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Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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It is what ever he wants it to be, little man. Cause you are here trying to find definitions of something in your head, while he is controlling it, absolutely not caring about what you think, from the top of his billions and probably future presidency. Don't worry. He knows what it is.

Reading your comment, I'm wondering whether you actually read the post ?

Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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post #6

It is what ever he wants it to be, little man. Cause you are here trying to find definitions of something in your head, while he is controlling it, absolutely not caring about what you think, from the top of his billions and probably future presidency. Don't worry. He knows what it is.

anybody who will vote for that guy is just plain stupid.

Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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post #12
post #6

It is what ever he wants it to be, little man. Cause you are here trying to find definitions of something in your head, while he is controlling it, absolutely not caring about what you think, from the top of his billions and probably future presidency. Don't worry. He knows what it is.

anybody who will vote for that guy is just plain stupid.

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Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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post #9
post #6

It is what ever he wants it to be, little man. Cause you are here trying to find definitions of something in your head, while he is controlling it, absolutely not caring about what you think, from the top of his billions and probably future presidency. Don't worry. He knows what it is.

Nope, he doesn't. The dynamics of social networks are too complicated and are still being studied by researchers and probably will be forever. It's like saying the inventor of money would understand the economy, which obviously does not hold.

More like saying chairman of central bank would understand the economy.

Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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For the record: What Facebook is and wants to be is actually an enforceable personal relations layer on top of the web stack.

Uber agrees to send in my name a “Pay me £7.23 for that shared ride” to my Facebook friends, but not to people for whom I can’t prove I know well enough. Tinder shows shared relations with strangers. That is a powerful web of features unlocked thanks to this. That’s why building an API was such a key early change of what Facebook was.

Typically, Twitter does something similar to Facebook on the surface (a news feed) but is not planning on serving as an authentication layer, so they do a lot less to address grievers, inauthentic accounts and lately, unwanted political influence.

The News Feed was the first key feature, built internally and it boosted the business model that Facebook has started leveraging: targeted advertising. But neither the News Feed, not advertising is the core of Facebook — no more than ads are at the core of Google.

Google wants to leverage artificial intelligence to organise the world’s information. That your friends matter to you and that you trust them more, and that you want computers to tell who they are is what’s at the core of Facebook; the recent pivot to communities is clearly in that line: you also trust and are willing to help people that you might not have met before because you belong to certain groups, communities.

Ads are a simple and effective way to finance both projects. Because management had to place ad-focused people high up, they took over a bit of the attention, but leaders at both companies know to focus on the end-goal.

I can easily imagine Facebook making more money from transaction fee, or distributing 3D-content; I can imagine Google making more money similarly (typically, CPA is kind of that). Both have tried, and the results were underwhelming, and will most likely try again.

Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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post #8

Facebook is the biggest farm of data milch cows that has ever existed. How can he publically come out and say that? Yes there are, and will continue to be unintended effects on society for running such a large farm... But Everyone (trapped) employed in the credit fuelled consumption economy needs the farm to exist. Asking Zuckerberg to clarify the role of the farm is pointless. It's like asking why a gigantic herd of…

>"Everyone (trapped) employed in the credit fuelled consumption economy needs the farm to exist."

The consumption-based segment of the economy has existed for much longer than social networks or the internet:

https://jobenomicsblog.com/consumption-based-economy/

Also countries with post-industrial economies are a mix of service and consumption. There is no economy that is solely consumption based.

Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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post #5
post #3

Shouldn't the title be "Does Mark Zuckerberg Even Know What Facebook Is?"

It means "it seems like most people don't know what facebook is, but you would expect that Zuckerberg knows. But we guess even he doesn't know it".

that works with a negative 'doesn't know it' but not with a positive 'does know it'.

The question does even X know Y? Implies that X is somehow out of touch, and not knowing Y, but maybe they do - surprise!

The question Does even X not know Y? Implies we would expect X to know Y, but what if even X does not?

The question Doesn't X even know Y? Implies that X is stupid and doesn't know a lot of things, but can it be that they are so stupid that they don't even know Y!?!?

On edit:

The question Does X know even Y? Implies they are knowledgable about a lot of things, but Y is such a rare and mysterious subject that we would be surprised if they did but what if they do know Y!?!

Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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post #8

Facebook is the biggest farm of data milch cows that has ever existed. How can he publically come out and say that? Yes there are, and will continue to be unintended effects on society for running such a large farm... But Everyone (trapped) employed in the credit fuelled consumption economy needs the farm to exist. Asking Zuckerberg to clarify the role of the farm is pointless. It's like asking why a gigantic herd of…

>"Everyone (trapped) employed in the credit fuelled consumption economy needs the farm to exist." The consumption-based segment of the economy has existed for much longer than social networks or the internet: https://jobenomicsblog.com/consumption-based-economy/ Also countries with post-industrial economies are a mix of service and consumption. There is no economy that is solely consumption based.

"Whether its called facebook or is run by a Zuckerberg is in an irrelevant point."

Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>"Everyone (trapped) employed in the credit fuelled consumption economy needs the farm to exist." The consumption-based segment of the economy has existed for much longer than social networks or the internet: https://jobenomicsblog.com/consumption-based-economy/ Also countries with post-industrial economies are a mix of service and consumption. There is no economy that is solely consumption based.

"Whether its called facebook or is run by a Zuckerberg is in an irrelevant point."

How does your comment relate to anything I wrote?

Re: Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

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post #8

Facebook is the biggest farm of data milch cows that has ever existed. How can he publically come out and say that? Yes there are, and will continue to be unintended effects on society for running such a large farm... But Everyone (trapped) employed in the credit fuelled consumption economy needs the farm to exist. Asking Zuckerberg to clarify the role of the farm is pointless. It's like asking why a gigantic herd of…

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