What do you think?
What do you think?
Yes. As will Amazon, eBay, and Wikipedia. It's the Network Effect.
Will Amazon com be around when grandma's gone mom?
If Facebook gave users a function where they could delete all their wall activity, all their pictures, all their likes, etc., or a function where they simply and instantaneously delete their account, you would see a lot of users leaving Facebook. We all have those moments where we are resolved to cut loose from Facebook, but unfortunately we can't because Facebook is engineered to keep us connected. You can't, in the heat of the moment, push a button to eliminate your profile from existence.
For example, to delete all your wall activity you have to go and delete wall posts one-by-one. Facebook could easily add a feature that allows users to scrape all their wall activity with a click of the button. But they don't, so users decide it's easier just to stay on Facebook than to spend hours, maybe even days, scrolling through their wall and deleting posts.
"Permanently" deleting an account requires a 2-week waiting period. That is of course intended to make you have second thoughts. Not that it really matters, since Facebook keeps your profile's data backed up in case you ever want to return.
Mark Zuckerberg owns your a**.
jamin wrote:
If Facebook gave users a function where they could delete all their wall activity, all their pictures, all their likes, etc., or a function where they simply and instantaneously delete their account, you would see a lot of users leaving Facebook. We all have those moments where we are resolved to cut loose from Facebook, but unfortunately we can't because Facebook is engineered to keep us connected. You can't, in the heat of the moment, push a button to eliminate your profile from existence.
The networking side of facebook is the biggest marketing gimmick in world business today. It is not a tool used to maintain friendships but instead it's all a massive ploy that plays into our strong exhibitionist and voyeuristic instincts. People who are truly connected to each other stay in contact through more personal means i.e. face to face, phone, email and text messages.
Facebook is used to portray an idyllic and often false representation of your life so that when acquaintances compare themselves to you they will feel inferior. It's not so much a friendship site but more of a competitive social environment where everyone is trying to outdo each other to make their lives look better. It's basically a social version of linkedin where people sell themselves and showcase their best attributes.
A lot of people would enrich their lives and feel a lot more confident about themselves if they left the site and stopped comparing themselves to inflated portraits of others. Most people would not notice any impact on connection with friends.
grandmas will rule the facebook in ten years
jamin wrote:
Facebook is used to portray an idyllic and often false representation of your life so that when acquaintances compare themselves to you they will feel inferior. It's not so much a friendship site but more of a competitive social environment where everyone is trying to outdo each other to make their lives look better. It's basically a social version of linkedin where people sell themselves and showcase their best attributes.
A lot of people would enrich their lives and feel a lot more confident about themselves if they left the site and stopped comparing themselves to inflated portraits of others. Most people would not notice any impact on connection with friends.
LOL lighten up. facebook is a place for friends to interact and share stuff when they're not personally together. if it upsets you leave
^ This (if you're a 12 year old girl)
This isn't new, it's call "keeping up with the Joneses". Now you can do it instantaneously and with HD pics and video.
umm wrote:
jamin wrote:If Facebook gave users a function where they could delete all their wall activity, all their pictures, all their likes, etc., or a function where they simply and instantaneously delete their account, you would see a lot of users leaving Facebook. We all have those moments where we are resolved to cut loose from Facebook, but unfortunately we can't because Facebook is engineered to keep us connected. You can't, in the heat of the moment, push a button to eliminate your profile from existence.
The networking side of facebook is the biggest marketing gimmick in world business today. It is not a tool used to maintain friendships but instead it's all a massive ploy that plays into our strong exhibitionist and voyeuristic instincts. People who are truly connected to each other stay in contact through more personal means i.e. face to face, phone, email and text messages.
Facebook is used to portray an idyllic and often false representation of your life so that when acquaintances compare themselves to you they will feel inferior. It's not so much a friendship site but more of a competitive social environment where everyone is trying to outdo each other to make their lives look better. It's basically a social version of linkedin where people sell themselves and showcase their best attributes.
A lot of people would enrich their lives and feel a lot more confident about themselves if they left the site and stopped comparing themselves to inflated portraits of others. Most people would not notice any impact on connection with friends.
jamin wrote:
You can't, in the heat of the moment, push a button to eliminate your profile from existence.
No, but what you can do is deactivate your account and, get this, not visit Facebook. Weird I know! I'm coming up on my third anniversary of deactivating my account. Amazingly, I haven't had any "second thoughts" in those three years.
Facebook isn't a bad thing, but I didn't see the point. I didn't care for looking through someone else's photos, and most of my "Facebook friends" were pretty boring and not that entertaining (they could probably say the same about me). My "real life friends" I've managed to keep in touch with even without Facebook. Amazing.
I don't care if my profile is sitting "dormant" on a Facebook server somewhere. I deactivated my account, so no one can see it. I should probably go back in an erase it completely, but I forgot my password and don't want to bother with the hassle.
jamin wrote:
If Facebook gave users a function where they could delete all their wall activity, all their pictures, all their likes, etc., or a function where they simply and instantaneously delete their account, you would see a lot of users leaving Facebook. We all have those moments where we are resolved to cut loose from Facebook, but unfortunately we can't because Facebook is engineered to keep us connected. You can't, in the heat of the moment, push a button to eliminate your profile from existence.
For example, to delete all your wall activity you have to go and delete wall posts one-by-one. Facebook could easily add a feature that allows users to scrape all their wall activity with a click of the button. But they don't, so users decide it's easier just to stay on Facebook than to spend hours, maybe even days, scrolling through their wall and deleting posts.
"Permanently" deleting an account requires a 2-week waiting period. That is of course intended to make you have second thoughts. Not that it really matters, since Facebook keeps your profile's data backed up in case you ever want to return.
Mark Zuckerberg owns your a**.
The fact that one can't delete their account immediately and irrevocably shouldn't really stop any mentally healthy adult from leaving if they wish to. Bottom line: you can stop using Facebook if you want to. So what exactly is the problem?
As far as things being saved, you knew the deal when you decided to post things on the internet in the first place. Anyone who grew up in the internet age was taught to assume that anything that is posted on the internet is pretty much out there for good. Forget FB saving your pictures. Anyone who can see your profile can download, screenshot, copy and paste, etc. whatever they want.
What price did you buy your facebook stocks at? I bought my facebook stocks at 28 USD. Also being a Canadian, at the time 1 USD = 1 CAD. Now 1 USD = 1.12 CAD, so I am getting a double whammy.
Non Facebooker wrote:
What do you think?
Twitter is better. All I see on facebook anymore is people sharing articles and lame memes to boost their mis guided political opinions.
Gerard123 wrote:
What price did you buy your facebook stocks at?
I bought my facebook stocks at 28 USD. Also being a Canadian, at the time 1 USD = 1 CAD. Now 1 USD = 1.12 CAD, so I am getting a double whammy.
Non Facebooker wrote:What do you think?
I bought 250 shares at 49.63 for better or for worse. It could go to $1000 or zero but I wasn't going to sell. Now that I'm up 27% in just a few months and I start hearing the negative things about FB I start questioning my plan.
jamin wrote:
If Facebook gave users a function where they could delete all their wall activity, all their pictures, all their likes, etc., or a function where they simply and instantaneously delete their account, you would see a lot of users leaving Facebook. We all have those moments where we are resolved to cut loose from Facebook, but unfortunately we can't because Facebook is engineered to keep us connected. You can't, in the heat of the moment, push a button to eliminate your profile from existence.
For example, to delete all your wall activity you have to go and delete wall posts one-by-one. Facebook could easily add a feature that allows users to scrape all their wall activity with a click of the button. But they don't, so users decide it's easier just to stay on Facebook than to spend hours, maybe even days, scrolling through their wall and deleting posts.
"Permanently" deleting an account requires a 2-week waiting period. That is of course intended to make you have second thoughts. Not that it really matters, since Facebook keeps your profile's data backed up in case you ever want to return.
Mark Zuckerberg owns your a**.
I clean my activity about once a month. It would not take me long to erase all my data.
umm wrote:
jamin wrote:If Facebook gave users a function where they could delete all their wall activity, all their pictures, all their likes, etc., or a function where they simply and instantaneously delete their account, you would see a lot of users leaving Facebook. We all have those moments where we are resolved to cut loose from Facebook, but unfortunately we can't because Facebook is engineered to keep us connected. You can't, in the heat of the moment, push a button to eliminate your profile from existence.
The networking side of facebook is the biggest marketing gimmick in world business today. It is not a tool used to maintain friendships but instead it's all a massive ploy that plays into our strong exhibitionist and voyeuristic instincts. People who are truly connected to each other stay in contact through more personal means i.e. face to face, phone, email and text messages.
Facebook is used to portray an idyllic and often false representation of your life so that when acquaintances compare themselves to you they will feel inferior. It's not so much a friendship site but more of a competitive social environment where everyone is trying to outdo each other to make their lives look better. It's basically a social version of linkedin where people sell themselves and showcase their best attributes.
A lot of people would enrich their lives and feel a lot more confident about themselves if they left the site and stopped comparing themselves to inflated portraits of others. Most people would not notice any impact on connection with friends.
I would agree with everything you typed here (Really interesting stuff) except the competitive aspect to it that you mentioned. I think it is maybe less about competition and more about individual gratification.
jamin wrote:
If Facebook gave users a function where they could delete all their wall activity, all their pictures, all their likes, etc., or a function where they simply and instantaneously delete their account, you would see a lot of users leaving Facebook. We all have those moments where we are resolved to cut loose from Facebook, but unfortunately we can't because Facebook is engineered to keep us connected. You can't, in the heat of the moment, push a button to eliminate your profile from existence.
For example, to delete all your wall activity you have to go and delete wall posts one-by-one. Facebook could easily add a feature that allows users to scrape all their wall activity with a click of the button. But they don't, so users decide it's easier just to stay on Facebook than to spend hours, maybe even days, scrolling through their wall and deleting posts.
"Permanently" deleting an account requires a 2-week waiting period. That is of course intended to make you have second thoughts. Not that it really matters, since Facebook keeps your profile's data backed up in case you ever want to return.
Mark Zuckerberg owns your a**.
The problem with the internet is not that you can't get OFF forums or sites like Facebook it's that moderators delete posts mainly for the reasons that what you say contradicts what they say. Instead of deleting posts why don't they improve their thinking skills?! That to me is the whole idea of the internet.
Yes.
But LRC will not.
Not because it will fail. Something will happen. Something.
Amazing that facebook has now been around 10 years. I remember when I joined June 2004 right before starting my freshman year of college. Had to have a college email to sign up back then, and only a handful of schools were even on there. Back then the url was "thefacebook.com". There was no wall, no photo albums, just a basic info page a single profile picture. Your profile page would display which part of campus you were logged in from...i.e. which dorm, which building. All based on IP address. Those were the days.
Facebook has been in decline for at least a couple years now. Congrats to those that have made some $$ on the IPO. My advice is to get out while you are ahead. I think facebook will indeed be gone, and all data will have been sold to the highest bidder by 2024.
Facebook is and always was a fad, destined to be replaced by something better and more interesting. We are seeing that happen now.
And LRC will definitely still be around. This site predates facebook and will definitely outlast it.
zuck in the truck wrote:
Amazing that facebook has now been around 10 years.
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Facebook is and always was a fad, destined to be replaced by something better and more interesting. We are seeing that happen now.
There's nothing amazing about a website being around for 10 years.
You know what has been a fad for a long time? Predicting Facebook's decline. Why does everyone think they're entitled to an opinion on high-tech companies? I don't see anyone predicting eBay will be replaced by something else, and yet every year people predict Facebook will be replaced, and every year Facebook buys out whatever company is even the slightest threat.