ATOT effect needed, Facebook Abandonment Day (FAD)

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gregulator

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Ok, not really, or maybe? But it is interesting to think that if people really wanted to screw over Goldman Sachs and other inside investors in the Facebook IPO, everyone could switch over to Google+ on around March 17th. With a massive abandoning of Facebook (and media coverage of it), I would imagine the IPO would tank. Not that Google+ is any better or worse (well I think it is better since it isn't starting to get plagued by all sorts of new "features"), but it is a similar enough service that people could still have a social network service.

I see the FB IPO as just a money grab from the initial investors. They finally want to cash out, and want all the suckers to buy in. The suckers being most of the general public. On the other hand, Goldman probably has some crafty financial engineering going on so that they win with movement in any direction. Either way, this would be a fun way to say F YOU to a lot of companies that people hate.

Could it work?
 
sixone

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How many people are going to get laid off, if your plan is successful, OP?
 
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gregulator

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Disclaimer: this was more a hypothetical question than a real movement...

MisterJackson said:
Don't by gas!!! Omghaxorshutthemandown!!!!11!
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Except I think it would actually work, so long as people never go back to using it.

"except that G+ is crap and facebook actually makes money"

Google doesn't make money?

"How many people are going to get laid off, if your plan is successful, OP?"

They don't employ many people. Wiki says 3000+ for a $100 billion dollar company? MS employs 92,000!
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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It's a good idea, but for the wrong reasons. Facebook should be abandoned because they don't respect your privacy or rights, and you don't control your data. Going to Google+ isn't the answer. They're just a different devil. Trying to fuck over their IPO is just childish.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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Bah... even if you could get every ATOT member and all of their friends to give up Facebook for a day, we wouldn't even but a dent in their viewership.
 
Red Storm

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Make sure to post this on FB and pay money to up-rank it so all your friends see it. It's the only way.
 
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gregulator

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sixone said:
Your "hypothetical" is irresponsible, at best.
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Not sure why you guys think it is so irresponsible. Are you invested? Yes, causing a company to fail is not a good thing (and the associated job loss), but I am merely pointing out how trivial the FB business model is. Would you agree the user base can move/abandon FB easily? Don't you think that this will inevitably happen over time? And who is going to be holding all the shares when they do fail? What is more irresponsible, causing FB to fail now, or wait until pension funds and 401ks are invested and then fail (after all the insiders have cashed out)?

Again, hypothetical people, not a real movement. Because discussions are fun!

And I agree, G+ and FB are similar evils.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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gregulator said:
Not sure why you guys think it is so irresponsible.
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I couldn't care less about the jobs of facebook. It's an unethical company, and people don't "deserve" unethical jobs. They can make an honest living elsewhere.
 
Deeko

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This is dumb. I will use Facebook extra hard this Friday in honor of this thread.
 
yllus

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gregulator said:
I see the FB IPO as just a money grab from the initial investors. They finally want to cash out, and want all the suckers to buy in. The suckers being most of the general public.
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What's wrong with that? 90% of "successful" tech startups get acquired and only 10% IPO. Either way, the point is usually to build something the people consider valuable enough to want to buy a slice of it from you. If those people fail to do their research and end up being a 'sucker' for making that decision, that's on them (unless of course there's deception involved).

You're demonizing a tech startup for doing exactly what tech startups do. They're not (just) in it for the fame and to help mankind. At some point you're going to want to get paid.
 
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alent1234

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lxskllr said:
I couldn't care less about the jobs of facebook. It's an unethical company, and people don't "deserve" unethical jobs. They can make an honest living elsewhere.
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what is so unethical about it? they have a killer service that replaced email and texting for a lot of people

is google unethical as well because they suck up all data about you?
 
Azraele

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I'm not ditching Facebook. I couldn't even if I wanted too, which I don't. My work has a page there that I need to check daily for info.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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alent1234 said:
what is so unethical about it? they have a killer service that replaced email and texting for a lot of people

is google unethical as well because they suck up all data about you?
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I don't know about Google. My hobby is hating facebook :^D

Google collecting all your data should be a concern though. Everyone would be wise toi limit their connections with any large central service.

As for facebook, they don't respect users privacy, or account settings. They "accidentally" revert settings during software changes, and data can't be deleted from their servers. It's always there, whether visible or not.
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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The only people on G+ are Google developers. :p

Also I could see them get just as bad as facebook with "features". It's still new. Facebook also cares about your privacy more than Google. Not that Facebook cares much to begin with, though.
 
CPA

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Why do so many people have problems with other people making money?I just d.on't understand that mentality
 
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alent1234

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lxskllr said:
I don't know about Google. My hobby is hating facebook :^D

Google collecting all your data should be a concern though. Everyone would be wise toi limit their connections with any large central service.

As for facebook, they don't respect users privacy, or account settings. They "accidentally" revert settings during software changes, and data can't be deleted from their servers. It's always there, whether visible or not.
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some default privacy settings were flaky like uploading photos on mobile devices but how do they not respect privacy? i set up friend groups with permissions years ago. if you like a page or add an app it tells you right there that they will have access to the data you VOLUNTARILY put into facebook

if you want to talk about privacy my father in law is looking to buy a car. last week i noticed a lot of acura ads in his gmail. i asked and he never searches for new car info because he barely knows how to use a computer.

google must be buying up auto registration/maintenance and other ownership data and selling it to advertisers because he has a 2003 acura TL
 
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