{"id":252316,"date":"2022-08-07T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252316"},"modified":"2022-08-07T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:57:26","slug":"the-trouble-with-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/08\/07\/the-trouble-with-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"The trouble with Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a <a href=\"https:\/\/davekarpf.substack.com\/p\/what-facebook-is-good-for-and-why?r=2gay&amp;s=r&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email\">great piece by Dave Karpf<\/a> on the problem with Facebook:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The trouble with Facebook is, more broadly, the trouble with the entirety of Silicon Valley and its particular version of techno-capitalism. You could imagine a profitable company that does what Facebook is actually good for. Create a free social network with a newsfeed optimized for personal life updates and conversations within your extended social graph. Pare things back, revert it to the place where people keep in touch and organize dinner parties. Sell advertisements against the page views. There\u2019s money in such a company.<br><br>But it\u2019s not a trillion-dollar company. Its founder doesn\u2019t buy a mansion and then buy all the houses on adjacent lots to ensure privacy. Its early investors don\u2019t carve out entire career paths on the basis of having been an early-investor-in-Facebook. It\u2019s ultimately a small-money company. And Silicon Valley doesn\u2019t do small-money companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"295\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_186292982a5358895585609688343.jpg?resize=525%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252315\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a great piece by Dave Karpf on the problem with Facebook: &#8220;The trouble with Facebook is, more broadly, the trouble with the entirety of Silicon Valley and its particular version of techno-capitalism. You could imagine a profitable company that does what Facebook is actually good for. Create a free social network with a newsfeed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/08\/07\/the-trouble-with-facebook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The trouble with Facebook&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}