Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire
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Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire
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Re: Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire
#2Well, Zuck responded
Re: Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire
#3Something I've been thinking about: why doesn't WeChat, the world's 2nd largest social network with 1B MAU, suffer the issues Facebook is experiencing today?
If Facebook became more like WeChat, would they avoid these problems? If Facebook finds it does avoid such problems, will Facebook switch models in the future?
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#4Oh I have a little more faith in the man than that. First off, it's not clear that the bad news cycles are actually hurting the bottom line or any other line for that matter. Second, it's not obvious that curing the privacy issues that most capture the public attention will harm the service's utility for the majority of users. I haven't used any fb apps in a while and I haven't seen any of my friends share their app usage either.
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#5It's fascinating that widespread outrage over privacy finally materializes when data is used for hated political causes. Commerce, law enforcement not so much... but "Trump" or "Obama" and suddenly people care.
Re: Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire
#6Something I've been thinking about: why doesn't WeChat, the world's 2nd largest social network with 1B MAU, suffer the issues Facebook is experiencing today? If Facebook became more like WeChat, would they avoid these problems? If Facebook finds it does avoid such problems, will Facebook switch models in the future?
Tighter integration with the state. Much less of an expectation of privacy (especially with regard to the state) in China.
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#7(Warning: controversial and conspiratorial opinion; fake news if you will)
I used to think Zuckerberg's pandering to the Chinese government was a power grab, an expansionist desire.
Now I think it's a hedge strategy. He knows he's not very welcome in some of the circles he's been in for the past few years.
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#8Giggity.
Re: Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire
#9Something I've been thinking about: why doesn't WeChat, the world's 2nd largest social network with 1B MAU, suffer the issues Facebook is experiencing today? If Facebook became more like WeChat, would they avoid these problems? If Facebook finds it does avoid such problems, will Facebook switch models in the future?
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Re: Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire
#10It's fascinating that widespread outrage over privacy finally materializes when data is used for hated political causes. Commerce, law enforcement not so much... but "Trump" or "Obama" and suddenly people care.
More like "British pimping/extortion ring" combined with possible "Russian aynchronous warfare" but yeah you're right, there's nothing wrong with that, is there? It's just the subordination of my democracy and civil rights.