I feel they have crossed several lines in their constant push for engagement, to the point where, previously, a notification from Facebook was generally worth my time (and directly related to an action a friend has taken), whereas now, most of the notifications are irrelevant, effectively short term boosting engagement at the cost of mid/long term engagement drop. I have flat out disabled notifications from Facebook at this point.
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#22Why is this article so certain this related to fake news correction?
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#23I feel they have crossed several lines in their constant push for engagement, to the point where, previously, a notification from Facebook was generally worth my time (and directly related to an action a friend has taken), whereas now, most of the notifications are irrelevant, effectively short term boosting engagement at the cost of mid/long term engagement drop. I have flat out disabled notifications from Facebook…
I deleted the Facebook app on my phone a few months ago and only use it for messenger. My life has been improved so much.
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#24I don’t think anyone really cares about societal impact. IMO, Facebook is a faddish activity that many people have turned into a defacto obligation.
People are getting Facebook fatigue. In my social circle, Facebook use seems to have switched to Instagram.
Personally, I check on it once a week now to keep up with a few friends who I don’t see anymore. It’s an effort, because Facebook refuses to show me what I want to see, and I need to specifically search for people.
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#25> Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that those changes have already reduced time spent on Facebook by roughly 50 million hours a day.
Or, to put this another way, people have saved 50 million hours that they formerly spent scrolling past stupid videos and memes they'd already seen on Reddit.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
But in the 90s we were all watching 4-6 hrs of TV a day.
It was a generic 4-6, not targeted, neither was it profiling you while you watched it
Television programming has been profiled and targeted for decades. It just wasn't as granular and accurate as it is on the web.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
In another thread here we are learning how much of this "daily active users" is actually bots run by corporations. I for myself have shown myself out of Facebook and enjoy real live interactions with human beings like it's the '90s.
But in the 90s we were all watching 4-6 hrs of TV a day.
It was good family TV though! Like Family Matters and Full House!
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#28Respect for journalism is as much about avoiding headlines like this that sneakily imply some sort of baseless causation via - in this case - the word "After" as it is about bad science in Fox News coverage of global warming. When we let poor journalism like this headline go uncontested we erode public trust.
Headlines are why I rarely read online news articles anymore, and typically just view the comment sections, either here on HN, or Slashdot, etc. It never used to be this bad. One would think that with public trust in the media at an all time low, they would make an effort to be less sneaky and clickbaity, at the very least with their headlines, but....... nope.
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#29This is a chance before the U.S mid-terms for them to prove to the public they've learned from their mistakes.. 1). prevent the spread of fake news.. they need a better solution than the user-tagging bs if an article is valid or not. there was a scientologist that had an account that wasn't active for 5+ years, that started posting how puerto rico wasn't that bad when the storm first hit. why is this account not bein…
> 3). ban fake accounts / tie in a real human behind the account. 100000 fake users means a lot less to me if i'm an advertiser than 10 real people.
so i posted this in another thread in response to twitter, and it got kind of drowned out but with regards to authoritative/oppressive governments subpoenaing facebook to get a user's identity for voicing an opinion that isn't in line with the regime's. how do you solve this while giving every account an identity? anonymity on facebook/twitter seems to be one way to practice freedom of speech in countries where there isn't really any
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#30Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter usage are all down.
People are just spending less time on social media apps for some reasons these days.