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Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by barbazoo »

jcfrei wrote: post #95
barbazoo wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there some precedent of this from the past? I haven't heard of this "rule".

The social platform where young people spent most of their time kept changing in the past - I think it went something like this: Netlog > Facebook > Instagram > TikTok. There have been lots of other social networks that have been popular at some point and then eventually declined or even disappeared: Google+, Snapchat, Vine, StudiVZ (German speaking countries), the list goes on...

> they go out of fashion when too many use it

I just don't see that applying to any of those, certainly not G+ :)

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by adave »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #65

I like instagram, in the same way that I like drinking. I know it's generally bad for me, but I enjoy it. There is a surprising amount of high quality posts about tech, science, history, music, and probably whatever you are interested in. Many of which would be worthy of the hn front page if they were a short blog instead of a short video. It is worthwhile if you can avoid the traps of attractive people dancing, casu…

Lol what high quality content creator is posting exclusively on instagram stories?

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by slothtrop »

standardUser wrote: post #67
slothtrop wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, voyeurism for curated updates. Personally I don't get it, and if old friends matter to me at all I'd message them to ask anyway.

The fact that you don't desire a more granular spectrum of communication with different people in your life should not prevent you from understanding why many people do want that.

> granular spectrum

That's generous.

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by ketchupdebugger »

panda888888 wrote: post #128

The ratio of ads to real posts on Instagram is already terrible. If it gets any worse, I'll probably stop using Instagram due to frustration. I'm pretty fed up as is. For grid posts (not sure what they're called, but the part that's not stories, where you scroll down), my feed is currently as follows: 1) Friend 2) Friend 3) Ad for a prescription medicine I'll never take. Totally irrelevant. 4) Friend 5) Friend 6) Ad…

I dont see how they can increase this any more. If they increase anymore it will literally be every other post is an ad. Unless its consecutive ad posts. Either way its bad for the end user.

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Post by dzikimarian »

bastardoperator wrote: post #105
aNoob7000 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I think the future is in messenger apps. Why login to Instagram or Facebook to see updates when you can have a family/friends group in Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal (pick your poison).

Why login to anything at all? Why use whatsapp, telegram, or signal when every phone already does this and has been doing this for years? I have all of my friends and family in specific groups devoid of any specific apps. To be fair people were saying the same thing 20 years ago when AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo messenger were the big thing. All messaging platforms will eventually die is my experience thus far.

SMS is slow and bad at rich media. Unless you're talking about iMessage - then you are logged in with your Apple ID - it's exactly like WhatsApp/Telegram + closed for people outside of your hardware ecosystem.

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by StrictDabbler »

panda888888 wrote: post #128

The ratio of ads to real posts on Instagram is already terrible. If it gets any worse, I'll probably stop using Instagram due to frustration. I'm pretty fed up as is. For grid posts (not sure what they're called, but the part that's not stories, where you scroll down), my feed is currently as follows: 1) Friend 2) Friend 3) Ad for a prescription medicine I'll never take. Totally irrelevant. 4) Friend 5) Friend 6) Ad…

Same ad timing, but my ads are 100% for fancy art products I might buy if they weren't four times the cost of a similar product and eighty times the price of a nice pencil.

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Post by zaat »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #34
cloutchaser wrote: post #24

Why does a company that still has majority founder votes, and founder CEO do something like this? Zuckerberg can't be this dumb, his bonuses don't depend on the share price, so why destroy your company like this? I just don't get it. If you think further than the next quarter this seems like a terrible long term choice. Can someone explain how a company like Meta arrives at a decision like this?

> Zuckerberg can't be this dumb You are giving this person too much credit. His only other big thing besides getting lucky with Facebook itself is the metaverse, a soulless "Second Life 2 with VR and blockchain support". > Can someone explain how a company like Meta arrives at a decision like this? Maybe everyone just gave up, they know they have no way to fix Meta, so they are just gonna squeeze the lemon really, re…

> His only other big thing besides getting lucky with Facebook itself is the metaverse

To take something like Facebook from very successful college site into the behemoth it is now with luck alone one needs a particularly shining star.

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by motoxpro »

evouga wrote: post #75

It's almost impossible to overstate how significantly social media altered the fabric of the Internet. From "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" to everybody having seen multiple photos of your dog. From a decentralized web of special-interest fiefdoms to digital sharecropping. And now, the era of social media is over. Instagram's death leaves Twitter as the last relevant social network, and Twitter's prospec…

Twitter is definitely not relevant.
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