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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by nradov on Sunday October 29, 2017 @06:14PM (#15581774)
I don't understand. How can you share photos online with "no cloud crap"? It's already pretty easy to set up your own private web server with photo gallery software, but very few users want the hassle.
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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by losteverything on Sunday October 29, 2017 @07:57PM (#15582273)
I'm the voyeur.. Wishing to see what kids post (of their kids). And coworkers. I have access to their cloud, dropbox, google, etc... But it's too hard and more importantly not their platform of choice to share.

So FBs other stuff like news is not why we have FB. It's like turning in the Today show and hearing Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley at 7am to see my family's news, only. A morning habit. But i dont have to hear the news. Five minutes and I'm done.

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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by jsemrau on Monday October 30, 2017 @04:21AM (#15583657)
>I'm the voyeur.. Wishing to see what kids post (of their kids).

That sounds really creepy if you phrase it this way.

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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by underwoodley on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:13AM (#15583996)
The GP (in both senses) means this: they want it to be simple. So simple they are not aware of how it works. If they have to know about 'the cloud', 'sharing', 'syncing', where the photos are stored, etc., then it's not simple enough.
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