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> Facebook has become a platform for discovering uncomfortable opinions of acquaintances and realizing the irrelevance of past social connections This is it. F
by asdfman123 4y ago
> Facebook has become a platform for discovering uncomfortable opinions of acquaintances and realizing the irrelevance of past social connections
This is it. FB was actually super fun in college: it was a virtual dorm hall. It was a party. You could post crazy shit, post party pictures, and hope that girl you liked saw it.
Now it's a combination of a class reunion and your aunt's 70th birthday party, but the usual social restraint is conspicuously absent.
Meta as a company seems unable to recognize the change, because doing so would have threatened their cash cow.
- jeffwask 4y ago> Meta as a company seems unable to recognize the change, because doing so would have threatened their cash cow. While I agree with the rest of what you say, I don't know if this is true. They pushed their platform to this. They pushed the controversial and divisive content. They platformed questionable advertisers. The negative interaction was more profitable than a place to share pics of your kids with friends or plan a birthday party. I think they absolutely know but you can't unring that bell which is why they were running so hard at something else to be their primary product.