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Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

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Re: Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

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> Mark last week as the end of ..

What a unique garden-path sentence.[0] I had to re-read that a couple times since I thought it was referring to Mark Zuckerberg given the title of the article..

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

Re: Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

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> Mark last week as the end of .. What a unique garden-path sentence.[0] I had to re-read that a couple times since I thought it was referring to Mark Zuckerberg given the title of the article.. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

Thanks for the link. Never heard of Garden-path sentence before. I had the exact same experience.

Re: Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

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> Mark last week as the end of .. What a unique garden-path sentence.[0] I had to re-read that a couple times since I thought it was referring to Mark Zuckerberg given the title of the article.. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

Interesting insight. I though of Mark Z too.

Re: Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

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Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook, I guess. :-/

I've tried to type out several pithy comments, but the bottom line (to me) is that Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs.

Can you imagine if brick-and-mortar businesses tried to do this? You go out for a Big Mac, but it's not on the menu anymore because Taco Bell had a few really good quarters, so McDonald's decided to pivot to tacos. Maybe you can still order the Big Mac if you know to ask for it, but most people won't, and they'll leave disappointed instead of getting what they wanted.

Edit: To clarify, this example is contrived and the details are not the point. The point is that Facebook offered something to their users, spent years and billions of dollars making sure that as many people as possible got it from Facebook, and then decided to just yank the rug out from under all those people to chase the fairy tale of endless growth.

Re: Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

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Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook, I guess. :-/ I've tried to type out several pithy comments, but the bottom line (to me) is that Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs. Can you imagine if brick-and-mortar businesses tried to do this? You go out for a Big Mac, but it's not on the menu anymore because Taco Bell had a few really good quarters, so McDonald's decided to pivot to t…

Yeah, apple went from selling personal computers to iPods, phones and headphones, where they make most of the money....

Would you have said the same for Apple back in 2007?

Ps. Restaurants change menus all the time.

Re: Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

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Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook, I guess. :-/ I've tried to type out several pithy comments, but the bottom line (to me) is that Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs. Can you imagine if brick-and-mortar businesses tried to do this? You go out for a Big Mac, but it's not on the menu anymore because Taco Bell had a few really good quarters, so McDonald's decided to pivot to t…

It’s not that easy. This is life and death for Facebook. TikTok is really taking over and is a force. It’s also a Chinese company and so they can’t buy it. They are forced to compete, either they do this or become fully irrelevant

Re: Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

#9

Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook, I guess. :-/ I've tried to type out several pithy comments, but the bottom line (to me) is that Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs. Can you imagine if brick-and-mortar businesses tried to do this? You go out for a Big Mac, but it's not on the menu anymore because Taco Bell had a few really good quarters, so McDonald's decided to pivot to t…

Had this same thought a few weeks ago too. Nothing short of contempt.

Re: Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

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Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook, I guess. :-/ I've tried to type out several pithy comments, but the bottom line (to me) is that Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs. Can you imagine if brick-and-mortar businesses tried to do this? You go out for a Big Mac, but it's not on the menu anymore because Taco Bell had a few really good quarters, so McDonald's decided to pivot to t…

McDonald’s does remove menu items that a vocal minority of customers happen to enjoy. They freak out, everybody else shrugs, and the world moves on.

Also TikTok is dope and I only go to Facebook to see ads for clothes and other stuff I might want to buy.

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