Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by kristopolous on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:11AM (#32246777)

It'd be more like if McDonald's used the same ingredients and stuffed them into taco and burrito shapes and lazily renamed themselves to something like mcdonaria, had their employees say hola when you walk in and their receipts say gracias...

The issue is Facebook misunderstand both their customers and their competition so they're just blindly smashing things together

I blame modern tech hiring processes that filter out people who aren't conforming enthusiastic obedient cheerleaders.

You get a sustain and self-extinguish product instead of one that can respond to what the necessity of the times demand

You must have passionate grumps otherwise you're just shaking pom-poms as you run over a cliff.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by cratermoon on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:18AM (#32246801)

> their customers

Just so we're clear, the users are NOT the customers. I think Facebook absolutely understands their customers -- the companies that spend the most advertising and marketing through Facebook.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by kristopolous on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:29AM (#32246850)

All of the paying customers have Facebook accounts and most personally use them.

If it's a bad experience and "boosting" posts leads to noise and garbage they're going away.

The tiering of customers and users is incorrect, Facebook is the meeting place for the two sides of the attention market and they are increasingly doing a failed execution.

The clean delineated hierarchy model where the users are treated as foolish rubes is part of the problem. There's an insular Silicon Valley elitism that is excessively self-congratulatory and is positively allergic to systemic criticism

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by cratermoon on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:08PM (#32255208)

Have we already forgotten the aphorism "if the service is free, you are the product"?

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