Facebook to Change News Feed to Focus on Friends and Family • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook to Change News Feed to Focus on Friends and Family

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Post by vitd » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 12:11 AM UTC

pcora wrote: post #90

stdbrouw wrote: post #48

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Check out the Facebook pages of mom and pop stores, grocers and other local businesses in your area. Chances are you'll see a lot of interaction with loyal customers. Check out the Facebook pages of your favorite musicians, lots of interaction there too. It's not because you don't see it that it doesn't exist.

Agreed. There are some small businesses that will not even answer the phone anymore.. but try sending a facebook message.. almost instant reply. I hate this, but the fact is that small business depend on that. Facebook almost took over the web for most of my friend circle. they spend their lives there and have difficulty in finding stuff when it's not showing up in facebook search. And google does not help in some ca…

Does that work out for these small businesses? Since I'm not on Facebook, it would make them seem unresponsive to me, and I'd probably stop doing business with them. But even for my friends and family who are frequently on Facebook, almost none of them would think to talk to a local mom and pop shop on Facebook. They would just call. But I'm old, and so are my friends and family, so maybe we're the minority. How common is this?

Re: Facebook to Change News Feed to Focus on Friends and Family

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Post by bogomipz » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 6:23 AM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #106

tyfon wrote: post #22

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I deleted my FB account several years ago and you'd be surprised how many actually find my email when they want to invite me for something. If someone can't be bothered to send me an email I'm not too concerned about going to their party.

I never had one, and you'd be surprised how many don't. This has caused me to miss camping trips, parties, dinners, and weddings . Of course it's possible that I'm just such an obnoxious person that nobody wants me around, but if that were the case, I doubt I'd have received such abject and clearly heartfelt apologies from people who didn't invite me to things because I wasn't on their Facebook friends list. Of cours…

Weddings really? That's sad. Using FB to send out wedding invites seems pretty gauche.

Re: Facebook to Change News Feed to Focus on Friends and Family

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Post by throwanem » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 11:04 AM UTC

bogomipz wrote: post #122

throwanem wrote: post #106

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I never had one, and you'd be surprised how many don't. This has caused me to miss camping trips, parties, dinners, and weddings . Of course it's possible that I'm just such an obnoxious person that nobody wants me around, but if that were the case, I doubt I'd have received such abject and clearly heartfelt apologies from people who didn't invite me to things because I wasn't on their Facebook friends list. Of cours…

Weddings really? That's sad. Using FB to send out wedding invites seems pretty gauche.

No, using a Facebook friends list as a basis for an invitation list, and forgetting to add in the couple of people you know who aren't on Facebook because you haven't noticed that Facebook has become your address book of record.

It's just not something people think about, and that worries the hell out of me. We've never before seen a world where a single, rather secretive corporation, which has already shown itself willing to experiment with its users' perceptions in order to better serve its own purposes, mediates practically every interpersonal relationship of a significant fraction of the species. When I was growing up, that would've been nothing but fodder for third-rate dystopian sf, and yet here we are.