News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era. Parent comment

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by hiptobecubic on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:43PM (#32246380)
Well not quite. Shutting it down takes effort. First you have to let it sit and rot away until it becomes a meme. Then you can squeeze another round of promotions out of the deprecation work.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by BlueTemplar on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:56PM (#32246696)
A meme is what is popular (= a unit of culture).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by mst on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:42AM (#32248201)
"Memetic Unit of Culture" would be an excellent Banksian Culture ship name.

Edit: Got to be a GCU really.

[ Parent | on HN ]