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This is what people used to call "selling out". There's no money in original content between friends, facebook doesn't care that they no longer serve this need
by jbob2000 7y ago
This is what people used to call "selling out". There's no money in original content between friends, facebook doesn't care that they no longer serve this need for you. Their new job is to show ads for fortune 500 companies so that the pension funds invested in the facebook stock can continue to make money.
- Zak 7y agoI will spend more time on Facebook, potentially looking at ads it wants to show me if it does a better job keeping me in touch with people I know.
- dangrover 7y agoOf course there's money in original content. You need that to keep people coming back to the feed to make any money on the ads. What you're seeing is the results of dozens of teams individually optimizing against growth goals, which are actually inputs to a complex system that is difficult to predict.
- mountainofdeath 7y agoThis is exactly what happens. Each team has their metrics that need to grow. Taken individually, it probably is the right move but when multiple groups optimize their little space, they end up drowning each other. This is true of any large organization really. It's just that the blind insistence on data at the micro level makes the effect far more profound.