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I just don't see how this is something to celebrate. Facebook is an awful company and an awful product.
Three cheers for a decade of surveillance!
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Don't be obnoxious. Facebook has obvious problems as a company—privacy violations, data retention, lock-in, and so on—and as software, especially with regard to the frequency with which it's buggy as hell. However, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google. More than one-seventh of the entire human population now uses Facebook every month…
However, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google. If by "had more impact" you mean "changed it into a medium for idle entertainment". Seriously, what problem does Facebook solve? Does it even do a very good job solving this problem? Does it have any redeeming quality whatsoever? From where I stand, it's just another dumb fad that was in…
Everything kind of follows from that, the actual service is less important and can likely be replicated by many companies.
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However, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google. If by "had more impact" you mean "changed it into a medium for idle entertainment". Seriously, what problem does Facebook solve? Does it even do a very good job solving this problem? Does it have any redeeming quality whatsoever? From where I stand, it's just another dumb fad that was in…
At the top of the list I would say would be bringing a critical mass of users under the one service. Everything kind of follows from that, the actual service is less important and can likely be replicated by many companies.
That sounds like damage to route around, not like a solution to a problem.
Happy 10th birthday Facebook! You have such a love and hate relationship with more than a billion people around the world. Awesome. You guys wanna check out "A Look Back" [0]. It shows your highlights and moments in Facebook. It feels good reminiscing those moments. I wonder though, did they generate the look back videos for all of their users? I think that will require massive computation power. [0] https://www.face…
My "Lookback" was beautiful; brought back some memories. Made me realise how much my life changed in 6 years. As for your question, they are not generating it for every user; my test account doesn't have it. It's a 5 years old account.
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My "Lookback" was beautiful; brought back some memories. Made me realise how much my life changed in 6 years. As for your question, they are not generating it for every user; my test account doesn't have it. It's a 5 years old account.
Interesting. Maybe they just generate it for the active users. You mention it was a tst account, so I assume it's not that active and not a lot of content.
I just checked again and I know have that page on my test account but no video:
Thank you, { firstname }
10 years ago people started using Facebook to share their biggest moments. Here are some of yours.
I just don't see how this is something to celebrate. Facebook is an awful company and an awful product.
However, hate Facebook or love Facebook, it does provide some social gluing at various levels. I mean, when my parents see pictures of their grandchildren playing on Facebook, their faces light up and smile. This type of interaction is valuable for my parents. I know that they are other ways of doing this, but this works at some level.
For me, happy 10th birthday Facebook!