{"id":263787,"date":"2020-08-10T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=263787"},"modified":"2020-08-10T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:11:11","slug":"facebook-is-the-new-aol-america-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/10\/facebook-is-the-new-aol-america-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is the New AOL (America Online)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interesting insight which was spared by reading <a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f79f7638e\">Chris Dixon on why decentralization matters<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Centralization is bad for humanity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A life with no choices is communist and bad. Communism means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all is one, and all is communal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. If <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/08\/facebook-is-good-instagram-is-bad\/\">Facebook<\/a> becomes the only portal to your friends on the internet, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AOL was just lame <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AOL was awesome as a kid, getting access to the internet. AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was fun when I was a kid. But it eventually died off. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite bullish that Facebook and Co will never become the <em>only<\/em> portal to the internet, but I just think Facebook is becoming a new digital caste system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Poor and low class people use Facebook and Instagram, the true rich and privileged prize their privacy and will use things like <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\">Telegram<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/signal.org\/en\/\">Signal<\/a> instead. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the truly uber-rich actually have the privilege of <em>NOT<\/em> needing to own a phone. The new ultimate reverse-flex:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/04\/the-best-car-is-no-car\/\">NOT own a car<\/a><\/li><li>NOT own a home and mortgage <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/16\/the-best-phone-is-no-phone-3\/\">NOT own a phone<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/10\/via-negativa-wealth\/\">Via negativa wealth. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting insight which was spared by reading Chris Dixon on why decentralization matters: Centralization is bad for humanity. A life with no choices is communist and bad. 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