Episode 137 — Addicted to Facebook

Ben and James discuss Facebook’s algorithm change, the difference between Facebook and Snapchat, and what the company’s motivations might be.

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Links

• Ben Thompson: Facebook’s Motivations — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2018/facebooks-motivations)

• Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Great News — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/mobile-makes-facebook-jus…)

• Ben Thompson: Facebook and the Feed — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2015/facebook-and-the-feed)

• Ben Thompson: Facebook, Phones, and Phonebooks — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/what-facebook-is-and-isnt)

• Ben Thompson: Popping the Publishing Bubble — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2015/popping-the-publishing-bu…)

• Ben Thompson: Defining Aggregators — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/defining-aggregators)

• Tyler Cowen: A Simple Theory of Moore’s Law and Social Media — Marginal Revolution (marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017…)

• Farhad Manjoo: It’s Time for Apple to Build a Less Addictive iPhone — New York Times (nytimes.com/2018/01/17/technology/apple-addict…)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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