{"id":33841,"date":"2013-11-13T00:25:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-cant-create-a-profile-on-a-non-facebook-site\/"},"modified":"2013-11-13T00:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T00:25:35","slug":"i-cant-create-a-profile-on-a-non-facebook-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-cant-create-a-profile-on-a-non-facebook-site\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I can\u2019t create a profile on a non-Facebook site that then appears on Facebook, and no microblogging service could emerge to challenge Twitter unless it were capable of inducing mass defections. Social media services or social utilities, as they would better be called, are thus more like highways or railroads than like car manufacturers or freight companies. Trade in my Ford for a Toyota, and I can still drive on the same roads that lead to my friends\u2019 doors. But even if there were another all-purpose social networking site like Facebook, I couldn\u2019t switch to it without losing contact with my Facebook friends. This presents the familiar problems of monopoly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/07\/technology\/twitter-prices-ipo-at-26-a-share.html\">As you may have heard<\/a>, Twitter went public last week, which means a lot of people are trying to figure out just what its IPO means for social media. Over at\u00a0<em>n+1<\/em>,\u00a0<strong>Benjamin Kunkel<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/socialize-social-media\">proposes<\/a>\u00a0that social media, by its very nature, cannot be profitable, and thus should be administered by the state as a public good. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.tumblr.com\/\">wilwheaton<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t create a profile on a non-Facebook site that then appears on Facebook, and no microblogging service could emerge to challenge Twitter unless it were capable of inducing mass defections. Social media services or social utilities, as they would better be called, are thus more like highways or railroads than like car manufacturers or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8NP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}