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Nah. We’ll all just keep pretending & that the dream is still alive. Sorta like how Wal-Mart has american flags/logos everywhere, but everything in there is from China.

“They’ve been showing on your news feed when your friends like/comment something.”

Not “something” (like a business or fan page) but a friend of a friend’s post. That is if that friend has their posting settings on “public” or “friend of a friend”. Like for instance if a friend of a friend (a person I don’t know & prob don’t care about) posts a picture of their kid, and my actual direct friend comments on it, I get to see that stupid picture from these people whom I don’t know in my newsfeed. Not the ticker, but the main feed.

And no, that’s a new thing. Was it just rolled out right before the IPO?? Not exactly. But it did start showing up in the last month or so (when they knew there were going public). So yeah.

It already is tanking. Growth has slowed & postings/interactions have dropped off significantly, at least anything meaningful & direct from people (the stuff that really matters). That’s why they started including all kinds of 3rd party junk into the news feed & are now showing you whenever one of your direct friends likes/comments on one of their friend’s posts. Basically to artificially “up” the amount of interactions. But they’re not fooling anyone with that crap. Well, besides investors & stock traders.

Basically the real people in the know (the users who have been on it for a while) are hip to what’s going on & are using other things now MUCH more regularly than Facebook. Mainly Twitter, Instagram & Path. Which are all way more mobile friendly, more interesting & are just plain better quality all around.

Who are you people & what planet are you from??

The problem is that Facebook’s guts live entirely in a website, not an app (like say Instagram or Path). It wasn’t built for mobile & trying to shoehorn all of that crap into an app means its always gonna suck. Do you really think a company this rich wouldn’t have fixed it by now if they could?

But hey, they’re “valuable” right? I mean, $100B valuation & can never have a decent mobile app (when the future is clearly mobile)?? Yeah, that’s pretty nuts.

What’s that “popping” sound I hear??

Google’s approach is totally different from Path though. G+ is basically a website first, and mobile second. The same exact route Facebook has gone down for years now. Even though that’s served them well, it’s ultimately the wrong way because websites are pretty much gonna be done soon, esp social related ones.

Yes. A walled garden full of apps that don’t look like an afterthought, healthiest development, and devices that actually get updated without carriers dictating the terms.

Gah! Run away run away!

And the reason they get stuck in the first place is due to its openness. Funny how that works isn’t it.

They already have that in other countries (and used to here in the US). It’s called public transit, esp by electrified rail. The US just thought it would be a better idea to rip it all up after WWII so we could all jump in to the automobile ownership racket.