{"id":186,"date":"2024-11-26T23:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulhansel.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2025-02-09T23:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T23:45:44","slug":"pack-it-up-mark-a-15-year-thanksgiving-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulhansel.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Pack it up, Mark: a 15-year Thanksgiving retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Facebook’s logo at the time of my joining in 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Way back in January 2009, I joined Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook. Poke! It’s now November 2024. I’m not yet 30, so 15 years is a majority of my life<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that time, Facebook’s valuation grew from $10 billion to $1,400 billion, Mark changed up his fit<\/a>, Myanmar’s military exploited Facebook to execute an ethnic cleansing<\/a>, and a<\/a> few<\/a> other<\/a> things<\/a> happened<\/a>. So, naturally, one begins to question decisions made long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s broadly understood that most of Facebook’s valuation of $1,400 billion hinges on its several billion users being locked in for life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I leave my account as-is, Meta can count me as a user for at least another 60, maybe 70 years. That would mean they can count, sometime in the 2080s, that I’ve been a source of value to them for more than 80% of my life. It’s not even clear they’ll stop counting me as a user once I’m gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, on the basis that any advertising revenue accrued by Meta from my usage is value that I’m giving up, and on the basis that I expect no future benefit from continuing to have an account, I’ll be deleting my Facebook account on December 31, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As my grandfather always said, if the broiler is free, you are the turkey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy holidays!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you’re reading this post, you should almost certainly already have my email and phone number. If not, you can reach me at [] @ paulhansel.com or in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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