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> FB launched with great positive repetitional aura As a site that ranked how hot girls were?
by xnx 1y ago
> FB launched with great positive repetitional aura
As a site that ranked how hot girls were?
- AvAn12 1y agoOk, I was trying to give as much benefit of the doubt as possible. You are 100% correct of course...
- mortenjorck 1y agoThe vast majority of users knew nothing about Facebook‘s origins until The Social Network. In the mid-to-late 2000s, the perception was of simply a much better designed, much more exclusive alternative to Myspace. Hard to imagine nearly two decades later, but for a brief moment in time, it was cool to be on Facebook.
- bigiain 1y ago> The vast majority of users knew nothing about Facebook‘s origins They are all <checks notes> "dumb fucks." -- Mark Zuckerberg, 2004 personal correspondence documented in https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/ https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
- fkyoureadthedoc 1y agoBro we get it. It's been done ad nauseam. It's now the equivalent of putting the dollar sign in Micro$oft. Probably the most relatable thing he's done anyway.
- brandall10 1y agoTo the larger public they were the opposite of that... a clean, uncluttered alternative to MySpace that had none of its social baggage, in spite of its DNA which was clearly unknown during the early phases of social media.
- vasco 1y agoThe most popular dating apps do basically the same now but since there's no leader board and they aren't side by side it's all good I guess. All the same except for the UX