Tom
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Facebook (Meta) is following Twitter and laying off numerous employees.
Twitter, now Facebook
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Oldgator73
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Just in time for Christmas.
Ray-IN
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Meta's big experiment failed, stock had dropped 70% recently.
Skookum
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Zuck and Musk should co-author a book: How To Run The Internet Into The Ground.
edjunior
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That seems to be the time "they" like to do that. I'm not sure why. I was laid off one week before Christmas (December the 19th) back in 2014. And I had just dropped $4500 on my '66 Chevy Impala (restoring it). I did not have a merry Christmas, and I did not have a happy new year. Luckily, I had other income and savings, and I managed until I got another job. But I'll never forget that experience.
Anyway, I have never experienced "Meta". Never seen any change to FB. Not sure what it was ever all about. Or is all about.
As a moderator of a large Facebook group, one of the problems is apammers. Despite reporting some really obnoxious stuff,the bots aren't sophisticated enough to weed them out.
Plus the amount of "suggestions" and ads is getting tiresome but is worse on Instagram.
Plus the amount of "suggestions" and ads is getting tiresome but is worse on Instagram.
djw2112
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i hope FB gets run into the ground, no more social monopoly. They ran me and so many others out of business since 2008 and now i hope they get the same.
PJ Stough
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Would you mind telling us how they ran you out of business?
djw2112
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sure, short version, at the time i was a up and coming programmer in the dating and social site developement arena. It was a booming business. Then FB came along and gutted that business. FB effected the whole structure from server rentals to support and everything in between.
Now some may see it as a business man just doing business with a better product. But many of us see it as a thief who stole his first dataset and destroyed an industry for others.
phil-t
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Maximizing profit!
PJ Stough
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"Maximizing profit" is either the best of capitalism, or the worst of capitalism, your view depends on whether you are buying to selling.
Skookum
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A lot of layoffs are the unfortunate side-effect of managing to itinerant and short-sighted quarterly goals. A lot of layoffs happen around the holidays in companies where their fiscal year roughly aligns with the calendar year. Layoffs help "hit numbers" for month/quarter/year end in December.
Social media is being shellacked right now, although, Facebook has been able to turn a profit more reliably than Twitter.
Social media is being shellacked right now, although, Facebook has been able to turn a profit more reliably than Twitter.
DutchmenSport
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I don't do Facebook at all. If it disappeared completely, it would make no difference to me. The only "social media" connection I have are on RV forums (and THAT'S all). So, if they shriveled up and died, I wouldn't miss anything.
However, I know there are a LOT of people who have employment because of these sites and for them to be terminated is sad.
I was once terminated (after the September 11 tragedy) from a job I really, really liked. I was devastated. It hurt. I felt betrayed. And I had not a single nice though in my head what I'd like to see happen to that company owner AND some of the people who were sitting in their positions of "power!"
I did successfully overcome. I eventually ended up with even a better job where I remained for another 20 years and retired from.
Set-backs can be painful. And granted, we are living in some pretty painful times right now. But all these things are necessary. Businesses advance, businesses decline. Some improve, some go out of business entirely. We all live in a living-breathing world. Change happens.
It wasn't that long ago (not really), that the big automotive manufactures packed up and shipped their manufacturing to Mexico. Several auto manufacturing cities got hit ... very, very hard. Some recovered from the job losses, some did not. Anderson, Indiana is one of those. When GM and Guide Lamp disappeared, it left Anderson a mess. The economy tanked. That was 30 or 40 years ago.
But, people survived. Anderson survived (although it did have some hard times) between then and now. But Anderson is kind of re-discovering itself finally. The Mayor leadership (I think) has finally realized that the Auto industry is not coming back, and now they have finally embraced new business and new opportunities.
Yes, I really feel for those job losses. I know, I was one of them, in the not so far distant past. So, don't misunderstand me here.
As far as Facebook goes. If it fails completely .... there will be a replacement everyone will start using and it will be all the rave! And most assured, it will be better than Facebook.
You've got to admit, Facebook has been under a lot of scrutiny. Maybe it's time for something new after all.
However, I know there are a LOT of people who have employment because of these sites and for them to be terminated is sad.
I was once terminated (after the September 11 tragedy) from a job I really, really liked. I was devastated. It hurt. I felt betrayed. And I had not a single nice though in my head what I'd like to see happen to that company owner AND some of the people who were sitting in their positions of "power!"
I did successfully overcome. I eventually ended up with even a better job where I remained for another 20 years and retired from.
Set-backs can be painful. And granted, we are living in some pretty painful times right now. But all these things are necessary. Businesses advance, businesses decline. Some improve, some go out of business entirely. We all live in a living-breathing world. Change happens.
It wasn't that long ago (not really), that the big automotive manufactures packed up and shipped their manufacturing to Mexico. Several auto manufacturing cities got hit ... very, very hard. Some recovered from the job losses, some did not. Anderson, Indiana is one of those. When GM and Guide Lamp disappeared, it left Anderson a mess. The economy tanked. That was 30 or 40 years ago.
But, people survived. Anderson survived (although it did have some hard times) between then and now. But Anderson is kind of re-discovering itself finally. The Mayor leadership (I think) has finally realized that the Auto industry is not coming back, and now they have finally embraced new business and new opportunities.
Yes, I really feel for those job losses. I know, I was one of them, in the not so far distant past. So, don't misunderstand me here.
As far as Facebook goes. If it fails completely .... there will be a replacement everyone will start using and it will be all the rave! And most assured, it will be better than Facebook.
You've got to admit, Facebook has been under a lot of scrutiny. Maybe it's time for something new after all.
nurseman57
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We survived before them, we would continue to if they all went away. Big fan of the old show “Revolution”. Huxley called it.
Babe2201
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Wow Musk has owned it for just a short time and you already have him ruining the internet. I don't bother with FB or twitter but I am just hopeful that Twitter will no longer censor the "misinformation" while keeping lies up.
Oldgator73
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Oh boy, here we go.
Gary RV_Wizard
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I liked the original concept of FB - a way for friends & family to keep in touch and share their happenings. But that doesn't put revenue into Meta's pocket, so it had to evolve to something else. America doesn't like subscription services much, so "free" (ad-supported) was the way they went, selling access to me as their product. Then came the political culture wars and seemingly everybody took to FB to tell the rest of us what is wrong with our lives or how others are seeking to destroy us. Now, if a friend does post something of mutual interest in our lives, chances are i will miss it in the constant proselytizing.
Kirk
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Facebook is the only social media I participate in, if we ignore the fact that forums were one of the very first social media. I only get feeds from my friends and have blocked those who posted anything political.
Babe2201
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So it's Ok to post comments as long as yourself, Skookum, and a few others agree.?
Oldgator73
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Yes.
