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While I agree that Facebook is commonly perceived as "star which smart people gravitate towards nowadays", I really fail to see why that is. Did suddenly all t
by locci 15y ago
While I agree that Facebook is commonly perceived as "star which smart people gravitate towards nowadays", I really fail to see why that is.
Did suddenly all the techies buy in the "social" buzzword?
I don't really think so: what infrastructural and, in general, technical challenges would Facebook be facing which aren't faced at Google too?
I tend to perceive Google as the technical innovator, bringing magic (1 gB email??? watching the world from above??? and free???) to the real world, whereas Facebook, despite it's cool API and Cassandra, is just vendor lock in.
But I digress: maybe the problem is that Google's already solved the problem leaving no space for new ideas?
Why would Facebook appeal more smart techies?
- entangld 15y agoAgreed. It's hard to see Facebook's vision for the future. Is it their notion that privacy is overrated? Google is organizing the world's information like it said it would. Most of the draw of Facebook is their 500mil users. I see popularity more than greatness. Google has and continues to do amazing things (unfortunately none of them in social). Google moving into "social" is like a nerd learning to dance. With enough work they can do it. They'll be awkward at first. Facebook is hosting the dance because they have the biggest house. Facebook is good but mostly because it's the biggest. They don't offer many reasons for users or advertisers to be there other than "everyone else is". They can still become a lesser version of their current glory a la Myspace.