Instagram? Ruined. FB feed? Full of suggestions spam. FB marketplace? Full of low effort spam. FB photos? Downscaled your images without permission. FB videos? Full of low effort reaction videos. The ads? Always irrelevant even though I said they are irrelevant. I even clicked relevant ads wishing that the recco engine would picked the signals up. Whatsapp? It’s like frozen in time without any new features. VR stuff? dunno. I got a kid, no time to play anymore. #meta
Its not the PMs Its Zuck’s cancerous creep of ads and “AI recommended” posts over your feed, deprioritizing the posts from people you actually follow. Where the intent isn’t to connect people, but to get people “hooked and scrolling” through their feed, to get those ad 🤑 impressions It happened to fb first, it’s happening to IG
You do realize that ads keep the company rolling? The feedback on connected versus unconnected content however is being heard, if you have been following recent updates on both the Facebook and Instagram apps. Since our entire business model is ads, there’s just no way around it. And if people do not find the content engaging, there are not going to be advertisers interested in selling their wares. It’s just the cost of doing business
Facebook is a dying business. Only boomers use it now a days. Instagram was a decent product until they started pushing content from people I don’t follow
I have 2 under 2 and although I design VR, I can’t play with it 😭
How is working with VR? I make VR games with Unity on the side for fun
Apple is a scam, they do tracking themselves and talk about as though they care about privacy
Cry more
Why are apple employees so salty they can’t get in? This is probably your 300th post about Meta 😂
I am addicted to Meta drama. And I keep buying FB stocks every time it dipped. So you might say that I am very invested in Meta.
I miss Meta internal blind. Nothing like it
Instagram is pretty awesome. Agree with all the Facebook stuff, but that's all Zuck's fault. He is very protective of FB (to the point of being jealous of IG) and demands employees throw all kinds of random features on it to try and juice engagement and make it cool again. As a result the UI/UX is awful. Whatsapp is awesome. it's a very simple product that accomplishes its core value prop very well, essentially the opposite of FB. I am glad, as are many others, it's not stuffed with a bunch of random bullshit. Ads situation is a mess because of iOS features. Oculus is the best consumer VR product in the world. Metaverse is a scam though.
Do you deny that FB monetizes much better than IG has, and WhatsApp ever will? Purely from a business standpoint, it makes sense to maximize engagement on the cashcow.
It monetizes better sure but engagement, revenue, and users (in certain countries) are declining and have been for a while. IG is estimated to be about 30% of total revenue now (public estimates - I can’t share the actual) and at current trends that inflection point is arriving faster and faster.
Zuck will kill both. You guys will be the bag holders. Rate of posts is declining at over 20% y/y, only influencers post now. User numbers are inflated and meta overhired like fuck. Leadership coasted for the last 2 years. Good talent will be hard to hire now
If you have ideas you would like to share happy to pass them along. The impact on ads on iOS devices at least is real though. We just don’t have the quality of signals we previously did. The new system is gonna take a while to take shape
“The impact on ads on iOS devices” You mean the impact where apple doesn’t allow you to creep on the users outside of your apps? Interesting way to phrase it 🤔
Oh please, as if Apple isn't doing it themselves. Look at how they phrase tracking permissions dialogs for Apple apps versus third-party apps. Don’t fall for their holier than thou approach to privacy. It’s a sham that covers their own ads aspirations