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I don’t understand why Facebook isn’t focusing on building more peer-to-peer services. For example, professional profiles, job posting, selling used goods, dati

I don’t understand why Facebook isn’t focusing on building more peer-to-peer services. For example, professional profiles, job posting, selling used goods, dating profiles, professional services such as nannies, Children's extracurriculars and so on. There is so much to do! I know they did started marketplace, local business listings and peer payments but it looked like very half hearted and badly designed. In theory, they can be dominant in all of these markets which might significantly reduce reliance on ads. I just don’t know why are they so content being just a status posting website.

harryf 5y ago
You’re right. But let’s be happy it isn’t. Better that stays fragmented across the globe
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Forge36 5y ago
They are already all of these things? However it's also all "Facebook" They never named their things and it become a ubiquitous blob (I swear they had a dating site but I looked and couldn't find it) Their only UI is hidden behind the status landing page. They could have made sperate websites with branding "by Facebook" redirected users to those new sites from the main page/menu. Instead it's completely. Monolayer/single stack. Not to say "this is wrong" (clearly it made many people lots of money up to this point, now those returns appear to be slowing) The landing page is full of things to look at, but hard to "find the thing I want to do". In this sense splitting the main app and chat made a lot of sense (primary entry point is app launcher on the phone). What it really needed was a way to organize the landing page around product listings. Ie: a second desktop. (This could already happen on users phones, though I suspect most people weren't based on what I've observed on family and friends)
- sytelus 5y ago
  This is likely the biggest strategic mistake they did. Product specific sub-websites such as maps.google.com or office.microsoft.com are a must to expose diverse functionality properly. They tried to shove everything into same status-post website. I can imagine dating.facebook.com, market.facebook.com, etc where these subsites are fully customized according to their domain but they take advantage of all the data they have.
  - Forge36 5y ago
    Interestingly: it is Facebook.com/dating That's also the only page I've ever seen Facebook let you use multiple accounts...

harryf 5y ago

You’re right. But let’s be happy it isn’t. Better that stays fragmented across the globe

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Forge36 5y ago

They are already all of these things? However it's also all "Facebook" They never named their things and it become a ubiquitous blob (I swear they had a dating site but I looked and couldn't find it) Their only UI is hidden behind the status landing page. They could have made sperate websites with branding "by Facebook" redirected users to those new sites from the main page/menu. Instead it's completely. Monolayer/single stack. Not to say "this is wrong" (clearly it made many people lots of money up to this point, now those returns appear to be slowing) The landing page is full of things to look at, but hard to "find the thing I want to do". In this sense splitting the main app and chat made a lot of sense (primary entry point is app launcher on the phone). What it really needed was a way to organize the landing page around product listings. Ie: a second desktop. (This could already happen on users phones, though I suspect most people weren't based on what I've observed on family and friends)

sytelus 5y ago
This is likely the biggest strategic mistake they did. Product specific sub-websites such as maps.google.com or office.microsoft.com are a must to expose diverse functionality properly. They tried to shove everything into same status-post website. I can imagine dating.facebook.com, market.facebook.com, etc where these subsites are fully customized according to their domain but they take advantage of all the data they have.
- Forge36 5y ago
  Interestingly: it is Facebook.com/dating That's also the only page I've ever seen Facebook let you use multiple accounts...