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>Zuckerberg's Law: The amount each person shares double each year. Anecdotally, this is almost certainly false. I (and most people I know) are posting ("sharin
by ForHackernews 2y ago
>Zuckerberg's Law: The amount each person shares double each year.
Anecdotally, this is almost certainly false. I (and most people I know) are posting ("sharing") less and less. Faced with a surveillance panopticon, I think many normal people are opting out. Peer-to-peer networks are withering.
The internet is reverting to the format of traditional media, with two distinct classes of broadcasters ('influencers') and audience members.
- latexr 2y ago> Anecdotally, this is almost certainly false. That law exists at least since 2008, over a decade and a half ago. It’s plausible it was true and born from observation at the time. The first Snowden documents were published half a decade later, in 2013.
- ForHackernews 2y agoYeah, so a decade-old now-dead trend isn't a "law" or we could be talk about the "Iron Law of jQuery: All sites will expand until they include at least three incompatible versions of jQuery".
- alex1138 2y agoYeah but also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 So not only is Facebook historically engaging in creepy contact scraping, but when they finally do get the world connected (for various definitions) they don't even do a good job with that The strong possibility Zuckerberg just doesn't care about people