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> Billions of people used PYMK and are generally happy with it and Facebook in general. You might be right, but that isn't necessarily so. I'm on Facebook, I h
by zaat 7y ago
> Billions of people used PYMK and are generally happy with it and Facebook in general.
You might be right, but that isn't necessarily so. I'm on Facebook, I hate many of it's features, the product design decisions and I think they are hostile and predatory. Wherever a knob was made available I changed it from the default to the more private setting. But I'm still on Facebook because I have no other option for effective communication with my globally distributed family and with the local tech community.
In short, I hate PYMK and many many other things, and generally I'm not happy at all with Facebook, but you counted me along the "Billions of people" because I'm (almost) daily active on the platform.
I believe you have no idea what portion of the users is happy with the platform, what portion is unaware of the privacy implication and what portion is unhappy about the platform's privacy but, as accurately put by the Zuck himself, pay the necessary tax.
- ninth_ant 7y ago> But I'm still on Facebook because I have no other option for effective communication with my globally distributed family and with the local tech community. But this speaks directly to the crux of this issue mentioned in the article that you take issue with. Growth team tactics got people on the site and kept them engaged, and having a large and mostly comprehensive network makes it valuable to users. So when you find it valuable that your family and community is there, well that’s the point.
- zaat 7y agoNope, I found my family directly and the community is in the groups. I believe I never used the People You May know box myself. I may have been added as a friend by someone using the feature, but probably not anyone that I actually care about being connected to.