Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebranded as 'social media'

Re:Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebran... by deltron3030 on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:58AM (#16616748)

Google is seen as progressive institution, and that's also how the majority of the media classifies itself I'd say. Their core audience is more techy as well and cares about information.

Facebook is more on the populist side of things, their core audience are common people focused on maximizing their reputation.

It also reflects their core businesses, Googles ad business centeres more about search and information, and Facebook more about persuation, and call to action.

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Re:Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebran... by klez on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:12AM (#16617539)

> Their core audience is more techy as well and cares about information.

Why do you think so? Google having ~80% of search traffic seems to suggest otherwise. I mean, everyone I know is using Google, including my grandfather who is not a "techy".

EDIT: forgot a word

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Re:Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebran... by deltron3030 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:25AM (#16628305)

Core audience means people who know how to search and dig out the information they want to find. Not everybody using search knows how to do that, or search for keywords before they start their main search.

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Re:Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebran... by klez on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @07:07AM (#16636992)

> audience means people who know how to search and dig out the information they want to find.

That's a weird definition IMHO. I would say that Google's core audience is regular people using the search engine.

Maybe you meant "power users" instead?

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