Yes, Facebook's current network is fairly strong, but you shouldn't look to where the masses currently are, you should look to where the trendsetters, the young, and the people in the know—where they are. These people are ahead of the curve, and the signs they are emitting is that Facebook is not serving their interests and needs. Young people don't want to use facebook because it forces you to interact with everyone…
I've been putting off posting this for months because when I write it, it seems grandiose but it's been my life and it's too ridiculous not to share. I was born in 80 so that dates me. I've worked in music for the last 20 years and I've worked with over 60 bands most of whom are very successful now. However that number is misleading because I've toured with hundreds of bands if you count the openers and headliners ov…
> What we desperately want is a decentralized encrypted locally hosted application ... we'd be fine with our friends or fans hosting encrypted files on their devices but that's as far as they go.
What exactly are you trying to get out of encryption in this MinimalBook application of yours?
Oh please - the overreaction from this is ridiculous. I'm buying FB call options. Facebook's network effect is extremely strong - this is also not even including their other assets (Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus). The API access was in violation of terms of service and the ability to access data through friends via the FB graph has already been closed.
>"I'm buying FB call options." In other words you're anticipating the share price to decline further. This sort of supports the OPs first assertion.
You may be thinking of put options. Buying calls is a bullish position.
Only up to a point. In the real world, people move in multiple social spheres, and usually like to keep them separate. I think the same is true online. For example, some kids see Facebook as "the place their parents are," a place to act polite and keep things to themselves. After all, why are we "toasterlovin" and "username223" here?
Good points. I think there's a good chance that there will be a changing of the guard at some point. But social media within a given sphere is a winner take all game. Then the winner in the biggest sphere will try and buy all adjacent social media companies (see Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp). The only hope I see is either 1) somebody has a large enough ego to think they can take on the dominant player (Snapchat/…
Agreed. Our weak antitrust rules are causing problems in all sorts of areas, and this is just one of them. The world would have been a better place if Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp had remained separate, each pursuing its own version of a "social network." WhatsApp even had a subscription model that people accepted.
I've been putting off posting this for months because when I write it, it seems grandiose but it's been my life and it's too ridiculous not to share. I was born in 80 so that dates me. I've worked in music for the last 20 years and I've worked with over 60 bands most of whom are very successful now. However that number is misleading because I've toured with hundreds of bands if you count the openers and headliners ov…
> What we desperately want is a decentralized encrypted locally hosted application ... we'd be fine with our friends or fans hosting encrypted files on their devices but that's as far as they go. What exactly are you trying to get out of encryption in this MinimalBook application of yours?
Privacy, security, rights Managment. Not quite State level but close (because does that even exist?).
It's celebrities that travel nearly most days of the years. Every place that's always in the news for something terrible is probably a destination at somepoint. Also stalkers, extortionists, kidnappers, they're very real. Also and I would think probably more pertinent is that given current events, for something decentralized to take off and for content to be shared semi-locally amongst a partially trusted network it would have to be encrypted with some pretty large keys for it to pass the muster of the initial user base. A lot of these people had their nudes stolen from iCloud for instance. Granted a lot of that was fishing but still if it's going to be adopted people want encryption. It'd probably be smart to put in really big language at the time of install a general introduction to best security practices... And if you really want to be compassionate to the users and little notifier whose nuisance level could be dialed down that periodically reminds them.
This is the beginning of the Big Churn. Less top talent will want to be associated with facebook. Already even a few more privacy clueless friends family members are deleting their accounts. Adverts were always so low yeild, and fb pages 'because we need one'. Now that is all changing due to perception. The FTC, stocks falling, are further indicatuons of falling trust. And all business is built on trust.
Oh please - the overreaction from this is ridiculous. I'm buying FB call options. Facebook's network effect is extremely strong - this is also not even including their other assets (Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus). The API access was in violation of terms of service and the ability to access data through friends via the FB graph has already been closed.
This is the beginning of the Big Churn. Less top talent will want to be associated with facebook. Already even a few more privacy clueless friends family members are deleting their accounts. Adverts were always so low yeild, and fb pages 'because we need one'. Now that is all changing due to perception. The FTC, stocks falling, are further indicatuons of falling trust. And all business is built on trust.
Top ten free apps on the US AppStore have largely remained the same through out this current scandal: 1) YouTube 2) Instagram 3) messenger 4) google maps 5) Snapchat 6) Facebook 7) Netflix 8) Bitmoji (Snapchat) 9) Gmail 10) Spotify These apps change when something major happens. When storms happen you see weather and walkie talkie apps shoot to the top. In sports seasons you see sports apps for baseball/football etc…
Do walkie talkie apps actually shoot to the "top"? I assume that requires massive amounts of downloads in a huge geographical region, for example tornadoes in one part of the country might only affect 20MM of 320MM people in the US. Even if there were twenty times as many people downloading walkie talkie apps, that wouldn't put them close to Facebook.
In particular, I'd love to see detailed statistics on top free apps, changes, and what causes them.
Yes, Facebook's current network is fairly strong, but you shouldn't look to where the masses currently are, you should look to where the trendsetters, the young, and the people in the know—where they are. These people are ahead of the curve, and the signs they are emitting is that Facebook is not serving their interests and needs. Young people don't want to use facebook because it forces you to interact with everyone…
I've been putting off posting this for months because when I write it, it seems grandiose but it's been my life and it's too ridiculous not to share. I was born in 80 so that dates me. I've worked in music for the last 20 years and I've worked with over 60 bands most of whom are very successful now. However that number is misleading because I've toured with hundreds of bands if you count the openers and headliners ov…
Have you looked at secure scuttlebutt with patchwork?
Top ten free apps on the US AppStore have largely remained the same through out this current scandal: 1) YouTube 2) Instagram 3) messenger 4) google maps 5) Snapchat 6) Facebook 7) Netflix 8) Bitmoji (Snapchat) 9) Gmail 10) Spotify These apps change when something major happens. When storms happen you see weather and walkie talkie apps shoot to the top. In sports seasons you see sports apps for baseball/football etc…
Do walkie talkie apps actually shoot to the "top"? I assume that requires massive amounts of downloads in a huge geographical region, for example tornadoes in one part of the country might only affect 20MM of 320MM people in the US. Even if there were twenty times as many people downloading walkie talkie apps, that wouldn't put them close to Facebook. In particular, I'd love to see detailed statistics on top free app…
Here is a story on the walkie talkie app I mentioned:
Oh please - the overreaction from this is ridiculous. I'm buying FB call options. Facebook's network effect is extremely strong - this is also not even including their other assets (Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus). The API access was in violation of terms of service and the ability to access data through friends via the FB graph has already been closed.
There’s a real disconnect I’m noticing, which comes with a kind of script here. “Nobody cares,” “I’m buying their stock,” “It will all blow over,” “No one outside of our bubble cares.” I suspect the same people will be saying the same thing next week when another $50b have been shed, another scandal or two has come to light, and more users and advertisers flee the platform. I wonder at what point it’s going to sink i…
I'm sympathetic to wanting to see a shift in the way things have been going, but we shouldn't lose sight of reality. If this is the beginning of something, it's a years long process that has begun. We're not going to see a change overnight.