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Reminds me of Yahoo! at their great obsolescence tipping point when they were sunsetted to be replaced by Facebook. Zuckerberg has huge spread in Hawaii just li

Reminds me of Yahoo! at their great obsolescence tipping point when they were sunsetted to be replaced by Facebook. Zuckerberg has huge spread in Hawaii just like Yahoo! founder Yang did...the chuckling Marissa Meyer, cutbacks... 'lean in' Sandberg facing a host of legal issues.. it's like the same script again. Wonder what the new Yabook! will look like post recession...

phendrenad2 4y ago
Blood in the water. Might be a good time to start a new social network. A simple blue interface that doesn't have all of the clutter and noise of Mybook. We can launch at universities first, invite-only.
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  Whatsapp?
- olivermarks 4y ago
  Look for a big FB data breach when the shiny new next gen platform is ready so everyone will migrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches and idiotic c suite parties during mass layoffs and cutbacks https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-blows-millions-on-parties-and-sponsorships-says-eric-jackson-2015-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-blow...
- closedloop129 4y ago
  How come students don't do this every other year? What's Facebook's lock-in that each generation of students cannot monetize their own social graph?
  - Dan_Sylveste 4y ago
    >What's Facebook's lock-in that each generation of students cannot monetize their own social graph? Universities and schools using Facebook as their de-facto platform for group announcements, it seems.
- maneesh 4y ago
  We could call it themybook.com
  - d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
    Years ago someone introduced me to FaceBook and found it so ridiculous that I called it FarceBook. I don’t know why many people don’t see that you can draw a straight line from FarceBook —> Trump —> Roe Overturned Baffles me why some (seemingly) smart (ML) people still work there, including a certain Turing award winner. Ah yes…must be the money.
- xtracto 4y ago
  Whatever comes to replace Facebook I really hope it is a distributed system that doesn't have a single unique owner. And that monetization is not done through advertising. The problem with Friendster, MySpace and then Facebook was their centralized nature. It sucks to produce/place your content in a place you have to pay for.
  - the_biot 4y ago
    That's been done, it's exactly what Mastodon is. It hasn't made a dent in anything.
  - zaven 4y ago
    This is exactly what we’re trying to build at Niche. Give us a follow if you’re interested in updates (we’re keeping things pretty low key for now). https://twitter.com/nicheprotocol https://twitter.com/nicheprotocol Our whole engineering team, myself included, is ex-Facebook.
  - jondwillis 4y ago
    hate to inform you it is tiktok

phendrenad2 4y ago

Blood in the water. Might be a good time to start a new social network. A simple blue interface that doesn't have all of the clutter and noise of Mybook. We can launch at universities first, invite-only.

quickthrower2 4y ago
Whatsapp?
olivermarks 4y ago
Look for a big FB data breach when the shiny new next gen platform is ready so everyone will migrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches and idiotic c suite parties during mass layoffs and cutbacks https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-blows-millions-on-parties-and-sponsorships-says-eric-jackson-2015-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-blow...
closedloop129 4y ago
How come students don't do this every other year? What's Facebook's lock-in that each generation of students cannot monetize their own social graph?
- Dan_Sylveste 4y ago
  >What's Facebook's lock-in that each generation of students cannot monetize their own social graph? Universities and schools using Facebook as their de-facto platform for group announcements, it seems.
maneesh 4y ago
We could call it themybook.com
- d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
  Years ago someone introduced me to FaceBook and found it so ridiculous that I called it FarceBook. I don’t know why many people don’t see that you can draw a straight line from FarceBook —> Trump —> Roe Overturned Baffles me why some (seemingly) smart (ML) people still work there, including a certain Turing award winner. Ah yes…must be the money.
xtracto 4y ago
Whatever comes to replace Facebook I really hope it is a distributed system that doesn't have a single unique owner. And that monetization is not done through advertising. The problem with Friendster, MySpace and then Facebook was their centralized nature. It sucks to produce/place your content in a place you have to pay for.
- the_biot 4y ago
  That's been done, it's exactly what Mastodon is. It hasn't made a dent in anything.
- zaven 4y ago
  This is exactly what we’re trying to build at Niche. Give us a follow if you’re interested in updates (we’re keeping things pretty low key for now). https://twitter.com/nicheprotocol https://twitter.com/nicheprotocol Our whole engineering team, myself included, is ex-Facebook.
- jondwillis 4y ago
  hate to inform you it is tiktok