{"id":5624,"date":"2016-03-24T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:28:38","slug":"linked-facebook-is-eating-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/03\/24\/linked-facebook-is-eating-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Facebook is eating the world&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/analysis\/facebook_and_media.php\">via CJR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The majority of American adults are Facebook users, and the majority of those users regularly get some kind of news from Facebook, which according to Pew Research Center data, means that around 40 percent of US adults overall consider Facebook a source of news.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So let\u2019s recap:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>People are increasingly using their smartphones for everything.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>They do it mostly through apps, and in particular social and messaging apps, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Twitter.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The competition to become such an app is intense. Competitive advantage for platforms relies on being able to keep your users within an app. The more your users are within your app, the more you know about them, the more that information can then be used to sell advertising, the higher your revenues.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I missed the boat here but at the same time, I\u2019m glad I did. I have no doubt that this blog, my little space on the web would have 10-20K readers by now, possibly more compared to the 2-5K I have today (unchanged from 2011) if I had moved over to syndication on platforms owned by other people. Posting here and sending the post to Facebook, Medium, Twitter, etc probably would have meant more people read my writings but they\u2019d also not really have any brand loyalty to this blog. Those people read things that come across their stream.They don\u2019t opt in to your work by visiting your site. They\u2019re the same people who love my Instagram photos of beer but never take 10 minutes once a month to visit my Flickr page. I don\u2019t actually want those kind of readers especially if I have to put in work to syndicate to them.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News, this requires no extra work on my part after the 15 minute setup so I\u2019ll do it. Establishing a social media presence on 10 different corporate owned properties just to post links to things I wrote and interact with people in comments &amp; @ replies is too much work.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that people get all of their news on Facebook is scary. Why? Because you\u2019re only going to see things from people you are friends with. I won\u2019t get the entire picture. If I want to learn about what all sides think of a proposed law, I research it and read multiple sources. If I just go by the opinions of people in my social circle, I\u2019ll never learn anything. Unfriending your die-hard republican friend actually makes you more close-minded.<\/p>\n<p>Further, as we consumers relinquish control of our consumption to apps and walled-gardens, we give up more of our privacy. I\u2019d prefer to independently read and write than do it within a bubble that I don\u2019t own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via CJR: The majority of American adults are Facebook users, and the majority of those users regularly get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-05-17T19:08:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"9547d47a-1e17-4bed-a99e-fc4231fce454","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-05-17T19:08:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlUfUeh4XS-2pnvxCMfzkVA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1sI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4684,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/linked-stalking-your-friends-with-facebook-messenger\/","url_meta":{"origin":5624,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Medium: Go ahead and see how many messages in your chats have locations attached. I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s a lot of them. And if this isn't already starting to get a bit weird, the first thing I noticed when I started to write my code was that the latitude and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5550,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/linked-google-is-teaming-up-with-phone-operators-to-elbow-its-way-back-into-messaging-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5624,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Google is teaming up with phone operators to elbow its way back into messaging&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Quartz: RCS lets users share photos and videos, see when others are typing, and set up group chats\u2013in other words, much of what the OTT apps already offer. 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If a user sends a message to another RCS user,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5990,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/25\/linked-facebook-threatens-to-delete-synced-photos-forever\/","url_meta":{"origin":5624,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Facebook Threatens to Delete Synced Photos Forever&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Gizmodo: Sometime this week, Facebook users (and considering the statistics, I assume that\u2019s most of you) may have received an email stating that some privately synced photos would be deleted soon in order to make way for the Moments app, which has been around for about a year. hah.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6954,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/linked-the-weird-thing-about-todays-internet\/","url_meta":{"origin":5624,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Weird Thing About Today&#8217;s Internet&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Atlantic (which works great to read in Instapaper but not on your browser if you have ad-blockers installed) O\u2019Reilly\u2019s lengthy description of the principles of Web 2.0 has become more fascinating through time. It seems to be describing a slightly parallel universe. \u201cHyperlinking is the foundation of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6436,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/linked-half-of-u-s-smartphone-users-download-zero-apps-per-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":5624,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Half of U.S. smartphone users download zero apps per month&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Recode: Apple recently announced that its iOS users alone have downloaded more than 140 billion apps since the App Store launched in 2008. But the app market, as we\u2019ve noted, is still a challenging one. 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