myself and around me, people (early 30ies now) all use FB primarily to "stay in touch" with people that are not really close anymore. old colleagues from school, uni, whatever. co-workers? not so much, for that you have linkedin.
so:
1., who exactly should i want to meet out of these people's connections?
2., as no one is using the like button, what exactly is it supposed to data mine?
3., why would i go to FB to search, if my browser automatically searches in google if i start typing in the URL bar? or the search box on iOS.
social search? i want to know which restaurants are recommended by people with taste, not my friends. movie recommendations? i prefer ebert over the people i know.
I agree, I can't even keep up with the handful of friends I've known in real life, for decades. Like I really want to make faux friends at web scale.
That said, fb has never made sense to me except through the lens of millennial and boomer narcissism. Maybe they'll lap it up. (I am not intentionally exempting our generation but I've never quite gotten the same vibe as from those who came before and after us.)
I assume you mean "No one is clicking the like button", but of course they are, and even when you don't click the like button Facebook still knows exactly which page you saw it on, and that gives them plenty of information to mine..
myself and around me, people (early 30ies now) all use FB primarily to "stay in touch" with people that are not really close anymore. old colleagues from school, uni, whatever. co-workers? not so much, for that you have linkedin.
so:
1., who exactly should i want to meet out of these people's connections?
2., as no one is using the like button, what exactly is it supposed to data mine?
3., why would i go to FB to search, if my browser automatically searches in google if i start typing in the URL bar? or the search box on iOS.
social search? i want to know which restaurants are recommended by people with taste, not my friends. movie recommendations? i prefer ebert over the people i know.
crowdsourcing is mob rule.