Death of Hyperlink: The Aftermath

Mark Zuckerberg proves not to be a fan of links... On Facebook, he doesn’t encourage you to link. On Instagram, he has simply forbidden them. He is quashing the hyperlink, thereby killing the interconnected, decentralized, outward network of text known as the World Wide Web. Facebook likes you to stay within it. Videos are now embedded in Facebook, and soon the outside articles will be embedded, too, with its Instant Articles ...in the less-developed parts of the world, Facebook means the Web to many — 58 per cent of Indians and 55 per cent of Brazilians think Facebook is the Internet... this entertaining, passive, linear and centralized space is not the Web I used to know. It is more like television. The consequences are grave. - Death of Hyperlink: The Aftermath — Thoughts on Media — Medium