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

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Post by jl6 »

me_again wrote: post #218
hiimshort wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've enjoyed the analogy so adding onto it: Google would open up 5 competing, different burger places next to each other and then close them all down a year later, confused that none of them did well enough. All to open a new Taco stand on the other side of town and claim it's got the same great food you liked before (it doesn't).

Apple would sell exactly one kind of burger, which is great but costs $20. The wrapper is rose gold or space grey. Only Apple-certified condiments can be applied to the burgers, and a packet of ketchup is $5. Each year the faithful queue outside for the privilege of obtaining the latest burger.

The burger is nearly always great, but occasionally it tastes strange. You are not allowed to see the ingredients and the staff suggest you might be able to improve the situation by re-wrapping and re-unwrapping the burger. This does nothing. The senior staff suggest leaving the burger in the fridge overnight and trying again in the morning. This does nothing. None of the staff actually know how to make a burger, but they will swap your strange burger for a refurbished burger for only $18.

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

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Post by b112 »

me_again wrote: post #218
hiimshort wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've enjoyed the analogy so adding onto it: Google would open up 5 competing, different burger places next to each other and then close them all down a year later, confused that none of them did well enough. All to open a new Taco stand on the other side of town and claim it's got the same great food you liked before (it doesn't).

Apple would sell exactly one kind of burger, which is great but costs $20. The wrapper is rose gold or space grey. Only Apple-certified condiments can be applied to the burgers, and a packet of ketchup is $5. Each year the faithful queue outside for the privilege of obtaining the latest burger.

In'n'Out burger?

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

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Post by parineum »

tomgp wrote: post #307
cft wrote: post #277

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Even though the original product is dead, they bought WhatsApp and Instagram, which are far from dead

Instagram’s incessant design tweaking, it’s algorithm adjustments which now give preferential treatment to “reels” to an absurd degree and the expansion of advertising on the feed (I’ve seen people write as much as 5x more) all positively reeks of desperate product managers. Instagram is going the same way as facebook it just has a bit further to go

Algorithmic feeds are the harbinger of doom for social media. They all get immediately and progressively worse when it's implemented (and it always will be because that's the business model).

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

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Post by vivekzorp »

Havent used Facebook in ages, so cant say what they have become. But one of the primary reasons why i left FB was because it had become junk, and was of no value.

Will i go back and use it because it has a new design. probably not, as i believe FB's core approach has not changed

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Post by NonNefarious »

cft wrote: post #277
dreamcompiler wrote: post #264

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> Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs. Facebook cares a great deal about its users--advertisers. You and I aren't Facebook's users; we are the ore Facebook has been mining at a cost approaching zero for over a decade and selling at a huge markup to its actual customers. But now the mine is playing out. We no longer cost Facebook zero to mine and the advertisers are beginning to realize t…

Even though the original product is dead, they bought WhatsApp and Instagram, which are far from dead

Instagram is moribund. People's accounts are being stolen left and right, users' feeds are full of unasked-for shit, and "stories" are an absolute mess.

Facebook and its properties are dead. Good riddance.

TikTok is next, of course. Just ask Vine.

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Post by NonNefarious »

kortilla wrote: post #298
pjmlp wrote: post #290

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Some of us are old enough to have been through Hi5 and MySpace....

True, but despite MySpace once being dominant, it’s peak scale was a tiny fraction of where Facebook is now. MySpace was popular for some specific English speaking age groups mainly. Facebook is basically everywhere but China. My parents who still refer to Google Maps as Mapquest are even on Facebook. It will take a pretty big screwup to flush out those types of users (not early adopters).

Your parents are the only ones left on Facebook. As long as that demographic can sustain it, so be it. But nobody under 70 is going to be on there much longer.

Actually, red-state cousin-humpers might still be on there a while longer. They have no place else to go, after Trump's predictably shambolic attempt at creating a competitor.

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

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Post by IshKebab »

Barrin92 wrote: post #159

I always thought Facebook sat at a very awkward, uncanny-valley type position on the social media spectrum. On the one hand it doesn't feel (or is) private or personal. The feed mechanic doesn't really make for great conversations and everything is half public, the line between friends and other people isn't that clear, and so on. Chat platforms like Telegram/Discord/Whatsapp and TikTok clearly lean into one directio…

Yeah it started off basically private, social, with people you care about and has gradually slid into people you don't really know commenting on non-social stuff.

Nobody I know uses it anymore and we were Facebook's core audience when it started. We all just use WhatsApp now.

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Post by Thorrez »

b112 wrote: post #312
me_again wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple would sell exactly one kind of burger, which is great but costs $20. The wrapper is rose gold or space grey. Only Apple-certified condiments can be applied to the burgers, and a packet of ketchup is $5. Each year the faithful queue outside for the privilege of obtaining the latest burger.

In'n'Out burger?

I think they're pretty reasonably priced burgers.
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