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Right now, there are three highly negative Facebook articles on the front page of HN, simultaneously: * this article, about Unilever pulling ads from Facebook
by cs702 9y ago
Right now, there are three highly negative Facebook articles on the front page of HN, simultaneously:
* this article, about Unilever pulling ads from Facebook and Google
* an article about Facebook losing 2.8 million US users under 25 last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360408
* an article about German courts ruling that Facebook's use of personal data is illegal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16361614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16361614
The way people on HN feel about any technology today is how the rest of the world will feel about it tomorrow.[a]
This does not bode well for Facebook.
[a] Typical example: http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html
- akkat 9y agoAlternatively hn is simply a bubble and maybe Facebook would continue to be hated (but used) by hn users but will stay relatively the same among other (above 25 year old) people.
- nikanj 9y agoRemember when people on HN were all about Lisp?
- soared 9y agoI'd say that's undoubtedly not true. Hn loves open source, locally hosting software, customizable software, etc. The general public doesn't even know what open source is, prefer web apps that just work, and prefer OS X/windows to Linux. Hn doesn't predict market desires at all, its just a smaller subset of the same market.
- paulddraper 9y agoIs 2018 the Year of the Linux Desktop?
- simooooo 9y ago2017 was the year that made it run easily on a macbook. Which was neat. But it ran hot so I went back to OS X.
- cs702 9y agoMy understanding is that there are a lot of early adopters under 25 on HN.