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Facebook and Boeing having a time of their lives this year.

aplummer 8y ago
Facebook stock is up over 30% this year. So far it’s a blockbuster year for Facebook. I really don’t understand the obsession with the social media company.
- inflatableDodo 8y ago
  Neither do I, but people still keep using the damn thing.
  - aplummer 8y ago
    I agree with you on usage, what I meant to say was more “I don’t understand why it’s OP compared to Boeing when it’s been a great year for FB” and “I don’t understand why OP brought it up, why do people always want to talk about FB”.
    - inflatableDodo 8y ago
      >why do people always want to talk about FB People use it multiple times every day. And for those of us who don't use it at all, we regularly have to justify ourselves.
anfilt 8y ago
This is a 737, not a 737 Max. It could be pilot error or lack maintenance plus a bunch other things. I says it's a little quick to jump on Boeing here.
- skilled 8y ago
  It makes no difference to the average consumer. They see 'Boeing' having an accident, they immediately think, "another problem? this airline sucks!". But it cuts much deeper than that because the problem with Max involved the lives of hundreds of people. Whichever way you look, this adds an enormous dose of fuel to an ongoing fire.
  - anfilt 8y ago
    Not denying that issue with the 737 Max was probably negligent. However, as you say average people don't care, but then why are headlines putting Boeing 737 in it. It's just going to add to confusion.
  - lotsofpulp 8y ago
    Make the ticket cost $10 less than a non Boeing plane and no one will care.
  - majewsky 8y ago
    > They see 'Boeing' having an accident, they immediately think, "another problem? this airline sucks!". Was going to object that Boeing is an airplane manufacturer, but now I'm not sure if that was intentional.
- burfog 8y ago
  It was pilot error to try landing with a tailwind in torrential rain.
- 7952 8y ago
  I am an aeroplane geek, and would be comfortable flying Boeing. But I don't think the average consumer can be blamed for thinking differently. The general brand news is the only real information they have to go on. At the very least it is a useful heuristic in the absence of actual understanding. And we can't really expect people to understand thoroughly every product and service they use. Big companies put a lot of effort into branding, and it can have positive effects for them. The flip side is that people will see bad news with a similar lack of nuance.
robjan 8y ago
The media deliberately push stories in this way to make things seem connected. Just like when MH370 disappeared, on the safest year in aviation history, then the press started pushing every little aviation incident.
- interfixus 8y ago
  May have been the safest. Doesn't matter. There were two disasters hitting the same airline - Malaysian Airlines - both of them spookier by orders of magnitude than your average flight calamity. And then, in the last days of the year, an Air Asia Airbus plummeting into the sea. That was out of Indonesia, but still... Psychology does matter. I remember my daughter, as hardnosed and rational individual as ever was, shortly afterwards going Air Asia in and out of Kuala Lumpur, and being slightly perturbed, however irrational she knew it to be.

Facebook stock is up over 30% this year. So far it’s a blockbuster year for Facebook. I really don’t understand the obsession with the social media company.

inflatableDodo 8y ago
Neither do I, but people still keep using the damn thing.
- aplummer 8y ago
  I agree with you on usage, what I meant to say was more “I don’t understand why it’s OP compared to Boeing when it’s been a great year for FB” and “I don’t understand why OP brought it up, why do people always want to talk about FB”.
  - inflatableDodo 8y ago
    >why do people always want to talk about FB People use it multiple times every day. And for those of us who don't use it at all, we regularly have to justify ourselves.

anfilt 8y ago

This is a 737, not a 737 Max. It could be pilot error or lack maintenance plus a bunch other things. I says it's a little quick to jump on Boeing here.

skilled 8y ago
It makes no difference to the average consumer. They see 'Boeing' having an accident, they immediately think, "another problem? this airline sucks!". But it cuts much deeper than that because the problem with Max involved the lives of hundreds of people. Whichever way you look, this adds an enormous dose of fuel to an ongoing fire.
- anfilt 8y ago
  Not denying that issue with the 737 Max was probably negligent. However, as you say average people don't care, but then why are headlines putting Boeing 737 in it. It's just going to add to confusion.
- lotsofpulp 8y ago
  Make the ticket cost $10 less than a non Boeing plane and no one will care.
- majewsky 8y ago
  > They see 'Boeing' having an accident, they immediately think, "another problem? this airline sucks!". Was going to object that Boeing is an airplane manufacturer, but now I'm not sure if that was intentional.
burfog 8y ago
It was pilot error to try landing with a tailwind in torrential rain.
7952 8y ago
I am an aeroplane geek, and would be comfortable flying Boeing. But I don't think the average consumer can be blamed for thinking differently. The general brand news is the only real information they have to go on. At the very least it is a useful heuristic in the absence of actual understanding. And we can't really expect people to understand thoroughly every product and service they use. Big companies put a lot of effort into branding, and it can have positive effects for them. The flip side is that people will see bad news with a similar lack of nuance.

robjan 8y ago

The media deliberately push stories in this way to make things seem connected. Just like when MH370 disappeared, on the safest year in aviation history, then the press started pushing every little aviation incident.

interfixus 8y ago
May have been the safest. Doesn't matter. There were two disasters hitting the same airline - Malaysian Airlines - both of them spookier by orders of magnitude than your average flight calamity. And then, in the last days of the year, an Air Asia Airbus plummeting into the sea. That was out of Indonesia, but still... Psychology does matter. I remember my daughter, as hardnosed and rational individual as ever was, shortly afterwards going Air Asia in and out of Kuala Lumpur, and being slightly perturbed, however irrational she knew it to be.