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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
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.
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.
>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.
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