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Wow. This is the 5th post of the demise or disgust of Facebook -- today. Are we just hating on them, or are these posts signaling a drastic change in our postur

Wow. This is the 5th post of the demise or disgust of Facebook -- today. Are we just hating on them, or are these posts signaling a drastic change in our posture towards them? I don't know, but I suspect FB will have to respond to these cries, or risk their hacker users.

fnid2 16y ago
You gotta understand, for hackers, most things are binary: black or white. Either facebook is great, or they are evil and the switch just got flipped. Hackers are trend setters on the web. Watch them.
- lukeqsee 16y ago
  Quite true. I guess it was a rhetorical question. It seems the switch is either flipped, or very, very close to being flipped.
- Aetius 16y ago
  Trends are fleeting. Lock in is forever.
potatolicious 16y ago
I predict FB will continue to ignore the cries of hackers and other internet enthusiasts - we are a tiny minority of their user base, and nobody will ever believe that the world will revolt against Facebook just because of a bunch of in-the-know geeks said so. I also predict Facebook would be wrong on that point... hackers and other "hardcore" insiders are most often, as another poster has said, trendsetters. It's well known, for example, that hardcore gamers drive an impressive portion of sales to casual gamers - they're the ones that spread the buzz, or in this case, anti-buzz. Time will tell if this is the beginning of the end for Facebook (I suspect not), but this whole privacy fiasco is going to be a bit more than a blip from a tiny vocal minority, that's for sure.
Tangurena 16y ago
Facebook is more like AOL: aimed at the non-hard-core users. "Hackers" represent a tiny fraction of computer users, maximizing market share and maximizing stock value would mean catering to everyone except the "elite." Furthermore, as FB tends to cater to the popular crowd, I'll refer you to a PG essay on the impedance mismatch between the populars and the nerds: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

fnid2 16y ago

You gotta understand, for hackers, most things are binary: black or white. Either facebook is great, or they are evil and the switch just got flipped. Hackers are trend setters on the web. Watch them.

lukeqsee 16y ago
Quite true. I guess it was a rhetorical question. It seems the switch is either flipped, or very, very close to being flipped.
Aetius 16y ago
Trends are fleeting. Lock in is forever.

potatolicious 16y ago

I predict FB will continue to ignore the cries of hackers and other internet enthusiasts - we are a tiny minority of their user base, and nobody will ever believe that the world will revolt against Facebook just because of a bunch of in-the-know geeks said so. I also predict Facebook would be wrong on that point... hackers and other "hardcore" insiders are most often, as another poster has said, trendsetters. It's well known, for example, that hardcore gamers drive an impressive portion of sales to casual gamers - they're the ones that spread the buzz, or in this case, anti-buzz. Time will tell if this is the beginning of the end for Facebook (I suspect not), but this whole privacy fiasco is going to be a bit more than a blip from a tiny vocal minority, that's for sure.

Tangurena 16y ago

Facebook is more like AOL: aimed at the non-hard-core users. "Hackers" represent a tiny fraction of computer users, maximizing market share and maximizing stock value would mean catering to everyone except the "elite." Furthermore, as FB tends to cater to the popular crowd, I'll refer you to a PG essay on the impedance mismatch between the populars and the nerds: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html