tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post9132600734348128368..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Decline and Fall of FacebookStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57308897324630247352018-11-23T12:24:42.082-08:002018-11-23T12:24:42.082-08:00re social media and mobbing, see my post Freedom, ...re social media and mobbing, see my post Freedom, the Village, and the Internet:<br /><br />https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/54775.html<br /><br />(On this dimension, Twitter seems to be worse than FB)David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7393088995121033122018-11-23T09:39:52.223-08:002018-11-23T09:39:52.223-08:00How many times can they apology I wonder?
I see F...How many times can they apology I wonder?<br /><br />I see Facebook's stock is down 37% since July, and a pretty steady decline, but still 6 times higher than its 2012 low soon after its IPO. And 2018 has been a wash for most stocks. At least they were smart enough to get rid of "trending" which ended up a cesspool of rumors and "fake news", whatever could provide maximal outrage in a given echo chamber.<br /><br />Frontline had a recent program on Facebook's history and problems.<br />https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma<br /><br />I used to think laws against free organic public assembly of individuals seemed excessive, but now I better see that the self-awareness and collective behavior of mobs is approximately equal to the lowest of its members. It appears online mobs follow a similar degeneracy. Someone must play authoritarian, and anyone who tries becomes the enemy of the mob's animus.<br /><br />Back to the beginning, I might consider stockholders are another sort of virtual mob which only cares about its own short term bottom line, and perhaps their threatened wrath is the real cause for stupid efforts to manage reputations in disreputable ways.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-60467315381323145832018-11-23T08:08:30.705-08:002018-11-23T08:08:30.705-08:00Feeding into this is a technical problem for Faceb...Feeding into this is a technical problem for Facebook. Google will still present lots of hits even from a carefully censored list of approved sites, and someone will always say something outraging on Twitter regardless of who they ban, but FaceBook can't present a curated newsfeed without losing the ability to capture the kind of information that their ad buyers have come to depend on.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com