So the mission has gone from being a social network to being a newspaper? This shows that Facebook doesn't care about what users want from Facebook anymore, but about what's going to make Facebook the most money.
This is exactly what I expected to happen after the IPO because their revenue/profit still doesn't justify their valuation, which means they need to focus a lot more on monetization and do it soon, before most investors wake up to it. This hurry to monetize means they'll screw a lot of things up for the users, and possibly even ruin Facebook for them.
This shows that Facebook doesn't care about what users want from Facebook anymore, but about what's going to make Facebook the most money.
What? When has this ever not been the case? Have you actually used facebook from the (near) beginning? Because it's never been about anything but what makes the most money. Zuck and co have screwed everyone to cater to advertisers since they first opened to the non-university internet (and I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was going on even before that).
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So the mission has gone from being a social network to being a newspaper? This shows that Facebook doesn't care about what users want from Facebook anymore, but about what's going to make Facebook the most money.
This is exactly what I expected to happen after the IPO because their revenue/profit still doesn't justify their valuation, which means they need to focus a lot more on monetization and do it soon, before most investors wake up to it. This hurry to monetize means they'll screw a lot of things up for the users, and possibly even ruin Facebook for them.
What? When has this ever not been the case? Have you actually used facebook from the (near) beginning? Because it's never been about anything but what makes the most money. Zuck and co have screwed everyone to cater to advertisers since they first opened to the non-university internet (and I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was going on even before that).
All their recent moves point to this explanation, as with hashtags: http://danmaz74.me/2013/05/16/facebook-hashtags-when-monetiz...