Facebook's director of product design on why websites may be a dying business

May 31, 2016 by Paul Spoerry 2 Comments

Facebook’s director of product design on why websites may be a dying business
“A lot of my designer friends are still focused building websites, and I’m not sure that’s a growth business anymore.”

Um maybe because Facebook wants to BE the Internet. At the end he even says, "But none of these things go away. People still make vinyl records."

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Thomas Wrobel says

May 31, 2016 at 9:18 am

""Um maybe because Facebook wants to BE the Internet.""

Scary, but basically yeah 🙁
I really dont like the increasing centralization of the net.
Paul Spoerry says

May 31, 2016 at 12:15 pm

Exactly. And while it's a cool unifying force… the notion of Facebook being so central to the net goes against the entire premise OF the Internet, and the web in particular, which has been a massive decentralizing force for information.

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