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Ep. 141: Is the Era of Social Media Ending?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Facebook, Twitter, and the Interesting Content Monopoly

Mery: The original service that twitter co founders had in mind was one where you wanted to be up dated what your friend was up to. They moved away from that because that does not generate enough active user minutes, he says. Mery: Now we are on group text message threads. Now we're on what's happend. So the network effects don't matter any more for the platform monopoly. I can connect with people i know in technologies that are more bespoke and private and vanilla and less exploittive,. so that advantage of monopolies has gone away.

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