We should replace Facebook with personal websites
<i>&gt;most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online.</i><p>Where does the author get that idea?  The <i>majority</i> of Facebook&#x27;s 2 billion users <i>do not post</i> to their profile feed.  Instead, the FB account is mostly used as a way to <i>passively receive</i> content.  Some of the content is from family and friends, and some is from media outlets (NYTimes, etc).<p>Recommending &quot;personal websites&quot; is talking about a solution to a problem that most of the billion users don&#x27;t have.<p>The way most people use Facebook is more of an RSS feed rather than a 1999 Geocities personal website.  (But that doesn&#x27;t mean RSS readers can replace Facebook because that technology is missing a &quot;real names&quot; reverse directory lookup database.)