My Everything 23,397 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 The world learned this week what I figured out a while back: Facebook is not run by people with business management skills. In a New York Times piece last week, we were told that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg essentially decided to put profits before platform security during the Russian hacking investigation. In one scene, COO Sandberg screams, “You threw us under the bus†at Facebook’s security chief, Alex Stamos, after he gave a presentation to its board of directors saying that the company had not yet gotten its arms around the Russian hacking and possibly other issues that compromised its systems. Business leaders don’t spin — politicians do — and that’s essentially Sandberg’s background: Washington. You can’t be the “adult in the room†and decide not to “lean in†and take responsibility. Investors don’t want spin, they want decisive actions to protect the franchise. While someone made the good call to buy Instagram for a mere $1 billion, there’s nobody applying business leadership to this rapidly growing monster. So let me wade into this fray and suggest two possible business decisions the social networking giant could make. First, Facebook should charge users a nominal $5-a-month fee. You can give seniors a discount so you don’t lose them. Netflix does, Amazon does, Apple does. It would make Facebook rely less on selling user data. While this will not totally eliminate nefarious acts on the platform, it does provide a paper trail to track bad actors. Second, split the company in two and spin off Instagram. It’s probably worth more than the original Facebook platform anyway, and it will stop the corporate contagion from spreading and polluting that category champ. For Facebook, it’s charge for it and/or split it. There’s no other viable option. https://nypost.com/2018/11/17/to-save-itself-facebook-must-start-charging-users/?utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=Native&utm_campaign=NYPFacebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moaminkit 4,579 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 me and my 27189938 roleplay accounts: fuck that no but seriously who would *pay* for facebook... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockerchic88 9,477 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Netflix amazon and apple give us content like music movies and faster delivery. Facebook has nothing to offer why will anyone pay for it lmao. Maybe they can make their business pages paid or something but paid social media is laughable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modella 2,015 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Why would anyone pay for Facebook? Are they giving me movie to watch or games to play? No, it's a social media website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt 2,914 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Yes please start charging so I can finally delete my account and be free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverlining 2,308 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Yes please start charging so I can finally delete my account and be free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyrose 12,654 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 time to join Tom and MySpace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolly21 2,103 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Yes please start charging so I can finally delete my account and be free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfei 1,917 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 'facebook is free and it always will be' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueVapor 1,515 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Yes please start charging so I can finally delete my account and be free Relatable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leqant 121 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Facebook charging for use? I already don't want to go on it often for free anymore what make you think I would use it for a cost? If they charge, I won't even go on it anymore. Honestly, I can't be the only person who is tired of Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timur Sharapov 2,056 Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 After Facebook scandal with it selling user data to 60 smartphone companies I got rid of all my accounts on FB, Instagram and Whatsapp. And we always inform our clients how dangerous FB platforms are. They are especially dangerous for users from Russia. Cos FB can delete posts even user accounts without further adieu. Just to show the world that they are "taking some actions against russian spies ot russian bots". They don't give a flying f*ck that russian-speaking CIS countries have nearly 200.000.000 population. For them russians = spies + bots. If even FB has some problems nothing fatal can happen to it. Mark has more money than he can spend during his lifetime anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigMermaid 320 Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 It seems like less and less people are on FB. 10 years ago it was cool, now it's more the place where grandpa shares photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittyindaeyo 21 Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Welp, I already stopped using facebook since last year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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