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When will we stop using Facebook?

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Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by danyork »

pjc50 wrote: post #23

I really should flesh out my "why you can't have a good distributed social network" post some time. What does FB provide that you don't get with a combination of email/USENET/blogs/chat? Branding, janitors, and indexing. Branding is useful because these things are so scale-driven that you want to be on the one that everyone else is using. It's easier for the uninvolved to figure this out if it's the one with huge adv…

And yes, please do flesh out that post sometime... I would be interested in reading it! :-)

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by tracker1 »

IanCal wrote: post #24
tracker1 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me the dichotomy becomes which groups really see what... you have: - family & close friends - acquaintances & loose friends - school alum - social groups / clubs - those who you might work with/for - linked in, you failed this audience - interests beyond clubs, outside acquantances No social network does a good job at allowing a person to share with those groups as desired. What I share on twitter is far more tec…

> No social network does a good job at allowing a person to share with those groups as desired. Doesn't g+ solve this with the whole "circles" idea? You control which groups you share with.

Sorry, I actually forgot about g+, since none of my friends/family/acquaintances actually use it... mostly followed industry people's posts for a while, but I get most of that on twitter.

G+ was a really nice imo way to work through it... too bad nobody used it in practice. I also hope that they work through a few of the issues I have with hangouts, mostly in taking over Google Voice duties, and the limited UX on the desktop (searches from contacts for SMS don't show up before random strangers in G+).

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by benihana »

pjc50 wrote: post #23

I really should flesh out my "why you can't have a good distributed social network" post some time. What does FB provide that you don't get with a combination of email/USENET/blogs/chat? Branding, janitors, and indexing. Branding is useful because these things are so scale-driven that you want to be on the one that everyone else is using. It's easier for the uninvolved to figure this out if it's the one with huge adv…

That's a lot of words to say that people use facebook because it's convenient.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by danyork »

lmedinas wrote: post #13
frik wrote: post #2

What will be the next big thing in social networks? What are your thoughts? Local neighbors network? No-interface social networks? Peer-to-peer? Anonymous social networks? Video based (YouTube/Twitch)? Messanger-only? No central news-feed?

Unfortunately, in my opinion, Facebook is here to stay. Reasons: - Local/OSS/decentralized social networks will not work for the common population because their friends and updates will not be there. - Video based is already a success, see Twitch, but people sometimes prefer text and likes. - Messenger only is also a success, see Whatsapp/FB messenger, but some people have the need to expose themselves to people outs…

Right... at this point Facebook is where the people are that other people want to communicate with. Facebook has the massive "directory" of users.

Social networks are only useful to people if the other people with whom they want to communicate are ON those networks.

Right now, Facebook has that massive directory. This can change, of course. The Internet does not have permanent favorites. But today, Facebook is where you can easily find and interact with people.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by harryf »

> Facebook has been haemorrhaging interest from fresh faced teenagers for a while. In the US, the percentage of teens between 13 to 17 using Facebook fell to 88% in 2014. - See more at: http://www.thepinchandzoom.com/blog/2015/5/14/facebook-stop#...

And? They own Instragram and WhatsApp which, apart from SnapChat, makes up 50%+ of what teens are doing on their phones

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by iamthepieman »

I stopped using facebook in 2013 when I quit my part time job as a fitness instructor. The studio I worked for used it extensively to communicate with clients and post daily workouts and nutrition tips so after a month of holding out (had already deleted my account once in 2010) I signed back up (which was a hassle enough as it was, they already knew I had used that email and asked if I wanted to reactivate my old account even though I had explicitly deleted it).

It was useful but I pretty much only used it in my role as a fitness coach and when I quit that job I deleted all posts, photos and details, changed my primary email to nonsense and changed my password to something I would never remember before going through the two-week "cool-off" period they force on you to delete your account.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by snarfy »

The only thing Facebook was ever good for was finding those old friends. Now that you found them, now what? Do you need Facebook? The easy way out is to message all of them saying you are quitting Facebook and ask them for their email address. That's all you ever needed, but there was no index/search engine for it until Facebook. And once you have that part of the index you care about, you'll never need it again.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by acheron »

Is it time yet to repost this classic article?

"Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?"

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business.c...

Key quote: MySpace is well on the way to becoming what economists call a "natural monopoly". Users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves it is not worth their changing sites, especially since every new user that MySpace attracts adds to its value as a network of interacting people.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by PaulHoule »

I stopped using it a long time ago. For a while I mostly used Facebook connect to log into other web sites but I don't even do that anymore.

Other people are still engaged; my NEET friends will come over and look at Facebook for hours and even people I know with jobs find it compelling but I don't.

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