Hi all
I’m several years behind here…anyway
how come facebook took off and (for instance) my space didn’t?
what say you all?

Myspace did take off, but before facebook, and then it faded away once fb was on the scene.

Also, myspace was sort of like a bad angelfire website…

purple said:

Hi all
I’m several years behind here…anyway

Nothing much has changed, nor happened, except for the bit where Alex went a bit crazy. Fortunately no-one noticed.

You may as well ask why VHS became the norm and Betamax died away.

Skeptic Pete said:

You may as well ask why VHS became the norm and Betamax died away.

OK, why VHS became the norm and Betamax died away.

Put the answer here please.

>You may as well ask why VHS became the norm and Betamax died away.

hmm, well, for average joe it probably turned out it was easier to reach in a clean the heads in a VHS unit, but elewhere doubtful VHS was the norm.

dunno, mate.

bob(from black rock) said:

Skeptic Pete said:

You may as well ask why VHS became the norm and Betamax died away.

OK, why VHS became the norm and Betamax died away.

Put the answer here please.

Recording time. Originally Beta only had enough tape to record for 1 hour, VHS for 2. For recording TV programs like football games 1 hour was too short.

so no one knows then?
maybe marketing. I don’t recall it’s inception

purple said:

so no one knows then?
maybe marketing. I don’t recall it’s inception

Facebook started off as a very exclusive club restricted only to students of America’s elite universities. This gave it a bit of cashet when it expanded to the general public. However I think the main reason for Facebook’s success over myspace is because of the simplified design.

Witty Rejoinder said:

purple said:

so no one knows then?
maybe marketing. I don’t recall it’s inception

Facebook started off as a very exclusive club restricted only to students of America’s elite universities. This gave it a bit of cashet when it expanded to the general public. However I think the main reason for Facebook’s success over myspace is because of the simplified design.

Expanded in 2007, and I reckon it’s so popular because a) it coincided with the outbreak of smart phones and b) it became smartphone-friendly very rapidly, which is partially due to its simplified design. However, at the beginning it was much less streamlined in appearance than it is now.

what is a facebook

Why can’t our PM dress as snazzily as his Turkish counterpart?

Oppsss sorry.

It’s a mystery to me. I hate Facebook, Friendface, Spacefriend, MyMates and all the rest of them.

I don’t know, I never did MySpace, so i don’t know what it was like.

I joined Facebook when my sister & BiL moved interstate for his work.

Anyway, so what is so good about facebook?

roughbarked said:

Anyway, so what is so good about facebook?

You can keep in contact with people from other states and who you have lost contact with. Great for the military, just about every corp has a page and over 20 years and multiple postings you lose contact with what were good mates.

Though it is a shock seeing photos of a bloke you recall as being young and fit and now they are 50 and balding. But the essential features and character remain.

I understand it is cool to knock Facebook, after all it is very popular but I have found it great.

And cops love it.

fair enough about keeping contact.

That could be useful.

roughbarked said:

Anyway, so what is so good about facebook?

You can share news, photos and videos, with all and sundry of your friends and relatives without having to email them individually. For example, I’ve seen my nephew’s first few shaky steps which my sister recorded on her phone on the spur of the moment and then posted to FB. Given they live interstate I would have missed it. It’s good for stuff like that. But with some people there is a high signal-to-noise ratio.

party_pants said:

roughbarked said:

Anyway, so what is so good about facebook?

You can share news, photos and videos, with all and sundry of your friends and relatives without having to email them individually. For example, I’ve seen my nephew’s first few shaky steps which my sister recorded on her phone on the spur of the moment and then posted to FB. Given they live interstate I would have missed it. It’s good for stuff like that. But with some people there is a high signal-to-noise ratio.

I can’t do stuff like videos on this dialup. I haven’t got enough time in my life for that. My son puts them on Flickr too but they don’t work there either.

party_pants said:

roughbarked said:

Anyway, so what is so good about facebook?

You can share news, photos and videos, with all and sundry of your friends and relatives without having to email them individually. For example, I’ve seen my nephew’s first few shaky steps which my sister recorded on her phone on the spur of the moment and then posted to FB. Given they live interstate I would have missed it. It’s good for stuff like that. But with some people there is a high signal-to-noise ratio.

Yeah, I only have a small amount of friends but they are friends I can call on if required. You see people who collect friends I know of people who have hundreds and hundreds of friends. It would be horrendous going through the postings and some people think it is a duty to post multiple “inspirational” posters which are usually rubbish and for some reason feature a lot if Native American stuff.

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

roughbarked said:

Anyway, so what is so good about facebook?

You can share news, photos and videos, with all and sundry of your friends and relatives without having to email them individually. For example, I’ve seen my nephew’s first few shaky steps which my sister recorded on her phone on the spur of the moment and then posted to FB. Given they live interstate I would have missed it. It’s good for stuff like that. But with some people there is a high signal-to-noise ratio.

I can’t do stuff like videos on this dialup. I haven’t got enough time in my life for that. My son puts them on Flickr too but they don’t work there either.

well, it’s not for you then.

AwesomeO said:

Yeah, I only have a small amount of friends but they are friends I can call on if required. You see people who collect friends I know of people who have hundreds and hundreds of friends. It would be horrendous going through the postings and some people think it is a duty to post multiple “inspirational” posters which are usually rubbish and for some reason feature a lot if Native American stuff.

Me too. Apart from one or two individuals I’m sucking up to in the hope of getting their boat when they finally cark it through sheer bad luck.

Not looking for hundreds of friends anyway. A couple of friends would be enough.

Social media is becoming a recruitment resource for jihadists as well, though to be fair there are plenty of anti Islamist pages as well. Comment on both is liable to see you doing some explaining to the authoritah or just losing your job.

I don’t think the full implications of social media are being realised yet.

>A couple of friends would be enough.

The kindest thing you can do is have an invisible friend, the joy of it is that your invisible friend will have a real friend.

AwesomeO said:

Social media is becoming a recruitment resource for jihadists as well, though to be fair there are plenty of anti Islamist pages as well. Comment on both is liable to see you doing some explaining to the authoritah or just losing your job.

I don’t think the full implications of social media are being realised yet.

Before my space and facebook there were people recruiting for all sorts of things. There are some very strange ideas in the world.

transition said:

>A couple of friends would be enough.

The kindest thing you can do is have an invisible friend, the joy of it is that your invisible friend will have a real friend.

You say the nicest things. I’m a personal friend of all the invisible friends out there. Just ask yours about me.

roughbarked said:

AwesomeO said:

Social media is becoming a recruitment resource for jihadists as well, though to be fair there are plenty of anti Islamist pages as well. Comment on both is liable to see you doing some explaining to the authoritah or just losing your job.

I don’t think the full implications of social media are being realised yet.

Before my space and facebook there were people recruiting for all sorts of things. There are some very strange ideas in the world.

Before MySpace and Facebook and YouTube could an individual basically for free, send to potentially millions of people photos, propaganda and doctrine? That’s the still unrealised potential.

AwesomeO said:

roughbarked said:

AwesomeO said:

Social media is becoming a recruitment resource for jihadists as well, though to be fair there are plenty of anti Islamist pages as well. Comment on both is liable to see you doing some explaining to the authoritah or just losing your job.

I don’t think the full implications of social media are being realised yet.

Before my space and facebook there were people recruiting for all sorts of things. There are some very strange ideas in the world.

Before MySpace and Facebook and YouTube could an individual basically for free, send to potentially millions of people photos, propaganda and doctrine? That’s the still unrealised potential.

The potential was always there. We have all been followed around by double click for donkeys years.

AwesomeO said:

roughbarked said:

AwesomeO said:

Social media is becoming a recruitment resource for jihadists as well, though to be fair there are plenty of anti Islamist pages as well. Comment on both is liable to see you doing some explaining to the authoritah or just losing your job.

I don’t think the full implications of social media are being realised yet.

Before my space and facebook there were people recruiting for all sorts of things. There are some very strange ideas in the world.

Before MySpace and Facebook and YouTube could an individual basically for free, send to potentially millions of people photos, propaganda and doctrine? That’s the still unrealised potential.

I should add and with easily and cheaply available equipment. No need to own a radio station, which in itself is restricted in coverage.

AwesomeO said:

AwesomeO said:

roughbarked said:

Before my space and facebook there were people recruiting for all sorts of things. There are some very strange ideas in the world.

Before MySpace and Facebook and YouTube could an individual basically for free, send to potentially millions of people photos, propaganda and doctrine? That’s the still unrealised potential.

I should add and with easily and cheaply available equipment. No need to own a radio station, which in itself is restricted in coverage.

Yes the mobile phones certainly opened it up.

So anyway, do the videos load automatically on facebook? or can I ignore them?

roughbarked said:

So anyway, do the videos load automatically on facebook? or can I ignore them?

you need to click the “play” icon to start them

party_pants said:

roughbarked said:

So anyway, do the videos load automatically on facebook? or can I ignore them?

you need to click the “play” icon to start them

That’s OK then, I simply do that everywhere that allows me. The rest I block javascripts on.

Things become popular because they are popular.

If you produce a product that is just a little bit better than its competitors at the right time (i.e. when the market is growing rapidly), you’ve got it made.

If you find yourself not number 1 when the market has become established then there are two options, appeal to a particular niche market (preferably a large one), or come out with a new product.

Apple did both of those, MySpace did neither.

>If you produce a product that is just a little bit better than its competitors at the right time (i.e. when the market is growing rapidly), you’ve got it made.

An example of the Markov chain effect?

Still think it should be called
“Off your Face Book”

• Still think it should be called “Off your Face Book”

Why?

furious said:

• Still think it should be called “Off your Face Book”

Why?

Cos most of the content sounds like the person is totally of their face ie really pissed.

• Cos most of the content sounds like the person is totally of their face ie really pissed.

“Most”, you say? Interesting…

Myspace replaced Friendster and Facebook replaced Myspace, and no doubt one day somethin will replace Facebook.

I don’t think so dv. I think facebook is here to stay.
everywhere I go now, and stacks of ads on tele say “like us on facebook”
I love facebook. but I use it how I want to. I have a very small friend base.
I use it to see photos, to chat, to think aloud…lots of things really