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Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Post by arcliteIndira »

elorant wrote: post #16

Fixing Facebook isn't a hard problem. Fixing it while keeping advertisers happy is pretty much impossible. If you try to be more vigilant on privacy settings then you give advertisers less choices to target people. And with Amazon moving into the ad market aggressively, and Google being the behemoth that they are the last thing you want is to hurt your advertising platform.

It's extremely obvious that Facebook knows what a good website looks like, versus what they deliver.

You can take a look at the entire ecosystem of React code out across so many repos and documentation sites, and then stand that next to Facebook proper, and then note the difference in tone, quality and psychological warfare.

https://reactjs.org

With that in mind, consider what kind of strategy and tactics Facebook's internal operations must be operating.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Post by owens99 »

PacifyFish wrote: post #26
opportune wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

smoking:respiratory system :: social media:mental health

There's no healthy way to use cigarettes, plenty of people manage to use Facebook without freaking out about it. The Facebook == cigarettes claim is disingenuous.

Is your statement correct?

People can smoke for decades without any major consequence.

What is the long term effect of Facebook on individuals and society?

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Post by L_226 »

GreeniFi wrote: post #29

MZ (screaming): you broke my Facebook, so you better damn fix it. CS: Whoah Mark, you know people want me to run for president. I can’t scorch my reputation fixing your dumb internet site. Plus enough of my shares have vested for me to leave with my pockets full of loot. It’s not like I ever have to work again. MZ: [redacted] CS: OK, I’ll do it. What did Mark promise her? Would love to know what deal she cut.

He just promised not to publish whatever private FB messages she's been sending... /s

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Post by charlesism »

trophycase wrote: post #25
ardy42 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> "Move fast and repeatedly betray your users' trust" isn't a good strategy, long-term. > Their market cap begs to differ I suppose It seems to do OK in the short to medium term.

I just mean they are one of the largest companies in the world and don't seem to be going anywhere with the rise of Instagram. It more or less seems that they have had no penalty for using this strategy.

Everyone here is aware FB has had a good run. I wouldn't bank on them long-term. This stuff does not bode well...

    > Facebook on Thursday posted the largest one-day loss in
    > market value by any company in U.S. stock market history 
    > after releasing a disastrous quarterly report.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

#35

Post by ekianjo »

PacifyFish wrote: post #26
opportune wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

smoking:respiratory system :: social media:mental health

There's no healthy way to use cigarettes, plenty of people manage to use Facebook without freaking out about it. The Facebook == cigarettes claim is disingenuous.

what is healthy about sharing your private data with a 3rd party you cannot trust with anything? If anything thats irresponsible.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Post by tybit »

jliptzin wrote: post #5
UpshotKnothole wrote: post #4

Even if Facebook actually wanted to change, intended to change and put time, money, and talent to the task this would still be a serious uphill climb. The idea that anyone could rehabilitate their image when they have no such commitment is laughable. Does anyone seriously think what this really isn’t just crisis mangement? Every quarter that FB can stave off inevitable backlash and regulation is money in their pocket…

Facebook is the cigarette of our generation

The world's rapidly improving if that's true.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Post by save_ferris »

mehrdadn wrote: post #28
jliptzin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is the cigarette of our generation

Really? Besides "feeling good" (I assume?), I would be hard pressed to think of a single beneficial thing about cigarette. Facebook certainly has more productive uses than just making you feel good... the question is whether they're worth the downsides.

What benefit does Facebook provide that no other service can? When I break down the specific features of the FB platform, I'd be hard pressed to think of a single beneficial thing about FB.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Post by tokyodude »

elorant wrote: post #16

Fixing Facebook isn't a hard problem. Fixing it while keeping advertisers happy is pretty much impossible. If you try to be more vigilant on privacy settings then you give advertisers less choices to target people. And with Amazon moving into the ad market aggressively, and Google being the behemoth that they are the last thing you want is to hurt your advertising platform.

Wont advertisers go where the people are? Can't FB optimize for users to keep users? if they mined zero data and based ads only on the content of the current page, as long as they had the eyeballs why wouldn't advertisers still want to be there?

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Post by paxys »

GreeniFi wrote: post #29

MZ (screaming): you broke my Facebook, so you better damn fix it. CS: Whoah Mark, you know people want me to run for president. I can’t scorch my reputation fixing your dumb internet site. Plus enough of my shares have vested for me to leave with my pockets full of loot. It’s not like I ever have to work again. MZ: [redacted] CS: OK, I’ll do it. What did Mark promise her? Would love to know what deal she cut.

Probably to make her CEO and remove himself from day-to-day operations. He has honestly seemed mentally checked out for a while now.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

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Post by kardos »

jliptzin wrote: post #5
UpshotKnothole wrote: post #4

Even if Facebook actually wanted to change, intended to change and put time, money, and talent to the task this would still be a serious uphill climb. The idea that anyone could rehabilitate their image when they have no such commitment is laughable. Does anyone seriously think what this really isn’t just crisis mangement? Every quarter that FB can stave off inevitable backlash and regulation is money in their pocket…

Facebook is the cigarette of our generation

Which generation are you? I thought it was the nicotine vape jobbies that form the cigarettes of our generation
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