WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

Post by jansho » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 8:55 AM UTC

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> The rest 95% either don't know, or could care less even if they know. I've told my non-techie fam and friends about data harvesting, privacy, and how facebook tracks everything, only to be ignored or outright ridiculed ("Oh you techies are so paranoid"). pretty much exactly my experience with Canadian and American family. People didn't give one iota of a fuck when the Snowden revelations came out because they just…

It’s a socioeconomic awareness. If you’re worried about food you don’t care. Facebooks 99% are the poorest and least educated. I’ve always wondered why face book, a platform which could unify teachers from mit with the poorest students across the globe has never done shit to do so. They claim to “connect the globe” but the haven’t connected anything. Where is the teacher hosting a class where any single person from f…

Post by ianlevesque » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 9:03 AM UTC

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Once something like Facebook Messenger has reached a critical market share trying to get people to stop using it writing this comment from South-East Europe where many people use facebook not just for cat pics but to find work and network with colleagues. It's a huge problem in developing countries where facebook IS the Internet. FB recently announced it would roll out job-posts for low-income workers[¹]. This will m…

Echoing your statement, "Facebook is the Internet". In Africa most telecoms have special data bundles for Facebook and WhatsApp. Normal data bundles to browse the Internet are just too expensive. A dollar will give you unlimited access to Facebook and WhatsApp for about 2 weeks. I have a few cows back in my village. I have toyed with the idea of creating a cattle monitoring application that would have to make use of…

Post by croon » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 9:05 AM UTC

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> And, of course, Manafort, who is dirty AF (right up there with the Podestas, the Clintons and the rest), but nothing relating to the Trump campaign. Manafort served as Trump's Campaign manager from June 2016 to August 2016, but I guess that has nothing to do with Trump's Campaign. Created an account to attempt to derail this conversation into being about Seth Rich and Hillary Clinton. lol.

But your opponent is correct. Manafort indictment is about laundering money he made in Ukraine before 2014. It really has nothing to do with him being a campaign manager in 2016. Moreover, I bet this activities as a campaign manager were examined under microscope, and nothing shady was found, otherwise he would be indicted. Lets stay rational and stick to facts.

Post by ironjunkie » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 9:09 AM UTC

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Deleted it long time ago on my mobile devices. It is not enough though. Facebook javascript is everywhere.

Post by hycaria » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 9:16 AM UTC

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I probably have things to hide, but: I ignore ads. I don't click on political news. I pretty much ignore everything except my friends' vacation photos. Please tell me in concrete terms a specific downside to staying on Facebook. What's the non-tinfoil hat scenario that I am naively ignoring? Wake up and my bank account is drained, or what?

I ignore ads. I don't click on political news. You don't have to click it. For example I have zero interest in celebrities or reality TV, I've never clicked a link or read an article about them. Yet even I know who Kanye Kardashian is, and that he's married to (or is? * ) a woman with an enormous backside. it's pervasive, it becomes part of the background and what you consider "normal". I absolutely guarantee that de…