Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook

Re:Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook by elorant on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:35PM (#12138982)

Well good for you. I on the other hand never felt the need to use the place and its privacy policies annoy the heck out of me. I also don’t like the fact that it’s a walled-in garden contradicting the essence of the medium it was built upon.

Other than that, you don’t have to be working somewhere to have a positive stance about the place. We’re not cheerleaders, we’re just opinionated people. No one is accusing you for promoting Facebook’s agenda out of personal interest. So chill, all is good.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook by vecter on Thursday July 21, 2016 @03:05PM (#12139224)

Your claim of "no value" is clearly wrong. A consumer internet company cannot be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, have billions of users, and add "no value".

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook by metaphorm on Thursday July 21, 2016 @03:23PM (#12139341)

define value. establish how FB provides value according to your definition. social habits and popularity alone are not sufficient to establish value.

remember, we're talking about value for FB users, not value for FB customers (i.e. advertisers).

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook by mpbm on Saturday July 23, 2016 @07:55AM (#12149217)

Yeah they are. Social habits and popularity are inherently valuable. Another way to say the same thing would be "what do people spend their attention on." If you capture and/or channel their attention, that's valuable.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook by vecter on Thursday July 21, 2016 @03:44PM (#12139490)

If a person uses Facebook in a given day, they've received value from it. Otherwise they wouldn't have used it.

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