Interesting article about who because Facebook has become people only portal to the Internet sites like Funny or Die and starving to death. I have seen complaints form other sectors of Internet content complaining about Facebook. Eventually something will have to give.
Here’s an amusing take on the same thing from Glove and Boots - Glove and Boots is in Trouble - YouTube
Facebook has some serious issues lately that bug the fuck out of me.
In Chrome, I can be paging down my feed and decide to comment on something. I’ll click on the comment field and get about 3 words into it and my feed will jump so that the article I’m commenting on is nowhere to be found. Sometimes I’ll find it again if I page down like 20 times, sometimes not at all. But if I try to hit Home or go somewhere else, it will give me the standard “Do you want to leave this page?” warning.
No, you fucks, I didn’t want you to leave the page I was on! I’ve reported this as a persistent issue.
And while I may enjoy some sites, like the For The Love of Black Cats page, I do get tired of liking a picture, only to have 90% of my feed turn into black cat pictures, forcing everything else off my page.
I know what each of these words means individually…
SDMB is my only portal to the Internet. It’s all I need, although I hear there are kittens out there somewhere.
Interesting article. The guy they interviewed really makes some good points. I think he gets a little extreme in his Facebook hate but I see his frustration, and he’s right about most of it.
I think it will take a group effort by content publishers to come up with a solution that suits both them and Facebook.
On the other hand it’s SORT OF hard to feel sorry for people who were fully employed as comedy writers for an internet site. We all gotta make our living but…it’s kinda like watching the coolest kids in school get upset over which kid is the coolest while you’re sitting there with your zitty face and no friends.
Yeah it’s almost English 
What I get for firing off a post so early in the AM .
Another big issue I have seen YouTubers complain about is people posting their YouTube content of FB and now they no longer get the revenue from it. It’s almost like economies need rules to keep things fair and honest.
When I saw the thread title, I wondered if it was a zombie and was a little surprised to see it was just posted today. From my vantage point, Facebook is not at the point in its career where it’s killing much anymore. People are not using Facebook nearly as much as they were ten years ago.
Young people aren’t. Their parents are on it all the time. For many people Facebook is the Internet which is the problem the person in the article takes issue with.
Yahoo! used to be “the Internet” for old people, but now that it is mostly dead, they’ve moved on to Facebook.
AOL literally played that role for many people of a certain age, setting up a walled garden with various services inside.
Daily users have been going up steadily for quite a while.
Thank you for that link. I knew when I made that comment that I was making it purely based on my own experience, but I didn’t know of any publicly available metrics. I was wrong.
I don’t think it’s as much about old people using Facebook, but Facebook’s users growing old. I guess it could be partially combined with the fact that by now more of the original Facebook users have gotten their parents on board with it in order to more easily keep in touch. But younger people are more likely to see it as that thing their parents use.
Most of my younger coworkers are on Snapchat. They all have Facebook accounts and may post the occasional photo, but that’s it. As one of them declared, “Why would I want to hang with people my parents’ age online?”
Tidbit: If it wasn’t for a 50-something secret group I belong to, my feed would be mostly ads. Even people I’ve known online for awhile from here and elsewhere don’t post there as much as they used to.
Except we all lose out if all those sites crash and burn. It’s more like if the cool kids would have massive parties that you could go to and would have a lot of fun at and then they got shut down.
I didn’t go to Funny or Die all that often, but I often went to Cracked and really enjoyed it, but I noticed it deteriorating over time, and then they laid off a bunch of people recently, and a lot of the same things apply to why it couldn’t sustain itself.
Snapchat has been struggling, especially since both Facebook and Instagram have copied them with “stories” features. Snapchat does have a difficult issue, because they want to bring in more users but not scare off its base. They recently revamped and made a new update that a lot of its users hate.
I find it amazing how many people live in Facebook’s walled garden. Their entire internet experience is from the Facebook feed. No wonder the news that appears in that feed affected the election. They think it’s got to be true if it’s in their news feed.
Can’t they Google for themselves and bookmark what’s interesting?
Facebook is too much like AOL. I have no interest in being spoon fed my links to the internet.