So...I just saw about the part of Mark Zuckerberg’s speech last week where he says he founded Facebook because the Iraq War told him more people needed their perspectives heard.
And as a 2005-present Facebook user, I have never felt so gaslit in my life. That’s not what it was.
And as a 2005-present Facebook user, I have never felt so gaslit in my life. That’s not what it was.
A few reminders re early FB:
-News Feed wasn’t part of the original UI.
-Status updates weren’t part of the original UI.
-Wall posts as discrete entities weren’t part of the original UI (it was just a text-box sandbox).
-groups were only open to a given school.
-News Feed wasn’t part of the original UI.
-Status updates weren’t part of the original UI.
-Wall posts as discrete entities weren’t part of the original UI (it was just a text-box sandbox).
-groups were only open to a given school.
In other words...no way to use FB to share your individual perspectives; no way to use FB to develop connections beyond your “bubble”
I shouldn’t just tweet this without a link. Here’s a link. dailydot.com/layer8/mark-zu…
It’s weird how personally I feel about this. I was only very briefly a Facebook superuser (at least, compared to other people who were in college 2005-09) but I feel like my age cohort’s history is being revised before we even turn 40.
I knew acutely at the time _it was for self-fashioning._ Because of course it was, it was for college students and that’s what college students thought (during an age of campus political quietism!) college was for. The interaction came when it needed to encourage repeat traffic.
