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How do you all feel about the Facebook fiasco?
| More of like it are needed.
| Zuckerburg is getting zucced
| facebook succs
| I feel a bit sad.
Some days after that happened I posted I was going to stop using most social media services (WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and invited my contacts to think about the importance of their information. I'm not going to stop just because of this Facebook incident, there are many good reasons to not use it...
The thing is everyone started to make fun of me, they called me paranoid and dumb for believe in "conspiracy theories".
| i thought things has always been like this
| A bit surprised by how many people do not understand the business of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc.
| I don't touch my Facebook with a five meter pole
| ^this
Also there was a facebook fiasco?
| what is this "Face Book" ?
| FecesBook
| It was a matter of time and im not surprised, i still use facebook just to follow certain memes pages and stuff like that but i dont post anything personal and i dont use the cellphone app, tbh i cant blame most of the people to an extent because well nobody read the ToS but i can blame them now that it has been explained and they still believe its nothing, sure people are free to keep using facebook but they at least need yo understand the choices they are making with that
| He got what he deserved
| I feel nothing, never used that shyte.
| What fiasco though?
| >>203989
If I recall correctly, someone conducted an experiment using a personality test where you had to use Facebook to log in, and when they do so, apparently data from X and their friends and family were also sent to the creator of the test, in total, it was estimated that he got personal data from 50 million people.
I use it because next to no one I know uses Discord or Viber, as for Skype, Microsoft are introducing policies that basically means that Big Brother is watching.
| >>204116 wow. I'm surprised it took people this long to realize facebook taking your private data is bad. Hopefully this will end badly for facebook and their ilk.
| >>204120 Facebook has always done this because, well, if we didn't, we'd have to pay for their services, and even then, they can just kick you out if they don't like you, it's the same with Instagram, because apparently they have the right to just take your images and sell them to others without compensation.
| >>204120 Not to mention their targeted advertisements, if I talk about the army, I get ads for the army in my country, if I talk about Counter Strike, I get ads for streaming sites and (more worryingly) ads for CSGO gambling sites.
Even Twitter and YouTube has a clear political bias, because Twitter moderation has biases in regards to hate speech, while YT throws certain videos in the Gulag or demonetize because it because it goes against their narrative.
| >>204214 Not all social media is like Facebook or Twitter, Minds and Gab.ai have their focuses around free speech, plus I've noticed Minds is not as invasive.
| >>203900
You overestimate people's intelligence. Very few really are and are able to think. The vast majority can not and default to herd behaviour, similar to sheep. Just as people are different because the shape and size of their body, limbs and texture are different, the same goes also for all internal organs: stomach, kidneys, liver, lungs, brain, muscles, etc. That people are not of the same intellect is a fact, no matter what common propaganda will argue about the contrary.
| Deserves to burn at this point
| >>204120 imagine how deep shit Zuckerberg got himself in with the British government.
https://youtu.be/-aPpplS0YLE
| It's interesting to see how Chinese people doesn't care at all about private policy as in the West. Even if they don't have Facebook, it bother them if WeChat or any other app is under surveillance by the Chinese government (there are already facial recognition surveillance cameras in the street anyway).
If you say to them " companys and government use your private information ! " They will just respond " meh, so what? I don't do anything illegal, and I have cool personalised ads".
| Its just the tip of the iceberg I think. Personally for me Facebook died when they cut xmpp support. Most of this centralized, proprietary and monopoly alike services just lack of accessibility, which sucks e.g. if you're blind and use a screenreader.
Regarding the data-security issue I just wonder what some people thought "free" plattforms like Facebook are about. It's not a foundation like the Wikipedia providing an open and collaborative service - It's a profit oriented company!
| Missed*
| >>204997 strange because on the contrary I think that more company become important more she trie yo ben accessible to most of the people (sorry for my approximately English)
| >>204997 Facebook was born as a thing where people could gossip and rumour about others. Sugarmountain did it when in university, we all know the story by now. With roots like as its core attraction, it expanded to creating groups, so one could share the gossip with those they preffered to. Tagging others, suggesting friends, indirectly infering relations by observing other's and being assisted by the platform to do so... The writing on the wall was clear for all who could read.
| With roots like that as*
| Fuck Facebook. Rather put my face on Fuckbook.
| the what
| >>205071
Of course it will have to offer something in return for what it takes so people would want to come back to it. It gradually offered games, more games, then news, then you could use it to promote your bussiness, etc etc. While it created digital profiles for everyone and all associated with them.
| Pretty sure they could make a fuckton of money selling just normal adds without the creepy evil spyware, it's not like they were forced to do this they're just greedy.
| let's make a new social network to fug with fb.
| Yes, DargerBook is going to be the best social media ever
| >>205165
There already were and still are other and technically better systems than facebook:
Diaspora, friendica, gnu social.
They are FOSS, decentralized and offering standard compatible APIs. There are FOSS-clients for diffrent purposes and plattforms available.
Some even can partly interact with facebook, as you setup a corresponding account.
| To answer the threads question:
I feel pretty satisfied. Facebook is just a product for the dumb masses aiming on the lowest instincts of human beeings.
| Fuck society
| >>207349
A lot. Look what the Internet has become, when profit oriented companies started to claim it and transform it into a tv-alike playground for the stupid masses. Back then it was like a free, somehow anarchistic, parallel universe, dominated by creative, skilled and idealistic people. There was much hope that this technology will make the world a better place. But things do not work this way. It has many to do with the rotten society which still has to change massively.
| Hard
| How the fuck are people only now realizing that Facebook is a botnet? How do people think Facebook turns a profit?
| >>207927 So, in what ways would we start, if we all somehow rebelled against the system despite that some of us have very different opinions?
| To be honest logging out of Facebook and not returning was probably one of the better decisions I made as far as social media is concerned, and that was more than a year ago.
I'm probably going to return just to check those privacy settings that were the subject the Cambridge Analytica controversy, and then log out again for another couple years.
| I started making the switch to Mastodon also and only use Twitter nominally to visit some people who haven't switched over yet.
| https://joinmastodon.org/
| >>203127
Your friends are shit, you should "defriend" them.
If you're going to use social media, the least you can do is control it.
| People are so stupid. I despise when they use the argument "well if you dont have anything to hide who cares if they got your data"
| I feel like this data fiasco is just the start of many many more and probably many many many more than that which wont even be publicized. We minority reportin ghost in the shell cyborg rennaisance ballzdeep goomba what?
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