Like it or not, facebook has now boarded a
runaway freak train that will eventually end in one of the largest business failures
in the history of the world and it will all be due to their overwhelming and unnecessary
and disturbing embodiment of selfish controlling behavior coupled with just
plain old fashion manipulation and greed. facebook is watching everything we do, and we
do not have any privacy at all when it comes to the facebook police. It’s not
the hackers that are the problem, it is facebook themselves. Once this was
noticed by media and the people, “CRAP” started to hit the fan. So what is the big deal about this? For one, “IS THERE
EMAIL SYSTEM IS LIKE A DISTAROUS PLANE CRASH! It’s not really like email. Yes
it combines your facebook messenger chats, as well as being able to to do SMS
and email in to one big group. But that’s all it does. All your conversations
with someone are just “lumped” together. What can be troubling to me and others
is that facebook could scan emails sent to you or that you send using this
facebook.com email address. This is known by security people as a Man in the Middle Attack. There is also the
fact that facebook is famous for making changes to their service and not
letting people know about said change or even letting them opt out of the
change before hand.
While facebook did announce this new
service back in 2010, nothing
really happened with it. It was just like everyone forgot it. Then two years
later, they changed everything but neglected to send a reminder. When they were
asked by some news outlets,
NPR being one of them, about the changes, they really didn’t give a straight
answer. When I saw the news I of course checked mine and changed it back and
started to take info out of my profile. I may even just start putting nonsense
in there to screw up their info gathering. facebook has been doing this kind of
thing over, and over again.
Zuckerberg’s vision of the future is that there is no privacy. Everything and I
mean everything should be open. Thanks Mark, but no thanks. As a publicly
traded company, I don’t see this helping their bottom line at all. Some advice I would
give facebook about this, and this is totally my advice as a user and some who works
in the media, is that they may want to hire someone else to do their public
relations, as whoever it is now IS TERRIBLE and is not speaking up at meetings
like the TIMELINE THING for one, how about a heads up facebook? Something simple
like this! “Hey, we announced this two years ago. We really should send out a
reminder to everyone and let them know this is coming.” Yeah, let’s send out a
mass email to all of our users that would be good. It’s not like its rocket
science, it is just common courtesy.
Internet users expressed split opinions in
a wide-ranging debate sparked by a Los Angeles Times story Friday that
questioned whether Mark Zuckerberg is still
the right person to lead Facebook Inc. Titled "Is Mark Zuckerberg in over
his hoodie as facebook CEO?," the story compiled questions that facebook
and Zuckerberg have been facing since going public in May while also shedding
light on the fact that people have begun to ask if Zuckerberg should leave the
chief executive’s title to someone else. facebook stock closed below the $20
mark for the first time Thursday after the expiration of a provision that had
barred certain investors and insiders, including employees, from trading some
of their shares. The debate over Zuckerberg’s role raged on numerous websites
in response to The Times story Reads. Breaking News:"Mark Zuckerberg resigns
as facebooks CEO immediately," said a user on Twitter,
linking to a post calling for Zuckerberg's resignation.
The user
has contacted us to say his tweet and post were sarcastic. He thinks Zuckerberg
is doing a good job. A reader in the story comments area said: "Now time
has come when Mark Zuckerberg should step down from the position of CEO and
take some more creative responsibility. This is not about hoodie or his
appearance in public but its all about face book’s failed business model."
But many are also saying that firing Zuckerberg would be a mistake, even
comparing it to Apple's ousting of Steve Jobs in the 1980s. "This
article is so dumb. Everyone knows that the people that build great products
are the ones that should see through their vision," said one person
commenting on the story. "Zuckerburg is not only quite rightly a bold
strong leader with an vision but he also like Steve Jobs is not focused on
money - those are the qualities that make great CEO's." They think it's
the CEO that's the problem," a Reddit user said. "Swapping out CEOs
has helped companies like AOL, RIM, and Yahoo stay afloat so much! I
guess that's how Wall Street justifies paying millions to a person who votes on
choices brought to him or her from their team or investors." Others,
though, say Zuckerberg isn't the problem. The facebook business model is. "FB
needs monster ad revenues to perform and the users who log on could truly care
less about ads. It's of no interest to them- no matter how much you try to hit
them over the head with ads, their ONLY concern is what their FB friends are up
to," another person said in a story comment. "Ads simply don't work
in social media. Period People! This company produces nothing! All it does is
sell your personal information to marketers, another reader said. "Don’t
be zombies and just let them earn billions off of you without any
compensation."
Zuckerberg’s past, dramatically depicted in the 2010 feature film "The Social Network," prompted some to suggest that his troubles now are karma for his actions in his early 20s. "Zuckerberg stole the idea for facebook from the Winklevoss twins," one reader said. "How this hoodied ego maniac can live himself is beyond me. It is not surprising that FB is tanking.... The kid loves to posture like he is a big CEO but in actuality he is a lightweight and is relatively unskilled in the business and technology sectors." Some said they would be happy to see Zuckerberg and facebook fail. "Any investor who really thought they were going to make a fortune on the stock was an idiot. The company is overvalued even now at half the IPO price," said a Reddit user. "Greed and arrogance says Hubris," said a reader. "I could not be happier to see Mark Zuckerberg, the Teflon-coated golden boy finally get what he deserves. He flat-out stole the idea of facebook from others and got lucky." But at least on facebook, some people remain hopeful. "facebook is going to make money, just not as fast as people's greed wanted!" said one person. Another said: "Not even worried about the stock being down, because im going to hold the stock for a while and see what happens." "The stock price has nothing to do with how the company is run in this case," another person said on the Times Technology page on facebook. "It's due to the initial over-hype, and it will stabilize, maybe it will even recover. Bringing in some Coca-Cola salesman, like Apple did with Sculley, would be a huge mistake." But perhaps nothing sums up the current situation for Zuckerberg or facebook in one word quite like agent 0f ch4os'commentary on Reddit. "Timberrrr”, the user said. The bottom line here is what goes up, must come down and face book and falling fast like a big Jet that just ran out of gas at 35000 feet. So here we go again.
Zuckerberg’s past, dramatically depicted in the 2010 feature film "The Social Network," prompted some to suggest that his troubles now are karma for his actions in his early 20s. "Zuckerberg stole the idea for facebook from the Winklevoss twins," one reader said. "How this hoodied ego maniac can live himself is beyond me. It is not surprising that FB is tanking.... The kid loves to posture like he is a big CEO but in actuality he is a lightweight and is relatively unskilled in the business and technology sectors." Some said they would be happy to see Zuckerberg and facebook fail. "Any investor who really thought they were going to make a fortune on the stock was an idiot. The company is overvalued even now at half the IPO price," said a Reddit user. "Greed and arrogance says Hubris," said a reader. "I could not be happier to see Mark Zuckerberg, the Teflon-coated golden boy finally get what he deserves. He flat-out stole the idea of facebook from others and got lucky." But at least on facebook, some people remain hopeful. "facebook is going to make money, just not as fast as people's greed wanted!" said one person. Another said: "Not even worried about the stock being down, because im going to hold the stock for a while and see what happens." "The stock price has nothing to do with how the company is run in this case," another person said on the Times Technology page on facebook. "It's due to the initial over-hype, and it will stabilize, maybe it will even recover. Bringing in some Coca-Cola salesman, like Apple did with Sculley, would be a huge mistake." But perhaps nothing sums up the current situation for Zuckerberg or facebook in one word quite like agent 0f ch4os'commentary on Reddit. "Timberrrr”, the user said. The bottom line here is what goes up, must come down and face book and falling fast like a big Jet that just ran out of gas at 35000 feet. So here we go again.
Facebook has made big
changes to users' pages, and people are responding in droves with their
metaphorical "dislike" buttons. News Feeds were popping with
not-so-gentle complaints Wednesday as many of the social-networking behemoth's
750 million users began seeing the overhaul. "This is absolutely the worst
of the many wrong-headed 'improvements' you have made, and that's quite a
feat," a user named Franklin Habit wrote on the site's official facebook
page. "I think facebook's usefulness to me has now been outstripped by its
lack of ease in use." Others were more succinct. "This sucks,"
wrote user Brandon Howell. "That is all." To be fair, griping about facebook
changes is a time-honored hallmark of the site. Change is hard for some people,
and users grumble every time facebook revamps their pages. And it's perhaps a
touch on the ironic side that many of the current complaints are coming from
folks who, in turn, complained in December when the current format was rolled
out. Or the time before. And the time before that. Which isn't to say that the
changes aren't pretty dramatic. Instead of defaulting to your friends' most
recent posts, the News Feed (which people hated when it was introduced) is now
topped in many cases by what Facebook calls "Top Stories" for you. It
uses an algorithm that combines such factors as which friends you interact with
most and which friends' posts have the most comments and "likes" on
them. That algorithm, of course, was in its infancy on Wednesday, leading many
users to say the top stories that Facebook suggested were random, at best. "The
'top stories' needs to be gotten rid of," wrote user Kristy Montaney.
"They're out of context and I want to check my News Feed from most recent
to oldest, none of this 'top stories' stuff." In a post on The facebook
Blog, developer Mark Tonkelowitz said the idea is to help people who may not
log in to the site all the time find the best content, not just the newest. "Now,
News Feed will act more like your own personal newspaper," he wrote. "You
won't have to worry about missing important stuff. All your news will be in a
single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the top." If
you check Facebook more frequently, he said, you'll see newer stories at the
top of your feed. Facebook's new 'Timeline' profile pages, the latest
'improvement' by founder Mark Zuckerberg, has hurt the site's popularity,
according to a survey by the American Customer Satisfaction Index. They can’t keep putting grown adults on
facebook restriction for friend-ing and poking. What does it matter how many
people anyone sends a friend request to or pokes? How does that affect anyone?
You know what it doesn’t, there is absolutely no harm done in a friend request
or a poke.
According
to the study, about 61% of people are happy with facebook's service, which is
less popular than Google Plus, Twitter, Wikipedia and Pinterest. The American
Customer Satisfaction Index said to the Daily Mail: "facebook’s
drop coincides with the release of its Timeline profile, a significant change
to the look and organization of its pages. Users complain that they cannot opt
out of the new profile design." "The sheer volume of advertising on
these sites is another contributor to low satisfaction. Many users are uneasy
about how their personal information is used and often do not see value in the
advertising messages that are targeted to them."
Google
Plus has grown to 250 million users annually and has 75 million daily visitors,
overtaking Twitter. I know facebook is
real liberal and they love liberal media however I would advise them to read a
very wise verse in the Holy Bible Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a
fall. It seems to me and millions more that facebook is
a very greedy company, and it is very obvious by all of the un-necessary
restrictions they place on their members as they treat us all like kindergarteners.
I have news for facebook, the majority of its users are adults, and adults do
not like to be baby sat by big brother; it would be in facebooks best interest
to lighten up on all of us, because before they know it, the prideful Goliath of
a company that they think they are, will eventually get brought down by a
humble David, as no-one or no company, has never won a battle that was driven
by greed and pride ~ Donnie Bolena
