I try avoiding schadenfreude or saying “I told you so,” but last Friday I was vindicated by what I’ve said about FeceBook for years, it’s a corporation worth nothing and built on sand, rainbows and bullshit. The svengoolies of Wall Street just took over a decade to figure it out and the pretend money making the Zuck a billionaire plummeted. It will take longer before the rest of the world catches up to finally figure out they’ve propped up another AOL or Beanie Baby Commodity Exchange. However, the first major crack has appeared as a significant number of people have chosen to erase their account like I did a few years ago. What got the fire sale into higher gear was the weasel in charge having to publicly say, Apple’s ability to let iOS users opt out of being spied upon affects the bottom line; aka, if people had a choice between being tracked in order to be targeted with an endless barrage of ads and being left alone, the majority want the latter. Well…no shit! Advertisers will now waste less money on the mentally and emotionally stunted Zuck’s con game and find other ways to badger us. I also think the other operating systems will follow Apple’s lead because it’s what people want. The lesson Zuck failed to learn was illustrated by another pundit, don’t build your house on land you don’t own! Once enough support pillars belonging to other corporations are yanked out from under FeceBook, the worthless site will join the graveyard with MySpace, AOL, GeoCities, Eight-Track Tapes, the Sony Minidisc and Betamax, Ford’s Edsel and the Ottoman Empire.
I can then hope the Hawaiians get their land back from the little creep and people communicate in something longer than a “like” or “tweet.”
I was right about FaceBook, the Media was late…again
I try avoiding schadenfreude or saying “I told you so,” but last Friday I was vindicated by what I’ve said about FeceBook for years, it’s a corporation worth nothing and built on sand, rainbows and bullshit. The svengoolies of Wall Street just took over a decade to figure it out and the pretend money making the Zuck a billionaire plummeted. It will take longer before the rest of the world catches up to finally figure out they’ve propped up another AOL or Beanie Baby Commodity Exchange. However, the first major crack has appeared as a significant number of people have chosen to erase their account like I did a few years ago. What got the fire sale into higher gear was the weasel in charge having to publicly say, Apple’s ability to let iOS users opt out of being spied upon affects the bottom line; aka, if people had a choice between being tracked in order to be targeted with an endless barrage of ads and being left alone, the majority want the latter. Well…no shit! Advertisers will now waste less money on the mentally and emotionally stunted Zuck’s con game and find other ways to badger us. I also think the other operating systems will follow Apple’s lead because it’s what people want. The lesson Zuck failed to learn was illustrated by another pundit, don’t build your house on land you don’t own! Once enough support pillars belonging to other corporations are yanked out from under FeceBook, the worthless site will join the graveyard with MySpace, AOL, GeoCities, Eight-Track Tapes, the Sony Minidisc and Betamax, Ford’s Edsel and the Ottoman Empire.
I can then hope the Hawaiians get their land back from the little creep and people communicate in something longer than a “like” or “tweet.”