Plenty of people are concerned about Facebook, not only for privacy concerns but also for its impact on public discourse. [1]
But any viable alternative must be mindlessly easy.
Salim Virani’s suggestion of phone and email instead of Facebook works in part — replacing Facebook as a messaging medium — but it doesn’t address the use of Facebook as a personalized news feed informed by your social graph.
We need something better. Something with a good mission [2] but orders of magnitude better.
Salim here. I agree with the 'mindlessly easy' part. I've noticed the lack of convenience, especially in sharing the little moments.
As for replacing a personalised news feed, I still use Twitter and find that email newsletters, especially curations like getrevue keep me well-informed on professional news.
As for a personal feed, I found that Facebook wasn't really that great - lots of noise and I still missed things I thought were important. I haven't found a replacement, but didn't feel the need to replace something inadequate.
This is the crux of the challenge.
Plenty of people are concerned about Facebook, not only for privacy concerns but also for its impact on public discourse. [1]
But any viable alternative must be mindlessly easy.
Salim Virani’s suggestion of phone and email instead of Facebook works in part — replacing Facebook as a messaging medium — but it doesn’t address the use of Facebook as a personalized news feed informed by your social graph.
We need something better. Something with a good mission [2] but orders of magnitude better.
[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alter...
[2]: https://diasporafoundation.org/