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I find rants like this quite interesting, especially when they end with lines like this: > That is why I may delete my Facebook account. And that is why you sh

by yid 13y ago

I find rants like this quite interesting, especially when they end with lines like this: > That is why I may delete my Facebook account. And that is why you should too. "May". In spite of this pretty egregious behavior/bug, it's still a "may delete my Facebook account". That alone says something about the longevity of the business.

Tyrannosaurs 13y ago
I suspect they have a pretty good idea of exactly how far they can push it without losing significant numbers. For every outcry they'll know the impact on usage, account deletions and so on and I suspect sadly for the most part it's negligible.
baddox 13y ago
It says something about the immense social utility that Facebook provides.
- a3_nm 13y ago
  ... because everyone is using it. It says nothing about the difference in social utility between the current state of the world and an alternate state of the world in which everyone would be using a federated social network. Facebook is a local optimum from which it will be hard to move away.
  - baddox 13y ago
    I completely agree. However, when my mother wants to locate an old friend from her childhood, my description of a currently non-existent widely-used federated social network is of little use to her, but Facebook seems to serve her quite well.
threeseed 13y ago
That alone says something about the longevity of the business. That and the fact that the people that are leaving are the geeks of the world. Which typically have a lower friend count, lower engagement and fewer connections to the popular 'tastemakers' in society. Facebook will start to see problems when the popular people leave and drag their social networks with them. But these people are the ones that don't care so much about privacy, security or whether Facebook deletes data now, in the future or not at all.
Zarel 13y ago
I think, if you read the rest of his rant, he stopped using Facebook ages ago. He hasn't deleted the account because it makes a negligible difference in terms of how much information Facebook has about him.

by yid 13y ago

Tyrannosaurs 13y ago

I suspect they have a pretty good idea of exactly how far they can push it without losing significant numbers. For every outcry they'll know the impact on usage, account deletions and so on and I suspect sadly for the most part it's negligible.

baddox 13y ago

It says something about the immense social utility that Facebook provides.

a3_nm 13y ago
... because everyone is using it. It says nothing about the difference in social utility between the current state of the world and an alternate state of the world in which everyone would be using a federated social network. Facebook is a local optimum from which it will be hard to move away.
- baddox 13y ago
  I completely agree. However, when my mother wants to locate an old friend from her childhood, my description of a currently non-existent widely-used federated social network is of little use to her, but Facebook seems to serve her quite well.

threeseed 13y ago

That alone says something about the longevity of the business. That and the fact that the people that are leaving are the geeks of the world. Which typically have a lower friend count, lower engagement and fewer connections to the popular 'tastemakers' in society. Facebook will start to see problems when the popular people leave and drag their social networks with them. But these people are the ones that don't care so much about privacy, security or whether Facebook deletes data now, in the future or not at all.

Zarel 13y ago

I think, if you read the rest of his rant, he stopped using Facebook ages ago. He hasn't deleted the account because it makes a negligible difference in terms of how much information Facebook has about him.