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How Does Facebook Make Money?
There's no button on facebook that says, i'd like to meet up with my mates. Why does the market not provide it? If you follow the chain from why the market doesn't provide it, i think you begin to understand some of the ways our attention are being invaded and how we can get it back. As sham parker, who was one of the first investors in facebook said, our whole business model was to hack people's attention. We knew we were doing it, and we did it anyway. So they have the most sophisticated engineers in the world specifically working to figure out, maximaly, how to hack your attention. The question is whatte working in whose interests?