When will we stop using Facebook? • Hacker News Board

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by mawburn » Thu, May 28, 2015, 2:53 PM UTC

acheron wrote: post #69

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 t…

Facebook has something MySpace never achieved and something that could easily set it's place firmly where it's at, given they don't make any major changes to mess it up: The Geriatric Crowd.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time in history that anyone in the tech industry captured this crowd in a major way. Those in my family over 70, on both sides, can barely make a phone call on a cell phone and don't even really know what texting is... but they sure know how to use Facebook. That's how they see their grandbabbies, of course they know how.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by squeaky-clean » Thu, May 28, 2015, 3:04 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #131

Thriptic wrote: post #80

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I have trouble leaving Facebook because for better or worse it is how many of my friends and acquaintances communicate. I ended up finding a nice compromise: I installed an extension which hides all the content on news feed but still allows FB chat. When I couple this extension with ublock, the only thing I see when I go to Facebook is the chat interface, which is perfect for how I use the service.

Or just use https://www.facebook.com/messages/ ?

This still shows the notifications, the sidebar that suggests groups, new friends, etc. It's a minor detail, but I don't want to be bombarded with events, tagged photos, whatever. But I do really love Messenger as a chat platform. It's quicker and more consistent than SMS (at least for my carrier) and syncs well across all of my devices.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by nemmonszz » Thu, May 28, 2015, 3:04 PM UTC

personlurking wrote: post #120

summerdown2 wrote: post #105

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My problem with Facebook is that whenever I do something I think my friends would be interested in, I actually do take a photo and upload it to Facebook. Then, Facebook filters all my friends' feed so only 50% of them see it. All I want from Facebook is a way to reliably see all the posts from all the people I want to follow, and have it keep doing that. I have found settings in the past that let it happen, but it se…

I think what you're talking about was an option at the bottom of the feed which allowed one to see everything everyone's posted. Unfortunately, upon making the feed endless, this option is no longer available. Is there an easy way to choose who sees a particular post (ie, the way one sees a display of friends to click on when inviting them to an event)? They should implement this, allowing for deselecting unwanted vi…

It's possible to create groups of friends and then when you make a post, set it to display to a particular group. For example, I have 'Gamers', 'Close Friends', 'Coworkers', 'Family', 'College Friends', and 'Hometown Friends' groups (with some overlap of course). When I post something I can target it to the appropriate group of people.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by recursive » Thu, May 28, 2015, 3:05 PM UTC

Xeoncross wrote: post #142

sveme wrote: post #141

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I stopped at about the same time as you, but I actually returned a couple of months ago. Without friending anyone. And the reason? I use Facebook as a very simple way to get news about really minor things of importance to me: + my climbing gym has some new routes! + a new video by K.I.Z, yeah! + oh, demonstration against some Nazis demonstrating in my neighbourhood, should definitely go there + Someone's looking for…

So, like twitter with more media and text options?

For me it's more like twitter that anyone I know actually uses.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by adrianlmm » Thu, May 28, 2015, 3:07 PM UTC

I don't see my self stop using Facebook any time soon, I find it very useful.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by rayiner » Thu, May 28, 2015, 3:08 PM UTC

ITT: people with no kids. Facebook is indispensable for sharing baby pictures with extended family.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by tempodox » Thu, May 28, 2015, 3:08 PM UTC

When will we stop using Facebook?

We? I never became a user. Apart from that: Our children will, at the latest. For our children's generation, FB already is the pinnacle of boredom and stuffiness. Whatever is cool about “where our parents humiliate themselves publicly”?

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by xirdstl » Thu, May 28, 2015, 3:12 PM UTC

sveme wrote: post #141

junto wrote: post #34

I stopped two years ago. As far as I am aware I'm not missing much. I did have a lot of old friends on FB, but I didn't stay in contact with them in real life. I was just lazily snooping on their lives, without giving anything in return. To be completely honest, I don't have space or time for them in my real life. It isn't because I didn't like them anymore, it was simply that I didn't have the time or energy to stay…

I stopped at about the same time as you, but I actually returned a couple of months ago. Without friending anyone. And the reason? I use Facebook as a very simple way to get news about really minor things of importance to me: + my climbing gym has some new routes! + a new video by K.I.Z, yeah! + oh, demonstration against some Nazis demonstrating in my neighbourhood, should definitely go there + Someone's looking for…

This is exactly what I did too, for similar reasons. I use Facebook like Twitter. There are some organizations I'm interested in that don't use Twitter and instead post updates or news only on Facebook.

I much prefer Facebook with zero friends

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by rokhayakebe » Thu, May 28, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

pmlnr wrote: post #137

tim333 wrote: post #96

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> Why should you post life updates? Because it's the "done thing". No - it's because you've done something you think your friends would be interested in and it's a lot easier to take a photo and click 'post to Facebook' than to write to 30 people. That's really the fundamental function of Facebook and any successor will probably succeed by doing it better in some way. eg. Snapchat enabling you to send naughty pics wi…

> eg. Snapchat enabling you to send naughty pics without them being archived on the web for the rest of your life You should read more. http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/Snapchat_admits_deleted...

Anything that finds its way into someone else's a database is never really deleted.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by danschumann » Thu, May 28, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

This may seem crazy, but I think the reason use facebook is psychological and to some extent, it's a rationalization of gov'ment spying. "if someone else is going to know everything about me, it might as well be my friends(as well as the NSA)". I think once we end NSA spying, people will value their privacy more, and thus not need social crutches.