{"id":1574,"date":"2013-02-19T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2013-02-19T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:08:11","slug":"fb-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2013\/02\/fb-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"FB problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><em>The core problem with facebook graph and social recommendation in general is that people\u2019s friends are rarely the best source of recommendations for anything. This isn\u2019t high school (or high school\u2019s extension, college). I don\u2019t hang out solely with people who all share the same interests and tastes I do. I have a lot of friends whose taste in food is awful so I don\u2019t really need their restaurant recommendations. I have a lot of friends who have very different taste in music than I do so I don\u2019t really care what they\u2019re listening to.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>I join social networks to <strong>socialize<\/strong> with my friends, not ask them what products and\/or services to use. This all seems to me like the tail wagging the dog. Facebook is trying to create an opportunity for more monetization of friends\u2019 activity without actually enhancing the <strong>social<\/strong> aspect of their <strong>social<\/strong> network.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>No matter how cool graph is or how good the algorithms may become, it still won\u2019t actually be useful.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#cccccc\">Dear Mark,<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#cccccc\">This reader is right. Stop trying. The network you built is too big now you can\u2019t engineer that social stuff, people make no sense remember? Just let people use FB for a fee and leave them alone with ads harassment and what not. 1 billion people, $15 a year bam, 15 billion a year that\u2019s better than your current 7.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#cccccc\">I know you try hard, tweaking algorithms, pushing me to \u201csubscribe\u201d and unveil my preferences but there\u2019s nothing you can really do to enhance the social aspect of your social network because after being connected to someone, receiving updates videos and pictures, more socialization means moving my ass and actually see the person.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#cccccc\">FB is valuable to me, I\u2019d like to pay a few bucks and be left the fuck alone by corporations and greed. Come on, Mark.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The core problem with facebook graph and social recommendation in general is that people\u2019s friends are rarely the best source of recommendations for anything. This isn\u2019t high school (or high school\u2019s extension, college). I don\u2019t hang out solely with people who all share the same interests and tastes I do. I have a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}