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Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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The greatest thing I did was delete Facebook off my phone. Here are the benefits I discovered: - I didn't miss anything. Turns out there wasn't any real quality content on there anyway. - My battery lasts 2x longer. - I seem to be happier. No joke. With all the rage articles and click bait headlines gone, I am far more happier. - I am way more informed now. I visit allsides.com and get the news there. I quickly get u…

Agreed. I have deleted Facebook app from my phone and it has been great since then. I feel like I waste less time scrolling through meaningless feed of pictures, posts and ads algorithmically crafted to be as addictive as possible. I have also stopped using the main FB website. I only use messenger.com to talk to my friends but no need to go to the main website anymore. The only reason why I haven't deleted my FB acc…

> haven't found a convenient way to export them yet

Click the triangle on the right in the menu bar, and go to Settings. Under "General - General Account Settings" there's a light-grey link that takes you to "Download a copy of your Facebook data". From there you can request an archive of your profile.

It doesn't include all the 'shadow profile' info they keep of you, but it gives you and easy way to download all of your photos at once, easy to import in your photo management app.

EDIT: I've just done a fresh export of my profile, and it seems that sadly the photos don't get exported at full resolution, so this might not be the best option if FB is your primary photo storage at the moment.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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>The company also wants professional creators to post more videos to the site and make the platform a content hub on par with YouTube, a unit of Alphabet Inc.’s Google. That's interesting, because I've never been able to find a second time a video that popped up in my feed. For my experience, videos on Facebook might as well be ephemeral. forever vanishing the moment my feed refreshes itself automatically.

That should not be far off with the current viral video market though.

I follow CGPGrey who does 3~7 min videos, and the main use case is a user looking at it when it pops up, and let it fade into the void after that.

Do that for 3M people in roughly 24h, and it’s done. The rest of the life of the video will have minimal financial returns from that point, and the creator can focus on the next viral topic.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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post #221

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Agreed. I have deleted Facebook app from my phone and it has been great since then. I feel like I waste less time scrolling through meaningless feed of pictures, posts and ads algorithmically crafted to be as addictive as possible. I have also stopped using the main FB website. I only use messenger.com to talk to my friends but no need to go to the main website anymore. The only reason why I haven't deleted my FB acc…

> haven't found a convenient way to export them yet Click the triangle on the right in the menu bar, and go to Settings. Under "General - General Account Settings" there's a light-grey link that takes you to "Download a copy of your Facebook data". From there you can request an archive of your profile. It doesn't include all the 'shadow profile' info they keep of you, but it gives you and easy way to download all of…

I see. Not sure what I would use as alternative way of managing my photos though. I don't like using the Photos app on my MacBook as it is too clunky. I'd like to have a single website which is just like the photo albums part of FB minus the whole social network. That would be ideal.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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post #32

Facebook has become almost completely useless to me yet I waste so much time on it every day. No one posts anything on it except like 3 guys who post 10 times a day that I barely know yet find their extremist political posts mind numbingly amusing. The news on there is trash, I much prefer the WSJ and if I want sensationalist things I'll go to Reddit and my tastes are more niche now so I have some forums I visit occa…

What do you _do_ on facebook, thought? All I see on it are people saying what they just did or how they feel, that's something that has zero importance in living your daily life and trivially deferred to "check it maybe once a day".

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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post #174

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Their active user count increases in every region every year. Their revenue is growing 50% per year. They are not dying.

This isn't a precise way of thinking about things, but I really think the most important part of maintaining the success of a social network is being "cool", or rather, being the social network that cool people use. I don't know the data, but my assumption is that facebook's user count isn't really continuing to grow among young people in developed countries. Like it or not, this demographic is usually what defines w…

> Would people in Indonesia and India join Facebook if it were mostly old people and people from their own countries

Shockingly, people join networks that are used by people they know and their circle of friends is in their own country, for most part. If you think young Indian people are desperately trying to copy what's cool in America you'd have to explain why Whatsapp has been (and continues to be) the dominant network in India, despite being a minor player in America.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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post #56
post #32

Facebook has become almost completely useless to me yet I waste so much time on it every day. No one posts anything on it except like 3 guys who post 10 times a day that I barely know yet find their extremist political posts mind numbingly amusing. The news on there is trash, I much prefer the WSJ and if I want sensationalist things I'll go to Reddit and my tastes are more niche now so I have some forums I visit occa…

The greatest thing I did was delete Facebook off my phone. Here are the benefits I discovered: - I didn't miss anything. Turns out there wasn't any real quality content on there anyway. - My battery lasts 2x longer. - I seem to be happier. No joke. With all the rage articles and click bait headlines gone, I am far more happier. - I am way more informed now. I visit allsides.com and get the news there. I quickly get u…

Same boat. Also got rid of Twitter app.

Now just to block HN most hours of the day...

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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post #66

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It's doomed to fail. YouTube allows creators to profit and build businesses for themselves. Facebook shares none of it's revenue with creators and this is not a sustainable model in the long term.

They will be sharing the 6 second proceeds with creators to encourage more creators to post content to Facebook.

Even if they are sharing with uploaders, they're less creators and more freeloaders pirating other people's YouTube content in most cases so this is pretty irrelevant at best.

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Facebook messaging works in the browser at https://mbasic.facebook.com Useful for emergencies to non-daily users like me.

There is also messenger.com

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work on mobile.

Re: Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long Resisted

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> Videos must now last at least three minutes to be eligible for an “ad break” up from the previous threshold of 90 seconds. Facebook expects users will be more likely to watch ads in the middle of longer videos.

Why would anyone be okay with watching a 3 minute video with an ad at the start and in the middle?

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