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Is Facebook Finally Useful?
- lawnchair_larry 14y agoBetteridge's law of headlines
- general_failure 14y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines
- psbp 14y agoBarring my paranoid trepidation of facebook conflating people's social identities with business interests. I'm still very doubtful of this being successful. I think a lot of exciting internet utilities that come out of silicon valley have a fatal flaw; they're designed for silicon valley. There's an overzealous assumption that the rest of the users are going to be as hyper-connected and dedicated to maintaining a working, communal database as people in the tech sphere, but they simply aren't. If there's even a small amount of insincerity or disinterest, the service will be inherently broken. So, based on my experience with facebook, the Social Graph will be inherently broken in lieu of dedicated services that attract actual networks of enthusiasts.