How to kill Facebook

Manu Järvi
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read
the organ of my distemper

As a thinker, attention is what I’m after. One of the lessons of the 20th century is that attention is worth cash money to advertisers.

Facebook, like Google, makes the vast majority of their money off providing information, and injecting advertising in the middle of an interaction. Surviving in that particular economic niche.

As soon as it is simple for people to earn automated micro-payments for their social media interactions, they will abandon centralized corporate behemoths in favor of a distilled swarm of distributed publishing robots with a dizzying array of features and partnerships.

Once people can realize a personal monetization of their passive information streams, they will certainly no longer want to give it away for free, no matter how convenient. In this transaction, there is no income for the inefficiency of a large corporate organization to suckle upon.

So, to use the parlance of the epoch.

  1. Make decentralized social media software which provides for user micro-profits.
  2. Kill Facebook.

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