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Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years
jfruh writes: Facebook recently held its first ever town-hall meeting in which Mark Zuckerberg took questions from the general public, and one of his answers might raise some eyebrows. When asked if the increasing numbers of photos being uploaded might strain the company's servers, he said the infrastructure is more than up to the task, because they're preparing for the notion that "in five years, most of [Facebook] will be video."
I find it increasingly more and more difficult to take Zuckerberg seriously.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Autoplay HTML5 video is the scourge on the Internet. Is there a way to stop it?
And in five years, we'll all be using a system where we wave our hands around in the air to do gestures to control our computers! /sarcasm
Most of Facebook is moms reposting the same jokes and images over and over again. I actually think I see where Zuckerburg might going with this: since media companies are getting smarter about packing their mass-market content as "clips" (e.g., Jimmy Fallon's bits), they're getting easier for mere mortals to post. However, I don't think any significant portion of videos will actually get posted to Facebook - instead it'll all still be hosted on YouTube, media sites (e.g., NBC) or somewhere else.
I can't think of any impediments I have to uploading more video to Facebook right now. If I wanted to upload more videos I'd upload more videos, but they don't usually make sense where text, stills, or links do.
So Mark must be betting that they'll make sense in five years when they don't now - I wonder what his reasoning could possibly be.
I hope he doesn't mean that people will be video recording their status updates. There's a reason many people call it "Dumpbook" - the tile wall in the background is sort of a giveaway.
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Zuck thinks that Facebook will be relevant in 5 years.... how ADORABLE!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Zuckerburg is looking to kill youtube.
Unfortunately, Google's own social network beat them to the punch.
That hasn't been my experience. These days, my Facebook feed seems to be filled with people posting Buzzfeed links to "20 sexy historical facts that will blow your mind!" or else it's a link that says "You won't believe what happens in this video!" without giving any explanation as to what's in the video.
In other words, it's mostly tedious, useless advertising for something or other.
But are they going to be vertical videos ?
Where's the video of Zuckerberg saying that Facebook will be mostly video?
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Facebook will be completely irrelevant to the vast majority of people - pretty much where MySpace has been for the past half-decade.
Seriously - Facebook's user base is rapidly skewing older and older. When I mention Facebook to a young person, they generally either say they aren't on it at all anymore, or they say they only get on Facebook to stay in touch with their older relatives (mom, dad, grandma, etc.).
And, at least right now, there doesn't appear to be one dominant site where everyone under thirty has landed. Some hang out on Tumblr, some on Instagram, some only do SnapChat (I realize that's not a "site"), etc.
#DeleteChrome
When I poke a link to a news item, if it leads to a video, rather than waiting for the commercial to load and play, and the talking heads to stop self promoting and get to the point, I've long since dismissed the tab and found the news item somewhere else as text.
The more Facebook forces video, the less interesting it is.
And of course, Google will copy everything Facebook does, so G+ will be screwed also.
I'm going back to Usenet. run-on puns were better than this. (It was just a capital-K to get rid of them.)
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
That is actually pretty hilarious, about video phones. It was supposedly, for decades, one of the greatest new features that couldn't be done well for bandwidth and equipment cost reasons, and when finally everyone had a 4G phone with a front-facing camera, we found that nope, nobody cares about video phones.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
If you think FB is going to be primarily video content in 5 years, you haven't been watching net neutrality and the laws ISPs and media producers are trying to get passed which severely limits user bandwidth.
Unless you're going to be paying to get rid of those laws yourself, Mark, you're just a witless fucking idiot without any real eye on the future.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
>Zuckerberg/Facebook thinks we're going to have "conversations" with video snippets?
No, he expects Facebook users are going to have conversations with video snippets. This has nothing to do with the general population. He's judged his users well enough so far, so there's no reason to believe he's mistaken now. I expect that a lot of people are going to move into VR for their conversations, which means routing and likely storing massive amounts of video.
Seriously? 90% of Facebook is currently graphics certainly not worth 1000 words: they literally are about eight to thirty words, total, with some public domain clipart or unlicensed pop-culture icons. I don't do "meme pictures." If I have a message, I type it.
I've never understood the point of podcasts other than for music or other performance: If I want news, I can read it in 1/10th the time.
And video? What, am I deaf and need to see your body language and lips move? Sure, for educational, entertainment clips, and of course cute animals... but otherwise? Nope.
And get off my lawn.
Design for Use, not Construction!
Call me old school, but for most of those videos, pictures would do the job (or a better one)
Looking for a how-to for something? Gimme pictures, you can't print a video (for one). I don;t need nor want to watch a video (often with horrible music) when 5 pictures and 10 lines of text does exactly the same thing.
I've got better things to do tonight than die.