Posted on 03/21/2018 11:52:22 AM PDT by servo1969
myspace?
Reminder: Facebook (and Twitter, and ...) is NOT A MONOPOLY.
You don’t have to use it. There are plenty of alternatives. Just because your friends are on FB doesn’t mean you have to, or that you have to use it a lot, or that you have to use any of the many tendrils it puts out into the world. I use FB proper to track generic friends; refuse to use the rest of its “services” like “FB sign on” or Instagram. There’s plenty of elsewhere to be, and the reduced usage reduces what they get out of the project.
There’s much more to the Internet than Facebook et al. You DO have alternatives.
“myspace?”
A good - and one of many - example of how fast an “unstoppable juggernaut” can crash-and-burn. Everyone was on it ... and then they weren’t. FB faces the same demise, if only a suitable alternative arises and users decide en masse to migrate.
MyFace.
I’ve seen many “concerningly large” businesses die abruptly (and usually predictably), all accused of being monopolies (which they weren’t).
It’s a monopoly. Other oil companies existed when standard oil was broken up. Other phone companies existed when the Bell System was broken up. When one company has such a dominant share however, they are a monopoly even if they do have a few minnow sized competitors.
I’ve been enjoying the Vero app. No ads, no algorithms, it’s free, everything is in chronological order, you can easily share links/photos/video/etc. Best of all, no Zuckerberg!
Yeah; we gots lotsa dat in da USA.
Wrong, and yet right !
Wrong in that this Croc Zucker sold was a social platform, except he failed to mention HOW he was going to make money off it.
It's always been :" Follow the money"
Right is that it has been used as a political tool, in the fine print, and people who fail to read the fine print
and forget about the information that they, and their friends and acquaintances, are willing to give up for the sake of communicating.
Your personal information is a commodity for sale !
The truism from all of this is that :" There isn't anything for free that doesn't encroach on your personal freedom, information, or security.
So, the next time you download that internet phone/computer application for a variety store, online security alarm system, or social platform
--> you lose your anonymity and security !
Your information is a product to be bought and sold !
BIG BROTHER, the FED.gov., or a hacker, knows more about you than your spouse or best friend,
and you gave it all up for convenience and 'ease of use'.
Think about it . . . and refuse to surrender your liberty and personal freedom !
The difference with those was: the alternatives were not easy to reach. There was only one phone provider supplying your home. There were few (if any) competing gas stations in any area.
You want a competitor to Facebook? http://MeWe.com - there you go, one click right there and you’re on another service.
You want a competitor to Twitter? http://Gab.AI - there you go, one click right there and you’re on another service.
You want to BE a competitor to either? https://AWS.Amazon.com - everything you need to build The Next Big Thing™ at a modest & fair price.
Nothing stands in your way. FB isn’t blocking anyone from use (except for whom they’ve stupidly kicked off).
Customers _choose_ to use Facebook, Twitter, etc. That so many do doesn’t make either a monopoly.
It’s almost like it is genetic.
But more likely just passed from one generation to the next through conditioning.
I was "suspended" twice, for the same thread. I had the audacity to refer to the gender confused as trannies. This must have triggered one or more people. My response was to stay off of Facebook for two days for every one day I was barred. After a few days I started getting e-mails from Facebook wondering why I wasn't logging back in.
And customers did not have to use microsoft’s Browser when it was added to their windows operating system. There were competitors like Netscape navigator......yet since they were the 800 pound gorilla and had a dominant market position, regulators put all kinds of restrictions on them and even required them to decouple their web browser until other major competitors like google and Firefox came along and grabbed a big chunk of the market Microsoft was trying to dominate.
Facebook and YouTube and Twitter are the 800 pound gorillas in their markets. Antitrust action against them - particularly if they’re being arbitrarily restrictive toward free speech is fully justified.
Not tech compatible, period. Could someone explain to me in layman’s terms what is happening? Thanks in advance.
The DEC Rainbow was an attempt to join the PC world, but it was a CP/M machine that was never fully compatible with IBM. It had great VT-100 emulation though.
If FB users thought this tool was for their personal benefit, they’re braindead.
Ah yes ... the old antitrust test that bit the Bell System on the butt set leading to Divestiture: Being a uniquely situated vertical supplier to one’s horizontal competitors and abusing the position.
This!
Zuck the. Cuck is like Dr Frankenstein.
He created a force more powerful than he could imagine.
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