It has been a few months since Mark Zuckerberg & Co. decided to launch a direct attack on Elon Musk and the anti-social network formerly known as Twitter. Threads, which was bootstrapped off Instagram’s social graph, became one of the fastest-growing consumer Internet services, though things have cooled a bit there.
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Facebook/Meta launched Threads, a Twitter competitor, last week. Mark Zuckerberg says 100 million people have signed up for the new social platform. Yes, I am one of them, in case you were wondering. My approach to social media is simple: controlled consumption. As on other platforms, I will use Threads at my convenience. There is no urgency to open the app first thing in the morning. It is not as if anything critical is awaiting. For now, it lacks Facebook’s hallmark addictive dopamine loops. I am sure they will come in time — this is a Zuckerberg production.
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