Facebook is becoming a link farm. Thoughts?

8 points·aligajani··5 comments

Facebook is becoming a link farm. Almost everything on my news feed leads to a webpage. Furthermore, lots of content creators rip off videos from Youtube and mint likes on the social network, without attributing the originals. Facebook has a lot less original content and more regurgitation.

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Hotelling's Law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law

Reddit turns into a social media site, Facebook turns into a link farm.

Reddit turns into imgur, imgur adds a community.

Twitter hosts video. Insta adds timelines.

Virtual proximity can be thought of as the distance between distinct activities rather than physical distance. Convergence happens for same reasons that shops cluster.

Interesting ideas!

Sunday Times Magazine is on it!

Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-...

The trend that bothers me most is seeing otherwise scientifically minded peers, paragons of rationality, who hew to the strictest standards of empirical rigour when it comes to their own research methodologies, sharing the most easily-debunked, inane conspiracy theories as if it were holy writ!

Facebook is becoming what Yahoo was in the early days. A central webpage where you can find a lot of content and where you go to see what's new in the world. The real homepage of the internet.

Worse yet, it's a leading vector for counterfeit goods. Every day, the majority of "Suggested Posts" in my feed are people peddling gear/clothing/promos of major sports teams that are clearly not authorized uses, and the right-side ads are rife with bogus clickbait claiming <personality X> is dead or being prosecuted with a text inlay implying that it is from a major source like ESPN or People.

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