Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook • Hacker News Board

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Post by cmehdy » Sun, May 07, 2017, 3:12 PM UTC

psyc wrote: post #109

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I want everyone to read this comment I wrote." "Cheers, I have read your comment."

That illustrates what I'm getting at, because I can't see the similarity. When I read a comment, I can become informed about something or be challenged. When I see someone's photo of just about anything ... that's where I draw a blank. It would be a different story perhaps if I took the time to curate a follow-list that was all computer graphicists and mathematicians, but that's what I use Twitter for.

Building a list of interesting people to follow is the biggest part. Keep in mind that this is visual communication, so there will definitely be a bias towards photographers, artists, journalists.. Not everyone is able to communicate visually well either, and the format prevents long textual explanations and favours a more emotional response.

National Geographic has a few accounts (natgeo, natgeocreative..), NASA shares interesting tidbits about current missions, Magnum photography has interesting pieces of visual journalism, many unknown journalists use it to explore projects that do not always resonate with current trends in the media/their workplace.. There's decent content on Instagram, although it isn't easy to find.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Post by pmarreck » Sun, May 07, 2017, 6:29 PM UTC

H4CK3RM4N wrote: post #64

pmarreck wrote: post #6

There are things out there, great things, just struggling to be the next whatever. There should be a way to look past the eclipse of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

I have to say that Duck Duck Go feels a lot more like early Google than Google does now(it feels more like querying a database than asking a machine a question). I could see them taking lots of the 'pro' search traffic, especially with their bangs and the way they still just use Stack Overflow answers/Wikipedia articles for their preferred results instead of attempting to remix them.

Based on this comment and others, I have made my default search engine DDG. Will try it out for a while.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 08, 2017, 1:48 AM UTC

jpatokal wrote: post #93

adventured wrote: post #79

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> What happens when Facebook does similar and Mark Zuckerberg controls nearly every waking moment of most Americans? Who is the Apple to the United States v. Facebook monopoly? That's called jumping the shark. In this context, the point in time where people get so concerned about a powerful company, that a form of outlandish and irrational fear starts to set in. See: IBM 1970s, early 1980s; Microsoft late 1990s; Goog…

That's not called jumping the shark. Jumping the shark is when something formerly cool/great (originally, Fonzie in TV sitcom Happy Days ) does something so blatantly stupid (originally, jumping over a shark on water skis) that it becomes painfully obvious that they've lost all credibility. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

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Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Post by ryanwaggoner » Mon, May 08, 2017, 1:53 AM UTC

CuriouslyC wrote: post #105

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #100

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"I want everyone to read this comment I wrote." "Cheers, I have read your comment."

Comments are more likely to be a vehicle for raising awareness about something meaningful than pictures.

I don't know that I would state it so strongly, but regardless, most of life isn't about raising awareness of meaningful things, and probably shouldn't be.

Re: Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook

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Post by ryanwaggoner » Mon, May 08, 2017, 1:54 AM UTC

psyc wrote: post #109

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I want everyone to read this comment I wrote." "Cheers, I have read your comment."

That illustrates what I'm getting at, because I can't see the similarity. When I read a comment, I can become informed about something or be challenged. When I see someone's photo of just about anything ... that's where I draw a blank. It would be a different story perhaps if I took the time to curate a follow-list that was all computer graphicists and mathematicians, but that's what I use Twitter for.

Informing or challenging is a tiny fraction of the different reasons to communicate.