Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.

  • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Let me explain,

    You study a college, everyone has a Facebook account so it makes sense for teachers to just notify students through Facebook. If everyone has a Facebook account and you dont, its your problem. Noone is going to message you via email just for you.

    A different example, You go to an Office. There is a huge notice board. Its filled with notices and there is a huge queue. The office management has not made it digital so the staff members themselves setup a Facebook page and post the pics of notices. Because they know how to use Facebook and everyone around them use Facebook. So what kind of fool would reject that convinience in looking up notices and go queue up in there?

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      1 year ago

      If a professor is using Facebook v. the academic platform provided by the school, they’re 100% in the wrong.

      If I go to an office with a huge queue and they’re not professional enough to have set up a website then why, exactly, would I trust them with my money? That shows a lack of business sense given that Facebook could destroy their entire model on a whim.

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          1 year ago

          Not at all.

          Facebook is only as necessary as you make it. I’ve not had an account since 2018 and aside from the occasional inconvenience I have been perfectly fine. This idea that we need Meta in our lives is laughably ridiculous.

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            1 year ago

            It’s not so much about Meta itself but a social network can be very useful. It just so happens to be that the most popular one currently is Facebook. If someone decides they want to use and would benefit from the services a social network has to offer then naturally they’re going to want to use the one that almost all the people they know are already using. No point using social network B while all your friends and family are only using social network A. That would be like wanting to party/socialise in the city at night but only going to empty bars and then scratching your head about why you have no one to talk to. You go to the bar that’s popular. The choice of which one is already made for you if that’s the kind of thing you want to do.

            Don’t get me wrong, I spend about a minute on Facebook a month, I find it very useful for events especially. Given the convenience of the tools available, I don’t expect people to message me directly when they’re organising a medium to large gathering.

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              1 year ago

              If they can’t be bothered to send invites, you’re likely an acquaintance at best. But if people enjoy having Facebook? That’s fine. Most people invite me elsewhere if they want me there. Older school, perhaps, but it works.

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                1 year ago

                My best friend is planning her hens do and she invited me only on Facebook and didn’t reach out to me personally. Would you say she is an acquaintance at best?

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                  1 year ago

                  You’re intentionally ignoring the fact that you use Facebook. If she knew you didn’t have one and just didn’t invite you because typing in your number was too hard?

                  She’d be an asshole.

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          1 year ago

          Pay with cash or pay with data, and know that Facebook will only host you for as long as it takes to become your competitor.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like a made up problem!

      Even in your example, absolutely no one forced anyone to use it as a “social media” app. If it is a matter of convenience to access the notices, or talk to teacher, then use it like how you would use school/work apps such as canvas/blackboard/slack/teams apps. Stop using it beyond it’s purpose. Which is to say, add “friends” if you have to so that you can access notices or messages from your teacher or whatever. But doom scrolling on clickbait and keeping tabs on Exes shouldn’t be done.