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by ghaff 1190 days ago
Yeah. The head of corporate comms or someone in that chain of command would be very justified in sending something along of the lines of:

This was shared externally from our internal company meeting. I'd like to remind everyone that keeping the information shared in these meetings confidential allows us to be more open with all our employees. etc.

There may be times for the CEO to send the message but, especially at a high visibility company, it's probably inevitable it will become more of a personal thing.
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disgruntledphd2 1190 days ago
Facebook was a much, much, much smaller (like 30-60x) smaller company back then.
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ghaff 1190 days ago
Facebook was still a big company in 2010.

(But I agree that this sort of communication, if not its exact wording, is more appropriate at a smaller company.)

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disgruntledphd2 1190 days ago
Sure, according to Statista (https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo...) they had 2k employees in 2010.

They now have 70k, so they were 3% of the size back then.

I stand by my point.

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ipaddr 1190 days ago
68k extra employees and facebook of 2010 was better than today.
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underwater 1190 days ago
No decent mobile app, no groups, no Messenger, no Instagram, no WhatsApp, no real advertising product. It isn't 35x better, but there is no way the product offering is worse.

The Facebook experience feels worse, but that's because the novelty wore off and people don't share anywhere as much as they did back in the heyday.

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ipaddr 1189 days ago
The timeline changed into the monster we experience today. We had pokes, games that interacted with our profiles, pictures and albums that all displayed. We still have the network concept where if I went to MIT I was part of that group. This is golden age facebook peaking around facebook graph 2012.

WhatApp came with 55 employees, instagram had 13. They introduced groups October 2010. No messenger or mobile app.

People have stopped sharing but many shares are suppressed and ads appear every 3rd post. Things haven't improved.. but I see they are selling verified profiles now I guess some people were looking forward to that product offering

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ghaff 1190 days ago
Fair enough. I didn't realize they were that relatively small. So I guess my objection is mostly with some of the wording.
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