Typically, a doom and gloom article is much hand-wringing and overstated worry. But I’ve been watching this happen all around me. Om Malik, who is quoted several times in the article, lived through the demise of Gigaom last year.
“With each turn of the screw, people began to realize, viscerally, that this is what it feels like to not be in control of your destiny,” said Scott Rosenberg, a co-founder of Salon who left the company in 2007.
And:
In 2014, Gawker Media’s founder, Nick Denton, wrote a memo to his staff that admonished them for giving in too fully to the influence of platforms, which drove many of his company’s most popular stories. “We — the freest journalists on the planet — were slaves to the Facebook algorithm,” he wrote.
A disturbing read. Publishing is being pulled into Facebook’s orbit.
Om Malik I believe sold gigaom at a profit before it disappeared.
I quit Facebook for a reason – they’re evil. Not kinda evil, like Google, or reformed evil, like Microsoft. Evil. The people who use Facebook are the product. They treat them like cattle instead of valuable customers.
While I don’t think for a second that FB is on the decline, it has without a doubt changed so much since its inception. Long gone are posts originated by PEOPLE, and whats left are posts that people post from other sources… And no doubt FB will continue for the foreseeable future, sooner or later, yet another platform will come alive with content generated by users, not re-posts of articles by others. It’s just a matter of time.
I think most people on Facebook wish there was a better option. Oddly, though, all the attempts to replace it (Google+, Ello, etc.) have been DOA. The new networks that have caught on have been substantially different – Snapchat, Periscope, etc.
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