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Facebook, I want my friends back

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Re: Facebook, I want my friends back

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Post by sharkweek »

prof_hobart wrote: post #181
sharkweek wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After college, I gave all my Facebook "friends" the grocery store test. If I would avoid them if I saw them in a grocery store before they saw me, I deleted them as a friend. Keeps my "top" and "most recent" stories pretty equal, tbh. And if any brand is overwhelming the newsfeed, it becomes pretty easy to make the decision to unlike their page

Just curious - why did you add people you'd actively avoid in real life as friends on Facebook? I don't think I have, or have ever had, anyone in that category in my FB list.

Facebook came to my college my sophomore year -- It was pretty common to meet someone in class/at a bar/library etc and be like "add me on Facebook!" So by the end of school I ended up with far too many people I didn't really want to actually keep in touch with.

Re: Facebook, I want my friends back

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Post by quanticle »

dredmorbius wrote: post #143
quanticle wrote: post #61

> 'I despise it.' Hear that beleaugered holders of Facebook stock? That kind of talk would make my blood run cold. How many companies can you name that you actively despise? Actually? Quite a few. I despise Comcast. I despise the big-4 cell phone companies (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint). I despise the oil companies (BP, Chevron, Texaco, et. al). Notice a pattern? Despite my (and presumably many others) despising t…

Sprint Nextel aren't exactly profitable: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AS&fstype=ii&e... I believe most of the others are. The more salient characteristic of these companies is that they 1) dominate their respective markets (as monopolies or one of a small number of oligopolistic suppliers), and 2) are spectacularly unresponsive to customer/user sentiments. "We don't care, we don't have to. We're the Phone Co…

>1) dominate their respective markets (as monopolies or one of a small number of oligopolistic suppliers),

Check. Most people can't be bothered to maintain a presence on more than two social networks. So Facebook, Twitter (and in a distant third place) Google Plus have a de-facto oligolopoly on users' ad viewing. And given Facebook's enormous userbase, it's not exactly convenient for users to switch away, due to network effects.

>2) are spectacularly unresponsive to customer/user sentiments.

Every change Facebook has made lately has been vociferously opposed by its userbase, usually because it erodes privacy and reduces the perceived level of control that people have over the broadcast of their status updates.

>"We don't care, we don't have to. We're the Phone Company".

Replace "Phone Company" with Facebook and that may as well be a paraphrase of Mark Zuckerberg.

Re: Facebook, I want my friends back

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Post by code_duck »

lmm wrote: post #186
code_duck wrote: post #87

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I think you mean 'News Feed', not 'wall'. Wall is the old name for your page. They are now called Timelines.

And Eurasia has always been at war with Eastasia? I really see no need to let facebook control language like this.

Huh? It's the name of their site feature. Someone has to call it something so we know what we're talking about... that's the basis of language.

Re: Facebook, I want my friends back

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Post by lmm »

code_duck wrote: post #193
lmm wrote: post #186

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And Eurasia has always been at war with Eastasia? I really see no need to let facebook control language like this.

Huh? It's the name of their site feature. Someone has to call it something so we know what we're talking about... that's the basis of language.

We all knew what the greatgrandparent was talking about when he said "wall". I see no reason to "correct" him just because facebook have decided to call it that anymore.

Re: Facebook, I want my friends back

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Post by code_duck »

lmm wrote: post #194
code_duck wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? It's the name of their site feature. Someone has to call it something so we know what we're talking about... that's the basis of language.

We all knew what the greatgrandparent was talking about when he said "wall". I see no reason to "correct" him just because facebook have decided to call it that anymore.

Okay, but... just to help you out a bit... the News Feed was never called a Wall, actually. One is about you, the other shows posts by others.
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