Despite all the comments that point to them confusing him with Jobs (hehe), I think this is a pretty solid move.
Clearly, they plan to do some subconcious marketing stuff by linking people's impressions of him with their own brand.
And who do they want the most? Apple users! And would Apple users have watched the Jobs movie? Most definitely! So, even if obviously Ashton is just some cool actor and not Jobs, they will see him and associate Apple with Lenovo.
Charlie: So, lieutenant, where exactly were you?
Maverick: Well, we...
Goose: Thank you.
Maverick: Started up on a 6, when he pulled from the clouds, and then I moved in above him.
Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him?
Maverick: Because I was inverted.
Iceman: [coughs whilst saying] Bullshit.
Goose: No, he was man. It was a really great move. He was inverted.
Charlie: You were in a 4g inverted dive with a MiG28?
Maverick: Yes, ma'am.
Charlie: At what range?
Maverick: Um, about two meters.
Goose: It was actually about one and a half I think. It was one and a half. I've got a great Polaroid of it, and he's right there, must be one and a half.
Maverick: Was a nice picture.
Goose: Thanks.
Charlie: Eh, lieutenant, what were you doing there?
Goose: Communicating.
Maverick: Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. You know, giving him the bird!
Goose: [Charlie looks puzzled, so Goose clarifies] You know, the finger
Charlie: Yes, I know the finger, Goose.
Goose: I-I'm sorry, I hate it when it does that, I'm sorry. Excuse me.
I concur, from my own self-experience. It is incredibly difficult to lose weight off of just cardio (even with a pretty good diet, too).
I fixed my diet and started moderate exercise (~15 mins running day + weightlifting) and fixed my Bodyfat from 20+% to 15% in 3 months.
I then decided I wanted to hit 10-12% bodyfat, so I started running 30 mins a day (3.5 miles a day) 6 days a week for 6 months. Diet got more restricted but probably not as much as I thought (perhaps 1800-2000 calories a day, target was 1700 cals a day).
If lucky, I hit *maybe* 14% bodyfat, maybe 13% on a good day. That's it. I ran about a marathon a week literally for 6 months, but could not get rid of my remaining bellyfat (I had a very rough 4-pack, not even close to a 6-pack).
The problem now, I am experiencing, with old laptops is not the horsepower - it is battery life. Specifically, the battery life in even a brand new battery sucks, and the laptop cannot last more than 2 hours without a recharge. I have Windows 7 X61T
To buy a *new* battery from Lenovo would cost me $150-$200+tax, which would buy me a brand new (cheap) laptop / (cheap) tablet (which will, ironically, have *better* battery life due to worse parts, lack of Windows, etc).
If I buy a cheap no-name battery from Ebay (~$25-$40), the quality of the battery now suffers, and I can probably get at most 1 hour (compared to 2 hours for the official brand battery).
In the end, I cannot use my old laptop due to battery performance, *not* actual chip technology performance.
I'm not going to hit on you, get a reality check. I only want to be friends and meet all your other friends (male AND female). I mentioned networking, NOT hitting on all your immediate girl contacts and making them leaf nodes.
1) Hardest course loads through college (excepting perhaps hard sciences and premeds).
2) No girls in classes (5-14%, falls as engineering major gets harder (ie electrical))
3) No girls in companies you will end up working at
4) Facebook friends list is 80% men, most of friends are men. Great if you are networking, crappy if you are trying to network to find the perfect gf/wife. Other majors make balanced set of friends naturally through classes. Their networking, as a result, is exponentially easier.
5) You end up working at a multinational company that pays you less (much less) than finance, law, BUSINESS. Argh. Note that business, finance, and law types went through the OPPOSITE of #1-#4, meaning they end up knowing way more girls, earning more, and having had a better life.
6) Yet, you feel as if you contribute way more to society than money movers, patent leeching lawyers, and smoothtalking male/female bimbos/bimbettes.
You tell ME how f*** up engineering is.
You ask why I do it? Because I love analysis, creating, designing, and doing.
Let's not forget that the primary demographic in which any new trend starts is the college-age to twenties crowd.
Facebook smartly captured this specific demographic and their attention (away from Friendster and MySpace), because of two main reasons, whichi Google+ does not have:
1) social acceptance (ie friend confirmation button)
and
2) being the "first" network in which people could feel unstalkerish by stalking people they barely know but would possibly like to know better (flirtation, becoming friends, etc)
1) it started off being an "in-network-only" - what does that mean? It means, the college students which were its first users, mostly wanted to check out those hot girl/guys in their classes. It also had a "confirm friend", so you gained some sort of "acceptance" that it was consensual "stalking".
Google+, however, misses that boat: anyone can add you, without your consent (you can only block, not force them to unfriend). That means there is no "confirmed acceptance", missing out on a key social-emotional facet.
2) Furthermore, Facebook has most momentum *not* because it has "all your friend", but because it has "all the cool/hot girl/guys you'd like to be better friends with but-only-met-once-at-a-party-and-do-not-want-to-overtly-add-on-another-network-again". If google+ finds a way to migrate this set over to G+, I'd wager the G+ snowball would start rolling, and rolling pretty fast.
As an example, I was one of the first on facebook. So was my circle. But guess which same circle is on my G+ ? That's right! The geeky circle I have that was first on these due to being in "ivies" and having "friends who work at google". However, which group is missing from my G+ and everyone else? Those acquaintances you met once and never met again? Some you unfriend, but some you still want to see as a contact.
tl,dr:
1) Facebook's confirm friend button works far better to make users feel safe
2) Facebook has snowball effect due to people having already added, surprisingly, not their EXISTING friends but rather the *acquantainces* they'd *like-to-get-to-know-better* but would rather not admit to "stalking" by adding them on another network again.
But can you have it both ways? Google was oh-so-great when it was the underdog and was able to wreak havoc on M$ (kind of). Now that they are big enough to do product tie-ins here and there, people are to complain of their unfair practices (ie monopolistic advantages)?
Can the argument be made that using Youtube monopoly is akin to M$ using Win monopoly to unseat Netscape with IE ? You are in no way forced to use Youtube. An entire ecosystem of (web) apps does not revolve around Youtube - embedded videos can be replaced easily enough and any smart website designer would have made the website malleable enough to do so with some simple scripts / db changes.
Yes, point taken, so s/Youtube/other google products . Do they really have a monopoly on web services? You are always free to go to other web services.
Are you kidding? Youtube is a drain on money, and is unlikely to replace real entertainment anytime soon (although we can see where they are trying to head).
Google depends and dies on search. They gave Mozilla $300 million just to be not replaced by Bing, although they'd rather everyone use Chrome. And Mozilla just partnered with Twitter and FB on that stupid lame whine video about search results.
I'm not biased towards any one company, although I would like to see the evil that is FB be replaced.
Alright, well who cares? If Google shoots itself in the butt by destroying / tying in social with its search, a new search contender will most likely step up and fill the 2nd place void. Maybe it'll be Bing.
He probably saw minecraft's influence.. as much as he helped totally change gaming by evolving Mario, Link from 2d ORIGINALS with *true* gameplay that has lasted the test of time (SMB1,2,3 & Link to the Past), and then moving Mario, Link into 3D very successfully.. he probably saw that one dev DOES has the power to affect gaming and gameplay (please, not talking about angry birds and crap like that).
Mr. Miyamoto, please make some cool original stuff like Minecraft did. Blaze the trail !
A newb, but I have toyed a tiny bit with Django and it seems that the Django model layer is also the ORM (if you want it to be). You could of course add in the ORM layer-wrapper-class yourself, but newb-basic Django seems to have the model layer BE the ORM (as opposed to Zend, which recommends you to make a ORM and then a seperate model class).
Essentially its like digital signals propagating to latches. The delayed green is analogous to non overlapping clock phases to ensure that there are no short-path / race conditions that occur.
It's annoying and it breaks tools? When you have Firefox imaged as part of your basic image install, and then it is outdated immediately by 5 version numbers and auto-upgrades ?
Every release breaks some tools - don't even mention their own plugins and addons created by others.
For example, my Thinkpad Client Security password manager used to work well with Firefox 1/2 - for v3 I had to go to the trouble of patching some js files myself because Lenovo didn't support it fast enough. Now with this super-fast release cycle, I can't patch my software and don't even bother anymore.
It's frustrating. I would move to Chrome (being a loyal Firefox person I have not yet) - if not Chrome is more evil in other ways.
Give a bit more time and I will give up Firefox. Just plain fed up with their douchebaggery. It was us fans that installed it for our non-geek friends, and it will be us fans that uninstall them and recommend everyone something else.
I've also been saying for a while, that the thing that propelled FB was the "exclusive-ness" factor. We joined when we were only 1/8 schools in the entire FB network; we felt exclusive. Back then, it was like a top-tier university club. Then it opened up to all universities; ok great, still all about exclusivity using.edu right?
Nope, then it opened up more.. and more.. then you didn't even need networks to join. Eventually, when grandmas, the random dude at Walmart, started joining, you knew it was only a matter of time until the geeks (their core base from which they leaned on and leveraged to grow exponentially), would leave for a better alternative. That alternative, is G+.
What makes G+ "buzz"-ing right now IS the exclusivity factor; with an invite-only system, the geeks flock over because all of our contacts work in Si Valley, and we get invites asap from the Googler's (in fact I've noticed my G+ friend suggestions highly mimic my Gmail invite-patchs). From then out it expands out.
What makes G+ (or any NEW network) exciting is exclusivity; Facebook had it with.edu (then lost it in order to grow big); Gmail had it with invites (then lost it once it grew big enough), and same with G+. What makes GMail stick (and possible G+ stick) is that they actually have GOOD FEATURES taht people want, do not continually disrespect their userbase (ala Facebook) with many interface changes, random privacy settings, wall-gardening, etc.
Exclusitivity with coolness factor (ala Geek crowd,.edu crowd, etc) is the key for rapid BUZZ and growth.
I thought they made quite a bit through targeted ad's and selling data-mined demographics to large/small businesses ?
Of course, I read this on the internet (probably some TC such site, although I dropped TC after they went to Facebook's commenting system, how retarded of them).
Could just be FB propaganda thrown out there to increase their value and keep it all stable.
While we're on the Slashdot subject of the community (ie blackhats) getting back at Sony (ie corporations) screwing over their own customers for no good reason (aka Hotz), can someone tell me why the same community of OS / compiler / OSS people can't come together, fork Android, and really just say to Google "thank you but no thank you, you've done good but you can't do anymore."
Or to make it simpler, just make some nice OSS apps that destroy Google's lockdown on Android so that we who pay $70-90 a month for a 3G/4G cell plan (individual, not family plan) can rightfully use the service we pay through our teeth for ?
Not trollin', just sayin'. I got tired of being screwed over on price from Verizon, moving to Tmo, then Tmo might get acquired by AT&T, who is frankly quite undesirable to be a customer of.
l browse the site every day and read the comments for, on average, 1/10 of articles; l didn't get mod points for like 2 years but last week l suddenly did. weird!
Yes he comes off as having tried to hard to write a smart-alecky feel-good egotistical comment that reads off like something Orson Scott Card would have wrote for Ender's first-person stream-of-concoiusness (yes I'm aware a stream of conciousness is not nicely written and grammatically correct but is instead a stream of run-on sentences with a much less organized structure), however, I do say his use of 'raze' was quite a nice pun given what he wrote (which I took as a funny short-story Ender type story more than an egotistical ramble).
In short, cut him some slack. He tried hard to be cool, nerdy, and funny.
I used to think it would fail too, but not its just too big to be stopped. Every one of the big companies esp. Google messed up on this one. They could have easily rolled FB over from 2005-2008 or even 2009 but now its impossible.
TCL is a great language written by Ousterhout at Berkeley, but if I recall correctly, its primary purpose was for hardware CAD applications with respect to electrical engineering.
It is a staple scripting language for most of the entire VLSI toolchain, but how the heck is TCL a good language for the web? Methinks it would be better to write integrated Ruby support (or, shudder, Perl..)...
You don't put your watch in a slip case, do you? Just give up your urge to protect, give in to your urge to just "use freely", and at most put a screen protector on your phone (like i do). No need to protect your phone so much.
I agree however you forget that Facebook has reached the point where even regular users don't share actual relevant life-updates, thoughts, etc, precisely because they have seen the pitfalls of others who do so (and seen how Facebook eats your privacy and backstabs you).
Thus, you are seeing the effect of people posting less and less useful, actual updates, and mostly just using the service as a photo update. Occasional status updates such as "I was here in ___" and "oh its raining i hate it" is about all I see nowadays. This might not hold true for the blue-collar folks who joined recently but for the upper educated class this is the trend.
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Despite all the comments that point to them confusing him with Jobs (hehe), I think this is a pretty solid move.
Clearly, they plan to do some subconcious marketing stuff by linking people's impressions of him with their own brand.
And who do they want the most? Apple users! And would Apple users have watched the Jobs movie? Most definitely! So, even if obviously Ashton is just some cool actor and not Jobs, they will see him and associate Apple with Lenovo.
Charlie: So, lieutenant, where exactly were you?
Maverick: Well, we...
Goose: Thank you.
Maverick: Started up on a 6, when he pulled from the clouds, and then I moved in above him.
Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him?
Maverick: Because I was inverted.
Iceman: [coughs whilst saying] Bullshit.
Goose: No, he was man. It was a really great move. He was inverted.
Charlie: You were in a 4g inverted dive with a MiG28?
Maverick: Yes, ma'am.
Charlie: At what range?
Maverick: Um, about two meters.
Goose: It was actually about one and a half I think. It was one and a half. I've got a great Polaroid of it, and he's right there, must be one and a half.
Maverick: Was a nice picture.
Goose: Thanks.
Charlie: Eh, lieutenant, what were you doing there?
Goose: Communicating.
Maverick: Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. You know, giving him the bird!
Goose: [Charlie looks puzzled, so Goose clarifies] You know, the finger
Charlie: Yes, I know the finger, Goose.
Goose: I-I'm sorry, I hate it when it does that, I'm sorry. Excuse me.
I concur, from my own self-experience. It is incredibly difficult to lose weight off of just cardio (even with a pretty good diet, too).
I fixed my diet and started moderate exercise (~15 mins running day + weightlifting) and fixed my Bodyfat from 20+% to 15% in 3 months.
I then decided I wanted to hit 10-12% bodyfat, so I started running 30 mins a day (3.5 miles a day) 6 days a week for 6 months. Diet got more restricted but probably not as much as I thought (perhaps 1800-2000 calories a day, target was 1700 cals a day).
If lucky, I hit *maybe* 14% bodyfat, maybe 13% on a good day. That's it. I ran about a marathon a week literally for 6 months, but could not get rid of my remaining bellyfat (I had a very rough 4-pack, not even close to a 6-pack).
The problem now, I am experiencing, with old laptops is not the horsepower - it is battery life. Specifically, the battery life in even a brand new battery sucks, and the laptop cannot last more than 2 hours without a recharge. I have Windows 7 X61T
To buy a *new* battery from Lenovo would cost me $150-$200+tax, which would buy me a brand new (cheap) laptop / (cheap) tablet (which will, ironically, have *better* battery life due to worse parts, lack of Windows, etc).
If I buy a cheap no-name battery from Ebay (~$25-$40), the quality of the battery now suffers, and I can probably get at most 1 hour (compared to 2 hours for the official brand battery).
In the end, I cannot use my old laptop due to battery performance, *not* actual chip technology performance.
I'm not going to hit on you, get a reality check. I only want to be friends and meet all your other friends (male AND female). I mentioned networking, NOT hitting on all your immediate girl contacts and making them leaf nodes.
Why study engineering?
1) Hardest course loads through college (excepting perhaps hard sciences and premeds).
2) No girls in classes (5-14%, falls as engineering major gets harder (ie electrical))
3) No girls in companies you will end up working at
4) Facebook friends list is 80% men, most of friends are men. Great if you are networking, crappy if you are trying to network to find the perfect gf/wife. Other majors make balanced set of friends naturally through classes. Their networking, as a result, is exponentially easier.
5) You end up working at a multinational company that pays you less (much less) than finance, law, BUSINESS. Argh. Note that business, finance, and law types went through the OPPOSITE of #1-#4, meaning they end up knowing way more girls, earning more, and having had a better life.
6) Yet, you feel as if you contribute way more to society than money movers, patent leeching lawyers, and smoothtalking male/female bimbos/bimbettes.
You tell ME how f*** up engineering is.
You ask why I do it? Because I love analysis, creating, designing, and doing.
Let's not forget that the primary demographic in which any new trend starts is the college-age to twenties crowd.
Facebook smartly captured this specific demographic and their attention (away from Friendster and MySpace), because of two main reasons, whichi Google+ does not have:
1) social acceptance (ie friend confirmation button)
and
2) being the "first" network in which people could feel unstalkerish by stalking people they barely know but would possibly like to know better (flirtation, becoming friends, etc)
1) it started off being an "in-network-only" - what does that mean? It means, the college students which were its first users, mostly wanted to check out those hot girl/guys in their classes. It also had a "confirm friend", so you gained some sort of "acceptance" that it was consensual "stalking".
Google+, however, misses that boat: anyone can add you, without your consent (you can only block, not force them to unfriend). That means there is no "confirmed acceptance", missing out on a key social-emotional facet.
2) Furthermore, Facebook has most momentum *not* because it has "all your friend", but because it has "all the cool/hot girl/guys you'd like to be better friends with but-only-met-once-at-a-party-and-do-not-want-to-overtly-add-on-another-network-again". If google+ finds a way to migrate this set over to G+, I'd wager the G+ snowball would start rolling, and rolling pretty fast.
As an example, I was one of the first on facebook. So was my circle. But guess which same circle is on my G+ ? That's right! The geeky circle I have that was first on these due to being in "ivies" and having "friends who work at google". However, which group is missing from my G+ and everyone else? Those acquaintances you met once and never met again? Some you unfriend, but some you still want to see as a contact.
tl,dr:
1) Facebook's confirm friend button works far better to make users feel safe
2) Facebook has snowball effect due to people having already added, surprisingly, not their EXISTING friends but rather the *acquantainces* they'd *like-to-get-to-know-better* but would rather not admit to "stalking" by adding them on another network again.
Gotcha. Point taken, thanks for clarifying.
But can you have it both ways? Google was oh-so-great when it was the underdog and was able to wreak havoc on M$ (kind of). Now that they are big enough to do product tie-ins here and there, people are to complain of their unfair practices (ie monopolistic advantages)?
Can the argument be made that using Youtube monopoly is akin to M$ using Win monopoly to unseat Netscape with IE ? You are in no way forced to use Youtube. An entire ecosystem of (web) apps does not revolve around Youtube - embedded videos can be replaced easily enough and any smart website designer would have made the website malleable enough to do so with some simple scripts / db changes.
Yes, point taken, so s/Youtube/other google products . Do they really have a monopoly on web services? You are always free to go to other web services.
Are you kidding? Youtube is a drain on money, and is unlikely to replace real entertainment anytime soon (although we can see where they are trying to head).
Google depends and dies on search. They gave Mozilla $300 million just to be not replaced by Bing, although they'd rather everyone use Chrome. And Mozilla just partnered with Twitter and FB on that stupid lame whine video about search results.
I'm not biased towards any one company, although I would like to see the evil that is FB be replaced.
Alright, well who cares? If Google shoots itself in the butt by destroying / tying in social with its search, a new search contender will most likely step up and fill the 2nd place void. Maybe it'll be Bing.
Just let the market correct itself.
He probably saw minecraft's influence.. as much as he helped totally change gaming by evolving Mario, Link from 2d ORIGINALS with *true* gameplay that has lasted the test of time (SMB1,2,3 & Link to the Past), and then moving Mario, Link into 3D very successfully.. he probably saw that one dev DOES has the power to affect gaming and gameplay (please, not talking about angry birds and crap like that).
Mr. Miyamoto, please make some cool original stuff like Minecraft did. Blaze the trail !
A newb, but I have toyed a tiny bit with Django and it seems that the Django model layer is also the ORM (if you want it to be). You could of course add in the ORM layer-wrapper-class yourself, but newb-basic Django seems to have the model layer BE the ORM (as opposed to Zend, which recommends you to make a ORM and then a seperate model class).
Essentially its like digital signals propagating to latches. The delayed green is analogous to non overlapping clock phases to ensure that there are no short-path / race conditions that occur.
It's annoying and it breaks tools? When you have Firefox imaged as part of your basic image install, and then it is outdated immediately by 5 version numbers and auto-upgrades ?
Every release breaks some tools - don't even mention their own plugins and addons created by others.
For example, my Thinkpad Client Security password manager used to work well with Firefox 1/2 - for v3 I had to go to the trouble of patching some js files myself because Lenovo didn't support it fast enough. Now with this super-fast release cycle, I can't patch my software and don't even bother anymore.
It's frustrating. I would move to Chrome (being a loyal Firefox person I have not yet) - if not Chrome is more evil in other ways.
Give a bit more time and I will give up Firefox. Just plain fed up with their douchebaggery. It was us fans that installed it for our non-geek friends, and it will be us fans that uninstall them and recommend everyone something else.
I agree, been saying it for a while too.
.edu right?
.edu (then lost it in order to grow big); Gmail had it with invites (then lost it once it grew big enough), and same with G+. What makes GMail stick (and possible G+ stick) is that they actually have GOOD FEATURES taht people want, do not continually disrespect their userbase (ala Facebook) with many interface changes, random privacy settings, wall-gardening, etc.
.edu crowd, etc) is the key for rapid BUZZ and growth.
I've also been saying for a while, that the thing that propelled FB was the "exclusive-ness" factor. We joined when we were only 1/8 schools in the entire FB network; we felt exclusive. Back then, it was like a top-tier university club. Then it opened up to all universities; ok great, still all about exclusivity using
Nope, then it opened up more.. and more.. then you didn't even need networks to join. Eventually, when grandmas, the random dude at Walmart, started joining, you knew it was only a matter of time until the geeks (their core base from which they leaned on and leveraged to grow exponentially), would leave for a better alternative. That alternative, is G+.
What makes G+ "buzz"-ing right now IS the exclusivity factor; with an invite-only system, the geeks flock over because all of our contacts work in Si Valley, and we get invites asap from the Googler's (in fact I've noticed my G+ friend suggestions highly mimic my Gmail invite-patchs). From then out it expands out.
What makes G+ (or any NEW network) exciting is exclusivity; Facebook had it with
Exclusitivity with coolness factor (ala Geek crowd,
I thought they made quite a bit through targeted ad's and selling data-mined demographics to large/small businesses ?
Of course, I read this on the internet (probably some TC such site, although I dropped TC after they went to Facebook's commenting system, how retarded of them).
Could just be FB propaganda thrown out there to increase their value and keep it all stable.
While we're on the Slashdot subject of the community (ie blackhats) getting back at Sony (ie corporations) screwing over their own customers for no good reason (aka Hotz), can someone tell me why the same community of OS / compiler / OSS people can't come together, fork Android, and really just say to Google "thank you but no thank you, you've done good but you can't do anymore."
Or to make it simpler, just make some nice OSS apps that destroy Google's lockdown on Android so that we who pay $70-90 a month for a 3G/4G cell plan (individual, not family plan) can rightfully use the service we pay through our teeth for ?
Not trollin', just sayin'. I got tired of being screwed over on price from Verizon, moving to Tmo, then Tmo might get acquired by AT&T, who is frankly quite undesirable to be a customer of.
l browse the site every day and read the comments for, on average, 1/10 of articles; l didn't get mod points for like 2 years but last week l suddenly did. weird!
Plz make borg picture for Jobs and put halo around Gates borg. kthxbai
Yes he comes off as having tried to hard to write a smart-alecky feel-good egotistical comment that reads off like something Orson Scott Card would have wrote for Ender's first-person stream-of-concoiusness (yes I'm aware a stream of conciousness is not nicely written and grammatically correct but is instead a stream of run-on sentences with a much less organized structure), however, I do say his use of 'raze' was quite a nice pun given what he wrote (which I took as a funny short-story Ender type story more than an egotistical ramble).
In short, cut him some slack. He tried hard to be cool, nerdy, and funny.
I used to think it would fail too, but not its just too big to be stopped. Every one of the big companies esp. Google messed up on this one. They could have easily rolled FB over from 2005-2008 or even 2009 but now its impossible.
TCL is a great language written by Ousterhout at Berkeley, but if I recall correctly, its primary purpose was for hardware CAD applications with respect to electrical engineering.
...
It is a staple scripting language for most of the entire VLSI toolchain, but how the heck is TCL a good language for the web? Methinks it would be better to write integrated Ruby support (or, shudder, Perl..)
You don't put your watch in a slip case, do you? Just give up your urge to protect, give in to your urge to just "use freely", and at most put a screen protector on your phone (like i do). No need to protect your phone so much.
I agree however you forget that Facebook has reached the point where even regular users don't share actual relevant life-updates, thoughts, etc, precisely because they have seen the pitfalls of others who do so (and seen how Facebook eats your privacy and backstabs you).
Thus, you are seeing the effect of people posting less and less useful, actual updates, and mostly just using the service as a photo update. Occasional status updates such as "I was here in ___" and "oh its raining i hate it" is about all I see nowadays. This might not hold true for the blue-collar folks who joined recently but for the upper educated class this is the trend.