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"and if you are a programmer in work in then you are pretty rich" Incidentally, I'm not sure if this statement has any validity outside US. I wonder why that is.
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"and if you are a programmer in work in then you are pretty rich" Incidentally, I'm not sure if this statement has any validity outside US. I wonder why that is.
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Curious as to what you mean by 'the "brand tax" of Facebook in the current climate.'
Not OP, but I interpret "brand tax" as the opposite of the halo effect. FB's brand is tarnished, and arguably hinders rather than helps w/ IG brand perception.
I left hipstagram a long time ago, it made me feel anxious and addicted.
Network effects though. As long as people aren’t quitting as villages, Facebook network effects will keep them alive for a long time.
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I admit I’m surprised to hear that. I don’t use Instagram that often. Sometimes I pop on to see pictures of friends’ kids, holidays, parties, or events. That’s basically 90% of what I see. I post holiday pictures and interesting things I cook, because some other people like to see them. Sometimes there are ads in my feed, and for the most part they’re inoffensive products that I even sometimes look at! It’s just kind…
I mean, I’m sure there’s a small amount of real photos on IG but I don’t know why you’d post them there. All of the hashslag is about getting discovered. It’s like competitive spamming. If you find IG wholesome you’ve been living under a rock. I find almost everything about IG offensive these days and it’s only going to get worse.
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I mean, I’m sure there’s a small amount of real photos on IG but I don’t know why you’d post them there. All of the hashslag is about getting discovered. It’s like competitive spamming. If you find IG wholesome you’ve been living under a rock. I find almost everything about IG offensive these days and it’s only going to get worse.
This has not been my experience, nor my wife's experience. Instagram shows more of what you click on, so it's entirely possible you are clicking on trash, so they're showing you more trash. From what I've seen, it does a pretty good job of reflecting your viewing habits.
When I've scrolled through all the new posts there's a nice big green checkmark and it says "You're all caught up."
If something isn't what I want it to show me, I don't follow that. Works great, no weird view optimization algorithm as far as I can tell.
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I mean, can they not BUY the next one? It's what they did with Instagram after all. >What future revenue streams does Facebook have? The amount of Data facebook has on the behavioral nature of current parents and current and future American children of said parents is _insane_. Facebook may not be a social media company for ever, but big blue will be an advertising powerhouse for a while with the amount of data they…
What like the next social network? I'm much more bearish on antitrust than most people throwing that term around, but even I am against Facebook being able to buy another upstart social network. They cannot be allowed to do that. Maybe they can do something completely different like Oculus and leverage their infrastructure to make the best product possible. But even then that's a huge gamble, and I don't think Oculus…
Once clubs realize that they could fill virtual stadiums or sell virtual tickets, this may change. They may even switch to free tickets in the real world to better the stadium atmosphere and fill their virtual stadiums that won't have a capacity cap..
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lolwut? Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somo…
> 90% of the posts are garbage spam that takes the form of meme/image mace hybrid abominations designed to get likes. IG is like twitter in that the more effort you put in to curate the people you follow, the more rewarding your timeline is. I never look at Explore, but I look at the pictures in my own timeline and enjoy them.
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Curious as to what you mean by 'the "brand tax" of Facebook in the current climate.'
There were multiple memes with screenshots of people declaring they were quitting Facebook and using Instagram exclusively. Don't know if this was widespread though.
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I think all the people who die unwillingly after humans discover mortality will have a good claim to be the most...
Immortality will probably never work for those that die from getting hit by a train and the like. This will make their death so much worse for their loved ones.
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Windows has seen an officially reported install base as high as 1.5B. This was a few years ago; their numbers have taken a hit recently. Considering the average annual revenue per U.S. Facebook user is ~$20, startlingly less in other countries, arguably Microsoft, not Facebook, is the more interesting company. Nearly as many active users as Facebook, but substantially more revenue per user (~$50-$150 for an OEM key?…
Facebook might mature though. They have large data centers all over the world, if they wanted to, they could make their own cloud service and sell that. React is one of the most used front-end frameworks in the world, so it’s not like they aren’t capable of doing what Microsoft does, if that becomes their focus. I’m not sure either company is really that interesting though. Azure is limited AWS but with better suppor…
Point being: they squandered any trust they'd have been able to gain in that arena, and they're competing with the most powerful companies on the planet. I don't see it happening.