Facebook Vrs The People

in #facebook7 years ago

Facebook, a very lovely corporation that has grown from the size of a sinapi seed to a gigantic tree. It started from scratch and small as all other corporations do. Their business model was to ensure that its users have fun and satisfaction on the platform. And in turn the users will make them rich. Logically its kind of accepted because many people pay huge sums of money to visit the theater to watch an hour entertainment. Why then shouldn't Facebook make money of their users by providing them with an equal but unlimited entertainment packed activity. Its sounds really bad when put this way.

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Lets look at the situation from a different angle. From a different point of view, face book is like your father who has been taking very good care of you from infancy. He makes sure everything of yours goes well for you. And as a price, sells you off to the highest bidder when you are ripped. By selling you of on Facebook, your personal information is the product sold to advertisers so that Facebook can clearly make some gains. It will have been quite okay if we were paid to provide such personal information to Facebook but in real sense, our payment is the fun we have on Facebook.

I personally do not see the fun aspect of Facebook and as such only go there on a need to go basis alone. Facebook is undoubtedly fun for all but must their business model be geared towards our privacy? Cant they come out with a better business model? I think they can if they put their mind to it. My major concern is in if these data fall into the wrong hands such as armed robbers, hackers, or the likes, the harm that it can cause is immeasurable. Our security is as risk if who we talk to, when we talked to them, what product we discussed about are known by our social media and can be used to target it on individual or community base. Fun is great but i really dont think its great when our privacy are being invaded.

My heart groins and i feel disheartened for the world wide tremor faceebook has caused the past few years. Some of us knew the repercussions but still managed to join and stay active there whiles being exploited. I say exploitation ends now. Its time for us to look for decentralized solutions. The time is now. Steemit is a decentralized solution but still has a lot of work to do to catch up to facebook.

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Why Facebook Is Winning Over Decentralised Social Media

Facebook wont be a competition if our sign up process on steemit wasn't as tedious as it is. Our sign up time sucks and i believe our developers are working their ass off. But we need to be quick about it. EOS is going to overtake Ethereum and i totally believe that. All because EOS is adaptable and has speed in changing things. I am challenging our developers to speed up things before another decentralized social media takes over everything.

Lets Introduce Private Messaging to Steemit
Communication is key to social media. Most people visit facebook not merely for the content but because of instant chat services. I believe Instant messaging to be a key model to making steemit more lively. And i think there are protocols to make these chats private. Lets look at the private memo feature on steemit. If only we can tweak it more into an instant messaging system, we wont be left in the wild in the ever increasing competitive market

We are not happy with Facebook, but we have no better alternative says many youths. Let make steemit the better alternative for the youth because its worth it. Thanks for Reading.

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thanks for sharing your thoughts on this issue. personally, i think it is unfair to pay someone who provides you with credible information about themselves with FUN. it just isn't right. Steemit happens to be the best alternative if you ask me. I also can't wait for the other competitors to arrive. it's going to be epic

Yes it will be epic. Imagine if the 500 Billion dollar Facebook Stock Marketcap all went into Steem Cryptocurrency Marketcap? If you do a rough estimation, accounting for all the total supplies, the price of steem would be roughly $2000 per token. And that makes sense, we are nearly 1 billion dollar marketcap now, and 500 billion is just 500 times where it would be at 1 billion, $4, (were at a little over $3 and were a little under $1 billion now! So this makes perfect sense!)

And @tj4real I upvoted and resteemed we really do need private Messaging off Chain built into steem, and if they have to start with just rocketchat let it be but have it built in, or have a steem messenger pap that has features of posting conversations that you both agree to publish as posts on your Blog, I mean so many things you could to do monetize direct messages and it would be so simple!

Time will tell but if you ask me, steemit will win over these centralized systems

"Facebook wont be a competition if our sign up process on steemit wasn't as tedious as it is. Our sign up time sucks..." I don't believe this is the reason Steemit cannot compete with fb. It has everything to do with UI and lack of functionality. Steemthat is the new Steem-based go to platform which will compete for fb user conversions. Steemit will forever be a blogging platform, nothing more... albeit a good one!

And thanks for sharing too.. I think people are getting fedup with the new integration of fb..it is that time to alert people of the best option to choose from..steemit is for the world now. It is the new face of internet @tj4real

I think people are starting to realise just how much power facebook has and have begun looking for alternatives.

Absolutely... and is exactly why everyone should check out SteemThat.

Interesting good work keep it up

no need to be facebook right now i want steemit network who better pays rather than other social networks. and steemit is more interesting rather than facebook or other social networks.

Unfortunately, Steemit in and of itself IS NOT a social media platform, but a blogging platform.

I don't want fun from facebook anymore

I want the reward steemit is giving me and soon people will realize steemit is the best

You are not the only one feeling this way

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Bsteem on android as a chat function which should be encrypted. Steemit is only one front end interface using the steem Blockchain.