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re: How has Facebook survived as long as it has?
Posted on 11/16/17 at 7:14 am to 13SaintTiger
Posted on 11/16/17 at 7:14 am to 13SaintTiger
I agree it's not exclusive to Facebook, but Facebook is the most efficient vehicle for putting narcissism on display. It's essentially a website trafficking in narcissism. There is useful information sharing on social media, useful networking, etc, but I think the element of narcissism is what kicks Facebook to the next level in being pervasive in everyday life.
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Posted on 11/16/17 at 7:19 am to TH03
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Yeah your top 8
Even for grown adults...this feature could stir up drama
Posted on 11/16/17 at 7:21 am to Salmon
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blaming social media on everything is such low hanging fruit
I disagree. Social media is a powerful tool and it’s unavoidable. Social media can force down the viewer’s/user’s throats practically whatever they want. We see it everyday. Social media is the driving factor in a lot otherwise mundane bs.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 7:24 am to 13SaintTiger
Where else will I know what Billy's or Suzie's meal at Chili's looks like?
Posted on 11/16/17 at 7:27 am to Eightballjacket
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Where else will I know what Billy's or Suzie's meal at Chili's looks like?
You know, I really don't see people posting food pictures that much anymore.
Now, it is mostly political crap or feel-good videos.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 7:45 am to elprez00
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poorly conceived liberal “gotcha” videos
To be fair it was poorly conceived conservative "Gotcha" videos when Obama was in office. Dumbassedness isn't exclusive to any one party.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 7:53 am to 13SaintTiger
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None of this is exclusive to Facebook.
It was the first to do it. And the ease of it. I remember MySpace being a pain in the arse and setting up a “page”. It was weird. A Facebook “page” is generic.
And it being First can not be undersold. People stick with what is familiar.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 7:54 am to 13SaintTiger
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That’s actually a great point, uniformity and control. If we look at myspace they started with having to look at poeple’s pages for updates or whatever
I actually think what did myspace in was crappy internet speed. If high speed of today was available 10 years ago myspace might have survived.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:07 am to 13SaintTiger
Back in the early days when my kids were on MySpace and Facebook emerged, we considered Facebook to be "MySpace for old people," (aka parents). When Social Network came out, I was surprised to learn that it started as a college thing. I don't know if others had that impression, but that was mine. Today it's definitely true, because the kids are all over instagram, snapchat, etc.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:08 am to 13SaintTiger
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This is great news. Can’t wait until Facebook dies. It’s a stain on society.
Facebook is just the medium, a reflection of society. All the same behaviors will be present on whatever takes its place.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:11 am to lsunurse
Fb was also more mobile friendly to smartphones
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:31 am to 13SaintTiger
Their users haven’t realized yet how much of a waste of time Facebook truly is.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:37 am to 13SaintTiger
You've got mail!
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:41 am to 13SaintTiger
Sorry if already posted but i believe it’s exclusivity made it something desirable and somewhat innocent.
MySpace allowed anyone and everyone to sign up. People created fake accounts and “predators” had easy access (in the minds of many parents).
Facebook was only college kids. It was a great way to connect. They improved and updated and as they did, and people started graduating, they carried Facebook with them.
Then they started to open it up to everyone. That’s when it started sucking, but people were addicted.
MySpace allowed anyone and everyone to sign up. People created fake accounts and “predators” had easy access (in the minds of many parents).
Facebook was only college kids. It was a great way to connect. They improved and updated and as they did, and people started graduating, they carried Facebook with them.
Then they started to open it up to everyone. That’s when it started sucking, but people were addicted.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:43 am to LarryDavid
Without FB how would I know what some people are cooking everyday, what crap housewives are selling, see how much realtors love their jobs, know how much smarter nurses are than Doctors, and see everyone's kid's 8th grade graduation pictures?
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:55 am to 13SaintTiger
Why do you think it is so powerful? Because we want it.
Social Media is just a tool. Stop blaming it for all of our problems.
Social Media is just a tool. Stop blaming it for all of our problems.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:55 am to GonePecan
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Without FB how would I know what some people are cooking everyday, what crap housewives are selling, see how much realtors love their jobs, know how much smarter nurses are than Doctors, and see everyone's kid's 8th grade graduation pictures?
Under this description, there are times I have seen and heard from emergency people where during holidays, or when sites are not being manned, like EMA on Sundays, where some of the most timely real-time info on weather situations, like tornadoes, snowstorms, ect., come from posters in areas on FB.
Also, another example, the Texas shooting, many of the people the shooter knew and were friends with on FB, posted about how he was posting anti-religious things on his FB right before the shooting. It did come out he had an ax to grind with the mother in law, but they said it wasn't religiously motivated. Those initial reports on a news story from people posting on FB beg to differ that at least part of his motive may have been his religious believes.
So, you can get more of the real story during major incidents, more evidence of what is truly going on, from crappy ole FB.
Fact(s).
This post was edited on 11/16/17 at 9:01 am
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:02 am to TigrrrDad
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Today it's definitely true, because the kids are all over instagram, snapchat, etc.
I have a cousin in high school. She says her friends don't Facebook. She has two instagram accounts, one is her "finstagram" account which is her "fake" instagram under an alias that only her good friends know about. Kids these days looked at Facebook with fresh eyes and determined mass exposure is not something they really want. They prefer to use social media only among their close friends. Makes sense.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:06 am to 13SaintTiger
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This is great news. Can’t wait until Facebook dies. It’s a stain on society.
No it isn't. It is a tool. And like most tools in society, it is the people who misuse and abuse it to a negative effect.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:14 am to 13SaintTiger
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Sean Parker says facebook was designed to be an addcition and uses the same guideline as the way addicts get hooked on drugs.
Sean Parker says facebook was designed to be an addcition and uses the same guideline as the way addicts get hooked on drugs.
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Hindsight is 20/20 for Sean Parker, a former Facebook president who said this week that the social media site was built to exploit "a vulnerability in human psychology"—one that investigators believe Russia also manipulated as it was meddling in the 2016 election. Speaking at an Axios event Tuesday, Parker said he and the team who launched Facebook in the early 2000s were trying to figure out, "How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?" Their solution was what Parker called a "social-validation feedback loop ... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with."
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Users want to post so that their friends like their content, and when their friends like their content, users want to post more. But that can have some unintended side effects for Facebook's 2.07 billion monthly active users.
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"It literally changes your relationship with society, with each other," Parker said. "It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains."
This post was edited on 11/16/17 at 9:16 am
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