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I have been using facebook for nearly 15 years, and there has never been a time at which your exact statement wasn't true. It has been both hated and fast-growi

I have been using facebook for nearly 15 years, and there has never been a time at which your exact statement wasn't true. It has been both hated and fast-growing for pretty much its whole existence.

throwaway1777 7y ago
Not really, the press and general sentiment was very positive around Facebook up until around 2015-16 when the Trump election kicked into gear.
- sanderjd 7y ago
  I mean, I guess I read the comment from my own personal perspective, from which I have always seen what I would describe as lots of hate and lots of rumors (or wishful thinking more like) that it was going to go the way of myspace. I wasn't thinking about the press (and mainstream sentiment has never been against it). But rereading it, I can see where that is perhaps the more obvious interpretation than my own.
Groxx 7y ago
I dunno... early on (e.g. while locked to universities) I very much didn't see widespread un-like for it. I overheard tons of people who were thrilled when it became available, and even after a year or two I don't think I heard any complaints (except that you couldn't put gifs everywhere). It was dramatically more useful than anything else we'd used, especially the stuff the school was offering. After it opened up, yeah, it wasn't long before sentiment shifted :) I'm not sure when I'd label it crossing a majority of what I hear, but there was a definite shift within a year or so.
- sanderjd 7y ago
  I was part of the locked-to-your-university cohort. I disliked it right from the start - I am not a naturally social person and I found college to be inundated with socialization, facebook was yet another thing to make me feel weird, and I thought it was creepy because I was in all these pictures I didn't post, out there for anyone to see - but yeah lots of my friends loved it. But I did know other weird people who didn't. Just for round numbers, let's say 1% of us actively disliked it and 99% loved it. What I think has happened as I've watched it since then is that that love/hate ratio has stayed relatively stable, but it has grown so much that there are a lot of people on the hate side now, in absolute terms, so it's more noticeable. But I don't think the fundamental calculation is all that different.

I have been using facebook for nearly 15 years, and there has never been a time at which your exact statement wasn't true. It has been both hated and fast-growing for pretty much its whole existence.

throwaway1777 7y ago

Not really, the press and general sentiment was very positive around Facebook up until around 2015-16 when the Trump election kicked into gear.

sanderjd 7y ago
I mean, I guess I read the comment from my own personal perspective, from which I have always seen what I would describe as lots of hate and lots of rumors (or wishful thinking more like) that it was going to go the way of myspace. I wasn't thinking about the press (and mainstream sentiment has never been against it). But rereading it, I can see where that is perhaps the more obvious interpretation than my own.

Groxx 7y ago

I dunno... early on (e.g. while locked to universities) I very much didn't see widespread un-like for it. I overheard tons of people who were thrilled when it became available, and even after a year or two I don't think I heard any complaints (except that you couldn't put gifs everywhere). It was dramatically more useful than anything else we'd used, especially the stuff the school was offering. After it opened up, yeah, it wasn't long before sentiment shifted :) I'm not sure when I'd label it crossing a majority of what I hear, but there was a definite shift within a year or so.

sanderjd 7y ago
I was part of the locked-to-your-university cohort. I disliked it right from the start - I am not a naturally social person and I found college to be inundated with socialization, facebook was yet another thing to make me feel weird, and I thought it was creepy because I was in all these pictures I didn't post, out there for anyone to see - but yeah lots of my friends loved it. But I did know other weird people who didn't. Just for round numbers, let's say 1% of us actively disliked it and 99% loved it. What I think has happened as I've watched it since then is that that love/hate ratio has stayed relatively stable, but it has grown so much that there are a lot of people on the hate side now, in absolute terms, so it's more noticeable. But I don't think the fundamental calculation is all that different.