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Re: If You’re Thinking of Launching a Social Media Startup, Please Don’t

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Post by yuhong » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 4:25 AM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #18

martinced wrote: post #6

I agree that the space is crowded. And there are other issues raising the barrier to entry: user fatigue and national/supra-national legislation (like the EU anti-cookie thing etc.) which may dampen your enthusiasm in case you thought about creating yet another social thinggy. Even on the almighty social network I can not just feel (that I could since a long time) but also see people complaining. No latter than today…

Wait till the current internet generation hits their 30's and gets real jobs they're afraid to lose. All the opinionated Facebook chattering my friends did in college has all but dried up now, and has been replaced with fake names and low profiles during recruiting season. In this job market, and with idiotic new features like graph search, having a Facebook presence is a liability for all but the most whitewashed pr…

I am for fixing these problems if possible, of course.

Re: If You’re Thinking of Launching a Social Media Startup, Please Don’t

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Post by bilbo0s » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 2:32 PM UTC

laumars wrote: post #7

martinced wrote: post #6

I agree that the space is crowded. And there are other issues raising the barrier to entry: user fatigue and national/supra-national legislation (like the EU anti-cookie thing etc.) which may dampen your enthusiasm in case you thought about creating yet another social thinggy. Even on the almighty social network I can not just feel (that I could since a long time) but also see people complaining. No latter than today…

This is true for me to. Particularly the last bit, I never "like" embedded content (links, videos, etc), and never click the links themselves either (if I care, then I Google the description to find the link outside of Facebook).

Facebook still knows you did that. Going there at all associates the link to your FB profile.

You may want to use a VM without FB logged in if you don't want FB to know what you are doing. Maybe even on another net connection... but that's only for the ultra paranoid.

Re: If You’re Thinking of Launching a Social Media Startup, Please Don’t

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Post by laumars » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 7:42 PM UTC

bilbo0s wrote: post #32

laumars wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is true for me to. Particularly the last bit, I never "like" embedded content (links, videos, etc), and never click the links themselves either (if I care, then I Google the description to find the link outside of Facebook).

Facebook still knows you did that. Going there at all associates the link to your FB profile. You may want to use a VM without FB logged in if you don't want FB to know what you are doing. Maybe even on another net connection... but that's only for the ultra paranoid.

I can't see how Facebook would know without the destination sending your details back to Facebook. And in those instances, the destination site wouldn't know if I've ended up there after a suggestion on my friend stream or because a cat randomly jumped on my keyboard and coincidently typed their search pattern into Google. So such statistics would be pretty meaningless to all but our other internet overloads, Google.