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- Bennn2
Facebook is also killing Instagram slowly but surely.
Instagram is probably the worst social media for the humans brain.
I personally like it because my pictures get viewed over there and dont sleep on an unknown web page and there's good inspiration to find. But the game people are playing over there is unhealthy. 95% of the time when someone LIKE your pictures or follows you is to get you to follow/like them back, same thing for all the generic souless comments... How many teens dream to be an 'influencer' ? So many fake souless shit over there.
- How is Facebook killing Instagram? They own it.monospaced
- exactly. They're killing themselves.Bennn
- Go read this mono: https://www.washingt…Bennn
- oops, this: https://www.washingt…Bennn
- it all sucks. unless you're a twerking duckface nasty.inteliboy
- It’s always Bennnnn bringing that truth heatlvl_13
- instagram isnt just twerking and duckface lol, it's great if you follow accounts you are actually interested in. by far the best promo tool on social media asfadein11
- well. my partner runs a kids clothing brand and insta has grown it massively. huge community of like minded people/businesses who all help each other out.fadein11
- totally. its the Like-Follow game that isn't rightBennn
- evilpeacock20
I read QBN more than Facebook.
- mugwart3
anything else other than FB?
heard about this: https://joindiaspora.com- I use it but I have 3 contacts...meh********
- AW77 - hock me up! Though I have never really used it.mugwart
- I use it but I have 3 contacts...meh
- mekk4
Quit FB and insta completely. tbh I wasn't very active over there but I kept lurking. Insta ads were more and more accurate soley by checking out my browsing habits and I wouldn't want to feed the machine any longer.
Not much difference by now.. I wish I could quit WhatsApp too but everyone uses it. The only real alternative I see is switching over to iMessage and SMS but I'd need an iPhone for that.
- Bennn3
''Facebook shared private user messages with Netflix and Spotify''
https://www.theguardian.com/tech…
''Facebook granted major companies far more exceptions to its privacy policies than previously known, making user data available through loopholes to companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Sony.
The loopholes, reported by the New York Times, suggest a company that was prepared to bend its own rules to keep valuable partners onside.
Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read users’ private messages; it gave Microsoft, Sony and Amazon the ability to obtain email addresses of their users’ friends as late as 2017; and it gave device manufacturers such as Apple the ability to build special features that plugged into the social network.
The arrangements bypassed Facebook’s typical privacy protections, making it harder for users to determine where and how their data was being shared by using the tools Facebook had made available for that purpose.''
- reanimate3
I started this thread 5 years ago to try to warn you about the evils of Facebook and no one listened, they just made jokes.
Mark Zuckerberg himself told people what he intended to do 15 YEARS AGO and everyone still signed up.
Now you are all addicted and can't stop. Facebook controls your life. Has anyone even tried to delete their account?
- No! Only you are wise and just and daringNairn
- deleted my fb account and instagram. feel somewhat good about it .. http://gif-finder.co…********
- are you using another social platform you guys? Twitter?Bennn
- QBN Pro********
- Never joined Facebook.
Never regratted it.
No REGERTS!stoplying - stop lying********
- facebook doesn't control lives, ffsmonospaced
- i use everything. i don't give a shit. except snapchat... couldnt be bothered.pango
- monNom4
Aaron Greenspan went to Harvard at the same time as Zuckerberg, wrote a campus email system that evolved to included favourite quotes, interests, birthday reminders, events, and many other familiar features. He called his system "the universal Facebook" , or "the facebook" for short. Days after meeting Mark over dinner, Zuckerberg registered "thefacebook.com" and the rest is history... well, until Facebook settled with him over a "trademark dispute" acknowledging his prior work .
He was somehow not a character in The Social Network, but his story is central to the origin of Facebook, and he has some interesting things to say about Mark!
- monNom6
That time when Facebook lured children into racking up their parents credit cards with in game purchases, then refused to implement fixes because it would hurt revenue.
- sted6
an other "why the fuck are you sharing?"
- monNom6
That time Facebook paid 13 year-olds $20 a month to replace the root certificate on their phone, and to collect EVERYTHING the phone does. Which lead to their iOS enterprise developer license being revoked by Apple for abuse.
- Facebook employee memo on this with some analysis: https://techcrunch.c…monNom
- colin_s3
couple random thoughts:
1. if the left / poor / mad at the rich really wanted to fire a warning shot (which brexit / trump already have done on the right), a mass deletion of facebook at once would be a good start. it wouldn't even have to be a permanent delete - if millions of active accounts left one night, the stock the next morning would crash. the vulnerability of the company would be exposed, allowing for consumer empowerment regarding privacy issues.
2. social media is the new fast food. facebook is mcdonalds and the rest sort it out, but it really is. it's complete junk whose main customers are just short of addicted. it provides no value, temporary and empty highs, and makes you feel like shit after using it.
in the future, "big brother" will be associated with "factory farming" (some will care, some will not); but it will provide for the same infrastructure of capitalism, where regional and local social media groups will form (using "local coders") with degrees of privacy being considered the way degrees of health are now in the quick-eats biz.
- also "billions served" on mcdonalds sign="hundreds of millions of users" for FBcolin_s
- Why delete? Social media are actively supporting communism and banning alternate points if view.Hayoth
- Seems like a good partner for the totalitarian left.Hayoth
- social media provides no value? it's taken down dictatorial regimes for crying out loud.hotroddy
- social media is a decentralized way of getting information out to the masses.hotroddy
- @hotroddy it's something that could be done in many different ways - what i see now is not an ideal, though instant communication yes, is goodcolin_s
- You do realize Facebook has billions of users right? Not hundreds of millions.noRGB
- Krassy8
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
"employees, desperate for a dopamine rush amid the misery, have been found having sex inside stairwells and a room reserved for lactating mothers"
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/…
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- Krassy6
Mark Zuckerberg ‘has secret panic chute leading to car park’ underneath his Facebook conference room for emergency escapes
The Facebook CEO receives death threats on a weekly basis
More than 70 people are now protected by an executive security team at Facebook, which is led by former US Secret Service special agent Jill Leavens Jones.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/85…
- R_Kercz2
https://www.facebook.com/ads/lib…
"The Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products. Anyone can explore the Library, with or without a Facebook account."
- validate our algorithms by searching for ads so we don't have to work it out. roll up suckers!MrT
- sted4
Drear Mark. Spend your fucking profit on cleaning up your own network and stop lobbying for more internet regulation.
- Morning_star4
I've posted this in the IDW thread too. I think it may belong here though.
- The only interesting thing I learnt was that Google uses those recaptcha street photos to get us to teach their AI to spot road features.Hayzilla
- PonyBoy-5
Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/soc…
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be protecting that data..."
