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This will deeply count in facebook's demise I think. Tech people act as prescribers to the rest. When they use something new, it then propagates to the populat

This will deeply count in facebook's demise I think. Tech people act as prescribers to the rest. When they use something new, it then propagates to the population. Abandoning is the same. Now Elon Musk is mystically revered by tech people. Then transitively, his example will accelerate tech peoples' condamnation of facebook, then everyone listening to techies advice.

Kajayacht 9y ago
Google+
- alcover 9y ago
  Exactly. But Google+ was a side-game for Google.. If FB turns to the new G+ we might soon profit from discount hardware!
  - Thrymr 9y ago
    > But Google+ was a side-game for Google.. That's not what Google said when it launched. They were restructuring all of their products around social networks...
  - Kajayacht 9y ago
    Sorry for the late reply, but I suppose I need to elaborate more. At least as I remember it, when Google+ launched I was in my second year of university studying Computer Science. I remember all of my fellow CS students were excited about it and sharing beta invites. Once Google+ became available to the general public, it quickly lost its appeal. Then Google forced it upon everyone and it never recovered.
seanwilson 9y ago
> Tech people act as prescribers to the rest Any good examples of this? I don't find this at all. Hackernews for example is always very against Facebook, ads and tracking user behaviour. As far as I can see, none of my less technical friends want to know more details about any of this or care in the slightest. Most of the time if my non-technical friends are asking for technology advice, it's advice to help them follow the crowd e.g. my friends wouldn't ask me what social network to use, they'd ask me how to install Facebook on their phone. If I started ranting about privacy stuff for something all their friends used, they'd just dismiss it as me being overly concerned.
- alcover 9y ago
  Any good examples of this? Not really I must admit. It's more that when the tide turns, people ask techies why and what to do. In FB case they'll ask you what is so bad about it and you'll come up with a solid answer. They'll repeat your word around and the tide will gain momentum ? Linux. My parents got a laptop with Windows 8. We couldn't make sense of it. I pitched Ubuntu, installed it and they never turned back. When their friends evoke problems with their computers, they will hear about Ubuntu from my folks.

Kajayacht 9y ago

Google+

alcover 9y ago
Exactly. But Google+ was a side-game for Google.. If FB turns to the new G+ we might soon profit from discount hardware!
- Thrymr 9y ago
  > But Google+ was a side-game for Google.. That's not what Google said when it launched. They were restructuring all of their products around social networks...
- Kajayacht 9y ago
  Sorry for the late reply, but I suppose I need to elaborate more. At least as I remember it, when Google+ launched I was in my second year of university studying Computer Science. I remember all of my fellow CS students were excited about it and sharing beta invites. Once Google+ became available to the general public, it quickly lost its appeal. Then Google forced it upon everyone and it never recovered.

seanwilson 9y ago

> Tech people act as prescribers to the rest Any good examples of this? I don't find this at all. Hackernews for example is always very against Facebook, ads and tracking user behaviour. As far as I can see, none of my less technical friends want to know more details about any of this or care in the slightest. Most of the time if my non-technical friends are asking for technology advice, it's advice to help them follow the crowd e.g. my friends wouldn't ask me what social network to use, they'd ask me how to install Facebook on their phone. If I started ranting about privacy stuff for something all their friends used, they'd just dismiss it as me being overly concerned.

alcover 9y ago
Any good examples of this? Not really I must admit. It's more that when the tide turns, people ask techies why and what to do. In FB case they'll ask you what is so bad about it and you'll come up with a solid answer. They'll repeat your word around and the tide will gain momentum ? Linux. My parents got a laptop with Windows 8. We couldn't make sense of it. I pitched Ubuntu, installed it and they never turned back. When their friends evoke problems with their computers, they will hear about Ubuntu from my folks.