Facebook turns into photobucket

[s44]

Yup, unblockable video ads on your phone.

How do you guys put up with this crap?

 

[rcpratt]

By avoiding it altogether?

 

[s44]

By avoiding it altogether?

Well, I do.

But I know a lot of people still use FB. At what point does the BS ad frenzy make it a net minus?

 

[lothar]

By not having a Facebook account in the first place.
/thread

 

[RandomFool]

I've got a Windows Phone.

As long as they don't play sound by default and are easy to skip over, I can deal with them in a browser. I'd have to see it on a phone to determine how much it would annoy me.

 

[cheezy321]

ITT: A bunch of people who don't use facebook complaining about facebook.

 

[Oyeve]

Wow, what a whiner. Dont like it, dont use it. Its free, no one is forcing you to use FB.

 

[chimaxi83]

Backfired, this thread is.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

ITT: A bunch of people who don't use facebook complaining about facebook.

Pretty much. It's like the people who weren't Facebook's prime audience to begin with complaining about it.

But in all honesty as someone who spends a lot of time on Facebook, this is dumb. I don't mind ads, but I don't like the fact that this will waste my bandwidth, and the fact that I could ACCIDENTALLY trip the sound at work for example.

Ads are fine--they just need to figure out a better way of doing it.

 

[jhansman]

What's Facebook?

 

[KeithTalent]

Yeah I saw this yesterday and it got me thinking that eventually something else will have to pop up and replace this thing. Though maybe people are too integrated with it now, as is the rest of the web which seems to use it for commenting and whatnot. I don't know, I'm actually surprised it has been this strong for so long, but I guess there are just not any decent alternatives at the moment?

KT

 

[Oyeve]

Kinda makes ya wish Google+ took off.

 

[crashtestdummy]

Yeah I saw this yesterday and it got me thinking that eventually something else will have to pop up and replace this thing. Though maybe people are too integrated with it now, as is the rest of the web which seems to use it for commenting and whatnot. I don't know, I'm actually surprised it has been this strong for so long, but I guess there are just not any decent alternatives at the moment?

KT

My guess is that the social networking of the future will be largely decentralized but connected by your phone. You (or perhaps your kids) will be on 20 different platforms, all of which you'll have apps for. From there, it's really not hard to have a notification center that weaves them all together. You're seeing this to a limited extent with Google Now, but it's still largely confined to Google's services. There's no fundamental reason that has to be the case, though. Why not have something that checks Pinterest, Google+, Facebook, and Twitter all at once? There are already web services for things like this, and it's only a matter of time before someone does it well enough that it becomes the dominant interface.

 

[lupi]

What is this Facebook you speak of.

 

[Capt Caveman]

As a FB stock owner, more revenue!