Facebook is now many things, but when it started it was about identity: this is who I am, this is who I know, this is what I care about.
As Facebook has expanded, it's become a mostly passive experience. This is a byproduct of Facebook's business model, which is to sell other people's time. Like any business, it's incentivized to maximized its inventory, which in this case is time spent on Facebook properties.
People are waking up to the fact that Facebook doesn't add value to your life, it extracts value by consuming your time.
There is another way. You don't need to be the product.
This is why I created Universe (YC W'18), a new kind of tool that allows everyone to build their place on the internet—their own website, with their own domain, and their own design.
The internet should look more like a bustling, erratic metropolis and less like a centrally-planned suburb. To do that, it needs to be built by everyone.
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As Facebook has expanded, it's become a mostly passive experience. This is a byproduct of Facebook's business model, which is to sell other people's time. Like any business, it's incentivized to maximized its inventory, which in this case is time spent on Facebook properties.
People are waking up to the fact that Facebook doesn't add value to your life, it extracts value by consuming your time.
There is another way. You don't need to be the product.
This is why I created Universe (YC W'18), a new kind of tool that allows everyone to build their place on the internet—their own website, with their own domain, and their own design.
The internet should look more like a bustling, erratic metropolis and less like a centrally-planned suburb. To do that, it needs to be built by everyone.
Check out Universe and let me know what you think: http://apple.co/Universe
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