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by grahamj 2y ago
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- JKCalhoun 2y agoHa ha, so it's more of a cautionary tale. I love those!
- yapyap 2y agohaha, for real though. they poisoned the culture. of course not only them blah blah blah but they definitely played a BIG part.
- t-3 2y agoNo, they didn't. Facebook was just a less trashy, more exclusive version of myspace when it came out. Geocities, livejournal, blogger etc. were earlier iterations on the same concept - personal websites for non-techies. The only thing new about Facebook was their relative success in signing up a broader userbase, which was probably just a right-place, right-time thing of being around when computers and high-speed internet were becoming cheap and ubiquitous rather than anything different about what they were doing.
- dartharva 2y agoIt's hilarious to see people desperately put the blame on the connectivity platform when deep down they themselves know, it's the users. Just as always, the platform itself is indifferent; it is the people spewing poison.
- woodruffw 2y agoFacebook is definitely a "great company" by Person of the Year rules[1]. There are some real whoppers on that list. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year
- bee_rider 2y agoIt is great in the sense that it is very large.
- paxys 2y agoAnd has completely changed the world.
- righthand 2y agoI think Google aped Facebook on world-changing by harvesting data and running algorithms to get you to scroll through a list. Changed the US might be more accurate.
- Zambyte 2y agoLimiting the influence of Facebook to the US doesn't seem necessary. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
- kibwen 2y agoGreat like the Great War, or the Great Depression, or the Great Irish Famine?