I guess(and hope) more and more people are going to accept the fact, most beautiful photos on social media are fake and crafted reality. The people appeared in a photo just like a cartoon character similarly. What you see is not reality but dream you want to live with. Just like you are watching a movie, sometime you can get out from the movie, but you know it is a movie deep in your heart
I look PH as a very good place to promote products, and it's born to promote products. No matter it's a good or bad product, they all don't want to miss a chance to reach their customers.
> True users vote for USEFUL and/or LOVELY products for themselves, growth hackers try their best to drive users vote for specific products.
I can't see that's good or evil, growth hacking may hurt the community, or may bring a lot of users and traffic in a short period.
And I think every community has possibility to become a place for growth hackers if it needs to attract more users and grow bigger.
Just like every corner has possibility to become a place for advertisements. If I don't like it, I just ignore it. And that also makes opportunity for competitors or products like ad-block to stand out.
Anyway I love PH and really feel sad for the acquisition.
It is not me. Here it is like 1 in every 10 or more videos, chances are when I continue to watch videos there could be no ads. Actually, some ads I really like that I want to replay.
It is not like in Chinese Youtube-alike online video sites, like Youku, Letv, they have 30 - 60 seconds ads in every beginning of a video, and there was no chance to "skip" the ads, even I use Adblock, it MAY be block the contents but never the ad itself.
When I heard the news of BBM for iOS launched, I did search in App Store, nothing but just could see a white blank screen. Then I used google to find the direct link, can't even open that in App Store.