Ask HN: What do you believe is Facebook's ultimate place in world history?
It's a pretty impressive accomplishment on paper. Yet there is an ever increasing list of reasons to delete your account. There is always a lot of outrage it seems but few people ever actually delete. They may deactivate, take a break, but most everyone I know, ends up using it again.
Is this solely because there is no alternative (there have been many, some still exist)? Or because the network effect (one of the strongest of all-time)? Or that most people simply don't care as much as a very vocal minority (it seems) who is writing so many of these articles and doing these investigations? I wonder...
I created my Facebook in 2005, I was in 10th grade. I want to DELETE mine but it's like a time capsule, it's a piece of history now if you think about it.
Anyways, share whatever comes to mind. Let's talk this out, all angles and caveats. This is one of the most important questions of our time if you ask me.
Is this solely because there is no alternative (there have been many, some still exist)? Or because the network effect (one of the strongest of all-time)? Or that most people simply don't care as much as a very vocal minority (it seems) who is writing so many of these articles and doing these investigations? I wonder...
I created my Facebook in 2005, I was in 10th grade. I want to DELETE mine but it's like a time capsule, it's a piece of history now if you think about it.
Anyways, share whatever comes to mind. Let's talk this out, all angles and caveats. This is one of the most important questions of our time if you ask me.