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Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com)
Reader Colin Castro writes: Facebook is starting to see decline in original posts and people sharing their thoughts. "Facebook's decline in personal updates reflects a common growing pain for online communities. What starts out as a special and intimate place to share things grows into a big, impersonal, and professional platform ." The author points out one of the reasons why: "They know that, unlike in Facebook's earlier days, their status updates can now be seen by distant relatives, high school classmates, and co-workers -- so they don't share anything too personal."
I see very little content that's actually from the people I follow. 99% of what I see is just stuff reshared from other places. I hardly ever use Facebook anymore because most of that reshared content doesn't interest me anyway.
If they can't be trusted with sharing then unfriendly them.
blatant, clumsy, and in your face money grabs.
Facebook didn't become that, it started out that way. It was NEVER a good idea.
>And why didn't that take off? Because it was too complicated.
Nah. Two reasons
1) FB already existed. Why change? None of your friends use G+ after all. Just one more annoying PoS to deal with.
2) The overly aggressive, intrusive, and *deceptive* way Google went about signing people up for it. It's as bad as Windows 10 installs. You go to YouTube and get presented a message asking you what name you want to use. If you select either option, it signs you up for Google+! If you then disable that, well fuck you, we'll just delete your YT channel too.
#1 is why people with FB didn't care and #2 is why people here cared.
Facebook keeps reverting your newsfeed to "top stories" (from "latest stories"), so most people are only seeing the most popular posts. And how often are a geek's posts popular? You post, nobody reacts, you hate the platform.
When you post, Facebook shares is with just a couple of the people who have reacted to your posts (like, share, comment) before. If they don't react, your post isn't shared with anyone else. If they do react, Facebook shares it with a few more people. They react? More people see it.
Like most geeks, who aren't sharing pictures of friends and food and generally displaying a charmed life, my posts are about things and projects and happenstance and other boring stuff nobody cares about. I post it, Facebook shares it with a couple people who don't respond, and Facebook kills it. Nobody sees it, I don't bother posting it anymore.
Admit it, this is how your facebook experience goes, too. So you post to slashdot how useless and intrusive Facebook is.
a medium that allows more personalized groups and doesn't insist on a "one profile with a real name for one person that's shared with everyone" policy will ultimately be more desirable.
The "circles" feature of Google+ was designed specifically around this concept. Though it uses a real name, posts can be shared only with a specific circle of other users. Why didn't it take off?