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What technology IN REALITY, raw numbers, got more people to "type something into their computer for the purpose of multiple other people to read?" Facebook, an
by jrm4 4y ago
What technology IN REALITY, raw numbers, got more people to "type something into their computer for the purpose of multiple other people to read?"
Facebook, and nothing else much comes close.
(Again, I say this as someone who mostly hates it)
- greenthrow 4y agoNow you're moving the goalpost. You originally implied FB making the web easy to write was the major innovation that lead to its success. I pointed out that simply giving people a dirt simple text box had been done many times before. There was nothing special about that part of FB. I am not dumb enough to argue that FB wasn't hugely successful, so your attempt to shift the argument away from your original point is silly.
- ozim 4y agoI have to agree with jrm4 - all the things you pointed out don't explain why FB groups and markets are so popular. There is also bunch of businesses that don't have their own website, just FB page - which is not comparable to "giving people simple text box". It is simplified web experience from point of business owner, just drop logo, type in your company name and you have web presence - which happens to be where people are because they had friends/family there anyway.
- jrm4 4y agoNo, you're misunderstanding the difference between "what you believe to be easy" and "what actually was easy." Popularity is better objective proof. You believe that a text box was easy, but still, people weren't using it. Facebook is actually what got used.
- Dylan16807 4y agoGetting people to do something is very different from making it easy. There's overlap but that overlap is just a fraction.