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>If Facebook really wants to be a bigger part of my online/social experience, they'll acknowledge and start acting on this fact. Well, maybe. If Facebook gets
by Lagged2Death 15y ago
>If Facebook really wants to be a bigger part of my online/social experience, they'll acknowledge and start acting on this fact.
Well, maybe. If Facebook gets your parents and grandparents all playing Farmville, but loses (just) you, Facebook comes out ahead.
- dreamdu5t 15y agoBut isn't that a testament to Farmville rather than Facebook? My grandma is on Facebook because I am and others she knows are. This is ultimately what sustains Facebook's success: The network effect. It's the "cool" thing to do. It's where everybody is, so you need to be. Despite that, the network effect is very volatile. It's not something you can easily sustain. MySpace was where everybody was at one point too. Facebook is fooling themselves if they think privacy isn't one of the areas they need to innovate.
- sudont 15y ago"Everybody" isn't cool. Cool is taking a hard, miserable lifestyle and through persona making others yearn for it. The starving artist is "cool," Facebook is populist tripe.