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mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Jeswin proposes that Facebook has failed<\/a>,
\n explaining that the more you use Facebook, the worse it gets. He
\ndescribes a login screen with 30 stories on it, four of which are
\ninteresting, and blames Facebook for encouraging its users \u2014 especially
\n commercial users \u2014 to share in ways that make the experience worse for
\n everyone.\n<\/p>\n

\nI don\u2019t have a Facebook account and tend not to pay much attention to
\nstories about the service, but I was struck by this: \u201ctheir product
\nlooks like one of those spam filled mailboxes from the nineties.\u201d One of
\n the claims for walled gardens is that they\u2019re able to use a combination
\n of data-mining and the ability to kick out bad actors to make your
\ninbox spam-free. I\u2019ve always felt that this was wildly oversold: the
\nhardest-to-deal-with \u201cspam\u201d in my inbox is stuff from people I know, or
\nwho know me, and who want attention from me for something that is worthy
\n but that I lack time for (if I pay attention to their stuff, I\u2019ll have
\nto neglect something else I\u2019ve already committed to). Facebook makes it
\neasier for more people to do this, which always sounded like a recipe
\nfor disaster to me. Likewise the ability to exclude bad actors: once you
\n get to Facebook\u2019s size, you can\u2019t police spammers and crazies in
\nrealtime \u2014 they pop up faster than you can get rid of them. Every
\nwalled garden I ever used, all the way back to Compuserve, had problems
\nwith bad actors who\u2019d fill up your screen with commercial pitches,
\nhatemail, and other undesirable junk.<\/p>\n

\nI was also struck by Jeswin\u2019s contention that Facebook gets worse the
\nmore you use it. That was certainly my experience in the brief time I
\nwas on Facebook; as I wrote in How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook<\/a>,
\n the more people there are on a social network, the more people there
\nwill be inside your social graph that you don\u2019t want there, but can\u2019t
\nexclude for social reasons. This essay\u2019s been reprinted a lot, so I\u2019m
\nguessing it struck a chord for many people.\n<\/p>\n

For me, the problem with Facebook is that it doesn\u2019t exist to enhance
\nyour social experience \u2014 rather, it\u2019s there to monetize it, and if the
\nbest way to get rich from your social relationships is to distort them
\nso that they become dysfunctional and a source of pain and anxiety,
\nthat\u2019s exactly what they\u2019re going to do. They want an experience that
\nkeeps you disclosing your personal information and keeps you visiting
\nand clicking \u2014 not one that makes you happy. If the optimal way to get
\nyour attention is to make you miserable (and let\u2019s face it, Someone is wrong on the Internet<\/a> is a powerful motivating force!), that\u2019s just what they\u2019ll do.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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