Re:Facebook Lies
by r00fus on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:37AM
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The growth hacker mentality was cute when FB was a scrappy little startup. Now they're dominant, it's just creepy.
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> cute when [...] was a scrappy little startup. Now they're dominant, it's just creepy.
Microsoft/Gates also had trouble with this. What is "business hardball" in a startup, can be illegal conduct in an almost-monopoly.
In a kitten, pouncing aggression is cute... in a liger, not so much. For the same behavior, you'd put it down.
Individuals can similarly fail to recognize transitions. "You can't do X." "But I've been doing X for years!" "Yes, but here you have relationship Y, so X is no longer ethical/legal."
In a liger. Indeed.
“Growth hacking” is always creepy.
Re:Facebook Lies
by quadrangle on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:50PM
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It was always creepy.