Facebook is slowly eating the rest of the Internet

Post by tim333 » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 11:21 AM UTC

steego wrote: post #12

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Facebook has a large disincentive to connecting people in the real world. If you're at a watching movies, camping in the woods, or just hanging out then you're not online. Worse, the more you connect in the real world the less interesting passive browsing becomes. Sure, you can still use FB to IM, but that's far less profitable for them. ...

Facebook is beholden to its shareholders first and foremost, then it's customers (advertisers, not you). Lastly, they want to make the inventory happy (that's you), so they can dish up ads. Now, if Facebook manages to release a successful augmented reality platform, they will have no qualms with you going out in the real world. If you're camping in the woods, that's just a nice opportunity for a singalong app to plac…

Facebook is controlled by Zuckerberg who had 56.9 percent of the shareholder voting power and can tell the shareholders and advertisers to get lost if he really wants.

Post by cbeach » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 1:54 PM UTC

PavlovsCat wrote: post #99

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You have an incredible sense of entitlement when it comes to a website that is provided free of charge (with fairly well-targeted and unobtrusive advertising) for you and your friends to use. If you think the site is not sophisticated enough for your tastes, don't use it. But if you don't use it and your friends do, then you may miss out on social connection. Because that's what the site is for. Facebook gives a lot…

> But if you don't use it and your friends do, then you may miss out on social connection. Which makes the whole "free of charge and voluntary" thing kind of moot. If it sucks up people, it better not suck, or at least connect with things like diaspora etc. (which also lack these features, but at least wouldn't fight you tooth and nail if you tried to implement them). If that is incredibly entitled, well, I guess I a…

If you want to be sociable, it's your responsibility to socialise where your friends socialise.

It's not the bar's fault, or the sports club's fault, or Facebook's fault, if your friends choose to go there but you don't.

The situation is only "involuntary" in that the choices of your friends aren't under your own control.

But thanks to Facebook the situation -is- free of charge.

True genius might lie in protocols. But it's up to your friends if they prefer communicating you via protocols or via a friendly website with a good mobile app.

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