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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by blawson on Sunday February 04, 2018 @02:48PM (#16304502)
I'm not too sure. I think there's a lot of value in a centralized identity management system. Facebook seems to have filled that role. I can see a near future where it acts as a sort of SSO for the web. That doesn't necessarily sound like a $550B company, but could still be worth quite a bit.
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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by vanilla_nut on Sunday February 04, 2018 @04:51PM (#16305129)
I wonder if their rampant quest for click-money (annoying users with constant emails, useless spammy notifications, ads, sponsored content) is going to poison that well, though. I anecdotally know a lot of people in their early-mid twenties who have already deleted their accounts. If too many people start doing that, Facebook loses its one trump card.
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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by ethiclub on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:55AM (#16307776)
Similarly, tv channels on YouTube (for the UK, see BBC, C4, E4) appear to be jumping on the bandwagon with clickbait, videos empty of genuine content, misleading titles and clips repeatedly churned through different videos.

This appears to have short term benefits (huge view counts), but surely it turns people off long term and impacts the brand.

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by gaius on Monday February 05, 2018 @02:08PM (#16311136)
centralized identity management system. Facebook seems to have filled that role.

They blatantly cannot do this unless they actually implement their real names policy. Which they won’t.

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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by Splines on Monday February 05, 2018 @02:01AM (#16307114)
The number of sites that tie their cart to that horse is pretty low. Most sites offer their own authentication or offer multiple ones besides FB.
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