“Enshittification” of Online Services
In 2023, the American Dialect Society chose “Enshittification” as Word of the Year. This word was made up to explain the noticeable (unnecessary) deterioration in the quality of online services and social media platforms.. The inventor of the term, Cory Doctorow, says that it happens in three stages. Let’s take the following example of Facebook. Stage One: Providing a good service for users In 2006, Facebook opened to the general public. Back then, a lot of its target audience was on MySpace, a social platform created in 2003 by former…
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