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Something I've never understood about these pivots from successful, revenue generating products. Sure, some users will leave Instagram for Tiktok. But isn't it a different product? Wouldn't Meta have been better off creating a new product and integrating it with Instagram, rather than killing the golden goose? This kind of thing seems to happen really often.
Nooo please leave Tiktok be, they didn't do anything wrong.... cough cough OSINT treasure trove cough cough
> If platforms like Facebook and Instagram abandon their social graphs to pursue this cybernetic TikTok model, they’ll lose their competitive advantage. Is it really a competitive advantage if a competitor is doing better without it?
There is lots of talk going around TikTok, especially now geopolitics has been added to this kind of discussion due to ongoing tensions between two giants. Instead of banning or removing the TikTok app, how about the US government put a firm privacy policy that forbids TikTok, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and co from collecting excessive data on users? That would be a better solution, IMHO. Let users download…
> If platforms like Facebook and Instagram abandon their social graphs to pursue this cybernetic TikTok model, they’ll lose their competitive advantage. Is it really a competitive advantage if a competitor is doing better without it?
A graph of details about rich media is still, in some sense, a social graph.
Rather than documenting: who do you know? when did you meet them?
Capturing: what do you know? when did you learn it? who did you learn it from? what do you call it? how should it be presented? And so on...
Wow. An article about TikTok that has the word poison in it, that is not actually anti-TikTok. How far we have gone. And yes! TikTok is how we break the shackles of big tech. TikTok on its own we can handle. But a Facebook backed by the full force of the US military surveillance industrial complex. That is going to kill off the whole planet.
Nooo please leave Tiktok be, they didn't do anything wrong.... cough cough OSINT treasure trove cough cough
Bring back google+. oh wait, I guess we really can't trust anyone with user data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Google_data_breach >In October 2018, the Wall Street Journal published an article outlining the initial breach and Google's decision to not disclose it to users.[18] At the time, there was no federal law that required Google to inform their consumers of data breaches. Google+ originally did not disclos…
Disclosure: I work at Google, but never on Google+.
I'm not really sure what the People's Liberation Army will do with all my cat videos anyway...
> If platforms like Facebook and Instagram abandon their social graphs to pursue this cybernetic TikTok model, they’ll lose their competitive advantage. Is it really a competitive advantage if a competitor is doing better without it?
Facebook also have long abandoned their competitive advantage with their outrage porn focused recommendations since at least 2015/2016, they were just doing it badly. Tiktok is showing them how it's better done.