Everyone keeps complaining about how terrible twitter has become, but they keep fucking using it.
This is what gets to me too: I notice this pattern a lot with all kinds of products and services. I understand wanting a company to improve a product as a customer but when something gets to this point it’s time to hop off the train and go somewhere else.
It’s astounding to me that people expect the companies of everything they use to have an exact customized version just for them. It’s just never going to happen.
Cory Doctorow put it well, the social media companies make the switching cost high by holding their "friends", connections and follows 'hostage' to them.
It's difficult to convince any individual to jump to the lifeboat unless they know the others with them will.
This is what gets to me too: I notice this pattern a lot with all kinds of products and services. I understand wanting a company to improve a product as a customer but when something gets to this point it’s time to hop off the train and go somewhere else.
It’s astounding to me that people expect the companies of everything they use to have an exact customized version just for them. It’s just never going to happen.
Cory Doctorow put it well, the social media companies make the switching cost high by holding their "friends", connections and follows 'hostage' to them.
It's difficult to convince any individual to jump to the lifeboat unless they know the others with them will.