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Counterpoint: facebook are going to add the classic chronological friends and family experience as a second tab “feeds”. In your analogy it would be like mcdona
by Joeri 4y ago
Counterpoint: facebook are going to add the classic chronological friends and family experience as a second tab “feeds”. In your analogy it would be like mcdonalds splitting down the middle, with the main entrance leading you to tacodonalds and a side door from that hallway leading you to the classic mcdonalds. Parents could send their kids to tacodonalds for a burger taco because that’s what the kids love, while nearby they could enjoy a classic big mac. Most people would probably prefer it that way.
This is just diversification to reach more market segments, and as long as that feeds tab exists they aren’t doing anything different from e.g. youtube, where the home tab is not what I want at all, but the subscriptions tab does exactly what I want.
- andrewflnr 4y agoIf Facebook was into that kind of thing, we would still have a proper chronological feed.
- notahacker 4y agoNot to mention the fact that the feed itself wasn't part of Facebook's original proposition but was a controversial change introduced despite user protests, and the content of the feed today doesn't remotely resemble the content of the feed in 2006 which doesn't remotely resemble the content of the feed in 2009 or 2015 If McDonalds had been a pizza joint within the memories of much of its user base before introducing a Big Mac which was chicken one year and beef the next with constant tweaks to the sauces and vegetable content, I'm not sure the introduction of tacos would be that controversial.