- Negatively
And so on
why do people still use meta products? Facebook insta what’s app…
I have friends that all abandoned FB only to jump on insta and I am gobsmacked by that choice
Network effect? You want to be where your friends or other interesting people are. Even if it is a shitty place you just kinda end up there together.
Still using WhatsApp only, because I failed to convince people to switch to Signal (so far).
I’m still using WhatsApp as it’s so so okay with privacy still (messages should be end to end encrypted),it frankly works great and intuitive and the competition is frankly “meh”. The web app of whatsapp is frankly awesome though lately it’s been having weird issues with Firefox, thinking I’m running v60 or something and refusing to load for about an hour, then a reload suddenly makes it work. It’s weird, but beyond that, it’s awesome and I can’t live without.
Signal and telegram both lack a buttload of features, signal is barely functional and has many problems with basic usage
Believe you me, I’m an open source guy. I switched to Linux 25 years ago, and 20 years ago it was my only desktop. I almost exclusively use open source software where possible, and I’ll jump off telegram as soon as there is an open source version out there that can a) compete with WhatsApp in functionality and intuitively, and b) I need to be able to convince my social circle to use it.
That UI is way better than the new one. Ironic
I was at a booklaunch last night of a memoir from the 90s…There was discussion over how social media would have changed the authors life - but actually I think that cyberbullying / influence of named social media will decrease as time goes on
One of Facebooks principals was “your real name, your real face” and that’s what’s held it back from staying relevant. It’s had to diversify into insta and whatsapp because people flock to semi-anonymous, easily-moved profiles because that’s what the internet always likes.
Marketing ruined the Internet. This wasn’t a problem before the eternal September.
