Nice clickbait. Too bad I got my info from the comments instead.
To save you a click: A betting app.
Thank you
That dude’s really never had an original idea in his life, has he?
The year was 2015, and I predicted that facebook would include a betting feature into their stupid app, and my friends called me mad!
11 years later, who is mad now!? 😂😂😂
I have watched more than one friend flush his family/savings down the shitter on these apps.
I don’t get gambling, worst I ever did was a few trips to Vegas and betting on the ponies that bot count on one hand.
I put two dollars into a poker machine once. I won $7.
Now I’m up by $5 so long as I never gamble again. Don’t want to break my streak.
Some people are very susceptible to variable reward schemes and it causes addictive behavior, especially people high in impulsivity, sensation-seeking, or reward sensitivity.
Damn, that might actually turn a profit. 😢
Doing the Lord’s work!
I‘m with Ed Zitron - the AI hype and especially stuff like this just makes it so obvious that the tech bros are flat out of ideas.
Yes but turns out they don’t need ideas to siphon all the money into their pockets anymore. The entire system is designed for it now.
last refuge of the desperate, building a gambling app, or gambling themselves.
The world has no idea how much it wants the Torment Nexus and it’s up to visionaries like Zuck to show us the light.
This guy raises cows and has fun figuring out ways to feed the cow to make the meat more richer.
I’d bet $20 that’s how he sees us. Just feeding us addictive apps to make us yummier for advertisers. No concern for our wellbeing.
Next he’ll implement the 18+ image generation that Grok was doing and you’re getting closer to metaverse blackjack and hookers.
I’d bet $20
Soon, you’d be able to!
Oof! Also this joke is so…meta
I wouldn’t bet a dime that the sun would rise tomorrow on a gambling app run by a guy like him.
It’s hard to mess up. In fact, Trump had to run off at least a few gambling addicts to tank his casino. Modern software engineers would find it difficult to create such friction in a digital environment.
Two important facts. One, there is no such thing as idiot-proof. Two, anyone in charge did not get there by not being an idiot.
And he can’t be voted out. Zuck literally made himself king of his own little virtual empire.
I self exiled myself from his empire 12+ years ago. His crown means nothing to me.
He can’t keep that sinking ship afloat w/ bots alone. So if people keeping walking way it all ends.
Boomers, Gen x, and older millennials are a massive clientele. You absolutely cannot convince them to abandon Facebook.
Not my experience w/ my circle as we are all GenX. We use other ways to keep in touch.
Using your experience in place of actual data is silly.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribution-of-users-age-group-usa/
That data says about half the user base is not what you say it is.
Largest share 25-34, 18-24 in very close third place, making 18-34 about 42%. Also, general usage still expected to grow (somehow), so it’s not just old people staying there forever.
34 in 2025 is millenial but not even older millenial.
He’d be an emperor then, surely.
selflessly
Having seen him operate and read about his past, he does not know how to act selflessly, just as a cat does not know how to fly.
Yeah, not clicking on that headline, sorry
Yes, the industry as a whole I’d say was stagnating before AI came along, Windows 11 was full of garbage and cramming ads and games into the start menu and that was released a year before ChatGPT3.5
