I thought this was good:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-files.html
Facebook is in trouble.Not financial trouble, or legal trouble, or even senators-yelling-at-Mark-Zuckerberg trouble. What I’m talking about is a kind of slow, steady decline that anyone who has ever seen a dying company up close can recognize. It’s a cloud of existential dread that hangs over an organization whose best days are behind it, influencing every managerial priority and product decision and leading to increasingly desperate attempts to find a way out. This kind of decline is not necessarily visible from the outside, but insiders see a hundred small, disquieting signs of it every day — user-hostile growth hacks, frenetic pivots, executive paranoia, the gradual attrition of talented colleagues.
Not financial trouble, or legal trouble, or even senators-yelling-at-Mark-Zuckerberg trouble. What I’m talking about is a kind of slow, steady decline that anyone who has ever seen a dying company up close can recognize. It’s a cloud of existential dread that hangs over an organization whose best days are behind it, influencing every managerial priority and product decision and leading to increasingly desperate attempts to find a way out. This kind of decline is not necessarily visible from the outside, but insiders see a hundred small, disquieting signs of it every day — user-hostile growth hacks, frenetic pivots, executive paranoia, the gradual attrition of talented colleagues.
― DJI, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
Too bad I can't share that on Facebook.
they also said over a decade ago that going public was going to kill FB and no young people would use their system anymore and....well.....it's like Taco Bell, people consume it and don't mind that it makes them shit their brains out.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
How long has Apple been able to sustain their death spiral?@ forklovestofu where to find Resident Advisor’s Yelp page?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
leave a harsh yelp review for facebook
"Torbin U.Denmarkone star
I would say ... delete that."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
Apparently the outage is the fault of a single "cretinous" employee who deleted the site while tying to scrub all mentions of himself from the internet in a fit of self-loathing.
No name as yet, but there's a photo.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Nick_Clegg_%282011%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/402px-Nick_Clegg_%282011%29_%28cropped%29.jpg
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
My two teenage kids have not even considered getting fb accounts, and I don't think anyone at their high school wants one. That can't be good for growth.
― DJI, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
The death spiral dream sounds great, but a huge percentage of the world's population uses FB as the internet, full stop. Like, that's the only site they visit ever.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
It does seem like the only reason young people use FB is to communicate with older generations. Given the way things are going the next big thing will probably be Telegram 3.0 after it’s been assimilated into the TikTok “multiverse” or whatever.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
The kids still like Instagram.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
literally my best friend couldn't message one of her other best friends as she never got her phone number as they always used Messenger to communicate
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
i just got a message from someone but i can't tell if it was old and snuck through
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
I just got in, not sure it'll last.
― nickn, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
I was picking a friend up at the airport today and we only ever communicated over Messenger - thankfully fellow ILXor kate78 had an actual mobile number for her!
― Jaq, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
The kids still like Instagram. I couldn’t say what actual substantive difference there is between TikTok and Instagram, but it seems like most of the content on Instagram is reposted from either TikTok or Twitter. I know the young people don’t fuck with Twitter, it’s just for memeing. But unless there’s also close to a majority of content on TikTok which is reposted from Instagram, then I get the impression that TikTok is more popular with those on the front edge of the curve.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
Instagram appears to be back online
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
facebook too
it was nice while it lasted
― Brad C., Monday, 4 October 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
Never forget
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
Actually still down here. But I have not forgotten.
the culprit?
http://i.imgur.com/0bED8TD.jpeg
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
Francis!
― calstars, Monday, 4 October 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
Whatsapp still seems hosed
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
networking notworking
― StanM, Monday, 4 October 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
don't go back to facebook, stay on this thread, we can do all the facebook stuff if you like, maybe embed some ads which autoplay at a loud volume and 100 posts from the same woman you met 14 years ago and have no real interest in.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
She had babies though
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
mine didn't, she just posts everything she eats, not sure why fb thinks I am interested as I scroll past all of them in a hopeless search for the posts from my actual friends, which it refuses to show me.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
Idk anything about this fellow but there’s some interesting history if nothing else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCTlcj5vImk
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link
The only people I know who use WhatsApp are South and Central American immigrants who talk to their relatives at home that way. They'd be really screwed if it went away.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
I think we just need to be able to “poke” other ilx’ors here and we might never need Facebook again
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
How long has Apple been able to sustain their death spiral?
Its death spiral of making very popular things that cost a lot of money and selling them?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
Apple is pretty much an old school traditional business compared to FB, Google etc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
Apple has much more in common with Nintendo than FB or Google
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
otm, also they have actual stores you can go to if you have issues
― sleeve, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:27 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEFBBN1ueE
― anvil, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
Sammy the Bull with the inside scoop
― anvil, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
the only people I know who DON'T use WhatsApp are North Americans. entire governments in Asia and Africa are run on WhatsApp.
this morning, govt ministries here in Malaysia were scrambling to set up alternative chat groups on Telegram in case there's another outage.
― Roz, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 04:44 (two years ago) link
i used it when I was in the Philippines, it was basically how i kept in contact with the local partner site there and arranged pick-ups.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 04:56 (two years ago) link
Camaraderie, there's this thing where you click on three dots next to someone's name, and three of the options are literally:
- see fewer posts like this- temporarily stop seeing posts- stop seeing posts but stay friends
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 07:13 (two years ago) link
but if I actually engage with it then the battle is lost.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 07:15 (two years ago) link
I wish insta had a fewer posts option. Some people post waaay too much. Only option is to mute them and then they’re kind of lost forever!
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
In the last two weeks, I've had three friend requests on my dormant account from girls I knew in junior high school. Keep in mind it was a small school, so we're talking about a pool of only 20-30 people.
I guess one of them friend-requested me first, and that made me pop up on the others? It's weird though. I would've been flattered 35 years ago, but now, no way. Not going to be a part of whatever algorhythm they've got buzzing up there.
Besides, they can find me on Twitter.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
Faced with a similar sitch, I’d probably accept. Junior high was a special time
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:51 (two years ago) link
a time I'd never like to relive
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
Sorry brah
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
Accepting them would put Sarah Huckabee Sanders into my timeline faster than a heartbeat.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
Thread name change request.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Don't think the site's name is changing? Kind of like Google brands now being under "Alphabet"?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
change the thread title to "Illegal Money Laundering Scheme discussion thread"
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
o i c
xpost
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
I vote for YouFace
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link