Bill Gates' quote rings so true here: "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."
Aka compound interest / exponential function.
Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary
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#42Anyone notice that in the superbowl commercials no one was giving links to facebook ala facebook.com/pepsi?
Anyone remember SB ads with "AOL keyword: Pepsi" ?
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#43Three cheers for a decade of surveillance!
Imagine if you walked in to NSA 20 years ago and said I'll make a software that millions and millions of people will use to list all their friends, where they have been what they have done where they have gone where they want to go what they want to do, what they are thinking, photos of themselves, family, children, wife, husband, everything, they'll just go there every day and update this information .... you'd have…
The Onion has a news video along these lines:
http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
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#44Happy 10th birthday Facebook! You have such a love and hate relationship with more than a billion people around the world. Awesome. You guys wanna check out "A Look Back" [0]. It shows your highlights and moments in Facebook. It feels good reminiscing those moments. I wonder though, did they generate the look back videos for all of their users? I think that will require massive computation power. [0] https://www.face…
My (active) account only showed a few recent pictures.
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#45Happy 10th birthday Facebook! You have such a love and hate relationship with more than a billion people around the world. Awesome. You guys wanna check out "A Look Back" [0]. It shows your highlights and moments in Facebook. It feels good reminiscing those moments. I wonder though, did they generate the look back videos for all of their users? I think that will require massive computation power. [0] https://www.face…
I enjoyed lookback a lot, although it didn't seem to do much besides randomly select posts (the statuses it selected were not my most liked, and half the photos were of other people).
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#46Anyone notice that in the superbowl commercials no one was giving links to facebook ala facebook.com/pepsi?
At this point it's not even necessary. It's like saying Google us.
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#47I just don't see how this is something to celebrate. Facebook is an awful company and an awful product.
That is simply incorrect.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't be obnoxious. Facebook has obvious problems as a company—privacy violations, data retention, lock-in, and so on—and as software, especially with regard to the frequency with which it's buggy as hell. However, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google. More than one-seventh of the entire human population now uses Facebook every month…
However, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google. If by "had more impact" you mean "changed it into a medium for idle entertainment". Seriously, what problem does Facebook solve? Does it even do a very good job solving this problem? Does it have any redeeming quality whatsoever? From where I stand, it's just another dumb fad that was in…
>> Seriously, what problem does Facebook solve? Does it even do a very good job solving this problem? Does it have any redeeming quality whatsoever?
Seriously? Reconnecting with old friends (and it solved this problem so much better than anything else in history that it's laughable). Keeping in touch with family across the world. On a very simple level, it's basically replaced a folder on my computer for storing pictures, and now they are available to me no matter where I am.
If you want to talk about making money, it's made demographic targeting widely available to those who couldn't afford a television ad, or wanted actual metrics.
Slap bracelets came nowhere near the level of adoption Facebook hit. Calling it a fad is looking at the facts and willfully ignoring them.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting. Maybe they just generate it for the active users. You mention it was a tst account, so I assume it's not that active and not a lot of content.
Yeah, not much content; I delete almost every post since they are just dummy posts made with the API. I just checked again and I know have that page on my test account but no video: Thank you, { firstname } 10 years ago people started using Facebook to share their biggest moments. Here are some of yours. And then just 6 photos, though that account has 7-8 photos anyway.
I now also get that paged after having deleted one of the photos that appeared in the video.
I wonder if they will regenerate it.
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#50Bill Gates' quote rings so true here: "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."
I don't know. It doesn't seem like Facebook has done anything new for users since around 2007/8 to me.