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> How about Facebook’s first version of Search... mostly useful for checking out your friends’ single female friends A minor dig but this is the sort of subtle
by abalone 10y ago
> How about Facebook’s first version of Search... mostly useful for checking out your friends’ single female friends
A minor dig but this is the sort of subtle male-centric POV that should be filtered out of tech journalism. Straight women use Facebook too, check out profiles. What's more, they constitute 4/5ths of Vanity Fair's readership.[1] This is speaking to women, subtly telling them that tech is mainly tools for guys.
Comes up all the time in other contexts. Like I was watching Tinker Bell the other day, and it's basically 100% femmy fairy girls EXCEPT they made the nerdy techy builder characters boys. I'm like, come on...
[1] http://www.condenast.com/brands/vanity-fair/media-kit/print http://www.condenast.com/brands/vanity-fair/media-kit/print
- danso 10y agoFWIW, this piece is an adaptation/excerpt from a book written by "former Facebook employee Antonio García Martínez". He may only be repeating hearsay, of course, but he may have also been privy to the analytics or internal discussion that indicated how Search was being used.
- antongm 10y agoYeah, I'm not speculating. This was the most popular query. No bigger implications meant to the observation.