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Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by justboxing »

chrischen wrote: post #61
loeg wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is a platform. They don't do a lot of attempting to influence, as far as I can tell. Consider Google as well, which probably reaches even more of the world's population. Or Microsoft. Apple might be getting close, too. Or plenty of non-tech companies, as the sibling commenter points out. Coke, Samsung, Frito-Lay, etc.

Facebook censors content, such as nipples. Facebook put a giant banner across their site for Indian users to promote a specific public policy matter.

> Facebook censors content, such as nipples

But leaked documents from their internal policy allows for displaying the Female nipple under certain circumstances.

See => https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fb-art-...

Source: Leaked Document Lays Out Facebook’s Policy on Sex and Nudity in Art => https://hyperallergic.com/380911/leaked-document-lays-out-fa...

How do they / their algorithm decide if the nudity is "only contours visible" but not "sufficiently detailed"

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by jjeaff »

uhhfcuvv wrote: post #47
coinjobber wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, you need facebook to have friends? Huh

No, but you don't want to make it more difficult for them to reach you. Nobody is willing to do the extra work for that. Friction. You're not special enough.

Wow, then I guess I'm pretty special. Friends seem to reach out and contact me directly even though I don't use Facebook.

I will admit though, I'm very sad that I have never been invited to a lularoe party.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by jjeaff »

SurrealSoul wrote: post #15

https://www.facebook.com/logout Good thing that you can't leave

Maybe you are implying this. But even logging out of Facebook, they will continue to track you and gather information about you through every site that has a Facebook like button on it.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by tonmoy »

startupdiscuss wrote: post #17

Monthly, active according to this source: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/27/15880494/facebook-2-billi... And if you look at these stats from March 2017: https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/ It could be either one. Daily active were 1.28 B and monthly active were 1.9 B so either way it is likely they have both crossed, or are about to cross the 2B mark.

I neither like, share heart or use groups, how ever I'd consider myself as an active user.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by mothers »

loeg wrote: post #85
majewsky wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Facebook is a platform. They don't do a lot of attempting to influence, as far as I can tell. Ahem: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...

What point are you trying to make? Can you elaborate? "Ahem" and a link don't do a good job of forming or supporting a specific point. Edit: Why do people think these are unreasonable questions? Does Google attempt to influence by ordering search results? How can any publisher avoid attempting to influence when any difference in content is potentially influential?

It's really not that complicated. They did attempt to influence.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by losteverything »

I need perspective

At peak, how many landline phones (residential) were there? Peak: printed newspaper readership worldwide? Peak: tv viewership (like july 20, '69)

How many people have electricity? Water?

How many active smartphones in use today?

How many machines run any MS OS?

How many worldwide automobiles?

At first it seems like Gomer "Gol-ly" but not really.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by bpicolo »

justboxing wrote: post #91
chrischen wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook censors content, such as nipples. Facebook put a giant banner across their site for Indian users to promote a specific public policy matter.

> Facebook censors content, such as nipples But leaked documents from their internal policy allows for displaying the Female nipple under certain circumstances. See => https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fb-art-... Source: Leaked Document Lays Out Facebook’s Policy on Sex and Nudity in Art => https://hyperallergic.com/380911/leaked-document-lays-out-fa... How do they / their algorithm decide if the n…

Algorithm is certainly mostly machine learning.

Re: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

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Post by pharrington »

loeg wrote: post #53
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #32

It is both amazing and deeply concerning that one corporation has influence over 1/4 of the world's population. It is even more concerning when you consider the outsized voting power of 1 person at that company.

Facebook is a platform. They don't do a lot of attempting to influence, as far as I can tell. Consider Google as well, which probably reaches even more of the world's population. Or Microsoft. Apple might be getting close, too. Or plenty of non-tech companies, as the sibling commenter points out. Coke, Samsung, Frito-Lay, etc.

Facebook has literally run psychological experiments to test how well they can manipulate their user's emotions.

edit: sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14648521

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