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Facebook Now Lets Users Comment With a Video (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: As internet users continue to consume more videos than ever before, Facebook has decided to further add to the trend and officially launch video comments. Users are watching so many videos that the Cisco Visual Networking Index forecasts internet video traffic will represent 82% of all consumer internet traffic by 2020. Facebook said via a blog post that the new feature was developed at Facebook's 50th Hackathon. The team that built the feature included: Bob Baldwin who lead the initiative with Hermes Pique and Sameer Madan working on iOS, Muhammed Ibrahim worked on the web, and Billy Ng worked on Android. Baldwin's past projects consisted of features that let Facebook users include photos or stickers in the comments. The new video comments feature may help Facebook catch up to Snapchat in terms of daily videos viewed on the social media platform.
I'd like to comment with a video here. I'll be wearing a white hood and have a burning cross in the background. Damn I hate niggers. My hate is strong and damn I'm proud of it. White power! I'm not racist, though, and neither is this post. Hillary 2016!
Is this the same Facebook that makes it a pain in the ass to read comments? No threads... just ... some thing I'm not interested it... but hey, if you want to find that comment I'm sure you can slowly load all 1,000 comments.....
Your friend of the boy in Idaho who saw billy's uncles third cousin walk into a bar tha tone day... has posted a comment on
hah, no thanks
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Face recognition can be really helpful to determine connections. Many other things too!
Am I the only one who actively avoids videos whenever I'm not specifically seeking them out? If I'm looking to watch a movie or TV show or someone's recording of a concert, great, show me the video in glorious HD. Otherwise, please no. On the desktop, auto-playing videos and janky players annoyed me so much I installed a browser extension to force them all to prompt before playing. If I'm on mobile, videos chew through both my battery and my data plan much faster than I'd like. On Twitter where I follow lots of NOAA/NWS accounts, I'm not going to play the little tornado videos they post, I don't see how a 15 second 5MB clip offers compelling added value over a 300KB still photo.
I see multiple negatives and no real upside to communicating this way. I'd rather have fewer videos, not more. Annotating every inane social media comment with a video clip is just pollution. It's bad enough reading through some of that stuff through my own head-voice, I really don't want to experience it all in yours.
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Though I prefer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEE1a2Ae39o
How much do you want to bet that these video comments will come with ads? If not right away, then eventually.
Facebook exists to mine your info for ad-related purposes, and this will become just another channel for them to display ads.
"SexyGurl25 left you a video comment! Watch it after this short ad for $product_we_think_you_want."
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Facebook = SPAM and I'm not interested in reading any farther. The ONLY Facebook news I'm interested in is anti-spam news.
You can make a legitimate argument that the onsite ads are not spam, no matter how unsolicited or offensive they are. When you visit the SpamBook website... Oh, I mean Facebook, you know that the ads are there to pay for your "free" fun. If you think a bit more, you should realize that the relatively high value of those ads is mostly based on abusing your personal information, which should make you think more.
It's not just the information about your tastes, interests, past clicks, strengths, and whatever else they can milk out of your usage of the Facebook website, but more seriously the information they can harvest from your friends. Don't you feel like you are betraying your friends every time you link to someone on Facebook? You should.
The spam that offends me more is actually off the Spam-site. Er... I meant Facebook website again. Easiest example is emailed ads that harvest the money via Facebook pages the scammy businesses are pimping with their spam. This is actually an easy one for Facebook to cure, if only they cared that much. If Facebook receives a copy of such spam, they should notify the spammer to cease and desist or the Facebook page will be removed. If Facebook receives a second complaint of fresh spam sent to that person or a blizzard of spam from other people, then the Facebook page will be nuked. Problem solved.
Lots of other examples, but mostly I regard Facebook as a classic example of bad economic models run amok.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
heh, then why do you read Slashdot? It's now 90% spam
Repeatedly posting Goatse.jpg was getting a bit old.
Have gnu, will travel.
you forgot to say "and stay off my lawn!"
yet another waste of bandwidth
detects nearly everyone. I like Anonymous Cowards, and think there is a place for anonymous comments on the internet. In a world without anonymity, people are afraid to expose the truth about the worst lies and hidden truths. I am willing to accept the trolls and mean people, if it helps have a world with truths exposed.
It's interesting that your Facebook experience is completely different than mine. I don't get any email about spam pages on FB and I don't link to people on FB. I happen to have ad blindness as well - maybe NoScript does something for that too.
But, tonight I was helping friends plan political campaigns and setting a date for next week. Also, sharing some nifty art stories.
Still, I can't think of anything useful I'd usually do with 'reaction gifs' that were videos. I'm sure not going to narrate or sing! Heck, their GIF89a support still uses Flash, so I probably can't see them anyway.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
But a video is the same "words", over, and over, and over - WASTING MY TIME.
On the plus side, I tend to remember which sites to avoid.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
The tyranny of clever or funny content is over! Just like on Youtube, the comments with the most Likes will be those that have girls with big tits or cute cats in them, so it will make it easier for me to get to the good stuff quicker.
lucm, indeed.
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fuck off.
You will regret you gave them even your middle initial. Give them your middle finger.
And you forgot to say "whippersnappers".
Do you have any constructive contribution to the topic? Let's start by asking if you've ever heard of Dunbar's number? If so (and I think it quite unlikely), then do you have anything to say about how it applies to Facebook and the travesty known as "friendship" a la Facebook?
I wasn't joking about feeling like I am betraying a friend's privacy if I "friend" that person on Facebook. I only do it if (a) it's a real friend (which actually makes it worse) and (b) the friend insists.
I think I have issued a few "friend" requests on Facebook, but always with regret and only if I think there are good and sufficient reasons to initiate contact via that channel. Of course I also reject most friend requests directed at me, but most of them are from hookers anyway. Another easy solution exists, but again Facebook doesn't care.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I forgot to mention that much of the Facebook-driven spam must have involved a breach of the email address used in my original Facebook registration. I actually joined on a school basis before the open registration period began. From checking my Facebook user ID, I see it was school #31 (since Harvard was #1 but given the 0 number).
Some of the recent Facebook-driven spam is coming the same routing, but the evidence is mixed as to whether they are ongoing breaches or just address sharing among spammers and scammers of similar mindsets. The main linking characteristics are the origins of the spam and the use of Facebook pages for harvesting.
While I am politically somewhat active, I absolutely would NOT trust Facebook for such purposes. Not even if I was certain that my politics were in personal alignment with the Facebook honchos, and I know they are not.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
That's a great thing for their users. I think it will be a succesfull implement.
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