Remember when Twitter was good.

Well, Twitter itself, the service is still mostly okay.

But God, the decisions are make it terrible.

You know what I've noticed lately, by the way?

Maybe I'm just waking up to five years ago, but I've done a couple of searches recently

for hotels like for WBDC and things like that.

And I was looking at Facebook recently, and they were putting in ads

for the destinations I was searching for when I was not even anywhere near Facebook at the time,

which is extremely creepy.

Oh, that's the new internet.

That's the modern privacy economy.

So now the net effect from that is that if I do look at Facebook, I look at it,

and then I log the hell out because I feel like that makes a difference even though it probably doesn't.

It doesn't.

I mean, this is just like the boil of the frog analogy.

It's like, you know, at some point we all say, oh, we can't do this.

This is too creepy.

And then, you know, six months later, that's fine.

And then we'll move on to the next creepy thing.

And Facebook and Google and all these companies that make money based on how creepy they're willing to be

will always get more and more creepy over time because that's how they will keep making money

and keep staying ahead of each other and the competition and keep their numbers growing every quarter.

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