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You have an incredible sense of entitlement when it comes to a website that is provided free of charge (with fairly well-targeted and unobtrusive advertising) f

by cbeach 11y ago

You have an incredible sense of entitlement when it comes to a website that is provided free of charge (with fairly well-targeted and unobtrusive advertising) for you and your friends to use. If you think the site is not sophisticated enough for your tastes, don't use it. But if you don't use it and your friends do, then you may miss out on social connection. Because that's what the site is for. Facebook gives a lot to its users, and all for free. The complexity of building a site that serves 1.5bn users is astonishing, and with live notifications too. It's just brilliant. But if you're too sophisticated for it then don't use it. Makes no difference to me.

PavlovsCat 11y ago
> But if you don't use it and your friends do, then you may miss out on social connection. Which makes the whole "free of charge and voluntary" thing kind of moot. If it sucks up people, it better not suck, or at least connect with things like diaspora etc. (which also lack these features, but at least wouldn't fight you tooth and nail if you tried to implement them). If that is incredibly entitled, well, I guess I am then. > The complexity of building a site that serves 1.5bn users is astonishing As for me is the desire to even do that. I think true genius is found in protocols, not applications and silos. The internet was invented to withstand nuclear strikes, and the return to centralization seems to be solely for the purpose of spooks shoveling eyeballs into the jaws of advertisers. I can't admire the technical proficiency if I disagree with the spirit and goal of it so deeply.
- cbeach 11y ago
  If you want to be sociable, it's your responsibility to socialise where your friends socialise. It's not the bar's fault, or the sports club's fault, or Facebook's fault, if your friends choose to go there but you don't. The situation is only "involuntary" in that the choices of your friends aren't under your own control. But thanks to Facebook the situation -is- free of charge. True genius might lie in protocols. But it's up to your friends if they prefer communicating you via protocols or via a friendly website with a good mobile app.

by cbeach 11y ago

PavlovsCat 11y ago

> But if you don't use it and your friends do, then you may miss out on social connection. Which makes the whole "free of charge and voluntary" thing kind of moot. If it sucks up people, it better not suck, or at least connect with things like diaspora etc. (which also lack these features, but at least wouldn't fight you tooth and nail if you tried to implement them). If that is incredibly entitled, well, I guess I am then. > The complexity of building a site that serves 1.5bn users is astonishing As for me is the desire to even do that. I think true genius is found in protocols, not applications and silos. The internet was invented to withstand nuclear strikes, and the return to centralization seems to be solely for the purpose of spooks shoveling eyeballs into the jaws of advertisers. I can't admire the technical proficiency if I disagree with the spirit and goal of it so deeply.

cbeach 11y ago
If you want to be sociable, it's your responsibility to socialise where your friends socialise. It's not the bar's fault, or the sports club's fault, or Facebook's fault, if your friends choose to go there but you don't. The situation is only "involuntary" in that the choices of your friends aren't under your own control. But thanks to Facebook the situation -is- free of charge. True genius might lie in protocols. But it's up to your friends if they prefer communicating you via protocols or via a friendly website with a good mobile app.