{"id":11860,"date":"2012-03-17T16:20:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T20:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=11860"},"modified":"2021-08-10T19:42:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:42:15","slug":"seinfeld-explains-facebooks-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/seinfeld-explains-facebooks-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Seinfeld Explains Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220625203343\/https:\/\/www.liquidplanner.com\/blog\/3-top-reasons-we-waste-time-at-work-and-what-to-do-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-97490\" title=\"Seinfeld Explains Facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/workplace-e1562988421764-150x88.jpg?resize=117%2C69&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Seinfeld Explains Facebook\" width=\"117\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/workplace-e1562988421764.jpg?resize=150%2C88&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/workplace-e1562988421764.jpg?resize=75%2C44&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/workplace-e1562988421764.jpg?w=348&amp;ssl=1 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>NYT<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220507052957\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/06\/business\/facebook-bends-the-rules-of-audience-engagement-to-its-advantage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> that <span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Facebook has 50 minutes of your time each day and it wants you to spend even more time on the site giving up your personal data.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"www.reddit.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/ndava\/seinfeld_basically_calling_out_facebook_in_the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reddit<\/a> has a <a title=\"Seinfeld\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/tv\/shows\/seinfeld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seinfeld<\/a> clip from 1992 that explains why <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, and all <strong>social media<\/strong>, is such an <a title=\"thenextweb.com\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210119160935\/https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2011\/12\/15\/woah-jerry-seinfeld-perfectly-explained-the-success-of-facebook-in-1992\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">irresistible <strong>life-resource hog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5W8K9SMI9Fk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Seinfeld Season 04 Episode 07 <a title=\"www.imdb.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0697662\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bubble Boy<\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/sam-sommers\/the-science-of-seinfeld_b_1142575.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Sommers: The Science of Seinfeld<\/a> (huffingtonpost.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has a Seinfeld clip from 1992 that proves that explaining why Facebook, and all social media, is such an irresistible life-resource hog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[2197,104,1096,963,964,934],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","tag-2197","tag-facebook","tag-fb","tag-jerry-seinfeld","tag-reddit","tag-seinfeld"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119462,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions\/119462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}