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I wish the publishers and their social network enablers luck. As a member of their target demographic, I can't help but feel they're in deep trouble. I quit F

I wish the publishers and their social network enablers luck. As a member of their target demographic, I can't help but feel they're in deep trouble. I quit Facebook when I realized most of the content it showed me was worthless. I also stopped visiting his example site (the Verge) when they abandoned their original purpose of covering technology news.

toomuchtodo 12y ago
I don't even check Facebook anymore. I use their API (until the personal version goes away with 2.0) to grab photos I'm in or friend's pictures, and push it into Flickr and S3 for backups. If I want news, I'm going to Google News, reddit.com/r/worldnews, or Hacker News.
- saurik 12y ago
  Just to point out that some people are the opposite: I gave up on reddit (which I now never look at at all: I just can't stand the people there) and started using Facebook as a news source. I follow a number of news sources I like, and many of my friends share interesting articles on the subjects they know a lot about; I then have conversations with people I know about the content of the articles, as opposed to random people, which I find much more valuable, as we slowly build up a shared knowledge of what is actually happening (as opposed to constantly feeling like I am talking with a blank slate: on Hacker News I finally decided I now just "fire and forget" comments, as otherwise it is just too frustrating to have to have the same conversations over and over again with people about complicated corner cases of subtle topics).
  - toomuchtodo 12y ago
    A suggestion: Use reddit for the links, and completely ignore the comments.
    - dandelany 12y ago
      Another suggestion: Stop thinking of Reddit as a community and start thinking it as a bunch of different communities. The average quality of discussion on mainstream subreddits like worldnews is pretty low, but I find it to be quite good for niche communities (eg. the games I like to play).
      - klarrimore 12y ago
        this is the answer. i can't believe it when friends tell me they don't log in. /r/all is just brutal.

toomuchtodo 12y ago

I don't even check Facebook anymore. I use their API (until the personal version goes away with 2.0) to grab photos I'm in or friend's pictures, and push it into Flickr and S3 for backups. If I want news, I'm going to Google News, reddit.com/r/worldnews, or Hacker News.

saurik 12y ago
Just to point out that some people are the opposite: I gave up on reddit (which I now never look at at all: I just can't stand the people there) and started using Facebook as a news source. I follow a number of news sources I like, and many of my friends share interesting articles on the subjects they know a lot about; I then have conversations with people I know about the content of the articles, as opposed to random people, which I find much more valuable, as we slowly build up a shared knowledge of what is actually happening (as opposed to constantly feeling like I am talking with a blank slate: on Hacker News I finally decided I now just "fire and forget" comments, as otherwise it is just too frustrating to have to have the same conversations over and over again with people about complicated corner cases of subtle topics).
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  A suggestion: Use reddit for the links, and completely ignore the comments.
  - dandelany 12y ago
    Another suggestion: Stop thinking of Reddit as a community and start thinking it as a bunch of different communities. The average quality of discussion on mainstream subreddits like worldnews is pretty low, but I find it to be quite good for niche communities (eg. the games I like to play).
    - klarrimore 12y ago
      this is the answer. i can't believe it when friends tell me they don't log in. /r/all is just brutal.