{"id":142,"date":"2014-10-27T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:09:02","slug":"a-broken-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"A broken model?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good video from Jan. 14, 2014, by 2veritasium: &#8220;<a title=\"YouTube: The problem with Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/l9ZqXlHl65g\" target=\"_blank\">The Problem With Facebook<\/a>&#8221; criticizing the business model. (h\/t to that guy who recommended it on a Google chat I was listening to last week; wrote down the title of the vid, didn&#8217;t write down the guy&#8217;s name).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l9ZqXlHl65g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This reminded me of an article link I&#8217;ve wanted to post somewhere since the beginning of the year. I keep quoting from it casually in conversation with people, but don&#8217;t have it marked, so&#8230; from Jan. 23, 2014 <em>The Independent<\/em>: <a title=\"The Independent: Facebook is an 'infectious disease'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/facebook-is-an-infectious-disease-and-will-lose-80-of-users-by-2017-say-researchers-9079342.html\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook is an &#8216;infectious disease&#8217; and will lose 80% of users by 2017, according to researchers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The researchers use the rapid rise and fall of MySpace as the archetype, comparing publicly available data from Google with the traditional SIR model of infectious disease. \u2018SIR\u2019 stands for Susceptible, Infectious and Recovered &#8211; the three groups that individuals are placed in with regards to a public disease&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good video from Jan. 14, 2014, by 2veritasium: &#8220;The Problem With Facebook&#8221; criticizing the business model. (h\/t to that guy who recommended it on a Google chat I was listening to last week; wrote down the title of the vid, didn&#8217;t write down the guy&#8217;s name). This reminded me of an article link I&#8217;ve wanted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Q4T3-2i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":192,"url":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=192","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":0},"title":"More memories","author":"Kevin Steel","date":"January 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"My friend Kevin Grace (aka The Ambler n.b. updates pending), after seeing the picture posted below of Paul W. and Davis S. in the Alberta Report newsroom, asked if I had any other photos from that era. 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