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Re:Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook? by samatman on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @02:31PM (#39445773)
Google decided that the way to launch a new social network was to piss off the nucleus of it, namely, the users of its existing social apps. By canceling Reader, and going on a long, obnoxious push to unify gmail and YouTube accounts, two things literally no one wanted.

If they'd been clever enough to make Google+ an extension of those things, it might have gone somewhere.

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Re:Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook? by marssaxman on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @02:58PM (#39446112)
They additionally alienated many potential early adopters with the "real names" policy...
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Re:Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook? by cesarb on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @03:18PM (#39446348)
That "real names" policy is the reason I have always been careful to never open YouTube while logged into any Google account: the understanding I gathered from the noise back then was that, if you ever logged into YouTube or Google+, and then Google for some reason decided that your name was not your real name, you could permanently lose access to more important things like Google Talk or Gmail.
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Re:Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook? by samatman on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @03:26PM (#39446447)
Ah that fiasco! I'd memory-holed it. That was the final mistake, killing Reader was the first. I haven't forgiven them for it and I never will.
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Re:Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook? by BlueTemplar on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @05:18AM (#39452090)
The sad thing is that Reader was already a successful social network on top of a RSS reader. But not successful enough for Google I guess...
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Re:Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook? by reaperman on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @06:35AM (#39452585)
I'll never forgive Google for killing Reader. I truly believe the internet would be very different today if Reader had stuck around.
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