I've been trying to play with my perspective on the history of Facebook so I can appreciate how things were controversial in the early days.
My friend @ctbeiser (currently deactivated
) emphasized how weird this decision was and it's my favorite so far.
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Absurd how random decisions like this became part of social infrastructure over time
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Exactly. I think reflecting on tech history and finding a way to latch on to the absurdist frame of it all is a great way to internalize how arbitrary many aspects of modern life are
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Still typing on a QWERTY keyboard?
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Was just discussing this with
@rsnous the other day. As he put it: The iPhone team experimented with different keyboard styles and Steve Jobs was just like, no we’re sticking with QWERTY. May have missed out on a keyboard revolution - End of conversation
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This sounds fun for friends but kinda humiliating for the couple. Pretty sure Facebook would have got a lot of flak for this thing


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This is just some random thing from google images but you get the idea
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I feel bad for Shannon

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And I want friends like Kevin
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or the leetspeak localization of facebook which (i) includes gems like "photos" to "pr0n" and "Promoted" to "5p4m" (ii) is still available.pic.twitter.com/BZ3xuk5xVs
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omfg
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hey do u mind if i ask jane out it's been a few months now
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You have my blessing, turtlekiosk
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In Facebook HQ in London there are these "funny" posters of dev/designer talk like "I'm going to put something there". All I could think of when I was there that they should also have one that says "No one will notice".
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The frontline is really informative, targeting peoples base urges for leverage is pretty effective basicallyhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/ …
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