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Comment by micromacrofoot | Hacker News Reader

This isn't a statement about morals. I agree that no one cares about those.

It's a statement that no one thinks "oh cool facebook" about literally anything they say or do. Their greatest successes in terms of social capital over the last decade have involved buying other companies.

Maybe I'm in a bubble, but it seems while everyone uses Facebook to some extent... no one likes it.

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Nobody likes anything. People hate Google, Reddit, etc but they still use it because it provides utility.

I like Google and Reddit, a lot. I think a lot of people do. My biggest beef with Google is just that their search engine seems to get worse with every new release, with more pages and pages of ads and a clusterf of rando content until I get to actual search results. But I still really like their service.

Similarly, I like Reddit a lot. There are a ton of shitty subreddits but so what, I just don't go there.

On the other hand, I hate Facebook. I wish I could find an easy way to stay connected to my existing friend network without the amount of vitriol I feel toward how my feed is organized.

I like Google, especially for the work they're doing in the Dev space (eg Tensorflow), and I love Apple. People do like companies, to certain extents.

FB has done a lot for dev space as well. PyTorch, React, etc. But still gets so much hate

> Maybe I'm in a bubble, but it seems while everyone uses Facebook to some extent... no one likes it.

Hey now, not everybody is on FB.

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