Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals
by pdimitar on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:59AM
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Yep, this is still mostly doomsaying and nothing much else. While all of the objections against Facebook are valid in my eyes -- and in the eyes of many others -- the truth is that the regular folk views Facebook as an utility, akin to having power, hot water and internet at home.
This will not change overnight. Or even after several years. If Facebook fades into irrelevance it will likely be a death by a million paper cuts and not after a short-lived revolution.
Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals
by rchaud on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:46PM
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> Except that normal people didn't care and didn't notice?
What's IE's market share today vs 10 years ago?
How many Windows Phones are in people's pockets?
How many people opened Hotmail/Live accounts in the last year?
People do care, it just takes a long time to see the effects play out.
To me, the story reads a lot like a media narrative that has very little to do with users’s actual lives. And I’ve been reading variations on “Why Facebook sucks” and “Why Facebook is doomed” for a very long time. It’s like the “Why this is the year of Linux on the desktop,” but for media companies.
Does anyone else remember reading on Slashdot about how Microsoft is evil and any day now, we're going to move to Linux and revolt? Except that normal people didn't care and didn't notice?