2007: What's the point of FACEBOOK? | BBC Breakfast | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
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- "It's kind of like having a cocktail party on the internet." - Jenni Trent Hughes.
Sian Williams and Dermot Murnaghan are joined by Stuff Magazine editor Tom Dunmore and social commentator Jenni Trent Hughes to discuss Facebook, a social networking website that - since being made available to the general public in late 2006 - has grown rapidly in popularity. It's part of a burgeoning online trend known as social media.
What exactly is social media, what is it for, and why are people using it?
Clip taken from BBC Breakfast, originally broadcast on BBC One, 12 June, 2007.
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2007: What's the point of FACEBOOK? | BBC Breakfast | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 1103am 26.6.24 formally known as Y
Data harvesting and propaganda dissemination.
Make Zuckerberg and co loads of money while spreading dodgy advertising, misinformation, and increase mental health issues.
I thought the answer was data harvesting.
@@4879daniel Comments on ‘2007: What's the point of FACEBOOK? | BBC Breakfast | Retro Tech | BBC Archive’ 1711pm 26.6.24 they're doing that now... try phoning the bank and they'll cause all manner of issues so's you are reuired to phone in... simple enough fraudster trick they're engaged with... go away john, maybe..?
Deleted all my social media accounts back in 2017. Never looked back, never felt better. Stopped drinking 2 years ago, better diet, etc. turning 40 later this year and feels like I'm in my early 20s again. Massive calmness after adding some stoic thought processes to my life as well. Used to have big aggression issues (only at home when alone not in public or towards people) and other mental health issues but everything is gone which I never expected. I can even wear grey t-shirts in the summer because I don't sweat/feel anxious in any situation. Much of the world needs to adapt and change their lifestyles for the better - it genuinely is that easy to change things or your mind specifically to feel better (and my life is absolutely not in a good position right now but it's ok, no job, no car, no partner, no kids, terrible economy)
I have to agree on this but for me personally, Facebook died in 2014 when they started really going in on collecting people's data and did that experiment on it's own users where 50% of them were shown happy things in there feed and 50% were shown depressing things in there feed which in my opinion should be illegal. Been 10 years and haven't needed to use Facebook since. I kept UA-cam but even Google was a big dodgy back in 2014.
UA-cam is social media though 🤔
@@ChillingCrowleyUA-cam is a video sharing platform. It’s not geared towards creating connections between people. When people refer to ‘social media’ they usually mean friend/follower based networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
@@Mythraezia yet you’re commenting on social media 🤣
I don't believe a word you say 😂😂
How else would you know what a school friend you haven’t seen in decades is having for dinner?
The lady saying it would not cut down on real communication oh how wrong she was
I don't think it was so much social networks that did it but rather the glass slab that was introduced in January of this exact year that caused modern-day brainrot. People say the iPhone was a revolution and yes while it is certainly helpful Jobs & Co had to know the impact of giving near billions of people power and access to the internet with something simply in their pocket. If we still had to lug around laptops to be able to look at stuff I think it would be quite different.
@@megatronskneecap I wholeheartedly agree with you
Facebook just hasn't. It's also not particularly popular any more esp. with young people. At the time, social media was considered cringe. Online Dating was also considered embarrassing.
@@megatronskneecapThey said newspapers killed the art of conversation too. The reality is, humans have lots of conversations with each other, always have.
@@megatronskneecapit was both obviously.
I have never social network sites and never will. I found it quite disturbing when the HR department at a firm I worked for asked a colleague why they couldn’t find me on it! Apparently the secretaries found out later that HR was spending a lot of time spying on their pages to gather information for the personnel files and to see if they mentioned the company.
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@@BobCassidy If you could track me down through UA-cam, then you would have to hack into Google thus breaking the law and they don’t have what you need to find and confirm who I am, which is a bit different from posting something on a social network which is open to the public. I apologise if my English is poor but it isn’t my first language.
Yep I agree,;UA-cam whilst obviously a form of social media is not the same.
2:32 "it's not a place where you create fake identities or anything" LOL!
Oh how naive they were :P
Yep that comment did not age well
@@srobertson2798”Stupid”, really. People made that criticism at the time. It wasn’t listened to.
Facebook never gave me the feeling I get when I go back and read all of the holiday cards I’ve been sent, letters, and flipping through my photo books. Nothing staged, all intimate emotion and genuine memories. Facebook is a plastic made up “memory” site.
Too true!
By the time this was broadcast, I'd already joined and used Facebook, and stopped using it. Still not logged back in to my old abandoned profile since about May 2007.
I quit in 2008
I can't get my head around how fast this has all gone. I remember 2007 like it was literally last week. I was 27 and time was going faster......Faster, once I hit 35/36 I remember it accelerated rapidly, But looking back nearly 20 years nothing really seems much different in 2024.
Spot on, basically were not moving on like we used to, technically and socially stagnating. That's why this clip does not feel 17/18yrs old. Imagine a t.v clip in 1990 and then looking at it in 2007! you'd sure notice a BIG difference then, or a clip from 1977 being viewed in 1990. I'm 52 now so the impact is far more concentrated for me form era to era.
I was like 5 back then and for me its been a big difference. Technology / social media etc has rapidly changed, even in the last 5 years with tiktok for example.
@@PikaPluff Still social media, tiktok/facebook/whatsapp, choose you poison. Sideways development instead of major advance like mobile phones turning into mobile phones with small computers, big deal, try no computers to computers in nearly every home and the internet . The comparison of changes and invention in tech /culture is not even close in the last 15/20yrs compared to the leaps in the last 30yrs of the 20th century and first 10yrs of this century.
Which is ANOTHER net effect of this technology on culture: it’s stultifying.
@@PikaPluffhe means radical. Like comparing 1990-2010.
I would actually like to see these interviewed people reacting to this nowadays. I wonder how their opinions have changed
Facecrack. Helping certain people become obsessed with that perfect picture of their faces 😅
This was around the time I joined Facebook as a young teenager. I've been out of it for years now.
Crazy to think this is "retro" tech. But then I remember 2007 isn't 6 years ago anymore...
Nearly two decades!! Scary
Again I am shocked to see BBC television from 2007 deemed so old it is listed as BBC Archive status!
I think it’s because technology has advanced so much within that time frame. Something we never thought would happen so quick
2007 is retro, don't you know
Its nearly 20 years ago man, of course it should be in the archive!
I remember writing an acdemic paper on it. The consensus in 2007 was spying on your ex GF or BF (I was interviewing students).
I deleted my account ages ago, soon after some idiot decided to replace all the useful stuff in my newsfeed with sponsored content, sponsored posts, adverts, pop-ups and posts of whatever meme that some middle-cousin of someone who liked a photo that was tagged by a friend's aunt of me a year ago just released. Then they turned-off in-site messages/chat and tried to force Instagram/Facebook chat down my throat. So, with a main newsfeed that no longer had any actual news about my family and friends and no way to chat or message anyone, I gave up and closed my account about 10 or so years ago and haven't looked back.
It's even worse now. Starting about two years ago, they stopped showing most people's posts or the posts by pages they actually subscribe to. Instead, they bombard everyone with unsolicited posts and pages they may like (instead of the pages they actually do like).
Facebook's own terms and conditions stipulate that personal timelines must not be used for advertising, but that's exactly what their own company is doing. -"Personal timeline" and "News feed" being exactly the same thing.
It's incredible how long ago 2007 was. The breakfast couch and studio is memorable but at the same time almost unrecognisable. The same goes for the internet in general.
That part where she said shy people use Facebook and learn social skills which they then use in real life made me laugh. That is not at all how social media affects people now. I feel like people growing up with social media are even more afraid of face-to-face interactions than anyone before.
This was back when you actually knew who was on your Facebook account and you'd use it to arrange social events. You never had it on your phone either.
I didn't wonder what the point was, rather why on earth would I use something like Facebook. Never made an account with FB, probably have a shadow account, and I continue to use email if I want to contact somebody.
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The point of Facebook is to sell your time to the advertisers. If you use it, you are the product and you work for free.
1:37 - I remember her (Jenni Trent Hughes). She used to be on tv all the time. Where is she now??
I have 2500 Friends, I only know 8 of them. 🤭
I call it unsocial network
Loved by the security services.
Earlier than Facebook, there was a similar site called Face Party and I was on that in 2005 for a few years. I was late joining Facebook though (2016), and I've never had Twitter. UA-cam was 2007 for me
Don’t listen to all the grumpy people complaining in the comments here, there was a time when Facebook was actually amazing, it helped me make friends with people who otherwise would have just been passing acquaintances and maintain friendships that would have otherwise disappeared. If you were the right age back then it really was great for a bit, it wasn’t quite like the dystopian hell scape it is today.
It was great at first until greed took over and it started selling your data to the highest bidder...
*Facebook: Making you feel better about your life choices since 2004.*
Love it or hate it we can all agree on one thing: Facebook and all the other social sites come in real handy for when we had to lockdown more than 10 years after this.
Immediately after this segment, Jenni received her first friend request from Quentin Tarantino.
I've given FB a good go on and off since about 2008, but I really fail to see the use of it, what's the point, as this video says lol. You just get angry trolls bashing you for no reason other than to be mean, friend requests from people you don't want to be friends with or fake profiles, and meaningless junk, plus wastes your time needlessly.
I just use it now for being logged into apps and games, that's it.
UA-cam can get a bit waste of time and scrolling videos, as well, but it's less fake social.
I wish we could go back to the 90s, and stop right there, tbh.
Just had my Facebook account disabled permanently for no reason. I consider it an honour...
To take humanity back to primal thought
Advertising machine
What is Facebook?
Sian was pretty spot on with her comment about the consequences of posting feet pics
Ironically only really used by over 40s nowadays
If you were a teenager in West Cornwall back then chances are you'd have joined Facebook 2008 at a stretch, but really more into 2009. I admit Bebo wasn't necessarily that great, but it was less bad in comparison in my opinion.
1:54 this aged badly. It’s actually now doing worse for society, with the likes of twitter, tik tok and many more. People are sucked into these apps now that they can’t get away from them
Although I haven't used it for years, I wish I had never, ever used it at all.
The world would be a much better place without facebook, its its founder and the people who tell him what to do in it.
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2024: We do not have a clear answer , it was just a a waste of time . If you read this in 2007 you have been warned
Man, Sian Williams was a snack then.
They should just call it pay to not be shadow banned Book...
Its point was to allow thick people to make webpages about what sandwich they're having
I remember the overweight woman being in tv a lot back on the day. No idea why. Seemed a tad annoying….in a hipster way.
Zuck studied psychology babble...I wanna be the face in the rich kids yearbook.
Some things are best left in the past. Move on !
Back before Facebook became mostly populated by angry bitter middle aged people
17 years later 💀🔫
Wow..Tom…. Arent you a visionary. … not .. id employ you….not
2007: What's the point of FACEBOOK? | BBC Breakfast | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 1101am 26.6.24 GOONADS SET TO STUN OR NO...... i wasn't an overt fan of facenbook. full of mods who want to curtail one's chit chat.... who do nought but complain. asiatic sensibilities are very stringent which is tiresome. some folk like to relax with their chit chat... as opposed to be stresed at every turn... the question you ask anyone when they inform you they use(d) facebook is: why did they ban you, then? i added weatehr forecast maps on my account. much to someone's chagrin... mod(erator)s are shyte!!!!!!!!!!! let me tell you know.
Basically the end of civilisation 😂
The site that was originally for youngsters in college to organize parties and study groups became the place to be for the 50+ demographic to congregate and bicker with each other.
I wish I'd never signed up in 2009. I saw the true colors of a cousin who I wish had stayed just a " send a birthday card once a year" type relative ... 😔
She posted all kinds of political crap and got mad that I called my dog my pet and not my "furbaby". 🤪
Now you know the real them.
I remember when I first got it back in 2007 when I was 12 now I haven’t used it since 2018 how things change and evolve what with the TikTok of it all now and IG🤧😆
Got to love the comments on here saying they deleted all social media long ago, but here you are commenting on a social media page 😄
Facebook is old enough to qualify for the Archive? Wow. I've never user Facebook or Twitter, and I don't agree with the real name policy. Used Instagram for a while. It is funny that old people - that is, not college students - were discussing Facebook in 2007 as something new, and nowadays old people are those who use it.
It seems like 2007 shouldn't be on archive but 17 years is a long time. Think of the difference between 1970 and 1987.
Tuesday 12th June 2007
About the time it started becoming a pile of 💩
Signed up in 2007, the original idea was good, still get quite a lot of positive experiences from it however you do put your sanity at risk if you engage in comments sections, can be a complete snark fest where many just go for a spew ... 😎
Brilliant. Facebook was only fun for about 10 years maybe between 2007 & 2017. After that it was pretty much trash. It had a good run at it, but I wouldn't ever use it again. Like everything, people find ways to ruin it in the end. So good to watch this.
To be fair I didn’t realise marketplace had been on Facebook from the early days!
Seemed like a novelty back then. How it has taken over our lives
If only we knew back then that it would destroy the world.
Narrator: it did not have the opposite effect…
Narcissist Book
Poisonous
I checked both guests' Facebook pages today.:
Tom Dunmore is still a regular Facebook contributor.
Jenni Tent Hughes has only been updating her profile pic since 2019, remaining text-free since then.
"I have no desire to make windows into men's souls," Queen Elizabeth I of England circa 1560.
"Hold my beer." Mark Zuckerberg of New York, USA circa 2003.