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The idea that facebook doesn't have a vision for the future is 100% asinine. In 20 years I'll have detailed memories and archives of most of my past because fa
by endlessvoid94 15y ago
The idea that facebook doesn't have a vision for the future is 100% asinine. In 20 years I'll have detailed memories and archives of most of my past because facebook has made it easy. Contrast this with what our parents or grandparents' generation has. Younger kids and older folks will all interact more and more through facebook in the coming years.
Facebook just cares less about what the industry looks at. They're looking way down the line and figuring out what human beings will want.
The "post-facebook era" is something that journalists invent to point fingers at and justify ad impressions.
- mechanical_fish 15y agoIn 20 years I'll have detailed memories and archives of most of my past Or Facebook will, anyway. Assuming they're still in business. If you think the idea of Facebook eventually going bankrupt and deleting their archives, or selling those archives to a recycler in a fire sale, is somehow ridiculous I invite you to contemplate the fate of Geocities. Or Netscape, or Sun Microsystems, or the decline of Yahoo. Is there anything in Facebook's terms of service where they even promise to preserve any of your data, let alone allow you to download it free of charge in perpetuity? Perhaps the ultimate fallback Facebook business model will be to erect a firewall and charge folks tolls for admission to their own cherished memories.
- MartinCron 15y agoI wonder if both Facebook and Google have become essentially too big to fail. That is, the collateral harm caused by them going down would hurt so many other people and organizations that not propping them up would be considered a policy failure.