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What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by rwmj »

ilovetux wrote: post #42

I miss Myspace, it was way less creepy and IMHO led to much more meaningful communication.

Myspace was very poorly implemented. Slow, often even displaying errors on some pages.

The social network I miss is Mixi, which was a sort of proto-Facebook around in the early 2000s (in Japan and Japanese only). Mixi had some really interesting features like being able to see who had browsed your account. (To be fair Mixi still exists, but they kind of died when FB became popular, as well as putting itself out of business with some onerous changes to their terms of service and business practices.)

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by chvid »

libdjml wrote: post #31
chvid wrote: post #7

This article reads like something between a hit-piece and a I-don't-like-Facebook-opinion-piece. A similarly article could be written about Google but it is not. I think the interesting question is why not?

There are a load of criticisms you could call out about google, but suggesting that their “one primary platform and single focus (social media)” is about to collapse is not valid; they’re far too broadly invested (from mobile phones to search to email) to claim they’re about to become irrelevant.

If you look at where their revenue is, it it probably not broad at all (just search advertisement and AdSense).

And if you look solely at the US and Canada their adaption is probably petering out as well.

And heart what is their core business other than a massive invasion of privacy and data mining of personal information?

What about all these stories that has push management on the defence? (Google China, that right-wing guy and so on.)

The point is. What this article is saying about Facebook could just as easily had been said about Google with just about the same validity.

Why does Facebook get bad press whereas Google does not?

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by AndrewSChapman »

Honestly, I hope they do! Simply put, the company is ethically bankrupt and deserve to be made an example of how not to run a social network.

You can't go selling peoples private messages to Netflix (the sheer audacity of that just blows my mind!). You can't allow peoples private data to be sold to data analytics firms that are trying to sway elections.

Facebook is built on the belief that people don't need privacy and I think that's fundamentally wrong.

As an aside, I hope people continue migrating to https://MeWe.com which has a clear privacy bill of rights at its core and zero ads. It makes money in a far more traditional approach by charging for "pages" and extended emotions etc.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by jcfrei »

buboard wrote: post #24
maeln wrote: post #10

Facebook as a website can go the way of MySpace. But Facebook as a company will probably not. The subject is touched a bit toward the end of the article but the reality is this: Facebook has reached a critical mass, as a company, that MySpace never did. As such, they can just continue to buy all the other new social network that pop-up and make sure that they have a dominant position in the social network market. Unl…

It doesnt even need to continue as a social network. They have a strong foothold in AI and are leading strong with their own DL framework.

I'm pretty sure the profit margins and revenue for their potential AI applications are nowhere close to what they get from advertisements right now.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by hackinthebochs »

chillacy wrote: post #52
FranzFerdiNaN wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook was instrumental in electing the worst president ever that is causing damage that will last for decades, it seems that every month now a story break that they handle their users' data even worse than thought possible before, but hey, they made this cool open source library so i guess it all balances out!

Why blame Facebook and not: - voters for actually choosing this guy - the media for giving this guy so much coverage - people for not fact checking Blaming Facebook feels like shooting the messenger. It’s not going to fix any of the underlying issues going into 2020. At worst it’s a distraction, like birthers against Obama.

It's a strange meme that "facebook elected Trump" when every news org gave him billions worth of free coverage because it was good for their bottom line. They elected Trump because they knew a Trump presidency would be the best thing to happen to them since Monica Lewinsky. Somehow we all seem to have forgotten that.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by uncletaco »

rwmj wrote: post #61
ilovetux wrote: post #42

I miss Myspace, it was way less creepy and IMHO led to much more meaningful communication.

Myspace was very poorly implemented. Slow, often even displaying errors on some pages. The social network I miss is Mixi, which was a sort of proto-Facebook around in the early 2000s (in Japan and Japanese only). Mixi had some really interesting features like being able to see who had browsed your account. (To be fair Mixi still exists, but they kind of died when FB became popular, as well as putting itself out of bu…

The social network I miss the most is MyOtaku. It was a lot like livejournal but the site was geared towards anime nerds. I used it until about 2008 or so when it just sorta got ate as all my friends from there added me on fb.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by dominotw »

AndrewSChapman wrote: post #64

Honestly, I hope they do! Simply put, the company is ethically bankrupt and deserve to be made an example of how not to run a social network. You can't go selling peoples private messages to Netflix (the sheer audacity of that just blows my mind!). You can't allow peoples private data to be sold to data analytics firms that are trying to sway elections. Facebook is built on the belief that people don't need privacy a…

> I hope people continue migrating to http://MeWe.com which has a clear privacy bill of rights at its core and zero ads. It makes money in a far more traditional approach by charging for "pages" and extended emotions etc.

What is the guarantee that they stick to this and not got FB route later. Why should I trust "Sgrouples Inc."?

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