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The Guardian writes how tech insiders give their own products a wide berth. The reason is in the design of these services.
I am a compulsive social media user. I have sent about 140,000 tweets since I joined Twitter in April 2007 – six Jacks' worth. I use Instagram, Snapchat and Reddit daily. I have accounts on Ello, Peach and Mastodon (remember them? No? Don't worry). Three years ago, I managed to quit Facebook. I went cold turkey, deleting my account in a moment of lucidity about how it made me feel and act. I have never regretted it, but I haven't been able to pull the same stunt twice.
I used to look at the heads of the social networks and get annoyed that they didn't understand their own sites. Regular users encounter bugs, abuse or bad design decisions that the executives could never understand without using the sites themselves. How, I would wonder, could they build the best service possible if they didn't use their networks like normal people?
Now, I wonder something else: what do they know that we don't?
Apparently what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:34PM
This is what happened to me with ramen. Back when I was a kid and my family was poor, it was Maruchan Top-ramen (and government cheese with crackers) all day every day. Now that ramen is getting big with hipsters I hear a lot about it and even rejected some from a nice restaurant that was offered to me for free. People don't understand why I'm not interested.
Anyway, Anthony Bourdain went over your point in Kitchen Confidential. He stated that he loves eating lumpy mashed potatoes and clumsily thrown-together casseroles when he's not out looking for ideas to steal.