iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

The only people I'm totally comfortable calling my friends are the ones I'd gladly give a kidney to

Never liked phoning people and have been living in different countries most of my adult life. Barely know my own phone number, even talk to parents by message usually. You know, it's almost like people have different lives and making generalisations about what works for you might not be true for me.

To be clear, you don’t have to make calls to stay in touch with a phone number. That’s what Signal and WhatsApp use and you can use them to have rolling chat threads with photographs and everything

i like facebook ... i use it for connecting with my parents. my dad likes to post reminisces about college for his college friends. same with my mom. and they are connected with people in iran via facebook. so that gives me a little window into their lives before i was born, and it's cool to see them interact with their friends and philosophize about life. and i think it makes them very happy when i *like* their posts. i already see my parents at least once a week and we talk almost every day on the phone but this just adds another layer. same w/ my sister and close friends who i don't get to see often because of geography / kids / schedule. so in that regard it's nice.

and maybe i'm a rube but that NYT interview with zuckerberg made me feel better about the whole fiasco

Heh, remember that time AOL owned CNN?

I like the fact that if I post a cat picture on Facebook I can get a LIKE from a former member of Whitehouse and my mum.

What, you're friends with McMaster or something?

http://media.riffsy.com/images/7c1d71cf6382dc30df8ae84c40d0bf64/tenor.gif

Downloaded my facebook data as a ZIP file

Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner's mum pic.twitter.com/CIRUguf4vD

— Dylan McKay (@dylanmckaynz) March 21, 2018

read the whole thread...

I’m now bothered by the presence of WhatsApp on my device.

I'm giving sideway glances to Instagram!

I deleted Instagram, my friends all send me pictures of their cats directly.

oh I would assume instagram is doing 100% of the exact same shit

whatsapp deleted from personal phone

I get friend requests on IG so infrequently, I barely remember to even check it.

I haven't been on FB in a month, but went in there this week and deleted a bunch of app information (see above at my wonderment over Zedge.)

And last night, I got fucking HIT with half a dozen friend requests on IG - all from people I haven't spoken to in ten years who are exactly the people I was tired of dealing with on FB in the first place.

imo did facebook ruin facebook, yes, shitty fucking site does not work at all

for some reason I can no longer see notifications in browser, really weird... of course there's no such thing as a facebook helpdesk, but I guess this will be as good a time as any to stop using the site

I do have a page for my band, for promotional purposes, and yesterday a friend of mine mentioned the band in a comment, I received a notification by email - clicking it takes me to a statistical overview of interactions, I've no idea how I can find the actual comment

so useless

https://gizmodo.com/why-we-finally-feel-betrayed-by-facebook-1824032214

The Cambridge Analytica scandal will run its course, and Facebook will change its policies (again). Mark Zuckerberg will keep telling us that Facebook will try harder. He might have to testify before Congress, but it remains to be seen whether that will lead to any new regulations for companies like Facebook. People will keep using Facebook and Instagram and all the other apps in the family. All those apps will keep collecting data, and the data you’ve already surrendered will still be out there.

otm

Hell I have an old Livejournal Ive had since 2001 and that sites owned by Russians, its probably way more in peril and I really should just delete it.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, March 21, 2018 9:43

A day after I posted this some random russian LJ user liked the only public post visible on my blog, from 2010. Its is the first time anyone has looked at/done anthing on my livejournal in YEARS so it isnt a coink.

I think this is worth noting, y'all.

(As in, are there russian trollfarmers lurking here?)

There are definitely Russians here. They keep trying to register .ru accounts

wait, ru's bugging trayce, are we sure it's russians and not...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1EgKPiC4I3NW8gMd8QYVJS2_vXhgR4G7gEJZLEP9Y8a9mFa00sw

"MATE, THIS SHIELA CALLED ANGELA MERKEL WANTS TO LET MUSLIMS TAKE OVER EUROPE"

Friends who don’t have your phone number aren’t real friends

Howbout if you only have a landline? That's me.

https://i.imgur.com/M1X1WKP.jpg

Facebook apparently has donated only to GOP congressional PACs:

https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction_period=2018&cycle=2018&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00502906&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=03%2F25%2F2018&line_number=F3X-23

seein mccaskill and tester in that list tho, but yeah theres a lot of GOP

I see a lot more of CYA than GOP on that list.

Yeah sorry, looks a little more balanced the further you scroll down.

I posted after I saw the terrible trio of Nunes, Issa & Denham in a row.

Giving money to Nunes = nope

Problems problems!

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2018/03/statement-acting-director-ftcs-bureau-consumer-protection

The FTC is firmly and fully committed to using all of its tools to protect the privacy of consumers. Foremost among these tools is enforcement action against companies that fail to honor their privacy promises, including to comply with Privacy Shield, or that engage in unfair acts that cause substantial injury to consumers in violation of the FTC Act. Companies who have settled previous FTC actions must also comply with FTC order provisions imposing privacy and data security requirements. Accordingly, the FTC takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook. Today, the FTC is confirming that it has an open non-public investigation into these practices.

And apparently the stock's crashing further.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

making the rounds this morning -- an oldie but a goodie

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims-wont-help-facebooks-privacy-problems-2010-5

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

.@facebook’s approval is plummeting “particularly large among Democrats & Democratic-leaning independents.” Zuckerberg couldn’t care less about the Left. He’ll continues to do to nothing to tackle the problem.

Exclusive poll: Facebook favorability plunges https://t.co/U3yeJLRSYt

— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) March 27, 2018

I downloaded my info from fb. Nothing exciting or surprising (thankfully). Although, I have never used fb to log into any other account ever. I have been side-eyeing that option for years.

Zuckerberg couldn’t care less about the Left.

More to the point, he couldn't care less about 'approval', so long as his detractors continue to use Facebook and his personal fortune remains well above $50 billion.

sounds like a certain someone

More to the point, he couldn't care less about 'approval', so long as his detractors continue to use Facebook and his personal fortune remains well above $50 billion.

🤔 https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16976328/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-pollster-tavis-mcginn-honest-data

Zuck to go b4 congress

“It was my job to do surveys and focus groups globally to understand why people like Mark Zuckerberg, whether they think they can trust him, and whether they’ve even heard of him. That’s especially important outside of the United States.”

I added the bolding. tbh, I think this had more to do with his wanting users to continue to use Facebook and therefore whether his personal fortune remains well above $50 billion.

i'd be interested to know the fraction of facebook's 2bn users who have heard of him. but it's not 100%.

the focus on his personal ratings (rather than just facebook's) hints at something more than just "will facebook continue to rain money on me".

not necessarily "he's running", but rather he's deeply insecure, and cares a lot about whether he personally is admired.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data

Christ that Boz guy is creepy. Area Billionaire Says Was Just Doing Social Experiment On You Guys, Is Actually Laughing Right Now, You Fell For His Troll, Honestly It’s Just Funny

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51bYAUV1dXL._SX373_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

I didn't agree with it even when I wrote it

ok

for those who are still on facebook: what would it take for you to delete your account?

is there a limit to the amount of misuse/selling of your private data that can occur before you've had enough? or is the real issue just that facebook is too useful in certain ways (staying in touch, finding local event invitations, telling everyone you're engaged or pregnant, etc), so you wouldn't delete your account until there's a functional equivalent that you could migrate to?

not trying to be judgmental here. i deleted my account back in january, pre-Cambridge scandal. i was well aware of facebook's shittiness, but i quit because of personal reasons/depression. and i'm still on instagram (owned by facebook), which is probably analyzing all of my images to see what kinds of products i enjoy and where i like to hang out, and connecting all of that to my friends' patterns of behaviors so that some other company can increase the persuasion factor of their advertisements by 1.5%.

i'm digressing, as always. but it's very depressing. we know that something is deeply wrong, but we're also getting used to how all of this works. we lose our privacy and we know we're being manipulated, but we keep allowing them to do it because the product is useful enough to outweigh the abuse. right?

if the heyday of rss returned and my few friends on fb who ever post about their lives stopped posting, then I’d fade away from it.

what would it take for you to delete your account
alternative platforms for events, places and groups, I guess

is there a limit to the amount of misuse/selling of your private data that can occur before you've had enough
to me the worst part of FB is not this it's that it's such a waste of time and yet I keep loading the hopeless user interface

what do you mean? just the compulsive refreshing to see what's new?

I just honestly don't care what companies do with my fb history. I never take those stupid "which Doobie Brother are you?" type quizzes & I don't use the Messenger app, that's about it

Deleted mine a few weeks ago and let me tell you it is GREAT