I am flabbergasted. Adolescents benefit from isolation? And you're citing a comedian? Care to cite some serious sources?
I presented my concern as a matter of opinion. I never asserted that it was a scientific fact. If you would like to take the conversation in a more scientific direction, you're welcome to introduce studies.
Sure. This is first study that I've found.
"The findings revealed that social isolation was associated with an increased risk for depressive symptoms, suicide attempts, and low self-esteem."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17849936
I just don't share this vision. You either have -real- friends, or you have acquaintances. Facebook is not for real friends. If people are your friends and want to stay in contact with you, they will - like they did before Facebook existed.
Just outside the village where I grew up there's a hill called America Hill. Two brothers walked up that hill together, then said goodbye walked down opposite sides, because one was going to America, and both knew they'd never see each other again. Maybe in other villages there were other brothers who cared more about each other, and so one stayed who would rather have gone, or went who would rather have stayed. But…
I found the short story of "America Hill" surprisingly touching, thanks for posting it.
Facebooks is priced at 240X Price to Earnings. If they start losing users or even stop growing its hard to imagine how that PE ratio continues to makes any sense. Even with an increase in mobile revenue its still less then desktop revenue and users are certainly flocking to mobile too which is a double wammy. So facebook has to transition to making more money per user if its user base stops growing. Otherwise you're…
So it is misleading to make conclusions from a PE ratio at any given time, simply because earnings for any particular quarter or even year is very situational. If for perfectly legitimate reasons (say to fuel growth) my earnings this quarter are $1, then my P/E ratio might be astronomical. In the context of pro-forma financials, taking out one time costs and special events, my P/E ratio is more telling. Amazon is a great example of this. There are quarters where AMZN has negative earnings. Does that mean that Amazon is overvalued? Not necessarily. Dig a bit deeper, take out things like acquisitions and restructuring costs for example, take earnings over time and that will give you a much stronger case to make a decision on valuation.
Normally you use this when there is a fact in dispute (on Reddit, not here). There are no facts in question in the comment you're responding to. There are arguments you may disagree with, but you don't need a citation to make an argument.
Facebooks is priced at 240X Price to Earnings
Where is this number from? I see different numbers reported elsewhere.
Normally you use this when there is a fact in dispute (on Reddit, not here). There are no facts in question in the comment you're responding to. There are arguments you may disagree with, but you don't need a citation to make an argument.
Facebooks is priced at 240X Price to Earnings Where is this number from? I see different numbers reported elsewhere.
Teens are attracted to Twitter, Instagram and Vine. They like these mini social network where they could gain followers by posing interesting tweets or photos or videos. Youtube's top celerity usually started their channels when they were teen (high school, freshman). Certainly getting your channel popular now is harder, so the best way to get attention is either by posting photos or posting a 6-second videos. Vine a…
Vines is going to crash hard suddenly IMO. At it's core it's just not versatile enough for anyone to actually try and become "popular" from Vines videos - what you do their, you can do on YouTube as well, but with more versatility. You can't do much with 5 second videos as a limit - but the 5 second movie/10 second movie etc. was a format that people were using on YouTube well before Vines.
Maybe. I think there is a value running a 5-10 seconds show. It's supposed to be funny, capturing attention. Youtube to me and possibly to many people is formal, it's a website you go to for a full talk. You would watch a 5 minutes show instead. This is why you don't blog on twitter. You write status and you chat and that's "blog" for some people.
Since vine is a twitter company, I am sure twitter is trying to monetize it.
Vines is going to crash hard suddenly IMO. At it's core it's just not versatile enough for anyone to actually try and become "popular" from Vines videos - what you do their, you can do on YouTube as well, but with more versatility. You can't do much with 5 second videos as a limit - but the 5 second movie/10 second movie etc. was a format that people were using on YouTube well before Vines.
Maybe. I think there is a value running a 5-10 seconds show. It's supposed to be funny, capturing attention. Youtube to me and possibly to many people is formal, it's a website you go to for a full talk. You would watch a 5 minutes show instead. This is why you don't blog on twitter. You write status and you chat and that's "blog" for some people. Since vine is a twitter company, I am sure twitter is trying to moneti…
5 seconds is about how long it took to read this sentence and move your eyes to the next one.
The problem is, a video, unlike a picture, or indeed - text, doesn't linger on a frame naturally.
Your example seems to support my point more then undermine it too - you mention 5 minutes. Not 5 seconds. 5 minutes is a lot of content's length on YouTube. Its not remotely possible on Vine.
As a 19 year old, I will say that from my perspective, this "coolness" factor is seriously overblown and misunderstood. Facebook was never "cool," even when I first got Facebook back in 9th grade, when I was around 14 years old. Facebook was always a highly addictive and vital necessity - a social utility, the lack of which meant losing touch with friends, not being invited to events, and generally missing out on a l…
> Facebook was never "cool," even when I first got Facebook back in 9th grade, when I was around 14 years old At the time Facebook was cool, it wasn't open to 14 year olds...
Yes, but my point is that Facebook's ascendancy extended well into the period after Facebook lost it's "coolness," so concerns over FB's decline are overblown.