.so/The-Bottom-Up-Surveillance-State-8ea9a... [3] https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300209389/status-update https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300209389/status-update [4] http://www.tiara.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Marwick_boyd_TweetHonestly.pdf http://www.tiara.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Marwick_boyd...