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Facebook Announces Video-Based Social App 'Lifestage' For High Schoolers
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School isn't for everyone. Many of today's well known and successful millionaires and billionaires dropped out early or never went to college.
With so many starting to learn programming before they're teens, a 19 y.o. may have 7+ years of learning, coaching and mentoring under her or his belt. Why be in debt for six figures when you could earn six figures annually?
Their growth is slowing, so it's smart to have some dev teams trying random stuff and looking for a new market.
Maybe he's doing both. I spend more time working as a programmer than in school.
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It seems adults are moving on from Facebook. Seems email still rules in the end.
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Dot dot dot ... Until they flooded it with ads and began selling user information. This app is one sick piece of code design to commercialize children and teenagers.
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Facebook has proved it has zero intentions of being a company based on social networking and instead an online marketing firm. Changing their terms and agreements quicker than I change my underwear, Facebook simply can not be trusted. This new app for certain tracks users in every way that is possible. Kids need to be left alone to grow independently, not be tracked and marketed to. There should be laws preventing companies like Facebook interfering with children during their development.
Even people in their 30s and 40s are using FB less. FB has become a much more successful version of MySpace, but eventually may share the same fate. You know a social media app is done/past its prime when they start targeting a younger age group with a new app. Another social media app obituary on the way. Even Instagram could be on shaky ground soon enough. I know it sucks for Mark and his crew when FB becomes mainly used by the over-50 crowd with Instagram regulated mostly to 30 and 40-somethings.
Facebook is aware of its aging demographic and is attempting to address the issue. If they'd picked a 40-year-old lead, people would complain "what does an old guy know about high schoolers?"
But, it will fail. Pretty much every kid I know who's on Facebook says they're there to keep in contact with older relatives - they use other apps to share with their friends. The main thing saving Facebook is there's no single platform all the kids have moved to. Snapchat is very popular, but it's not ubiquitous - my daughter and her friends seem to prefer hanging out on Tumblr, for example, and often chat on Skype too for whatever reason.
Trying to compete with Instagram, Snapchat, Vine, or Periscope right now is social-app suicide, as far as the younger generation goes. Facebook should just stick to appealing to those high school girls that got pregnant, 30 year old moms with families of four children, and old people lol.
Facebook is a business that makes money off of personal information that they sometimes carelessly throw around like it's nothing. Here they are targeting children directly.
When do they carelessly throw it around? They sure collect a lot of it, but it's mainly used for ad targeting. I won't ignore the possibility that the NSA or someone takes data from them, but that's something we don't know.
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I'm not sure I want to jinx it, but this article's comments... we've gotten well into the second page on the forum with no one yet using any tortuous logic to somehow make this thread about MacBooks or Tim Cook or just general Apple hate, like "oh great, Facebook can do new things, but Apple can't release new MBPs - Steve Jobs's ashes would have released new MBPs if they were still in charge." (Oh, whoops, forgot some snide comment about watchbands.)
It's kind of refreshing.
It's kind of refreshing.
LOL really? I was one of the first in Melbourne, Australia to buy one (lined up). Returned it within the 2 weeks cos most the apps i used were stretched out.Grr.
And still no native iPad Pro (12.9") resolution in their iOS app.
Thought theyd have that under control by now
Its simple and pointless enough that kids may like it as it means they have to talk to each other even less than they do now. Back in my day as a kid if you wanted to talk to your mates you jumped on your bike and went and saw them.
The world isn't more dangerous now than it was then for a kid, we just know about more of the dangers now.
MSN Messenger, Whatsapp, Snapchat .... all the same and all a temporary thing. Kids will one day just use Skype and be done with it.
The world isn't more dangerous now than it was then for a kid, we just know about more of the dangers now.
MSN Messenger, Whatsapp, Snapchat .... all the same and all a temporary thing. Kids will one day just use Skype and be done with it.
What are the odds to become a millionaire after dropping out of school? 0,00002%?
Let's all hope this guy has it then
Also developing at an early age is very good and a huge advantage in your analytical skills, but that doesn't mean you have the skills to think of a product that's changes your life nor the skills to drive a business.
This guy gets it. Snapchat is leading the ways along with a bunch of other apps released almost monthly.
I got it right away as well. All of the major apps released native resolution versions within weeks, maybe a month or two at longest.
Except Facebook. So, when I'm on my IPP and I want to hit Facebook, I bring it up in Safari. Not ideal, but way, way better than the app.
So much for developers adding additional features to their apps due to the gigantic real estate and specs haha
What are the odds to become a millionaire after dropping out of school? 0,00002%?
Let's all hope this guy has it then
Also developing at an early age is very good and a huge advantage in your analytical skills, but that doesn't mean you have the skills to think of a product that's changes your life nor the skills to drive a business.
We're obviously talking about college-aged, young adults. Not everyone goes to college. Not everyone that starts college finishes/gets a degree. In any event, I did not advocate all HS graduates skip collge. Just your assertion that Mr. Saymon should be in school. In his particular case, he saved his family from financial ruin, created a few well placed apps and landed a job with Facebook. The base salary for a FB product manager is about $138K/yr. He's been with them two years, so probably makes much more than that, especially given his high profile and potential. This young man is well on his way to becoming a millionaire, if he isn't already.
Like I said, they all did, which is great.
Facebook is just being sluggish, which is frustrating.