Ask anyone at Meta and they will readily agree that Boz is among the most incompetent and unserious leaders in tech. His only qualification is being Zuck's friend, and that shields him from all criticism. At a more "focused" company he would have been fired a decade ago. As it stands he lost the shareholders $150B+ (and counting), dipped from the metaverse org, and got rewarded with a new role overseeing the shiny new thing - AI.
I guess the culture at Facebook was set very early and we’re still seeing the effect of that play out today.
I’d love to see the official internal leadership stance on what Meta’s core competencies are today.
I never heard of him before reading this article just now.
They certainly hoped that would be the outcome. But they would have been idiots to not know most startups fail.
They harm teen mental health with their products and farm user data. What an achievement of youth to waste it on that noble mission.
That was the default mindset in the early days of the web.
And even the Messenger app is a sloppy behemoth of an app with barely working Search. This is coming from a company with thousands of engineers and the core features of the business barely work.
98% of newsfeed is recommendation slop.
Not like any of these features are particularly good, but the combination beats anything else out there, which is surprising because usage of groups seems to be huge.
Discord comes close, but the complaint I see from FB group users is they don't like the real-time chat stream.
Facebook groups have destroyed online forums and with that killed long discussions on the internet.
But sure,somehow Facebook doesanage to suck you in and wate time on bullshit. For that it's awesome.
This is harder to do accidentally now, for better or worse.
But I suppose there are lots of other alternatives nowadays.