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Re: I miss Facebook

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Post by caprese »

jugg1es wrote: post #66

This article reminds me of a complaint I've had about online gaming. I'm 36 and I remember when all online FPS games were played on centralized servers. If you logged on at the same time of day, you would see the same players you saw yesterday. Over time, you would develop relationships with those people and perhaps you would eventually meet them in real life. I have 2-3 very good real-life friends that I originally…

“Kids these days” dont have the problem you are experiencing

Sure 12 year olds blowing off steam in an FPS will go to quick play but people self organize

Many obscure mobile games have robust chats with the same regulars and centralized servers

Twitch communities and discord groups are pretty wild

Re: I miss Facebook

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Post by caprese »

> I miss knowing how my online friends are really doing these days. Being able to go through their life, their personal updates, the ups and the downs.

What? That was horrible! The simpletons talking about every mood change, or publicly plotting juvenile retribution against an ex-lover, or a respected keynote speaker who was previously isolated to that role now inviting you to Mafia Wars

I deleted my first “everyone I met everywhere” Facebook in 2008.

Allowing a new bare bones one in 2012 which is merely deactivated now.

This article is a mere nostalgic highlight reel, ironic how it complains then about instagram

Yeah ok, people in their 30s complain about selfies, selfie sticks, pictures of food, ephemeral stories, vertical videos, and older people using social media. They’re lost in between a dichotomy demographics that do not care and who these current networks are made for.

I would say the delayed gratisfaction is bigger component to the prior experience: planning, coordinating, and uploading just a few photos from different sources much later. The next day even, if your friends were tech savvy and had fast connections. The dopamine of social interaction coming in bursts, and the anticipation of the possibility having its own allure.

Re: I miss Facebook

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Post by lousken »

jugg1es wrote: post #66

This article reminds me of a complaint I've had about online gaming. I'm 36 and I remember when all online FPS games were played on centralized servers. If you logged on at the same time of day, you would see the same players you saw yesterday. Over time, you would develop relationships with those people and perhaps you would eventually meet them in real life. I have 2-3 very good real-life friends that I originally…

I had the same experience on a small private WoW server. We knew each other very well and I have 4 friends from that era.

Btw even nowadays small twitch streamers are also a good place to find friends.

Re: I miss Facebook

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Post by geddy »

SantalBlush wrote: post #87
charleshan wrote: post #52

This really hits home. So what ruined Facebook? The Wall was replaced by an algorithm which sunk original content below a flood of ads, fake news, and externally shared content "you might like". We stopped seeing original content. Then, people stopped sharing personal stuff, as nobody interacted with it.

>So what ruined Facebook? The need for growth. When facebook has roughly maxed out its user base, how does it proceed to grow? 1. Infiltrate comment sections on major websites and require commenters to log in via facebook. 2. Optimize facebook content to increase user engagement and keep their eyeballs moving across advertisements. Facebook could have remained a simple and fun social network app for much longer, but…

That’s every web site these days though. Back in the 90s and early 2000s, things were built because “it’d be cool if...” The commonality between everything created today is “this will be great at serving people ads” as the primary focus.

Re: I miss Facebook

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Post by qubex »

k_sze wrote: post #77

I don’t miss Facebook. I just weaned myself off Facebook about a week or two ago. I realised that I needed to get off Facebook because it made me feel depressed. When I was on Facebook, I would look at the feed and become poignantly aware of how boring my life is. (I don’t travel. I don’t do any “fun” thing. I don’t go to parties.) So one day I decide that I have had enough and I just uninstalled Facebook from my pho…

Likewise I ‘quit’ Facebook about a year ago in much the same fashion (except I kept the app on my phone too, because about once a month I go on it and see if anything very important has occurred in what remains of my social circle.

To this day I’m irritated that these product managers got between me and my friends and smashed our means of staying connected.

Re: I miss Facebook

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Post by didsomeonesay »

soniman wrote: post #39

There was a period when the internet was new for everybody, and everybody was discovering it at the same time. It was like the first few weeks of college, except it was the entire world. And that's not going to happen again. Somebody will come up with a new social media app that solves the problems of the current platforms, and it will have some of the old magic. But the rush of the early days of the internet / blogg…

Eternal September is finally over...

Re: I miss Facebook

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Post by jdeibele »

jugg1es wrote: post #66

This article reminds me of a complaint I've had about online gaming. I'm 36 and I remember when all online FPS games were played on centralized servers. If you logged on at the same time of day, you would see the same players you saw yesterday. Over time, you would develop relationships with those people and perhaps you would eventually meet them in real life. I have 2-3 very good real-life friends that I originally…

Back in the day, I thought the local phone companies in the US should use the increasingly empty space in their central offices to locate gaming equipment. This was back in the dialup days as things slowly shifted to ADSL.

It would be much more fun to play against kids you saw every day. Things could have scaled up to include older players and other kinds of games.

Unfortunately, the local telco I dealt with had no interest in such things. They resisted thinking past next week. They installed a 3-inch, 800-pair line for the ISP I worked at rather than installing digital.

Re: I miss Facebook

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Post by jwalton »

system16 wrote: post #73
charleshan wrote: post #52

This really hits home. So what ruined Facebook? The Wall was replaced by an algorithm which sunk original content below a flood of ads, fake news, and externally shared content "you might like". We stopped seeing original content. Then, people stopped sharing personal stuff, as nobody interacted with it.

I quit Facebook many years ago, but one of the reasons I stopped engaging with it was after they started creepily sharing interactions made on the site. Seeing "Pam liked this photo" or "Dave commented on this post" in my feed - almost certainly without them knowing I was seeing it - made me very hesitant to interact with the site at all. I'm sure they have a ton of metrics proving it increases engagement for the maj…

This is exactly what made me stop using it. I didn't post anything for a few weeks, and I started getting these fake "notifications" that had nothing to do with me. It felt like Facebook was some sort of stalky overly clingly ex, trying way too hard to get me to engage. So creepy.

Re: I miss Facebook

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Post by neltnerb »

juststeve wrote: post #60
rjplatte wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't? I generally wear long sleeves, but I prefer to be comfortable at concerts.

I actually haven't been to one, but I should go and see what it's like. Apparently the sound is much better? Wearing a suit feels a bit pompous, but it would be interesting to hear what the musicians and conductors think about the audiance's attire. I assume most don't care.

Actually, with regard to whether the sound is better, I think the biggest point that I like about live orchestras is that I can see the performers... each performance is different, I can see where different sounds are coming from and see the passion each player is putting into it. The acoustics are of course also great since the conductor is varying volume to match the room, but it really connects me to the music to watch the person playing the line I'm following with my ear.
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