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It would be nice if Facebook's register an account pop-up didn't occupy 1/4 of the screen.

salesguy222 9y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately, when you take your social network public, investors demand growth. When user growth plateaus, it seems FB has chosen to be more aggressive in forcing you into their network ^.^
- hashhar 9y ago
  I don't understand why growth is measured as a percentage? Obviously the growth rate for Facebook can NEVER be greater than the growth rate of the population of people born into households with internet. And that can be nowhere near 20% YOY even. It's what is responsible for the stupid fallacy that PC is dying. It's not dying - it's has more longevity. A machine I built in 2008 is still going strong. Only had to upgrade the CPU once and switch out a RAM module. Many other people are the same. Also consider this scenario: 1. You have a world of 1 bn people. 2. A company has 0.5 bn of them as customers. 3. The population increases to 1.08% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth) = 1.0108 bn 4. The company grows to 1 bn people which is a 100% growth. 5. The population increases to 1.02171664 bn. 6. The investors say that growth has slipped from 100% to 0%. That's stupid. The growth has stagnated because there IS NO ROOM to grow!!! Am I missing something?
  - branchless 9y ago
    New debt issuance comes with an interest rate expressed as a percentage. The system has insanity as a core feature.
  - monkmartinez 9y ago
    If Facebook went away tomorrow, no one on the planet would be adversely harmed. IMO, investors price in the fact that most social networks are ephemeral. Grow or have stock price hammered into dust.
    - jjeaff 9y ago
      I would argue that productivity would increase and social stress would decrease. I can't think of any harmful effect of Facebook disappearing except for a few lost jobs.
  - chrisseaton 9y ago
    > the growth rate for Facebook can NEVER be greater than the growth rate of the population of people born into households with internet > Am I missing something? People who are already born but not a member of Facebook? Households who newly have access to the Internet?
makepanic 9y ago
If in doubt, archive the facebook post. http://archive.is/mdDuI http://archive.is/mdDuI
krat0sprakhar 9y ago
The mobile view is slightly more readable https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1950702748497566&id=100006735798590 https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=195070274849...
philipov 9y ago
You can use uBlock Origin to hide the pop-up frame. You won't be able to click through it, but it won't interfere with reading.
- trome 9y ago
  You shouldn't have to, Facebook is a poor medium esp. in the context of HN as it is a pain to browse/use on purpose if you don't make an account.
finnn 9y ago
I got a huge popup blocking everything asking me to register before I could even start reading it. Stopped bothering at that point
awqrre 9y ago
I don't see that on Firefox w/ uBlock Origin and uMatrix

Agreed. Unfortunately, when you take your social network public, investors demand growth. When user growth plateaus, it seems FB has chosen to be more aggressive in forcing you into their network ^.^

hashhar 9y ago
I don't understand why growth is measured as a percentage? Obviously the growth rate for Facebook can NEVER be greater than the growth rate of the population of people born into households with internet. And that can be nowhere near 20% YOY even. It's what is responsible for the stupid fallacy that PC is dying. It's not dying - it's has more longevity. A machine I built in 2008 is still going strong. Only had to upgrade the CPU once and switch out a RAM module. Many other people are the same. Also consider this scenario: 1. You have a world of 1 bn people. 2. A company has 0.5 bn of them as customers. 3. The population increases to 1.08% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth) = 1.0108 bn 4. The company grows to 1 bn people which is a 100% growth. 5. The population increases to 1.02171664 bn. 6. The investors say that growth has slipped from 100% to 0%. That's stupid. The growth has stagnated because there IS NO ROOM to grow!!! Am I missing something?
- branchless 9y ago
  New debt issuance comes with an interest rate expressed as a percentage. The system has insanity as a core feature.
- monkmartinez 9y ago
  If Facebook went away tomorrow, no one on the planet would be adversely harmed. IMO, investors price in the fact that most social networks are ephemeral. Grow or have stock price hammered into dust.
  - jjeaff 9y ago
    I would argue that productivity would increase and social stress would decrease. I can't think of any harmful effect of Facebook disappearing except for a few lost jobs.
- chrisseaton 9y ago
  > the growth rate for Facebook can NEVER be greater than the growth rate of the population of people born into households with internet > Am I missing something? People who are already born but not a member of Facebook? Households who newly have access to the Internet?

makepanic 9y ago

If in doubt, archive the facebook post. http://archive.is/mdDuI http://archive.is/mdDuI

krat0sprakhar 9y ago

The mobile view is slightly more readable https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1950702748497566&id=100006735798590 https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=195070274849...

philipov 9y ago

You can use uBlock Origin to hide the pop-up frame. You won't be able to click through it, but it won't interfere with reading.

trome 9y ago
You shouldn't have to, Facebook is a poor medium esp. in the context of HN as it is a pain to browse/use on purpose if you don't make an account.

finnn 9y ago

I got a huge popup blocking everything asking me to register before I could even start reading it. Stopped bothering at that point

awqrre 9y ago

I don't see that on Firefox w/ uBlock Origin and uMatrix