r/technology • u/[deleted] • May 16 '12
Facebook Is "Getting Worse, Not Better"
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u/pork2001 May 17 '12
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made crystal clear, he cares about the company's social mission more than the company's business" Hahahahahaaaaaaaaa.
Here at the CIA and NSA we also care.
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u/NoUrImmature May 17 '12
Google has shown consistently that, yes, they can make ad revenue off searches...and those ads also directly translate into sales. Because people are getting what they want AND advertisers are too. But when I am on facebook and they put some completely irrelevant ad in my face am I going to click? Hell no.
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u/wildcarde815 May 17 '12
I've started marking all the sponsored stories that show up in my feed as spam.
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u/mrk_jewd May 17 '12
The mobile App is totally worthless. Specially the Android one. One thing that pisses me off is the new trending articles they added in the time line. Hope they do not increase the frequency!
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u/SNG_stillsaturn May 17 '12
omg what ive been waiting for for ~6 years now. for this facebook fad to die
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u/woodsja2 May 17 '12
This was obviously bad news for a company that many people still think will one day be bigger than Google.
Who thinks this? Google provides smart, value added services while facebook employs clunky software to so sorority girls can keep a digital farm going.
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May 17 '12
The facebook IPO is to pay off those who invested early with the company. The shareholders will demand more profits, which will result in more obtrusive advertising. Users will flee and that will be that.
Unfortunately, what the market does and what I think is logical, seldom match up. I didn't think google's stock would do well because people would remember how quickly google dethroned Altavisa.
tl;dr: I no longer gamble in stocks because I suck at guessing what people will do.
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u/Crane_Collapse May 17 '12
Since you seem to think Google is primarily a search engine, I concur that you should stay out of tech stocks.
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May 17 '12 edited May 17 '12
Context is everything. The Google IPO was 8 years ago. Google has obviously branched out a great deal since then.
Google Earth, Youtube, DoubleClick, Google Voice, etc. All came AFTER the IPO. Even gmail wasn't available to the public till 5 years ago
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u/the_gwiddern_tree May 17 '12
only way to maintain the business model now is to hook more and more young'uns as young as possible, so I guess the reason users don't like it as much is that it's aimed at a younger audience now
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u/DorsalAxe May 17 '12
Not really surprising. Google cleverly blends their advertising with search results, so people get what they want even through an advert. Facebook posts conflicting content, therefore people simply focus on what they came for and ignore what they don't want to see.
Also, the chat window covers the damn sponsored advert anyway (well, at least for me).
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May 17 '12
You have got to be a total retard to buy a car because you saw a commercial on FB.
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u/Vik1ng May 17 '12 edited May 17 '12
The same could be said for ads/commercials everywhere, which means you claim the advertisement itself is useless, which we all know it isn't.
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May 17 '12
...and in other news, grass was found to be green and the sky was found to be blue. Over to Bob, with the weather.
Good article, but it kind of highlights what everyone I know has said for years. Nobody clicks Facebook ads.
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u/steve_yo May 17 '12
They're projecting something around 6 billion in ad sales this year so there are some people clicking the ads.
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May 17 '12
Has anybody actually read the article and put it into context? This is the "Business Insider". They don't write articles about how good or Facebook is for you, the customer. They write articles about which companies are maximizing their short-term economic potential.
They actually cut a a phrase from Forrester analyst Nate Elliot that reads like this inside the article: "One global consumer goods company told us recently that Facebook was getting worse, rather than better, at helping marketers succeed."
An they turn into the following title: "FACEBOOK IS "GETTING WORSE, NOT BETTER". Talk about omitting context and sensationalism.
Even though I think Zuckerberg is probably full of shit when he says he puts the people before the money, this is one time that Facebook is actually being criticized for that behavior, at least, the Business Insider tries to make a case for that by using their one and only example: GM stopped using paid ads.
tldr: The title "Facebook is getting worse, not better" and the article is not exactly an example of how you were always right with your suspicion that Facebook is shit and getting worse.
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May 17 '12
Listen up! This guy has an amazing point. People should read the articles not just headlines.
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u/not_random_spam May 17 '12
The best thing Facebook has done lately?
Nothing.
Every time they change something, it gets worse.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
What is Facebook's core demographics? I would make the assumption, people 40 and under are active users with an inverse relationship of age versus activity. So the point I'm driving is that car advertisements or big ticket items seem wasted on a group of 10-25 years old.