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> Facebook is dying because they stopped being Facebook. If they gave what's left of their userbase what they actually wanted (chronological feed, seeing friend
by imiric 4y ago
> Facebook is dying because they stopped being Facebook. If they gave what's left of their userbase what they actually wanted (chronological feed, seeing friends posts, not seeing spam, more ways to interact (bring back pets, gifts, superpokes etc)) they'd do ok.
I have no horse in this race, but why do you think you know what's better for FB more than the thousands of smart engineers and PMs working there?
They clearly saw TikTok as a direct threat, and, probably fueled by thousands of data-driven tests, confirmed that this change results in more engagement and keeps more people on their site for longer.
What you seem to want from FB is likely what a minority of its older userbase wants, but wouldn't make graphs go up and right as much. They need to attract younger generations and new users if they want to do that.
- petesergeant 4y ago> why do you think you know what's better for FB more than the thousands of smart engineers and PMs working there doubt they're the ones making the big strategic decisions
- lelanthran 4y ago> doubt they're the ones making the big strategic decisions Of course not, but I doubt that the ones making these decisions are ignoring the metrics that the thousands of smart engineers are generating. All the large companies are able to afford extra staff whose job is exclusively to generate and analyse metrics. It seems a reach to conclude that the company pays thousands of people for a specific output, just to throw that output away. It may happen to one or two of them, but certainly not to all of the people generating the metrics.