I was featured on LinkedIn for Creators after stopping by their office a few weeks ago for LinkedIn for Creators day.
Read MoreI had an op-ed published in Crain’s today contextualizing the Muskification of Twitter within Twitter’s already declining user experience. Since it’s behind a paywall, here are some key points.
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Was I happy when I heard that the FTC and more than 40 states were accusing Facebook of anti-competitive behavior and demanding they spin off Instagram and WhatsApp? Happy is an understatement. I was ecstatic.
Digging into the details, this seems like an important first step, but a difficult one. Anti-competitive behavior is hard to prove—especially when those acquisitions were approved less than a decade ago—though in this case it’s pretty well known how Facebook has had a chilling effect on the social media industry with its buy, copy, or kill approach.
The problem is in the framing: thinking of Facebook as a social media company.
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COVID-19, and the crisis-upon-crisis that is 2020 in general, has been an amazing forcing function for the future. Any company that had a transformational change on its 10-year roadmap has been forced to consider how to implement those changes in a matter of months.
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One the first day of the new year, I wrote a Facebook missive on how I plan to "go high" a la Michelle Obama in 2019, and aim to be constructive in my participation in public discourse. Not passive—and certainly not afraid to show righteous anger—but also steering clear of the meme-ification of political dialogue that was typical of 2018 social media.
As with most New Year’s resolutions, easier said than done.
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I’m going back to the basics.
I never thought I’d be blogging again, but here I am. Thanks in part to Asha Dornfest’s call to action to rebuild America through writing — a popular idea lately thanks to the missteps of our favorite social media platforms — I’ve taken up my digital pen again.
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