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Rebecca Shaw: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. But I didn't expect them to be such losers. (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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They are desperate to be cool, it's so cringe.

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[–] 52 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Imagine if, when Facebook rolled out, people were just like "no thanks, I'm good" and it never took off.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    That's exactly what happens when a Facebook competitor (possibly an ethical one) rolls out these days. Which is part of the problem. Zuck poisoned the idea.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I wanted to. I liked Myspace. It has character. Some of it was cringe. But you could at least customize it. Facebook seemed so bland. But I had an ex GF that insisted on it and I didn't think it was worth breaking up over. I shouldn't have been such a pushover.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I stayed on Myspace long past when the majority jumped ship. It eventually lost what made it special when the boy band guy bought it to twist it into something more music focused. But I still preferred it to the sterile, uniformity of Facebook.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You would break up over switching online platforms?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    It sounds ridiculous now with everything that's happened in social media in the meantime, but I can see that being a thing in 2006 when the vibe of social media was very different to what it's become now. Back then it was just a tidy little PHP site for you to chat and share photos with friends and family on. Literally nothing appeared in your feed that wasn't a post from a Friend. It was basically a Whatsapp group with a photo gallery feature.

    Since Facebook didn't have the baggage it has now, it's much easier to read refusing to join your girlfriend's circle of friends and family back then as a wider rejection of her as a person, same as if you refused to join her family Whatsapp/Telegram/whatever group chat.

    I'm not taking her side here, but I wanted to give a bit of perspective for people looking at it through the lens of 2025.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm assuming the GF would break up with OP over it. Which is itself a big red flag.

    Edit: fwiw, it does seem like there is quite a bit of drama and bullshit over choice of phone (Android vs Apple)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I remember LiveJournal as something good. I wouldn't use it, but felt a bit like Telegram today, except without Telegram, which is a good thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It was, until the events of the mid-2010s when most of the science fiction fandom community quit it and went over to Facebook, presumably because that was more convenient (i.e. on it already) than going to e.g. Dreamwidth (a LJ-alike that is still going). It operated in a very similar way to FB but somehow much more focussed maybe because it never got the 'businesses having pages on there' bit. Those of my friends who were on both, often used FB more as an events calendar than all-around social media.

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