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If you believe the line that this is just to target slower connections/computers, I have a car here to sell you. You may be right (I happen to think differently
by johns 17y ago
If you believe the line that this is just to target slower connections/computers, I have a car here to sell you. You may be right (I happen to think differently) that they're not trying to compete with Twitter, but it seems clear to me that they want to be Twitter and be the darling of the web again. I think Twitter has achieved mainstream notoriety that Facebook envies and they're doing whatever they can to try to get themselves into the position Twitter is in. If that means trying to sway heavy Twitter users with a UI more to their liking, then that's what they'll do.
- unalone 17y agoFacebook doesn't want to be the darling. They want to polish their services up, which is why they took Twitter's idea of life updates and removed their selective feed. But they don't need media attention. They're perhaps the most important site on the planet. Ask somebody between 14-22 which they'd rather life without, Google or Facebook, and they'll go Facebook. Yesterday I met, for the first time, a girl that thinks Facebook is the whole Internet. She uses it for searching and mailing... everything. Apparently there are a lot of people who do that. Facebook is enormous, and it gets missed by a lot of people like us in the tech scene, because we don't think about just how tech-illiterate most people are.