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Comment by gonehome | Hacker News Reader

I'm always a little confused why hacker news seems to love to hate facebook. Pretty weak posts like this appear and everyone in the comments gets to brag about how they don't have a facebook or facebook is on the way out etc.

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Posts like yours always show up too. It's cyclic insanity on HN. Any Facebook thread devolves into: "I don't use Facebook." and "Why do people on HN hate Facebook?"

Any PHP post devolves into: "I hate PHP." and "Why do HNers hate PHP?"

Any Google post devolves into "I hate Google." and "Why do HNers hate Google?"

Any Apple post..

On and on and on.

I feel like someone should actually go through old threads that no one is updating anymore and just analyze frequency and timing.

this is true on reddit, and other social sites.

1st day/time X is (+over the top adjectives) good / bad 2nd day/time X is actually bad / good 3rd day/time Why do people argue about whether is actually bad / good 4th date/time meta post about meta post

repeat the following week/month/year/etc.

It is a social version of AOL; a walled, sanitized, child-proof, alternative internet kept clean and safe by its overseers. I can not think of anything a hacker would hate more outside of App stores on phones and the Great Firewall.

Because it's an awful product that everyone nonetheless still uses. It's the Windows 95 of our time: popular entirely because it's popular.

Depending on who you ask, Facebook has been "on the way out" for about 9 years now.

If it makes you feel any better this was on the front page of reddit too.

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