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There are many, many Facebook clones. None of these platforms are king of the world. Yet imagine Facebook is "destroyed" tomorrow, literally shut down. Now,
by bbarnett 6y ago
There are many, many Facebook clones. None of these platforms are king of the world.
Yet imagine Facebook is "destroyed" tomorrow, literally shut down. Now, where do all those people go to get their fix?
You suggest two alternatives that could grow quickly, and in regions I am concerned about. I don't think it's a sunk cost fallacy, when my premise is "This will exist no matter what" and "Let's make sure any such platform can't work detrimentally".
- BlueTemplar 6y agoThe most detrimental aspect of Facebook is the scale.
- bbarnett 6y agoMaybe. Not saying you're wrong entirely. But the Pii is, to me, a massive problem. If you have 10 social networks, all identical in feature and scope, and each has 1/10th of the users? And all have facebook style Pii, newsfeeds, silos, and everything else that is causing issue? Then manipulation is still rather easy? Best to legislate, mandate, ensure that market forces make this type of preying on society, economic model a loss, not a win.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoThe scale issue also involves Facebook owning most (?) of the social networks (by the number of members).