What's So Wrong With Facebook?

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Hones with an N. You hone in on a point. So I looked it up. Apparently the original is homes in, but hones in is both so common now that most dictionaries with both. And also, home in was originally carrier pigeons would home in. It's one of those things where not only has home become an accepted term because of common use, it actually makes sense in its own right on the same wines. But let's give you the point. We are not talking about me yourself. We're talking about Facebook, which we have talked about one or two times previously on this program. Talked about a lot of the issues that have come to the forefront

Ben and James discuss Facebook’s current crisis, and why almost everyone misunderstands what the company did wrong: the problem isn’t advertising, it was Facebook’s desire to be a platform.

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Links

James Allworth: What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking — Medium
Ben Thompson: The Facebook Brand — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Tim Cook’s Unfair and Unrealistic Privacy Speech — Stratechery
Mark Zuckerberg’s Reckoning: ‘This Is a Major Trust Issue’ — The New York Times
Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Good News — Stratechery
Nicholas Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Wired About Facebook’s Privacy Problem — Wired
Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery