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Sad for the employees but a little part of my heart perks up whenever I hear any story of Facebook failing in any way.
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Sad for the employees but a little part of my heart perks up whenever I hear any story of Facebook failing in any way.
- seydor 4y agoThis is the kind of comment that gets a lot of likes and hearts on facebook
- notacoward 4y agoFor someone who once bemoaned the lack of deeper discussions, you sure throw out a lot of flippant one-liners yourself.
- seydor 4y agoBlunt does not equal disrespectful. You are being flippant by making it personal. One can convey meaning without writing pages of text. I will keep doing so
- type0 4y agoI hope they will be like Friendster
- TomSwirly 4y agoMe, too. So many of my friends have said much the same thing, too. Facebook has gone out of their way to be as horrible as possible. And their product is miserable, and they never update the user side. The last significant change was to add emojis six years ago, and that took them many years to do. If they didn't have an effective monopoly, they'd be long gone.
- rabite 4y agoNever updating the user side is a positive signal for a social media company. Redesigns, even objectively superior ones, are frequently catastrophically received by users, and significant alterations to app experience can cause user flight. The actual need to update the user side is questionable.
- benreesman 4y agoAs someone who quit FB with a great deal of unvested stock, I've got more skin in the game than most as to the complex question of FB's culture, management, and impact in the world. I paid a lot of fucking money for a very nuanced answer to a very complex question about whether or not I felt I wanted to be there at that time. So, from a position of vastly superior knowledge to the typical HN peanut gallery, I agree there are unfortunate things about FB, or at least were in 2018 when I left. But as one person who gets out of line on HN sometimes to another: this is a negative value comment IMHO and I'd encourage you to strive for a more substantial critique.
- chottocharaii 4y agoOh come off your high horse. The comment reflects the sentiment of many a commenter. Your choice to forgo your stock is neither here nor there. I hope your salary was enough to live comfortably after finishing
- benreesman 4y agoI'm still working 20-something hours at pushing 40 precisely because that stock had been the retirement plan. I don't regret it, it was the wrong place to be at the time for me after thinking deeply on it. And people with more knowledge throwing up a caution flag when people with less knowledge go all 1-bit is a pretty core value on the site. It's not a high horse, I get out of line on here more often than I'd like, but I also appreciate it when people tell me to cool it.
- pejrich 4y agoWell then, let us all break out our extra small violins, and play a somber tune, for the person in their late 30s who still has to work 20 hours a week.
- benreesman 4y agoA violin small enough to be played for me is shorter than h bar: no Silicon Valley engineer deserves anyones sympathy in a world where people are getting evicted from their homes via mortar fire. We all have it way too fucking good. It’s more like 80-100 hours a week, which would put a strain on anybody: but I made my decisions and I’m living with them. I didn’t bring up the details in some lane bud for pity: I brought them up to establish my credentials on knowing my ass from my elbow on what happens at FB, which I do and most on HN don’t.
- Pinegulf 4y agoQuestion is 'what will replace it?'. Hopefully something better, but current competition isn't exactly better than FB when it comes to morals.
- bowsamic 4y agoWhy won't HN let me vouch for this comment?