Mar 232018
 

Huh:

Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages for SpaceX and Tesla

It’s not clear if this is permanent, or some sort of trollish stunt by Musk. Heck, it’s always possible that Musk is starting his own alternative to Facebook.

With the troubles FB has had lately, I gotta wonder if FB is just starting to reach its inevitable peak followed by inevitable decline, like Myspace before it. Nothing lasts forever. With the efforts of companies like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others to ban politics that they don’t like, they are forcing the fragmentation of the market and inspiring the rise of otherwise unthinkable competition (honestly… who would even bother to *try* to directly compete with the likes of FB and Twit and YT if they were non-jackassery companies?). This splits up the advertisers and advertising money and scatters users to the winds. I wonder if at some point in the future whether there might not even be such a thing as a *specific* FB/twit/YT, but instead a sort of amorphous open and uncensorable web where people just do their thing, like setting up a  billboard in an empty field, with no gatekeepers.

 

 Posted by at 1:54 pm