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Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Post by farmerstan »

atourgates wrote: post #21

"Sitting by Mark’s side for these 14 years has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. [...] In the critical moments of my life, in the highest highs and in the depths of true lows, I have never had to turn to Mark, because he was already there." If this is an accurate reflection of her experience, I don't expect it's a side of Mark Zuckerberg most of us imagine exists.

If you listen to Lex Friedman, he said the thing that surprised him the most about mark zuckerberg when he met him was his overwhelming humanity and compassion. He said that part of him never comes through the media, but when he interacted with him he said it was undeniable how humane and compassionate he was.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Post by Seriomino »

frisco wrote: post #25

I increasingly believe that Facebook’s pivot to Meta will end up going down as one of the biggest misses in the history of business. The metaverse is a real idea yes - but strapping a phone to your face and walking through your coffee table isn’t it. Especially not with a mediocre centralized FB owned “virtual world” where they inflict heavy taxes and content moderation. Facebook has neglected its core businesses for…

Meta became what tv channels like history channel became:

Cheap entertainment for the masses.

Does it make money? Obviously.

And funny enough they have so much money and what do they do actually with it?

Nothing someone can actually name besides: the feed, messenger, occulus and stuff they bought up like insta and Whatsapp.

Congratulations to Facebook and basically no real innovation in the last 10 years.

Besides optimizing the addictiones of garbage which got easily trumped by TikTok.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Post by jl6 »

frisco wrote: post #25

I increasingly believe that Facebook’s pivot to Meta will end up going down as one of the biggest misses in the history of business. The metaverse is a real idea yes - but strapping a phone to your face and walking through your coffee table isn’t it. Especially not with a mediocre centralized FB owned “virtual world” where they inflict heavy taxes and content moderation. Facebook has neglected its core businesses for…

> The metaverse is a real idea yes - but strapping a phone to your face and walking through your coffee table isn’t it.

Face, meet book. Boom.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Post by threeseed »

oldstrangers wrote: post #58
frisco wrote: post #25

I increasingly believe that Facebook’s pivot to Meta will end up going down as one of the biggest misses in the history of business. The metaverse is a real idea yes - but strapping a phone to your face and walking through your coffee table isn’t it. Especially not with a mediocre centralized FB owned “virtual world” where they inflict heavy taxes and content moderation. Facebook has neglected its core businesses for…

Facebook was always doomed for failure, just like every social platform that came before it. The pivot should've happened years ago with a focus on Instagram and content creation (their shot at streaming was at least in the right direction). At this point, Facebook has simply waited entirely too long, and the likelihood of any pivot working for a company of their size is basically nonexistent.

a) Facebook is not doomed for failure. Their audience just got older and rather than abandon them they acquired companies more suited to younger generations e.g. Instagram, Oculus instead. And it's a strategy that has unquestionably worked.

b) Facebook isn't really pivoting to metaverse any more than Apple is pivoting to services. It's an additional revenue stream alongside their existing ones which are still very healthy and lucrative.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Post by jeffwask »

echelon wrote: post #119
hervature wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel compelled to say that your second sentence is probably the funniest thing I've ever read on HN. It resonates very strongly with my belief that VR/Metaverse will continue to under deliver. What people want is an escape from reality. "Just like" Ready Player One or anything from a wide choice of science fiction novels. The problem is that these systems require a fundamental disconnect from reality. Not only do w…

You need to check out "Metaverse Twitter". You're missing out on a lot of fascinating developments. The field is in its "90's internet phase" right now. The tech is still immature, but is rapidly growing in capability and ambition. Just like most people in the 90's had no idea how "internet" would be used, I think our ability to conceive of VR/AR/XR/metaverse is similarly myopic. I would give it a 10-15 year timeline…

I 100% believe in VR/XR/AR just not one driven by Meta.

Edit: To be clear, IMO most disruptive technologies are not driven by established mega-corporations.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Post by dave5104 »

boshalfoshal wrote: post #77
deeptote wrote: post #28

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I don't know anyone under 50 who actively uses Facebook.

Why do people always bring this up when people talk about "Facebook"? Whenever I see people use "Facebook" used to describe the company, I think of all the products they offer, not just facebook.com. With that being said, anecdotally, in younger (American) circles, facebook.com isn't used much as a social media/content sharing platform. However, other facebook (meta) products like messenger, and instagram are still u…

> Why do people always bring this up when people talk about "Facebook"?

Wasn't one of the points of their recent rebrand to Meta to better define "Facebook" as a singular product, and not the company and its other products?

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Post by senko »

tempsy wrote: post #73
frisco wrote: post #25

I increasingly believe that Facebook’s pivot to Meta will end up going down as one of the biggest misses in the history of business. The metaverse is a real idea yes - but strapping a phone to your face and walking through your coffee table isn’t it. Especially not with a mediocre centralized FB owned “virtual world” where they inflict heavy taxes and content moderation. Facebook has neglected its core businesses for…

Agreed that FB hasn’t actually proven they can build something from scratch that reaches critical mass. They would’ve have been long doomed had they not bought Instagram. Every other popular app eg Oculus and Whatsapp was also acquired.

They also copied the timeline feature from Twitter.

Before that, people had a wall and you could go there and read what they wrote and poke them ... remember poking?

They do seem rather good at buying good product companies or copying ideas, which could serve them well in the metaverse-space (ugh...), once it's established.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Post by tempsy »

lovecg wrote: post #80
tempsy wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it really? I don’t think it is. Pre-Trump era she was more the public face of Facebook than even Zuck. Then when the Cambridge Analytica scandal basically did a 180 on the entire reputation of the company she effectively disappeared from the public eye.

There could be other reasons she stepped back around then. Her husband suddenly and tragically passed away - it’s not a mystery if one’s life trajectory completely changes after an event like this.

ok sure but that was clearly one of them.

pretty clear that she did not want to be the face of a controversial company given that she often leveraged her role to talk about being a woman exec in tech eg “Lean In” and that all but disappeared when the perception of the company completely changed.

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Post by ilikehurdles »

mrits wrote: post #110
dvt wrote: post #40

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Absolutely a bad thing. Young folks have less money, but are more impulsive with spending. The 18-44 crowd is an extremely coveted market segment.

Have you ever heard of the Home Shopping Network?

As the butt of jokes and target of mockery, yes.

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Post by jeffwask »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #66
atourgates wrote: post #21

"Sitting by Mark’s side for these 14 years has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. [...] In the critical moments of my life, in the highest highs and in the depths of true lows, I have never had to turn to Mark, because he was already there." If this is an accurate reflection of her experience, I don't expect it's a side of Mark Zuckerberg most of us imagine exists.

When you saw only one set of tracking cookies, it was then that Mark Zuckerberg was carrying you.

Bravo
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