For all the influence granted to those who buy ads, the allowance to spread fake news and influence the old and uneducated, as well as not policing content, the reality is that there is A LOT of shit posted we don’t see because we’re mostly (emphasis on mostly) better humans. And the content they discuss in this article? Video of puppies beaten by people with baseball bats? Parents teaching toddlers to smoke pot? https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa On top of that, you’re farming this out to contractors because of the known mental health issues you’re creating? Shut it the fuck down.
Facebook is nothing but an online extension of our IRL society. Can’t stop stupid people saying stupid things, you just have to work to counter it.
We should merge this with a campaign I’m starting. If everyone in America doesn’t buy gas at all for a day then the big oil companies will be forced to lower their prices. We can do this y’all!
How else will I keep tabs on my old college GFs I mean, by now they really are old Old people need social media too I miss the 80's
I’m currently wondering whether a ban on Sharia law being circulated on FB will include a ban on Arabic numerals. Responses seem pretty split.
I'd never used Facebook at all until about 4 years ago when I learned there were sneaker groups on there and they allowed me to find rare pairs from all over the world. The whole idea of keeping up with people that I don't care enough about to call/text just never interested me. Add in the ignorant stuff people post on there and it's just a hard pass for me.
I do. If I open the app, my entire feed is sneaker sale/buy posts. Idk how many "friends" I have on there, maybe 10 that my wife added when she made the account, but they are all muted so I don't see anything they post. It's just a sneaker marketplace for me.
So you’re saying you get off to promoted content of people beating puppies with rare pairs of sneakers?
Basically just a little fb surveillance script that runs on probably 80% of the sites you visit. It's part of the reason your ads are so specific. They also use your friends' data to guess what you like, target ads to you. Another cool nugget is that you don't even need to be on the site for them to collect your data. If your friend synchs their contacts and you're in them, they keep that data. That includes your phone number, address, etc. That company is trash and we should all cheer it's demise.
I mean you can feel however you want. It just doesn't bother me. They have my phone number? Cool. My address? It's in the whitepages. Now if they start selling my phone number to Adidas bc I buy a lot of Nikes and Adidas starts calling me and bothering me daily I'd be pissed. But just showing me ads I may be more interested in than random shit I don't care about? I'm ok with that.
Or more likely you just avoid it. Just like most normal people don't go to white trash, ghetto, or redneck establishments and pick the brains of the regular patrons... or other places with outspoken groupthink people like an evangelical group meeting.
LOL Learn about pixels. Adidas, Nike, Puma all have access to you, it just comes down to how mich you matter to them.
I think it's pretty naive to think that's the worst that could happen. I don't think it's smart to trust a private company with basically no oversight to keep your data safe.
Again, I know they have access. That doesn't bother me. What they do with it does. Show me ads that are geared towards me? Ok, cool.
Women were being run ads on FB for pregnancy before THEY were aware of being pregnant. And those ads continued in miscarriage situations. Shoes are innocuous, but don’t underestimate their knowledge and data.
NO OVERSIGHT? He practically begged Congress to regulate FB. Spoiler: Because because there's no way they could regulate themselves apparently
they kidnap you, wipe your memory and reprogram you to be the assistant manager of a Payless Shoesource
For the 3rd time, I couldn't care less about ads on the internet. I know they have all that info. I just don't care that they use it to make ads tailored to me. As for the miscarriage part, iwe dealt with that. Wife had been looking for baby stuff for weeks so all of her ads were that and then boom, miscarriage. It wasn't a huge deal.
I know you're hyper-comfortable with your personal stuff being all over the internet, but there's a pretty short path to data beach on Facebook+data from Equifax beach/any other shittier tech company selling your financial info > stolen ID. I don't think you're going to end up chained to radiator or something but there is *no upside* to it, and plenty of potential downsides with a range of severity from "ads I don't like" to fraud.
I just accepted that as part of life a long time ago. ID theft went way up when personal info began being stored electronically rather than on note cards in a safe. FB is just one of dozens of companies that have my info. Verizon, DirecTV, Chase, Edward Jones, etc etc etc.
Facebook is that thing you need to log into in order to get extra gold or whatever in your iphone toilet games, right?