> FB launched with great positive repetitional aura

As a site that ranked how hot girls were?

mortenjorck 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

The vast majority of users knew nothing about Facebook‘s origins until The Social Network. In the mid-to-late 2000s, the perception was of simply a much better designed, much more exclusive alternative to Myspace.

Hard to imagine nearly two decades later, but for a brief moment in time, it was cool to be on Facebook.

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bigiain 5 days ago | parent [-]

> The vast majority of users knew nothing about Facebook‘s origins

They are all <checks notes>

"dumb fucks." -- Mark Zuckerberg, 2004 personal correspondence documented in https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

	▲	fkyoureadthedoc 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Bro we get it. It's been done ad nauseam. It's now the equivalent of putting the dollar sign in Micro$oft. Probably the most relatable thing he's done anyway.

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brandall10 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To the larger public they were the opposite of that... a clean, uncluttered alternative to MySpace that had none of its social baggage, in spite of its DNA which was clearly unknown during the early phases of social media.

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vasco 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The most popular dating apps do basically the same now but since there's no leader board and they aren't side by side it's all good I guess. All the same except for the UX

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AvAn12 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Ok, I was trying to give as much benefit of the doubt as possible. You are 100% correct of course...