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The internet didn’t collapse your opinion of it did. As long as the internet is growing then it’s fine.

• Retric 6y ago
  Short term and long term trends can be very different. I personally have been burned enough by clickbait headlines that I have stopped clicking on them. Which is not the kind of trend that’s obvious in daily analytics, but it’s still critical over time. Companies often look at customers as interchangeable commodities, but after some growth it’s easy to have poisoned the well where most people have already tried your product and disliked it. That’s a death spiral in the making.
  • vladmk 6y ago
    Great response, though if we look at the long and short growth trends of the intro though it’s phenomenal
  • mumblemumble 6y ago
    It's also a question of framing. If we're talking about easy-to-measure things like total number of pages, or volume of traffic, or dollars earned, sure, the Internet is growing like gangbusters. If, on the other hand, we're talking about murkier issues like impact on public discourse and its implications for civil society, or impact on individuals' psychological wellbeing, stuff like that, then the picture is arguably quite a bit less rosy.
    • vladmk 6y ago
      I can get into that. You’re now questioning the chicken and the egg problem. Did people always have these thoughts or is it because the internet exists so we have them? I would say the internet just shed light on bullying etc that always existed so if anything it’s better because of that fact. Trying to judge the internet is like trying to judge electricity, it’s a commodity not some idealistic sanctum
• z3ncyberpunk 6y ago
  No, it collapsed.