Facebook is an attack on the open web

Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by zelos on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:02PM (#14463377)

> no pictures of what your friend ate for dinner

Posting pictures of your food should be a criminal offence. Nothing too serious, just a couple of years in prison or something.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by gthtjtkt on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:25PM (#14463595)

I can't help but laugh when I imagine what this would've looked like before the internet existed.

"Look, honey, we got something in the mail from Katie and John! It's... oh... just a bunch of pictures of food. That's odd."

Meanwhile Katie and John are still at home, furiously stuffing envelopes with the same food pictures so they can send one to everybody in their address book.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by Jaruzel on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:31AM (#14468387)

Your joke is my command:

http://www.jaruzel.com/files/look-honey.png

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by jfoutz on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:02PM (#14467117)

I always figured photos of cocktails and food were a standard part of the after vacation slideshow you'd invite your friends to. A few once a year isn't bad. People complained about those slideshows also though.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by reitanqild on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:28PM (#14463637)

I hear you but I actually enjoy some pictures of peoples food, e.g. when my brother has made a nice wok.

I also miss the "going to the beach", "this was a nice day" etc.

I don't miss "join me on farmville", "1000 reasons why Trump and/or Hillary are dumb" etc.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by scrumper on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:44PM (#14463793)

I just miss the pokes. Remember when it was fun?

I deleted the app last year. Kept the account because as far as I can tell it's the same difference and I haven't summoned the strength to go retrieve my photos yet. Haven't missed it at all. Meanwhile my wife is increasingly addicted...

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by Vendan on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:56PM (#14463916)

If you made a nice meal, yeah, show it off. If you bought a nice meal, I fail to see the point in showing it off, unless you are specifically saying "wow, this place has great food!".

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by wutbrodo on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:40PM (#14465575)

> If you bought a nice meal, I fail to see the point in showing it off, unless you are specifically saying "wow, this place has great food!".

I don't understand your comment at all. What else would you be saying when you show a picture of nice food other than "this food is great"? I'm not in the habit of posting food photos but I've never understood the hysteria around it on places like HN.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by khedoros1 on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:55PM (#14467319)

"Look at the taste that I have, in choosing this experience for myself", or "Look what I'm doing right now!"

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by reitanqild on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:45AM (#14470248)

"Look at the taste that I have, in choosing this experience for myself"

I cannot remember thinking that about others but maybe I don't follow the same people as you.

"Look what I'm doing right now!"

Isn't this just like a smaller version of Show HN?

I mean: you make something, you post it and someone else chimes in with ideas or (hopefully) constructive criticism?

Is there any reason that I cannot see why making food isn't a form of making that we can be proud of?

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by khedoros1 on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:57AM (#14470842)

> Is there any reason that I cannot see why making food isn't a form of making that we can be proud of?

No, but we were talking about why people post pictures of food that they buy, not that they make.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by Vendan on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:59PM (#14472470)

Making something yourself is about pride of creation and ability. Some people want to show that off.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by jessaustin on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:25PM (#14463593)

Prison costs too much. Corporal punishment would fit this crime, and besides lots of people would just volunteer to swing the cane upon hearing the phrase "posted pictures of food".

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by rosser on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:50PM (#14463870)

This sounds to me like nothing so much as the setup for a Milgram-esque study of just how willing people are to inflict violence upon one another for engaging in trivial but annoying behaviors like ... posting pictures of food on the internet.

Because, yeah. Caning is totally commensurate with that.

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