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> Facebook beat MySpace IMO because it tricked people into using real names No, FB was a much better product, it was far more connected, any way easier to talk
by KaiserPro 2y ago
> Facebook beat MySpace IMO because it tricked people into using real names
No, FB was a much better product, it was far more connected, any way easier to talk and make friends online. It also was a lot more reliable.
> Facebook was not kind to 3rd party devs.
Indeed, they were not kind, mainly because they realised, way too late, that the API they had designed gave third parties way too much access to the "social graph". (see Cambridge analytica, although actually its much more smoke and mirrors than you might imagine)
They needed to cut down that access because 1) they'd been told to 2) they realised that people could extract that data for free, thus denting their analytics advantage that made advertising so lucrative.
- firefax 2y ago>FB was a much better product FB used to have granular privacy controls and no "feed" -- you wrote on someone's wall, they wrote on yours, and people had to actively click on your profile to see the messages rather than have them thrust front and center. FB abandoned that commitment to privacy and has suffered as a result.
- sidewndr46 2y agoHow has Facebook suffered? Most of their losses seem to be self imposed, stuff like the "metaverse"
- bigfatkitten 2y agoIt's more accurate to say the community has suffered. This is the change that lead to Facebook being one of the leading misinformation platforms, because they shovel garbage at people to drive engagement. I have a throwaway profile with no friends that follow now pages. In the absence of anything else, Facebook has somehow decided I would most like to see anti trans nonsense, flat earth conspiracy theories and child sexual abuse material. (They don't remove the latter if you report it, of course.)