It's clearly the new AOL.
Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
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Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
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The Fourth Law Of HackerNews - Any submission title ending in a question mark will contain at least one link to Betteridge's Law. Please, everyone in the world has heard of it at this point and it's not even a very useful "law", please stop.
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#13Well, people's engagement with facebook has certainly declined from its peak years ago.
However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation.
There's plenty of room for new entrants that take slices of your friends and optimize that experience. For example, another network for just your family... offering a close, intimate experience, one you feel comfortable sharing all your baby pics on, etc. Another network for professional (sorry, LinkedIn already there). Another for your classmates. All sitting under the facebook umbrella that has your entire social graph.
But one thing that's clear about facebook is they are not at all focused on improving the user experience any longer. They are not unveiling new features that improve user experience. They are fully engaged with improving the advertiser experience. Maximizing the value of the data they have on you. Maximizing ad revenue. These aren't bad things and are obviously necessary, but when a company seems 100% focused on the revenue rather than the user, I think that signals the start of a decline.
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The Fourth Law Of HackerNews - Any submission title ending in a question mark will contain at least one link to Betteridge's Law. Please, everyone in the world has heard of it at this point and it's not even a very useful "law", please stop.
It's just easy, stress-free way to earn some points (I guess). Hard to argue that comment wasn't insightful. Though it's pointless.
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#15I've simply stopped logging in to Facebook - since around last Christmas.
I don't miss it at all.
It was neat to catch up with childhood friends and old Army buddies however, there are other ways to keep in touch without feeding the data-dredge.
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#16I do know about "mess" and problems with reaching fans of the page (wich arouse from the fact that people "like" too many pages in fact) but still Facebook remains more than a site - it's rather a social phenomena.
And that's why I don't see the way any competitor come on its place. Although competiton is always for good, of course.
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#17Facebook has been faking it for at least a year. By faking it I mean not growing under their own power. Now "Fakebook" either has to buy users (like the Instagram deal) or its growth is due to mostly fake users with fake likes giving fake metrics.
People are leaving Fakebook now. Not in droves (yet), but the opinion leaders within groups and families are. The ones that are informed are. And the rest will follow once there is another massive invasion of their privacy.
To those reading this who still use their Facebook account, try going without it for a month. See if you don't feel better. I know I did.
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The Fourth Law Of HackerNews - Any submission title ending in a question mark will contain at least one link to Betteridge's Law. Please, everyone in the world has heard of it at this point and it's not even a very useful "law", please stop.
My sincerest apologies. I meant no harm as I haven't browsed HN as frequently as I would like for quite a while and for that reason I'm not quite familiar with your claim but I'll take your word for it. I deleted my comment as it provides no useful information.
Again, I apologize.
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#19Well, people's engagement with facebook has certainly declined from its peak years ago. However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. There's plenty of room for new entrants that take slices of your friends and optimize that experience. For example, another network for just your family... offering a close, intimate exper…
> Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation.
I disagree. Firstly, you make it sound as if filling out some information about yourself (don't we do that all the time anyways?), posting some pictures, and updating your status is some overwhelming endeavor. For those of us old enough to have started on myspace and switched to facebook, it really was pretty seamless.
I'm not saying anyone should rush to develop the "next facebook", but I do think that the new entrants you speak of could easily become significant later on.
I agree that facebook seems pretty much stagnant when it comes to the user experience. I'm actually eager to see the new myspace once it debuts for that reason...
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#20Well, people's engagement with facebook has certainly declined from its peak years ago. However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. There's plenty of room for new entrants that take slices of your friends and optimize that experience. For example, another network for just your family... offering a close, intimate exper…
> Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. I disagree. Firstly, you make it sound as if filling out some information about yourself (don't we do that all the time anyways?), posting some pictures, and updating your status is some overwhelming endeavor. For those of us old enough to have started on myspace and switched to facebook, it really was pretty se…
Well, I will say Google+ is pretty good, but for me it came too late. I already had social network fatigue and too much content already in facebook to do much useful with Google+ or to spend any real time with it. I kinda wish Google+ had come first.