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If not with Facebook and Alphabet, there would still be most of those companies selling their products, with other means or site. There's not much that Facebook

If not with Facebook and Alphabet, there would still be most of those companies selling their products, with other means or site. There's not much that Facebook adds other than number of people it has using their site during their off times. If people needed to buy things, they could have easily looked it up on other sites or real places. There are many companies that do much more important things, produces more useful goods/productivity/services.

corysama 9y ago
If you are producing a useful good or service would you honestly prefer to market it pre-Facebook? The volume, price and ability to focus narrowly on only the people most likely to care... It's worth a lot to a lot of makers.
- ptr_void 9y ago
  I don't doubt facebook's usefulness to many companies and online only businesses.
- thinkfurther 9y ago
  If it's worth so much to so many people, why can't people simply accept that there are also people who find all of it useless and highly unimpressive? Yeah, I would like to market pre-Facebook. In exactly the same way I wouldn't want to advertise with Stalin, no matter how effective his apparatus. I bet you there were people who couldn't understand that either. My life is a painting. I already have brushes and paint, and while I could of course use more and better brushes and paint, there are also those offers to shit all over my painting for a truckload of generic, lame colours, and thousands of stamps with all sorts of shapes designed by "professionals", because making those with your own brush is just too hard. I say no to that, that is a net negative value for me. I don't live to earn money, I earn money to live. FB is right out. As the song goes: you might win some but you just lost one. Nothing more, but also never anything less.
stepanhruda 9y ago
Ah yes, no need for internet at all. We could already send messages via other means before it.
- ptr_void 9y ago
  I don't follow

corysama 9y ago

If you are producing a useful good or service would you honestly prefer to market it pre-Facebook? The volume, price and ability to focus narrowly on only the people most likely to care... It's worth a lot to a lot of makers.

ptr_void 9y ago
I don't doubt facebook's usefulness to many companies and online only businesses.
thinkfurther 9y ago
If it's worth so much to so many people, why can't people simply accept that there are also people who find all of it useless and highly unimpressive? Yeah, I would like to market pre-Facebook. In exactly the same way I wouldn't want to advertise with Stalin, no matter how effective his apparatus. I bet you there were people who couldn't understand that either. My life is a painting. I already have brushes and paint, and while I could of course use more and better brushes and paint, there are also those offers to shit all over my painting for a truckload of generic, lame colours, and thousands of stamps with all sorts of shapes designed by "professionals", because making those with your own brush is just too hard. I say no to that, that is a net negative value for me. I don't live to earn money, I earn money to live. FB is right out. As the song goes: you might win some but you just lost one. Nothing more, but also never anything less.

stepanhruda 9y ago

Ah yes, no need for internet at all. We could already send messages via other means before it.

ptr_void 9y ago
I don't follow