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For social media, the biggest switching cost isn’t learning the ins and outs of a new app or generating a new password: it’s the communities, family members, friends, and customers you lose when you switch away. Leaving aside the complexity of adding friends back in on a new service, there’s the even harder business of getting all those people to leave at the same time as you and go to the same place.
6 thoughts on “Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Social Quitting”
Locus Online
I here submit the concept of a multidimensional balance of human life which can serve as a framework for evaluating man’s relation to his tools.
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
And so instead of asking how to summon the energy or motivation or self-discipline to do something that matters to you, it's often more helpful to ask: What if this might be a lot easier than I'd been assuming?
Meditations for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
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