Is Facebook killing the Internet

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i have noticed a growing trend on a lot of forums for various hobbies to be slowing down on input from members and in some cases shutting down entirely ,even the once mighty Flickr has slowed down ,a lot of people are just now posting on Facebook instead ,so the thought has come to me that in reality is Facebook killing the variety that used to be available all over the net .
 
Certainly the likes of twitter, FB, instgram have taken over some of the normal forum input. I'm on a car forum and where someone might post showing off a new purchase, ask a question or offer some advice, it's taken place less on the forum and more on the others. Which is a bit rubbish for me as I'm not on Twitter or IG, and rarely venture on to FB.
 
One fairly active forum I use has become a ghost town since they opened a Facebook page :(
 
Thanks for not posting it here - chavvy in the extreme IMO.
 
Nod said:
Thanks for not posting it here - chavvy in the extreme IMO.
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Oh that is not very nice. You've just alienated all the food photographers, they have a place too just like the bird on a branch and person at bus stop photographers :thumbs:
 
I have to say on the flipside I got fed up of various forums for niche subjects and having pages on FB makes it easer to run around them from a central perspective. I don't go on forums much apart from TP and an old motorcycle one. I just use FB. The other thing is FB is much easier to post up pictures from your phone. Having to upload pics to a hosting platform then link is frankly for me way to old school now.
 
Mr Bump said:
I have to say on the flipside I got fed up of various forums for niche subjects and having pages on FB makes it easer to run around them from a central perspective. I don't go on forums much apart from TP and an old motorcycle one. I just use FB. The other thing is FB is much easier to post up pictures from your phone. Having to upload pics to a hosting platform then link is frankly for me way to old school now.
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It's just as easy to upload a photo from your phone on here???? Just hit the Upload a File button and select the photo you want to upload. No different than FB.
 
Yes and No.. I think you mean the www not the internet.. in which case yes..


So many people dont understand the www is out there.. they have facebook and twitter apps on the phone and thats it....
 
KIPAX said:
Yes and No.. I think you mean the www not the internet.. in which case yes..


So many people dont understand the www is out there.. they have facebook and twitter apps on the phone and thats it....
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Or to be double pedantic.. facebook is part of the www so....
 
Facebook is not killing it. It's the people who choose to use Facebook that is stifling the variety. Dump Facebook and move on.
 
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What is this Facebook of which you speak? :exit:
 
Part of me knows that this is slightly off-topic pedantry and will probably just be ignored (may be best to) but you do realize that:
  1. the internet is a network of networks and we use it for email, video on demand, skype, and the World Wide Web (WWW) amongst other things.
  2. Facebook is a Web Site on the WWW, if Facebook killed the Internet you would not be able to access it
and no, Facebook is not killing the WWW, let alone the internet. There may be a slight trend away from "traditional" forums like this but my teenage kids hardly use Facebook, it is old-hat, they use instagram, snapchat and the like.
 
I'm still sad about ceefax and bulletin boards.
 
Saying that I haven't bought a newspaper for about ten years ,I only use f/b to find out what the kids and grandkids are up to ,we still get personal visits when they need something though ,often near birthdays and Xmas
 
dejongj said:
It's just as easy to upload a photo from your phone on here???? Just hit the Upload a File button and select the photo you want to upload. No different than FB.
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its more difficult here - upload to photo bucket then copy and paste link, much better if it was easier like FB
 
cambsno said:
its more difficult here - upload to photo bucket then copy and paste link, much better if it was easier like FB
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Really? What phone do you use? On an iPhone you literally just select upload a file, it gets it from your on phone library and uploads it. Honestly no different then uploading to facebook...My Windows Phone 8 and 10 are exactly the same. I have no experience with Android....
 
Talkphotography seems to be weathering the online social climate very nicely, though.

I will admit to being a Facebook addict, even though there is a lot of guff in there and does involve sorting out the wheat from the chaff, but at the end of the day it is more "accessible", especially to the next generation of "newcomers" who might find the traditional forum format a bit too stuffy for their own liking (incidentally, I'm a PC user, I just don't get on with mobile devices using Apps).

If anything, it's Facebook alone that is making the internet, not breaking it, whether we like it or not.
 
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Facebook is all about making money and not about its users. Where it has deliberately limited the functionality to get people to nag their friends and family to join. Otherwise they can't share messages with them. So people leave other, potentially better networks.

Facebook had enough critical mass to become a quasi monopoly. New start ups know they have little hope of competing. Even Google+ is struggling, resorting to dirty tactics to push numbers up.

It's no longer about the merits of the service. As there is basically no choice. And that is never good for the users, as we've seen. And, in it's current form, can only get worse. Why should they bother?
 
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Ian D J said:
If anything, it's Facebook alone that is making the internet, not breaking it, whether we like it or not.
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I find this somewhat troubling. Ian above has the right idea: Fb isn't some benign, charitable organisation, it exists to make money, lots and lots of it for the likes of Zuckerberg and Sandberg. It does this by using data that we all enter into the site. That data is used to sell us stuff and god knows what else, it all seems very 'Big Brother' to me. I read last week that, in just five years time, Fb and Google will control 70% of all the advertising on the Internet.

It's interesting that the Internet was a resource developed by Tim Berners-Lee for the benefit of all of us. It hasn't taken long for it to become a means by which a few people make money out of us and a tool to spy on us.

Beware!
 
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Yes. If a single corporation had developed the internet, not only would we be paying heavily for it, they wouldn't bother improving it, so it would be 80's slow, and people will be saying we should be thankful for those clever businessmen at the corporation for inventing something we need daily.

But although I understand that Facebook and others need revenue from advertising, my main complaint is the poor usability and utility. Where people get bullied and don't have free choices.
 
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I'd go as far as facebook is killing the nations brains, the amount of crap on there that people just assume is true is staggering. All the quotes and nonsense that need scrolling through keeps me off there at times. And don't get me started on the game invites!!!
 
There's always the option of not clicking the Farcebook or t***ter buttons - life goes on without them!
 
I'm not on Facebook and have no desire to be, but I know that one of my friends sold his Nikon dslr on it recently whereas he would have used Gumtree before. The response was good , he sold it the same day and he got more for it than I think he would have got on here or another website.
 
Nod said:
There's always the option of not clicking the Farcebook or t***ter buttons - life goes on without them!
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:agree: I've never been on twitter and deleted the FB account years ago! It was total rubbish then! I'm not actually anti-social... well, not much anyway ;)
 
If I could remember the details of my FB account (joined to see someone's wedding shots and not used it since) and knew how to delete it completely, I would. IIRC, my DoB there is 01/04/1940 but as for the other stuff, I don't have a clue! Mrs Nod uses FB as a tool for keeping her students (and others who use her studio) bang up to date WRT classes and workshops that have changed at too short notice to get her proper website updated. Keeps showing me "new" videos from there that I've usually seen elsewhere some days before.
 
rclarke80 said:
I'd go as far as facebook is killing the nations brains, the amount of crap on there that people just assume is true is staggering. All the quotes and nonsense that need scrolling through keeps me off there at times. And don't get me started on the game invites!!!
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I block all the game invites and I've trimmed my FB contacts down to people I actually give two hoots about what they're up to. Even then, I'm lucky that only a couple of them post random nonsense which I can skip past quickly in the few minutes I spend on there. I rarely spend more than 5 minutes a day on FB, usually much less and some days none at all.
 
I like FB but mainly for different reasons than others. I use it to keep in touch with friends who for other reasons I cannot see face to face anymore and it is a cracking way to share a quick picture of just a "happening" without starting a thread etc.

It might just be a pic of my mate out enjoying a ride on his bike or my mate Brenda out with her kids eating ice cream

I keep the amount of "friends" to just people I want to talk to and hear from and also block all platform apps in settings.
 
Mr Bump said:
I like FB but mainly for different reasons than others. I use it to keep in touch with friends who for other reasons I cannot see face to face anymore and it is a cracking way to share a quick picture of just a "happening" without starting a thread etc.

It might just be a pic of my mate out enjoying a ride on his bike or my mate Brenda out with her kids eating ice cream

I keep the amount of "friends" to just people I want to talk to and hear from and also block all platform apps in settings.
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Same here, a lot of my mates have moved abroad so it's brilliant to keep up to date with them. I'm mostly only friends with people I actually know and have spoken to in person, there are a few forum members and such who I haven't met in person but who I've always got on with, likewise a few people I only know through facebook groups for shared interests. I have my firends set up in groups, so the old folk won't get offended at what my workmates post and the boss doesn't see work related rants!
 
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