Friendster, Orkut, Myspace all failed due to emergence of Facebook. If another better social networking platform comes up, Facebook will go down...But I don't see that happening in near future. Facebook does look like going to be soaring up higher and higher if you look at the rate of their growth in not just the number of users but also their features and company size.
Ask HN: What Sucks About Facebook?
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#22Centralized, and closed. I want an OpenAuth or similar solution. Diaspora could be it.
Ye I just don't know if most people care about that though..
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#23I deleted mine a few days ago. Hopefully I'll make it through the 14-days where I can re-activate. ## My Facebook Rants: * __Friends__ - A social network should just sense the people you're interested in and give updates accordingly. This would do away with your creepy co-worker demanding that you be his/her "friend." You wouldn't have to delete, and offend, that kid that you never spoke to in the 5th grade. In fact,…
Good answers. I am the same with photos
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#24That I can't hide friends from other friends.
this came up recently. most people in real life have more than one social network/graph. facebook needs to support this at some point (ie. work, family, friends, ex-girlfriends, f buddies, etc.)
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#25The unfiltered narcissism, the disjointed philosophy spewed by bored people, and the rap lyrics. Of course, most of my friends are young.
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#26I deleted mine a few days ago. Hopefully I'll make it through the 14-days where I can re-activate. ## My Facebook Rants: * __Friends__ - A social network should just sense the people you're interested in and give updates accordingly. This would do away with your creepy co-worker demanding that you be his/her "friend." You wouldn't have to delete, and offend, that kid that you never spoke to in the 5th grade. In fact,…
I believe Facebook is the most amazing social interaction thing ever made so I kind have this need to correct some of the things you said, sorry!
Friends: If you reject someone from being your friend they are not informed about it but, if they are smart enough, they can check your profile page and see if they can add you again; you can also block that person and he won't be able to ask to be your friend again; I think this is almost perfect, the only problem I see here is the word "friend". You can accept someone and add that person to a list which will make that person unable to see anything if you want to while still being "friends". Oh, you can also just forget about accepting friendships you don't want to have, the person asking for it will know you still didn't accept him but that's about it.
Emails: You can disable all email notifications (or toggle most of them off leaving the most important on, it's really well done) going to "My Account", "Notifications" tab.
Tagging: You can make your default friends' settings restrict things like seeing photos. If you want some of them to see those photos you can add them to a list where you let them see photos.
Vender Lock-In: I'm not sure about this but didn't Open Social just solve this problem?
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#27There needs to be some way to easily differentiate between close friends and casual acquaintances. I'm mainly interested in interacting with close friends, and there are some things I don't wish to share with everyone I know. Without this, everyone is on the same level and it leads to bad signal to noise ratio.
I already hinted at this on a comment I made above but you can make list with different permissions. I have one for real friends, one for people I have to accept but I don't want them to see anything about me and those who aren't on any of those lists are on the default one: they can't see most things but they can see more than those who are almost blocked.
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#28That I can't hide friends from other friends.
this came up recently. most people in real life have more than one social network/graph. facebook needs to support this at some point (ie. work, family, friends, ex-girlfriends, f buddies, etc.)
Check my comment above about lists, it's already there!
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#29No one else, but Facebook itself will kill Facebook someday.
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#30I think social networks are cyclic because they have a 'fashion' element to them. Whereever the 'hip' people are that's where the rest will follow. So once the 'hip' people (some would say the trend-setters) move out their groupies will follow. Of course after that it's a long way down that hill that you can literally shoot up on but I don't think there ever will be a permanent social network. It's more like a locust…
I don't think so, but of course this differs between demographics. In my experience it has become completely natural to "add someone on Facebook" instead of asking their telephone number. Also all the local competition here (Sweden) has been marginalized.