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

Post by scirocco » Fri, Dec 15, 2017, 9:46 AM UTC

nacho2sweet wrote: post #139

electic wrote: post #56

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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…

I as well deleted it off my phone. There is just nothing personal on it anymore. They are also ruining instagram. Too many ads, suggested posts etc. They are morphing it in facebook light. Everything is just bad auto roll food videos, UNILAD shit, and identity politics clickbait sob stories. The only reason I still have facebook is for group chat messenger during the day, and to keep track of underground parties. One…

Post by samschooler » Fri, Dec 15, 2017, 9:58 AM UTC

vuln wrote: post #4

I for one cannot wait for the American Facebook user to actually sit down and consider whether they pay their ISP $10 a month to be force fed ads in their time line now throughout all videos and the finally put down the 'free' drug that Facebook has become. Edit: Not just Facebook but social media as a whole.

Post by KozmoNau7 » Fri, Dec 15, 2017, 10:13 AM UTC

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Delete it off your phone, ASAP. There is literally nothing to gain from having the Facebook app on your phone. The app doesn't positively help you with the one thing Facebook is really useful for - event planning. Every once in a while i like to see what events my friends have invited me to, so I log on to facebook on my browser, check my notifications, and leave. How do I prevent myself from getting sucked in by the…

Don't see how this is a reason for others to delete the app from their phones, it only show that for you it was the right thing to do. To come with another data-point, I have the app on my phone, but don't open it every week. I have turned off most notifications, so if I get a notification on the phone I know it is worth it to use 30 sec to check what it is. Instead I check FB a couple of times a day on a PC where I…

Post by danielhooper » Fri, Dec 15, 2017, 10:15 AM UTC

opportune wrote: post #186

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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…

Post by sAbakumoff » Fri, Dec 15, 2017, 10:29 AM UTC

electic wrote: post #56

propman wrote: 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…