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Re:Facebook at Work by samstave on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @09:15PM (#11024300)
Uh... Is this an attack on Slack?

I have so many things to say about this but the last time I said anything anti-F B on H N I got lawyers against me.

Please god people don't use this.

Edit:

I'm going to qualify my sentiment.

FB thinks that "making the world more connected" is a good thing (TM) -- and in an utopian sense that may be true... But FB is not utopian.

See the fucking onion article. You all know the one.

The world doesn't need to be "more connected" --- it needs to be more conscious --- and very little work by many many startups are "making the world a better place"

The fact is that the world is still just as dark as always. Slavery is up, consumption begets inequality and the worlds economies are all about consumption.

How about creating an economy based on provisioning and providing. But because fuck you, that's why, is the philos of the day.

Zuck needs to read his letter to his daughter and then read that same letter to one who has zero relation or zero connection to FB. If the only person he is committed to making the world a better place for is his child through his tax shelter, then we will truly know the morality of FB.

Good fucking luck.

/rant

Re:Facebook at Work by sjclemmy on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @09:30PM (#11024362)
I've been down voted on here for an anti FB post before. And I wasn't even saying anything that contentious. I have since stopped using Facebook because of all the regurgitated noise that appears in my timeline.
Re:Facebook at Work by wnmurphy on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @09:20PM (#11024323)
What happened with the lawyers? That seems entirely unreasonable.
Re:Facebook at Work by RobbyMcCullough on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @10:03PM (#11024489)
In all seriousness, I don't know the onion article you're referencing and I am wildly curious now...?
Re:Facebook at Work by samstave on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:34PM (#11027904)
Re:Facebook at Work by RobbyMcCullough on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @08:51PM (#11031440)
Thanks much!
Re:Facebook at Work by quadrature on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @09:16PM (#11024306)
why shouldn't this be used ?
Re:Facebook at Work by dreamdu5t on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @09:22PM (#11024330)
Because Facebook has no intention of keeping the service around if it isn't successful. Whereas with Slack, it's actually their business and already proven profitable/successful.
Re:Facebook at Work by nness on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @09:28PM (#11024351)
That logic makes zero sense. "Success" and profitability are only states, you aren't guaranteed either forever. Just as Slack took time to establish both — time which Facebook will also need to establish them both for themselves.