[gogetter]

Another top comment that makes no sense. Alas, karma does not necessarily correlate with intelligence.

The point of the blog post is clear. There are other methods to do what people, such as middle-aged ones, now use Facebook for: sharing photos and text blurbs.

Knowing this, Facebook is pretty silly since you're posting all your private stuff on some kid's website. You do not know him and he doesn't know you. To him, you are just "Dumb fucks".

Can photos be shared by email? Can photos be shared via peer-to-peer? What is Skype? It's peer-to-peer. But it's not used for sharing "files". Years ago Google had something called the HELLO protocol. Anyone remember that? There are many ways to share personal photos and private text blurbs, not all of them are widely used. Posting your private photos and text blurbs on some kid's website seems like one of the dumbest ways to do it, especially when the kid calls people "[d]umb fucks" for doing so.

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Ease up on the hate pal.

You know why people share these things by posting them on someone else's website? Because it's orders of magnitude easier than the alternatives. It lets millions of people do something valuable they otherwise couldn't, not because it would be technically impossible for them to do it but because they don't have the skills. That's the value facebook provides.

[gogetter]

Hate? I'm not the one who called users "Dumb fucks."

If what you say is true (and I believe it is), then the solution is not FB but better skills, i.e. education.

True value would be teaching people the skills they need so they do not have to subject themselves to someone like Zuckerberg and a "company" like FB.

While you may see altenatives as difficult, that is only your opinion. It is not fact. Stop making assumptions about what users can and cannot do. Stop tricking them like FB does. Let's teach them.

Let's deliver real value.