When will we stop using Facebook?

Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by tim333 on Thursday May 28, 2015 @08:56AM (#9617770)

> Why should you post life updates? Because it's the "done thing".

No - it's because you've done something you think your friends would be interested in and it's a lot easier to take a photo and click 'post to Facebook' than to write to 30 people.

That's really the fundamental function of Facebook and any successor will probably succeed by doing it better in some way. eg. Snapchat enabling you to send naughty pics without them being archived on the web for the rest of your life and so on.

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Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by summerdown2 on Thursday May 28, 2015 @09:13AM (#9617866)

My problem with Facebook is that whenever I do something I think my friends would be interested in, I actually do take a photo and upload it to Facebook.

Then, Facebook filters all my friends' feed so only 50% of them see it.

All I want from Facebook is a way to reliably see all the posts from all the people I want to follow, and have it keep doing that. I have found settings in the past that let it happen, but it seems to reset to filtered every time I take my eyes off it.

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Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by personlurking on Thursday May 28, 2015 @09:45AM (#9618066)

I think what you're talking about was an option at the bottom of the feed which allowed one to see everything everyone's posted. Unfortunately, upon making the feed endless, this option is no longer available.

Is there an easy way to choose who sees a particular post (ie, the way one sees a display of friends to click on when inviting them to an event)? They should implement this, allowing for deselecting unwanted viewers (rather than selecting for wanted viewers - for those with too many friends).

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Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by nemmonszz on Thursday May 28, 2015 @11:04AM (#9618611)

It's possible to create groups of friends and then when you make a post, set it to display to a particular group. For example, I have 'Gamers', 'Close Friends', 'Coworkers', 'Family', 'College Friends', and 'Hometown Friends' groups (with some overlap of course). When I post something I can target it to the appropriate group of people.

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Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by pmlnr on Thursday May 28, 2015 @10:22AM (#9618309)

> eg. Snapchat enabling you to send naughty pics without them being archived on the web for the rest of your life

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Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by im3w1l on Thursday May 28, 2015 @11:18AM (#9618739)

I thought it was common knowledge on HN, that DRM, of which forced deletion is a special case, is fundamentally flawed.

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Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by tim333 on Thursday May 28, 2015 @04:25PM (#9620924)

I didn't know that - not a Snapchat user. That could be interesting if it gets hacked.

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Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by rokhayakebe on Thursday May 28, 2015 @11:13AM (#9618695)

Anything that finds its way into someone else's a database is never really deleted.

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Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by notdanariely on Thursday May 28, 2015 @12:38PM (#9619307)

This makes sense, and I understand that most people find it highly convenient.

Just to offer a different perspective: to me, the valuable part of sharing life events is the engagement with another person. IE, the extreme convenience (broadcasting 1-to-30 people) undercuts the reason for sharing: connection.

(I also have recently identified concerns I have with group mechanics, and this no doubt influences my perspective.)

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Re:When will we stop using Facebook? by ctdonath on Thursday May 28, 2015 @11:54AM (#9618981)

easier to take a photo and click 'post to Facebook' than to write to 30 people

I'm posting a picture a day. Surprising how many people go out of their way to mention how much they follow & like it.

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