Okay, let me be that guy... I was that guy telling people no no don't send your customers to Facebook, Noooo twitter is not the superior RSS replacement. Live j

Okay, let me be that guy... I was that guy telling people no no don't send your customers to Facebook, Noooo twitter is not the superior RSS replacement. Live journal is the wrong choice, your Myspace efforts are not history in the making and your Geocities was historically just as much a waste of time. Flickr is not the place for your family album and neither is Picassa. There are countless active platforms and other walled gardens that offer actually great tools and do just what you want them to do but the thing is, non of it is yours! You are not making something for yourself, you are working to enrich the Zuck who can turn on you at any moment, from a benevolent friend to a brain eating zombie overnight. Take youtube, its still a great product but it's nothing like the fantastic thing it started out as. Yours may one day go from a popular channel or from quality content to being not advertiser friendly. You've invested countless hours only to be discarded with various motivations. You helped build these digital prisons, no faith can be cruel enough. Who cares that web is slower than native. People with slow phones should buy a faster one. If they cant afford to they have no money for you either. We pretend phones are not fast enough to do anything?? They are insanely fast compared to desktops from not to long ago. The only reason they are slow is that you've piled to much crap onto them, crap that shouldn't be there. I suggest we stop executing tasks and just pile them up, gradually execute them little bits at a time. Don't let anyone else manage this for you! Others will think their stuff takes priority over the user trying to input text. If I'm inputting text I honest to god want all other processes suspended until I'm done. Perhaps if I'm not typing for 20 seconds, gazing at the input area, perhaps you can send me a push notification. Its still heretical interference with the writing process. Apps are slow because the user just isn't important anymore. To do a silly analogy: Some people get stuck in a monologue, say after 2 beers. Others may find themselves unable to get a word in. The problem is not that they are not talking fast enough.