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The irony is that most people use Facebook (and LinkedIn) as glorified publicly-facing email accounts with automatic reply-to-all and attachments set to auto-op
by muhfuhkuh 14y ago
The irony is that most people use Facebook (and LinkedIn) as glorified publicly-facing email accounts with automatic reply-to-all and attachments set to auto-open and display in-line. The only thing added is a rudimentary voting system.
- tptacek 14y agoI use Facebook to share and chat about photos. I use LinkedIn for recruiting. I use neither as "publicly facing email accounts". At some level, any application can be described as "forms with some text inputs and some submit buttons".
- muhfuhkuh 14y ago"I use Facebook to share and chat about photos." Which I'm sure you used to do in email. Smaller circle, same user task. "I use LinkedIn for recruiting." I still use email sometimes for that. Smaller circle, same user tasks (attaching resumes, getting contact info for screenings, planning meet and greets). Actually, it was Monster.com + email, so yeah, I guess LinkedIn replaced those.
- tptacek 14y agoYou can easily do HN via email too; it's called a mailing list.
- muhfuhkuh 14y agoDefinitely. But that's the thing. GP said he only has G+ because he has GMail, but uses those other email workalike interfaces because they are superior products. Just pointing out that they work in strikingly similar ways to email.
- freehunter 14y agopublicly facing email accounts I believe the argument was that posting a picture is analogous to emailing that picture to your friends, and commenting on that picture is the same as hitting "reply to all" on that email. It's the same behavior, presented in a different format.
- saraid216 14y ago> The only thing added is a rudimentary voting system. I feel obligated to take issue with your characterization of Likes as voting of ... any kind. Or were you referring to something else? I'm not an FB expert.