{"id":33077,"date":"2013-04-04T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/facebook-to-rename-itself-as-engulfdevour.html"},"modified":"2013-04-05T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T14:08:10","slug":"facebook-to-rename-itself-as-engulfdevour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/facebook-to-rename-itself-as-engulfdevour.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to rename itself as Engulf+Devour"},"content":{"rendered":"
Which is an old Mel Brooks (Silent Movie)<\/i> joke, but still …<\/p>\n

So here's Facebook, trying to become … a meta-operating system on select Android phones, persistently available and on top of everything else. \u00a0Yikes. Quoth Zuickerberg:<\/p>\n

'We are trying to build a community. We have a billion folks using our services now, and we want to get to 3 or 5 billion one day. We\u2019re going to do that by building the best experience across all devices.'<\/i><\/p>\n

I have to wonder how many of that "billion" are extremely shallow users, like myself. \u00a0I get onto FB maybe once every week or two, to check out any message that have come in. \u00a0I stay on only because I have friends that are only<\/i> on FB, but I talk to a lot of folks who are "Oh, I used to use it all the time, but now I've backed way off."<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +WIRED<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Facebook accounts for 23 percent of the time people spend on smartphones. The next-biggest ones are Instagram and Google Maps, which are each at 3 percent.
We know this is Google+ and all, but what do you all think of the new product, only available on select Android phones?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication | Wired Magazine | Wired.com<\/a>
\n Photograph by Platon FACEBOOK Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication As caretaker of a service with a bill\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which is an old Mel Brooks (Silent Movie) joke, but still … So here's Facebook, trying to become … a meta-operating system on select Android phones, persistently available and on top of everything else. \u00a0Yikes. Quoth Zuickerberg: 'We are trying to build a community. We have a billion folks using our services now, and we … Continue reading “Facebook to rename itself as Engulf+Devour”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41190,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/facebook-gets-out-of-the-email-biz.html","url_meta":{"origin":33077,"position":0},"title":"Facebook gets out of the email biz","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Feb-14 6:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Way back in 2010, Facebook took over the world of email. 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