they pretty much opened up the site college by college going by the us news rankings
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
if i go on facebook and send one important message and click through a gallery of 100 photos because i am bored i do not think that means i am getting 100x as much use out of photos
― thomp, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:37 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well, YOU arent, but facebook is
― max, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
this is already happening, thus purchasing instagram, theyd buy twitter in a second if they could too xp hurting
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol google+
― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
I use facebook so I know it's not cool
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:43 (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ads refresh three times when i write that message and not at all when i click through the photos iirc
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
k so theyre getting 30x as much use out of photos
― max, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
ime 'important messages' are increasingly taking the form of fb photos, i.e. sonograms
i have plenty of feelings about this phenomenon (not good) but that's neither here nor there
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
nah, they're getting 30^0.3x as much use - xp
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
pwned by math
― max, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
thomp your individual experience on fb is probably not something you should consider representative of a half billion people
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know, possibly it's because fb came in when i was an undergrad, and since then i have spend three years dicking around then gone back to school (sigh) -- it seems like everyone i have known in my 20s has been more contactable via facebook than via any other internet medium, and uses that for making most of the arrangements about their social lives. probably these people would stop if facebook suddenly turned into timbernersleebook overnight but i still don't think it is true that graphical dingdongs are a large part of the appeal
ha, xpost
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
well myspace actually had younger users, fb had elitism
― iatee, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:42 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
myspace was also very susceptible to spam and general ugliness. myspace pages became kind of miserable. and they got bought by a company that proabably had the least idea of anyone what to do with it.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
yeah IME people actually do use facebook for a lot of important shit. For example, it's become the central repository of photographs of my baby for three generations of family spread across the globe.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
also (mainly bcz i don't have any friends) my 'individual facebook experience' is more like:
- open facebook- click on qrank- refresh until qrank actually works- play qrank- close facebook- hate myself
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
srsly my Israeli grandfather-in-law gets on fb and posts shit like "thek you for sending the puctures to us"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
- open facebook - is anyone else in my life actually doing something more interesting than me - comment on that thing - post a picture of my cat
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand what FB has gotten wrong with pictures and mobile picture uploads? It's easy to upload from my phone when I want to, and I'm constantly seeing other peoples' pictures (until I unsubscribe from Photos of Y)
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
edward III, do you use fb mobile through the app or via their web interface on the phone?
― akm, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:09 AM (1 hour ago)
thru the app... I know you can go into desktop mode on the browser vers to share but it's such a basic function idk why the app can't do it (attn hackers, prolly an attack surface)
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I don't know how it is from other phones but on an iPhone it's very easy to take a photo and send it straight to facebook as it is if you have the app.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
The thing is, every camera app on iOS that lets you post images to facebook does it better than facebook itself.
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
the Facebook app is truly terrible for posting photos
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
like, it is not at all difficult, and compared to a few years ago, it's like... damn! I can put pictures on facebook
then you use instagram or camera+ or something and it's like two button pushes and one of them was the actual click to take the picture
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
don't basically all android phones have 'share to facebook' as an option whenever you take a photo via the onboard camera app? it had never occurred to me to try and put photos on facebook via the facebook app
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
having looked it is remarkably difficult to do that
oh I actually assumed the "share to facebook" option on the iphone was a result of installing the app. Maybe it's just the iphone.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
i'm actually just like my older relatives in that i didn't really start using facebook until my wife and all our other friends/relatives started using that as the primary place to share pictures of our/their kids. like if anyone sends me messages on FB i'm like "here's my e-mail address, let's talk there" but i'll actually go on FB to see the pictures everyone put up of the easter egg hunt we had the other day. so i totally get the whole photocentric facebook experience thing.
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:02 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this option does not exist on the native camera app, u can tweet tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
mainly what i have learnt from this is that america has a thing called a 'macaroni grill'
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
It's the destination of choice for out-of-towners to go for a "fancy" meal. It eclipsed Olive Garden in this aspect a few years ago.
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
every time i hear about one of these things i go 'that is ridiculous' and then i go to the website and look at every item on the menu and go, okay, i'd eat that
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
apparently they will deep fry little balls of mac and cheese and serve them to you with a truffle dip
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that part is probably pretty ok
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
some foreigners should come over and make one of those fish out of water docs abt all the amazing casual dining chains America has to offer
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
We really do have the fat+sugar balance to a point where you're like "man this food is made of total bullshit but I feel like I should finish this oversized platter"
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
is there any way i can volunteer to take this particular carbohydrate bullet
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
god, they have a whole selection of random things they've fried and put on a plate with a dip and it's called 'italian tapas'
I assume the lack of Share to FB in the iPhone camera is Apple's fault.
Seems like a standalone FB camera app would have cost less than a billi.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
It absolutely would, just like Dailymotion could've been had for less than Youtube. EXCEPT, people actually use Youtube.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
I don't see those as equivalent. People don't use DailyMotion to put stuff on Youtube. YouTube is a content hub, Instagram isn't.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
Instagram IS a content hub, though.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
one thing I kind of wonder as an aside is why Vimeo, which is so much nicer than Youtube, wound up not really taking off, or at least I think it didn't
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
vimeo is high class youtube
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
I like that Vimeo markets itself more to filmmakers and proper productions whereas Youtube has always been the place people upload phonecam footage. The world is big enough for both to exist imo.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
idk but youtube seems to have integrated 'social' much better w/ video responses and vlogs and stuff
vimeo is where you go to show off that cute little short you made w/ an illegal copy of final cut pro you copped from your film school grad roommates
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah maybe vimeo's model is to stay higher quality and more specialized and limited.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
youtube was the first video site whos player worked good, end of story
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
^^
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
youtube's player still works like crap though : (
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
it works good tho
― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link