Let’s start with Facebook “in the beginning” being some sort of respectable space in the Interwebs for those normies who didn’t like the egalitarian and intelligent, or at least free and brave, and also deep and diverse (not in the sense of demonstrative insincere tolerance to LGBTQZPNA, where Z stands for zoo-, P stands for pedo-, N stands for non-carbon and A stands for antimatter, and other culture war markers, but in the sense of a thousand different cultures forming not only the content of webpages, but also how they would be interconnected, how they would look and how they would work), culture of the Web back then.
It was almost a LinkedIn alternative.
Teens who’d want to be there were the more social and sociopathic types, who knew that the Web and that techy stuff is new and cool, but despised the people who’d actually exchange useful information there, and that actual information, that whole part of the world.
Facebook back then just didn’t seem usable as compared to Skype and ICQ and all the web forums.
Unfortunately worthy people are gullible and lack willpower, so that sociopathic crowd has rebuilt the Web for itself. They don’t even use it as much as we do FFS.
Remember when on a forum you’d usually see which specific moderator removed or edited your post? (And what was there before the edit, quite often) And it was good tone for moderators to only edit out forbidden parts, not just delete everything. And it was good tone to give out warnings first.
Facebook was a MySpace alternative for “academics” (college students / alums) instead of teens.
LinkedIn was a MySpace alternative for “professionals” instead of teens.
Forums were an evolution of BBSs that predated “social” media because it wasn’t you, it was an avatar, a fake persona you created rather than “first name,” “last name.”
ICQ and Skype were purely chat platforms, competing in a completely different space.
I have no idea what point this rant is trying to make but all the comparisons between services are way off base.
but all the comparisons between services are way off base.
My experience in Russia. No, they are not off base. Just naturally there are different PoVs and for you it may be something entirely else. You can think about that before saying something is wrong.
MySpace
Say, I’m not sure many people even knew of that where I am.
Forums were an evolution of BBSs that predated “social” media because it wasn’t you, it was an avatar, a fake persona you created rather than “first name,” “last name.”
People using real names in the Web were the weird ones, but it was normal to meet IRL those you know via forums.
I have no idea what point this rant is trying to make
That was basically the end. When it was only friends and the feed sorted by “new,”, it was super fun. When my aunts started joining it became much less fun.
Yeah, and it went from “let’s just add some stuff” to outright “we will force feed you this slop and you will like it” from there. It felt like you were a goose being prepped for Christmas’ foie gras.
I think teens abandoned Facebook like 10 years ago
Let’s start with Facebook “in the beginning” being some sort of respectable space in the Interwebs for those normies who didn’t like the egalitarian and intelligent, or at least free and brave, and also deep and diverse (not in the sense of demonstrative insincere tolerance to LGBTQZPNA, where Z stands for zoo-, P stands for pedo-, N stands for non-carbon and A stands for antimatter, and other culture war markers, but in the sense of a thousand different cultures forming not only the content of webpages, but also how they would be interconnected, how they would look and how they would work), culture of the Web back then.
It was almost a LinkedIn alternative.
Teens who’d want to be there were the more social and sociopathic types, who knew that the Web and that techy stuff is new and cool, but despised the people who’d actually exchange useful information there, and that actual information, that whole part of the world.
Facebook back then just didn’t seem usable as compared to Skype and ICQ and all the web forums.
Unfortunately worthy people are gullible and lack willpower, so that sociopathic crowd has rebuilt the Web for itself. They don’t even use it as much as we do FFS.
Remember when on a forum you’d usually see which specific moderator removed or edited your post? (And what was there before the edit, quite often) And it was good tone for moderators to only edit out forbidden parts, not just delete everything. And it was good tone to give out warnings first.
“In the beginning:”
Facebook was a MySpace alternative for “academics” (college students / alums) instead of teens.
LinkedIn was a MySpace alternative for “professionals” instead of teens.
Forums were an evolution of BBSs that predated “social” media because it wasn’t you, it was an avatar, a fake persona you created rather than “first name,” “last name.”
ICQ and Skype were purely chat platforms, competing in a completely different space.
I have no idea what point this rant is trying to make but all the comparisons between services are way off base.
My experience in Russia. No, they are not off base. Just naturally there are different PoVs and for you it may be something entirely else. You can think about that before saying something is wrong.
Say, I’m not sure many people even knew of that where I am.
People using real names in the Web were the weird ones, but it was normal to meet IRL those you know via forums.
Your failure, not mine.
Surely longer ago than that? Facebook hasn’t been cool for probably over 15 years
It went downhill when poking and sheep throwing went away.
Poking is still there. I’m trying to bring it back.
I never stopped
Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?
No, because that’s when the olds took it over.
That was basically the end. When it was only friends and the feed sorted by “new,”, it was super fun. When my aunts started joining it became much less fun.
Yeah, and it went from “let’s just add some stuff” to outright “we will force feed you this slop and you will like it” from there. It felt like you were a goose being prepped for Christmas’ foie gras.
That’s when it was cool to teens who didn’t have .edu emails addresses (but not long after).