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Yep. I'm pretty curious where the overwhelmingly negative FB sentiment on HN comes from. I've never seen so many people pride themselves in never having used /
by a13n 7y ago
Yep. I'm pretty curious where the overwhelmingly negative FB sentiment on HN comes from. I've never seen so many people pride themselves in never having used / deleting Facebook.
- Skunkleton 7y agoIf you understand facebook's business, you wont view it positively.
- jhobag 7y agoI would assume HN users have some idea of facebooks business.. that's beside the point. Facebook and its products are growing regardless if you like them/know about their business (as if its some sort of esoteric practice...?), to state otherwise isnt worth discussing much less posting about on here
- DougN7 7y agoMicrosoft was also hated for their business practices. I find what a company does to be a perfectly good reason to like or hate them, not that my opinion matters. But if you have enough people feeling a certain way it changes things. For what it’s worth I don’t like FB because of Zuck and his FU attitude towards his user’s privacy (he was quoted early on calling his users “dumb fucks” if I’m remembering correctly).
- Skunkleton 7y agoThe question was "where [does] the overwhelmingly negative FB sentiment on HN come from?" What does success have to do with popular opinion or morality? Has anyone here said facebook isn't successful?
- unforeseen9991 7y agoExactly, Casinos are successful in a business sense as well. These companies get most of their profit from addicting people and keeping them addicted. They have the same moral standing as a drug dealer.
- snazz 7y agoI think he understands its business, having worked there. :)
- frutiger 7y agoIt’s like the old adage about television: “How do you know someone doesn’t own a television?” “They tell you.”
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoYes, back in the days when not owning a television was ahead of the curve. But would you like to buy stock in a TV manufacturer today?
- blowski 7y agoDepends how you define a television. Furthermore, whether Facebook’s engagement metrics depend on how you define engagement.
- jonathankoren 7y agoGiven that pretty much every large manufacturer makes things beyond televisions, and displays aren’t going out of fashion...
- jazzabeanie 7y agoLike pilots and vegans
- huntermeyer 7y agoAnd people who do cross-fit.
- throooooooooows 7y agoApple, Google, and Amazon all employ thousands of engineers who work on products that would greatly benefit from Facebook’s failure. I would bet that employees from those companies make up a good chunk of the HN community. I am reminded that there were several threads accusing FB employees of downvoting anti FB comments. Worth noting that the companies listed above all employee more engineers than FB.
- djmips 7y agoOh you can't be serious. Maybe HN users are just more in tune with the negatives of FB.
- throooooooooows 7y agoRemember that the original comment was pointing out the extremely vacuous nature of the article, and the confusion is as to why it has been upvoted so much. I wouldn’t call this article a demonstration of the HN community being “in tune”
- pier25 7y ago> I'm pretty curious where the overwhelmingly negative FB sentiment on HN comes from I imagine because Facebook is considered an unethical company.
- acdha 7y agoFacebook has had a number of major ethical failures over the years, which have been well covered here and HN readers are more likely to fully appreciate the significance of their privacy invasion (a recurring theme with Google’s lost prestige, too) and undermining important efforts (e.g. abusing MFA phone numbers after saying they wouldn’t, hurting a substantial security improvement).
- ImaCake 7y agoFor me it's personal. Facebook's newsfeed stole a lot of my time through it's psychological tricks and I can't help but dislike it for that.
- dymk 7y agoYou’re blaming Facebook for your lack of self discipline and control?
- dang 7y ago"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dymk 7y agoHow would you suggest this post be strongly interpreted? Any interpretation I can come up with conflates their own self discipline with Facebooks doing.
- dang 7y agoI suppose one might be that whatever tricks they're talking about are exploits that have more to do with hard-wiring in humans than self-discipline. Either way, though, please don't post personal attacks. If you don't think it violates that guideline, it certainly violates "Be kind." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- cheez 7y agoStalking horses for a TSLA-like fall to accumulate.