Is an ad-subsidized and for-profit business deeply and fundamentally required to talk to your friends and family?
If interacting with friends and family is what is important, is Facebook the best way to do so?
If interacting with friends and family is what is important, is Facebook the best way to do so?
Point being, the business models are not inherent to communication mediums, but due to history, those mediums are provided through the particular business models we have.
What about simply having a conversation in person, mediated only by spoken language? What if you never moved away from your family and could stop by for dinner a few times a week?
There are many possibilities beyond just accepting the dictations of a few product managers in Silicon Valley!