I think in the dephinition of *ophile is that the condition both is so extreme that the victim has difficulty controlling his impulses in accordance with the laws of his lands, and prefers this particular age group almost to the exclusion of all others. To actually diagnose him with a problem requires way more information than the age of his first wife. So really this is just an anal vibration that his PC has entered into the slashdot comment box, go Skylake.
Almost all men (and it says this somewhere) find women increasingly attractive as they progress through puberty and afterwards. Most of us however will not focus on this age group to all exclusion, nor will we disobey laws. A 17yo female is a fully grown adult in most cases, so it really doesn't even seem like this falls into any juvenile category. In reality this is just biology. Secondary sex characteristics, and the male fondness for them are not accidents, and are not coincidentally developed at puberty as the female reaches fertility. The actual problem with all this is purely social, and a consequence of how our cultures deal with sex and its consequences. But, someone who is not actually insane, is capable of complying with the laws even if he both doesn't agree with them, and also finds that young girl unusually attractive for some reason.
Contrast this with "Jared" of Subway fame, who allegedly both propositioned a minor for sex but also allegedly requested she bring younger friends. That's a sign of someone with a real problem who probably needs to at least be kept away from minors.
I think people just learn these words on the internets and like to start using them inappropriately, as with autism and Asperger's.
Let's do that for homeowners too. If you are told that your door is unlocked, but you still don't lock it, and some robber comes and steals your stuff, the homeowner should be thrown in jail.
Not really the same. But I would argue the insurance company might have a leg to stand on in a fraud case if they had some extra data to prove you enticed the burglar to enter.
A better scenario, is if you rent out rooms in your apartment complex, and you are told that the door locks you installed on the rooms are defective and allow anyone with a toothpick and dreams of glory to enter, and you choose not to fix it, and then people are robbed/raped/murdered in their sleep you probably share some of the blame. You may not have at all intended for those things to happen, but you made it possible and failed to fix your property which was designed for the purpose of keeping unwanted people out, and your tenants weren't free to replace those locks on their own.
This seems to be the opposite extreme, of people trying to create the impression of an all powerful US government that actively suppressed dissent with significant effectiveness. I was watching old episodes of the Twilight Zone repeatedly, and one caught my attention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_from_the_Sun) as being awful subversive for the date it was aired (1959), enough that based on what I know of the era, should have resulted in someone being arrested. Further, the idea of an un-winnable nuclear war seemed pretty prevalent. That link summarizes it better than I can, but the bottom line is that the show featured exactly the sort of subversive behavior that one might conclude was verboten in 1959, and would result in political imprisonment.
But it didn't happen. Possibly, if things had gone down slightly differently we'd have been a police state. But then if things had gone down differently we'd be British subjects, or there'd be a United States and a Confederate States, or we'd all be Nazi's etc. The bottom line is there's always going to be some idiots who won't tolerate dissent, and they will be in our government, and the thing that disempowers us is exactly the things they hate: populist, entitled, spoiled americans who don't take "the threat" (whatever it is) seriously. Those bad words they use, happen to also be very liberating things.
On the other hand, it does seem like the government would want to watch people who may be working for our enemies, and might employ numerous algorithms to identify those people. If you assume that most media in 1950 was anti-red propaganda (and it often appeared to me to be just that), and you were in a position to know it was, then you might assume your enemies might be releasing counter-propaganda and be using Americans to do it, to give it some authenticity. It seems like you would keep an eye on those Americans to identify who may be using them. That just seems like useful knowledge, those agents may also be doing other bad things of the actively harmful variety. The crime here would have been suppressing the American propagandist, that would be destroying yourself to save yourself. It didn't happen in this case, sanity prevailed. On the whole, it didn't happen, it could have, it didn't.
The irony in all of it is that both Scalzi's Old Man's War and Card's Ender's Game, are really good sci-fi both deserving of awards. The politics is ruining their achievements by turning the award into a faction war. Neither SJW nor * puppies are really helping anyone.
And the only reason I use Windows is gaming... which I think is mostly obvious. If I simply wanted a Windows OS to run apps that won't work in Linux or OS X I'd use the VM option, and in fact I have a windows VM on my linux box for exactly that purpose.
But afaik video cards do not yet do hw based virtualization, at least when it comes to graphics.
Exercise won't cure obesity for any amount of exercise that the average person could get, it's simple math. Assuming that person is even mildly overeating on a regular basis.
An hour in the gym can't forgive all sins. Now diet would work, and the gym would help, but that's where you get in trouble. I will not lose weight until my caloric intake is below 1800kcal with an hour a day in the gym. I've measured this carefully over a period of 3 months with absolutely no cheating. Below that number and diet and exercise DOES work. The trick is that most doctors will not recommend an adult male take on a diet of below about 1750kcal (numbers vary depending on your country). So if you do as your doctor tells you, diet and exercise really won't work for many people at the level they are being asked to engage. However if I drop my intake to 1500kcal (with the same exercise regimen), I will lose around 5 pounds a month, with some inexplicable plateaus and crashes. So I think in my limited experience it is not true that diet and exercise do not work PERIOD. The question is what other harm may I be causing myself with this? It's hard to say.
I'm almost positive that if I had a job with moderate physical activity, that all of the above would disappear. But that doesn't reflect the kind of environment the majority of people in modern environments are living. At the same time, taking in less food to compensate seems to cause issues as well. The market for addressing the root cause may become a necessity.
The best win7 boxes were Macs, I'm disappointed they stopped supporting Win7 via bootcamp, but I can't imagine the other players in the field will beat them for Win10. The PC industry is mostly now focusing on large buying corporate customers who want cheap, and don't care if things break, don't quite work right, or annoy users (read employees) who are being paid to put up with it.
The gauntlet is there for someone to make a quality laptop and desktop that is not Apple, and provide full system test & support. But so far it's a bunch of boutique companies that integrate parts I could do on my own and have no value add, or it's roll my own. Apple continues to show that people will pay a premium for a finished solution.
I'm pretty sure it does, someone will go to jail for it. Whether the someone who goes to jail for it is the person most responsible for the crime is much harder to be sure about.
The difference is on your MBP you probably never close an app unless it's a one-off that you don't use frequently. I know I have several dozen open apps right now across 15 virtual screens and servo between them over an 8 hour day as I become blocked on one task and switch to another. Why shut them down only to spend 10 minutes relaunching? On linux or OS X, with unlimited desktops, why bother?
However on my Windows machine I tend to use just 2-3 apps at a time, and shut down before starting a new effort. This is pre-Windows 10 behavior, for the record. In windows multiple desktops was always a nuisance, so its best to close things down so your alt-tab or taskbar didn't end up unusable. I wonder if post-Win10, we don't see people using a lot more RAM.
I actually like his honesty, it's easy to see he's an imbecile. I think all you can read into this comment is he doesn't understand how games are developed, and the roles of both artists and programmers. Or, he really believes in indie game development, which would be unusual coming from a stuffed shirt type who sees labor as a means to make himself wealthy, and worthless if it's not working for him.
The part that is more amusing is STEM->STEAM. When trying to "focus" one tends to reduce the subject matter to the fewest things, STEM is really math & science, the T&E being applications. Art is orthogonal, with no overlap. Might as well throw literature and history in there. STHEALM. Oh and Foreign Languages. STHLEAFM. I think you say that before you drink liquor?
I suspect his comment about foreign language, particularly Spanish and Mandarin is correct even for STEM. R&D is being conducted on a much wider scale, with a lot of it being dropped on China (usually at the back end). Certainly I encourage my own kids the same way. Schools continue to push French and German in addition to Spanish, but those two languages are almost entirely worthless in the USA. Spanish is widely taught of course, but Mandarin is rare, and probably the most useful language looking in to the future. Sure if you're in the UK, it would seem French and German are a whole lot more immediately useful, but it seems appropriate for a minister of industry to want to focus on skills useful for the workforce. I'm confused about the rest of his message, unless we distill it into what should be obvious: the UK needs a better educated workforce (which is also true in the US).
there is a basic minimum of human interaction that you need to function in this society
Emphasis mine, and that is exactly my point. It wasn't always necessary, but the trend is that it will become more necessary, not less. That is my point.
Most of our technology development is headed in the wrong direction, it's designed to hold us hostage to each other rather than liberate us of each other. Curing SAD may be necessary in this future society, I would rather live in one where it is not necessary.
This feels like the Star Trek episode that was a metaphor for curing homosexuality. I can't remember the name of that episode, nor did I identify with it overly much, but now it hits closer to home.
I don't want to be cured of SAD, I want to be cured of the externally imposed need to social.
Pick your poison. 101F in austin today which is DOWN from yesterday, high sales tax, high property tax. But no state income tax and land/housing is cheap.
I'm not afraid of -20F. Sales tax is lower, property tax is 1/2 what I pay for a same price house, income tax would be very high. Hard to say about housing without doing a lot of research.
So it's not a clear win either way really. Both places beat the crap out of say, San Jose, but compared to the rest of the country it seems like you could do better or worse.
I've heard this theory, but the budget was something like $120M. If I just wanted to shart out a contractual obligation I'd do it on a smaller budget and hope to break even. $120M is pretty big even by big movie standards.
It could just be they can't find their asses with both hands.
This has been an issue since day 1 of vanilla, but has devolved into a playstyle that as a PvE person I really don't like, and reading posts, I don't think the PvPers really like either. I really don't think hardcore PvE and hardcore PvP can coexist because the fundamental gameplay mechanics that make PvE interesting do not exist in PvP, and vice versa. PvE is algorithmic, strategic and if done right, very complex. PvP on the other hand is highly dynamic and tactical. It's pretty much the difference between watching stunt men mock-fight in a movie versus watching UFC. Both require a lot of skill and a lot of training and superficially look similar, but when the rubber meets the road don't translate well.
There's all sorts of things they CAN do to make the game interesting again, but in my opinion a PvE only game and a PvP only game would end up being far better than their best effort. Unfortunately you're either WoW or you're cloning WoW, nobody has the cajones to do something new. I guess until WoW dies the true death.
The problem is that they don't tell you the bad things they're going to do before you've already sunk the money. Even *IF* the expansion looked interesting (and it doesn't), you're best to wait until the 2nd patch and decide to buy/not buy based on what is in the game at x.2. Assume nothing new after that, and decide if all the nerfs and stuff taken away is worth it.
WoD was a huge, horrifying disappointment for many reasons, the worst attempt since Catacylsm. Blizzard needs to do a lot to earn trust back, btu Idon't think they will. They're mostly in the death spiral of milking cash out of the franchise before it dies.
A flop is simply a movie that fails to attract an audience because it isn't good, Jupiter Ascending is a flop. The 2000 D&D movie was so god awful that it alone stands out in my mind as easily as something so bad I'd rather be in a meeting than attend. My girlfriend and I laughed so hard at the unintentionally funny parts of the movie that our judgement was so impaired, we got married. The damage was so severe, we have never recovered from this bad judgement and remain married.
The movie was an unmitigated disaster, and honestly if this were my property I'd never again let someone try to make a movie based on it.
Small business owners always will want a place, but they are relying on a captive audience to get visibility in a way they wouldn't otherwise get. Moths don't go to the zapper because they like electricity, they go because of the cool looking UV light. The current trend on FB is all electricity, no light. I predict this will stop being a thing, because we're going to stop visiting FB for social purposes if the present trend continues.
And you're exactly right, all the anti-obama nuttery, which is very popular amongst the senior crowd, is further drowning out the ability to share pictures of the brats with the people asking for pictures. Dear old mom watches Fox News for the day-time soap that it is, likes all the links and foists her various religious and political viewpoints on people for whatever reason she thinks we'd want to see it. In doing so that content gets served to her more, while my ability to send pictures of the kids, which she's asked for 15 times, gets diminished because she doesn't like or share that (not that I think she SHOULD). So in a nutshell my wife and I are using FB less and less, and back to email for sending pictures because email reliably gets through and is visible. Meanwhile I clearly don't share political or religious views with most FB people I am linked to (being a liberal in Texas), and actively want to avoid reading FB myself. I'm not alone, many of my friends have more or less abandoned their accounts because it's become a cacophony of various types of noise.
My point I guess is that FB is killing itself. It will live on, I'm sure, but its going over the peak and going to drop to some plateau. It's not going to be dominating the internet, and Google was foolish for being baited into believing it was ever a good idea. Social has never been an unmitigated good idea, it has some strengths but some weaknesses that most recently have culminated in inventing nuclear weapons to address.
I've never seen anything on Facebook that I didn't post there, but I did see things on my Google+ page that I didn't put there. That prompted me to make everything I could find private, and that in turn killed Google+ for most people indefinitely. Worst perhaps is that Google+ is linked to what may actually be your real email account, whereas Facebook was linked to (in my case) my 90 year old two-spirit avatar from Stromness. Of course one can create a Google+ avatar, but because its so intertwined you really can't ever kill off one that is linked to your real account, you simply make it all boring.
Facebook has been slower: because only things you send it could be visible by undesireables, people have been slower and laxer in locking down their profiles. So you still see some fun things on FB that make it something to look at, schadenfreude at its finest. Ultimately FB primarily has turned into a conglomerate of a desperate small-business owners way to try to push their bad ideas on their friends, a place to post pictures of your children and a news aggregator. I don't think it has much of a future on its present vector either. It will simply last longer because it is slightly less dangerous.
Slashdot Mirror
...then it will be automated somehow, eventually.
I think in the dephinition of *ophile is that the condition both is so extreme that the victim has difficulty controlling his impulses in accordance with the laws of his lands, and prefers this particular age group almost to the exclusion of all others. To actually diagnose him with a problem requires way more information than the age of his first wife. So really this is just an anal vibration that his PC has entered into the slashdot comment box, go Skylake.
Almost all men (and it says this somewhere) find women increasingly attractive as they progress through puberty and afterwards. Most of us however will not focus on this age group to all exclusion, nor will we disobey laws. A 17yo female is a fully grown adult in most cases, so it really doesn't even seem like this falls into any juvenile category. In reality this is just biology. Secondary sex characteristics, and the male fondness for them are not accidents, and are not coincidentally developed at puberty as the female reaches fertility. The actual problem with all this is purely social, and a consequence of how our cultures deal with sex and its consequences. But, someone who is not actually insane, is capable of complying with the laws even if he both doesn't agree with them, and also finds that young girl unusually attractive for some reason.
Contrast this with "Jared" of Subway fame, who allegedly both propositioned a minor for sex but also allegedly requested she bring younger friends. That's a sign of someone with a real problem who probably needs to at least be kept away from minors.
I think people just learn these words on the internets and like to start using them inappropriately, as with autism and Asperger's.
Let's do that for homeowners too. If you are told that your door is unlocked, but you still don't lock it, and some robber comes and steals your stuff, the homeowner should be thrown in jail.
Not really the same. But I would argue the insurance company might have a leg to stand on in a fraud case if they had some extra data to prove you enticed the burglar to enter.
A better scenario, is if you rent out rooms in your apartment complex, and you are told that the door locks you installed on the rooms are defective and allow anyone with a toothpick and dreams of glory to enter, and you choose not to fix it, and then people are robbed/raped/murdered in their sleep you probably share some of the blame. You may not have at all intended for those things to happen, but you made it possible and failed to fix your property which was designed for the purpose of keeping unwanted people out, and your tenants weren't free to replace those locks on their own.
This seems to be the opposite extreme, of people trying to create the impression of an all powerful US government that actively suppressed dissent with significant effectiveness. I was watching old episodes of the Twilight Zone repeatedly, and one caught my attention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_from_the_Sun) as being awful subversive for the date it was aired (1959), enough that based on what I know of the era, should have resulted in someone being arrested. Further, the idea of an un-winnable nuclear war seemed pretty prevalent. That link summarizes it better than I can, but the bottom line is that the show featured exactly the sort of subversive behavior that one might conclude was verboten in 1959, and would result in political imprisonment.
But it didn't happen. Possibly, if things had gone down slightly differently we'd have been a police state. But then if things had gone down differently we'd be British subjects, or there'd be a United States and a Confederate States, or we'd all be Nazi's etc. The bottom line is there's always going to be some idiots who won't tolerate dissent, and they will be in our government, and the thing that disempowers us is exactly the things they hate: populist, entitled, spoiled americans who don't take "the threat" (whatever it is) seriously. Those bad words they use, happen to also be very liberating things.
On the other hand, it does seem like the government would want to watch people who may be working for our enemies, and might employ numerous algorithms to identify those people. If you assume that most media in 1950 was anti-red propaganda (and it often appeared to me to be just that), and you were in a position to know it was, then you might assume your enemies might be releasing counter-propaganda and be using Americans to do it, to give it some authenticity. It seems like you would keep an eye on those Americans to identify who may be using them. That just seems like useful knowledge, those agents may also be doing other bad things of the actively harmful variety. The crime here would have been suppressing the American propagandist, that would be destroying yourself to save yourself. It didn't happen in this case, sanity prevailed. On the whole, it didn't happen, it could have, it didn't.
The irony in all of it is that both Scalzi's Old Man's War and Card's Ender's Game, are really good sci-fi both deserving of awards. The politics is ruining their achievements by turning the award into a faction war. Neither SJW nor * puppies are really helping anyone.
And the only reason I use Windows is gaming... which I think is mostly obvious. If I simply wanted a Windows OS to run apps that won't work in Linux or OS X I'd use the VM option, and in fact I have a windows VM on my linux box for exactly that purpose.
But afaik video cards do not yet do hw based virtualization, at least when it comes to graphics.
As far as I know they all do, if you are an exec you want absolute power. The only real hope here is congress and the supreme court.
Exercise won't cure obesity for any amount of exercise that the average person could get, it's simple math. Assuming that person is even mildly overeating on a regular basis.
An hour in the gym can't forgive all sins. Now diet would work, and the gym would help, but that's where you get in trouble. I will not lose weight until my caloric intake is below 1800kcal with an hour a day in the gym. I've measured this carefully over a period of 3 months with absolutely no cheating. Below that number and diet and exercise DOES work. The trick is that most doctors will not recommend an adult male take on a diet of below about 1750kcal (numbers vary depending on your country). So if you do as your doctor tells you, diet and exercise really won't work for many people at the level they are being asked to engage. However if I drop my intake to 1500kcal (with the same exercise regimen), I will lose around 5 pounds a month, with some inexplicable plateaus and crashes. So I think in my limited experience it is not true that diet and exercise do not work PERIOD. The question is what other harm may I be causing myself with this? It's hard to say.
I'm almost positive that if I had a job with moderate physical activity, that all of the above would disappear. But that doesn't reflect the kind of environment the majority of people in modern environments are living. At the same time, taking in less food to compensate seems to cause issues as well. The market for addressing the root cause may become a necessity.
The best win7 boxes were Macs, I'm disappointed they stopped supporting Win7 via bootcamp, but I can't imagine the other players in the field will beat them for Win10. The PC industry is mostly now focusing on large buying corporate customers who want cheap, and don't care if things break, don't quite work right, or annoy users (read employees) who are being paid to put up with it.
The gauntlet is there for someone to make a quality laptop and desktop that is not Apple, and provide full system test & support. But so far it's a bunch of boutique companies that integrate parts I could do on my own and have no value add, or it's roll my own. Apple continues to show that people will pay a premium for a finished solution.
I'm pretty sure it does, someone will go to jail for it. Whether the someone who goes to jail for it is the person most responsible for the crime is much harder to be sure about.
The difference is on your MBP you probably never close an app unless it's a one-off that you don't use frequently. I know I have several dozen open apps right now across 15 virtual screens and servo between them over an 8 hour day as I become blocked on one task and switch to another. Why shut them down only to spend 10 minutes relaunching? On linux or OS X, with unlimited desktops, why bother?
However on my Windows machine I tend to use just 2-3 apps at a time, and shut down before starting a new effort. This is pre-Windows 10 behavior, for the record. In windows multiple desktops was always a nuisance, so its best to close things down so your alt-tab or taskbar didn't end up unusable. I wonder if post-Win10, we don't see people using a lot more RAM.
I actually like his honesty, it's easy to see he's an imbecile. I think all you can read into this comment is he doesn't understand how games are developed, and the roles of both artists and programmers. Or, he really believes in indie game development, which would be unusual coming from a stuffed shirt type who sees labor as a means to make himself wealthy, and worthless if it's not working for him.
The part that is more amusing is STEM->STEAM. When trying to "focus" one tends to reduce the subject matter to the fewest things, STEM is really math & science, the T&E being applications. Art is orthogonal, with no overlap. Might as well throw literature and history in there. STHEALM. Oh and Foreign Languages. STHLEAFM. I think you say that before you drink liquor?
I suspect his comment about foreign language, particularly Spanish and Mandarin is correct even for STEM. R&D is being conducted on a much wider scale, with a lot of it being dropped on China (usually at the back end). Certainly I encourage my own kids the same way. Schools continue to push French and German in addition to Spanish, but those two languages are almost entirely worthless in the USA. Spanish is widely taught of course, but Mandarin is rare, and probably the most useful language looking in to the future. Sure if you're in the UK, it would seem French and German are a whole lot more immediately useful, but it seems appropriate for a minister of industry to want to focus on skills useful for the workforce. I'm confused about the rest of his message, unless we distill it into what should be obvious: the UK needs a better educated workforce (which is also true in the US).
there is a basic minimum of human interaction that you need to function in this society
Emphasis mine, and that is exactly my point. It wasn't always necessary, but the trend is that it will become more necessary, not less. That is my point.
Most of our technology development is headed in the wrong direction, it's designed to hold us hostage to each other rather than liberate us of each other. Curing SAD may be necessary in this future society, I would rather live in one where it is not necessary.
This feels like the Star Trek episode that was a metaphor for curing homosexuality. I can't remember the name of that episode, nor did I identify with it overly much, but now it hits closer to home.
I don't want to be cured of SAD, I want to be cured of the externally imposed need to social.
Austin, TX is not a one party theocracy. The rest of the state I fly over. But Austin isn't so bad.
Pick your poison. 101F in austin today which is DOWN from yesterday, high sales tax, high property tax. But no state income tax and land/housing is cheap.
I'm not afraid of -20F. Sales tax is lower, property tax is 1/2 what I pay for a same price house, income tax would be very high. Hard to say about housing without doing a lot of research.
So it's not a clear win either way really. Both places beat the crap out of say, San Jose, but compared to the rest of the country it seems like you could do better or worse.
More importantly: the object should agree with the subject.
Except that the most powerful man in the world doesn't usually resign, even in a democracy.
I've heard this theory, but the budget was something like $120M. If I just wanted to shart out a contractual obligation I'd do it on a smaller budget and hope to break even. $120M is pretty big even by big movie standards.
It could just be they can't find their asses with both hands.
This has been an issue since day 1 of vanilla, but has devolved into a playstyle that as a PvE person I really don't like, and reading posts, I don't think the PvPers really like either. I really don't think hardcore PvE and hardcore PvP can coexist because the fundamental gameplay mechanics that make PvE interesting do not exist in PvP, and vice versa. PvE is algorithmic, strategic and if done right, very complex. PvP on the other hand is highly dynamic and tactical. It's pretty much the difference between watching stunt men mock-fight in a movie versus watching UFC. Both require a lot of skill and a lot of training and superficially look similar, but when the rubber meets the road don't translate well.
There's all sorts of things they CAN do to make the game interesting again, but in my opinion a PvE only game and a PvP only game would end up being far better than their best effort. Unfortunately you're either WoW or you're cloning WoW, nobody has the cajones to do something new. I guess until WoW dies the true death.
The problem is that they don't tell you the bad things they're going to do before you've already sunk the money. Even *IF* the expansion looked interesting (and it doesn't), you're best to wait until the 2nd patch and decide to buy/not buy based on what is in the game at x.2. Assume nothing new after that, and decide if all the nerfs and stuff taken away is worth it.
WoD was a huge, horrifying disappointment for many reasons, the worst attempt since Catacylsm. Blizzard needs to do a lot to earn trust back, btu Idon't think they will. They're mostly in the death spiral of milking cash out of the franchise before it dies.
Ooh tough call.
A flop is simply a movie that fails to attract an audience because it isn't good, Jupiter Ascending is a flop. The 2000 D&D movie was so god awful that it alone stands out in my mind as easily as something so bad I'd rather be in a meeting than attend. My girlfriend and I laughed so hard at the unintentionally funny parts of the movie that our judgement was so impaired, we got married. The damage was so severe, we have never recovered from this bad judgement and remain married.
The movie was an unmitigated disaster, and honestly if this were my property I'd never again let someone try to make a movie based on it.
Small business owners always will want a place, but they are relying on a captive audience to get visibility in a way they wouldn't otherwise get. Moths don't go to the zapper because they like electricity, they go because of the cool looking UV light. The current trend on FB is all electricity, no light. I predict this will stop being a thing, because we're going to stop visiting FB for social purposes if the present trend continues.
And you're exactly right, all the anti-obama nuttery, which is very popular amongst the senior crowd, is further drowning out the ability to share pictures of the brats with the people asking for pictures. Dear old mom watches Fox News for the day-time soap that it is, likes all the links and foists her various religious and political viewpoints on people for whatever reason she thinks we'd want to see it. In doing so that content gets served to her more, while my ability to send pictures of the kids, which she's asked for 15 times, gets diminished because she doesn't like or share that (not that I think she SHOULD). So in a nutshell my wife and I are using FB less and less, and back to email for sending pictures because email reliably gets through and is visible. Meanwhile I clearly don't share political or religious views with most FB people I am linked to (being a liberal in Texas), and actively want to avoid reading FB myself. I'm not alone, many of my friends have more or less abandoned their accounts because it's become a cacophony of various types of noise.
My point I guess is that FB is killing itself. It will live on, I'm sure, but its going over the peak and going to drop to some plateau. It's not going to be dominating the internet, and Google was foolish for being baited into believing it was ever a good idea. Social has never been an unmitigated good idea, it has some strengths but some weaknesses that most recently have culminated in inventing nuclear weapons to address.
I've never seen anything on Facebook that I didn't post there, but I did see things on my Google+ page that I didn't put there. That prompted me to make everything I could find private, and that in turn killed Google+ for most people indefinitely. Worst perhaps is that Google+ is linked to what may actually be your real email account, whereas Facebook was linked to (in my case) my 90 year old two-spirit avatar from Stromness. Of course one can create a Google+ avatar, but because its so intertwined you really can't ever kill off one that is linked to your real account, you simply make it all boring.
Facebook has been slower: because only things you send it could be visible by undesireables, people have been slower and laxer in locking down their profiles. So you still see some fun things on FB that make it something to look at, schadenfreude at its finest. Ultimately FB primarily has turned into a conglomerate of a desperate small-business owners way to try to push their bad ideas on their friends, a place to post pictures of your children and a news aggregator. I don't think it has much of a future on its present vector either. It will simply last longer because it is slightly less dangerous.