{"id":7144,"date":"2017-10-27T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2017-10-12T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:50:10","slug":"linked-you-are-the-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/linked-you-are-the-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;You Are the Product&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2449,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.lrb.co.uk\\\/v39\\\/n16\\\/john-lanchester\\\/you-are-the-product&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20191201130741\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.lrb.co.uk\\\/v39\\\/n16\\\/john-lanchester\\\/you-are-the-product&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 00:12:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-01 17:25:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-01 17:25:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v39\/n16\/john-lanchester\/you-are-the-product\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via London Review of Books<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Automation and artificial intelligence are going to have a big impact in all kinds of worlds. These technologies are new and real and they are coming soon. Facebook is deeply interested in these trends. We don\u2019t know where this is going, we don\u2019t know what the social costs and consequences will be, we don\u2019t know what will be the next area of life to be hollowed out, the next business model to be destroyed, the next company to go the way of Polaroid or the next business to go the way of journalism or the next set of tools and techniques to become available to the people who used Facebook to manipulate the elections of 2016. We just don\u2019t know what\u2019s next, but we know it\u2019s likely to be consequential, and that a big part will be played by the world\u2019s biggest social network. On the evidence of Facebook\u2019s actions so far, it\u2019s impossible to face this prospect without unease.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fantastic excerpt to click through and read. I highly encourage it. The dominance of Facebook is nothing like Microsoft, Google or Apple\u2019s dominance over the last 3 decades. Facebook\u2019s dominance is in the data it has about everything we do. It follows us around the web as we ingest content and if a data network starts to encroach on its dominance, it acquires them. It\u2019s entirely possible that we could completely interact with AI versions of our friends who are just like our friends in every way because it has every data point to know how they\u2019ll react to specific news and events. Every new Facebook feature is more invasive than the last but unlike a band-air, Facebook slowly creeps in to our lives more each day. It\u2019s a gradual invasion.<\/p>\n<p>I hate that I\u2019ve missed so much of what\u2019s going on in real-life by refusing to participating in Facebook. Events, marketplace, live video, current events, life-events of my friends and family, trends and new music. I am isolated on an island without Facebook but all I can do is hold out and hope the inevitability of a mass exodus from Facebook is more than just my hope. IRL is online now. Active online communities I used to participate in are now on Facebook groups, blogs are now Facebook posts, YouTubers are moving to Facebook, photographers I followed on Flickr are on Facebook and Instagram and breaking news happens there now. I hate it but I\u2019m doubling down and continuing to resist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via London Review of Books: Automation and artificial intelligence are going to have a big impact in all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-10-27T14:49:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"18678af0-8916-4ddb-b73e-a719d2e8c136","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-10-27T14:49:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGGeK8IkWTdu3PqcZ0ujBNg","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":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"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_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}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Re","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5521,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/03\/10\/linked-tech-too-big-to-fail\/","url_meta":{"origin":7144,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Tech too big to fail&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Scripting:\u00a0 Sanders may think that campaign finance is the primary issue but imho it's not. The means we use to communicate is privately owned and at least one of the companies is wobbly. Twitter could be acquired by a Chinese company. Or go out of business. Or unilaterally change\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":6972,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/linked-leaving-social-media-taught-me-how-broken-the-news-cycle-is\/","url_meta":{"origin":7144,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via FiveThirtyEight: It dawned on me that I\u2019d mostly stopped visiting websites directly and instead had been following the recommendations in my feeds to wherever they might lead me. My reading was no longer deliberate but curated by external forces that may or may not have aligned with my interests.\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":3962,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/linked-facebooks-news-feed-algorithm\/","url_meta":{"origin":7144,"position":2},"title":"\u2605 Linked: &#8220;Facebook&#8217;s News Feed Algorithm&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"via Facebook for Business' Blog: Everything posted to that blog most social media \"experts\" have already realized for themselves but it is really nice to see it written out like this. If you care about what Facebook shows you, click the link. Still, Twitter is way better. I hate that\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":6762,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/linked-the-deck-is-no-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":7144,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Deck is No More&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via DeckNetwork.net: Things change. In 2014, display advertisers started concentrating on large, walled, social networks. The indie \u201cblogosphere\u201d was disappearing. Mobile impressions, which produce significantly fewer clicks and engagements, began to really dominate the market. Invasive user tracking (which we refused to do) and all that came with that became\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":7338,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/linked-former-facebook-exec-says-social-media-is-ripping-apart-society\/","url_meta":{"origin":7144,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society - The Verge: He went on to describe an incident in India where hoax messages about kidnappings shared on WhatsApp led to the lynching of seven innocent people. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with,\u201d said Palihapitiya. \u201cAnd imagine taking that to\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":4553,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/02\/linked-i-am-sitting-in-stagram-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":7144,"position":5},"title":"Linked: &#8220;I Am Sitting In Stagram (2015)&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Art-Pete.com: \u201cI am logged into an Instagram account, identical to the one you are in now. 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