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If my writing makes it less likely that some would-be Facebook competitor can use mass-scale psychological manipulation to get an edge, I can live with that.

In other news, it's really hard for the "next British East India Company" to enter the Chinese Opium market

The new Facebook may be kinder and gentler and not designed to exploit you.

The killer feature may be that it does not exploit your human flaws.

People are always surprised what new needs we have for technology. Now we need software and services that respect us as humans.

Is that necessarily a bad thing? I feel like social media has destroyed an enormous amount of value by making it harder to have authentic relationships.

I highly doubt a blog post will have that effect.

Blog posts start conversations.

Me too. But you know what they say about the pen and the sword?

Maybe we need to update the saying: “the keyboard and a content database can be mightier than the predator drone”

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