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Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by jmspring »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #75
cyberferret wrote: post #13

The question is - will this be just a minor blip to Facebook and then normal services will resume after the indignation wears off? Or will it the beginning of the end of the social media dominance of the platform? For me personally, I use FB primarily to keep in touch with friends, family and old colleagues who are spread all over the world. It is purely a contact tool, and not really used to market products of servi…

I highly recommend deleting the fb app from your device to prevent it listening on you, tracking location, draining your battery and bombarding you with notifications. If you must use messenger in mobile, https://mbasic.facebook.com/ works

One can also request the FB site be reloaded as the desktop version - less painful than mbasic.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by bogomipz »

nukeop wrote: post #90
d--b wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope I'm wrong but I think this in no way bringing facebook down. Keeping in touch with friends & family is too important to ditch entirely, and having everyone switch to a different platform is very hard. That said, my whole extended family uses whats app nowadays...

This is a false dichotomy, Facebook is in no way required or even useful to keep in touch with anyone.

Indeed, people kept in touch with friends and family just fine before Facebook.

And people who don't use it now also manage to keep in touch with people they care about just fine.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by joering2 »

It was nice to "see" Zuckerberg on CNN today, given he was at his office reading from the script (you can see the eye movement) and interviewer was somewhere else in a greenbox room.

Unless CNN went SO amateurish that you only show a back head of interviewer and you never show him with the journalist together!

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by fwgwgwgch »

tuna-piano wrote: post #92
sydli wrote: post #64

A point that is brought up occasionally, but probably not enough: Deleting Facebook really isn't possible for a nontrivial percentage of the world population, since Facebook is the internet in some places. Their monopoly over internet infrastructure in some developing countries is such that people can't afford non-Facebook internet packages, and seems to disincentivize actual low-cost internet infrastructure from bei…

Absolutely correct. I've met people in Asia (Myanmar and Nepal) who have just accessed the internet for the first time in the past 12-24 months (through their Android smartphones). But they don't know the true internet - they only know the internet through the Facebook app. They use it like we use Google and web browsers. To them, Facebook is the internet. They don't have email accounts. They don't use the browser. T…

> buzz feed

Since you are as surprised as I was a month back, I've looked further and concluded that buzz feed actually funds very high quality journalism (yes yes shocking I know) and presents facts from both sides. They do it using the money generated from click baits. I'd even make what will sound like a hyperbole , if you are the sort that wants truth on both sides of political spectrum and not just an echo chamber , go to buzz feed, and not NY TIMES or wapo.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by joering2 »

eric_b wrote: post #47

I've had a dormant FB account for years. I don't like the site and I never add content. I believe that social media has become a net detractor to quality-of-life for many (most?) humans who use it. I think Mark Zuckerberg is either incredibly naive, or a sleaze bag, but in either case should suffer some consequences from this. That said, I probably won't delete my account. It remains the only way many of my friends p…

> I think Mark Zuckerberg is either incredibly naive, or a sleaze bag

Hmm typically when someone says that people are "dumb fucks" it usually means they are simply incredibly naive /s

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Post by bogomipz »

sydli wrote: post #64

A point that is brought up occasionally, but probably not enough: Deleting Facebook really isn't possible for a nontrivial percentage of the world population, since Facebook is the internet in some places. Their monopoly over internet infrastructure in some developing countries is such that people can't afford non-Facebook internet packages, and seems to disincentivize actual low-cost internet infrastructure from bei…

>"Their monopoly over internet infrastructure in some developing countries"

In which developing countries does Facebook have a "monopoly" over internet infrastructure?

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by barell »

tuna-piano wrote: post #92
sydli wrote: post #64

A point that is brought up occasionally, but probably not enough: Deleting Facebook really isn't possible for a nontrivial percentage of the world population, since Facebook is the internet in some places. Their monopoly over internet infrastructure in some developing countries is such that people can't afford non-Facebook internet packages, and seems to disincentivize actual low-cost internet infrastructure from bei…

Absolutely correct. I've met people in Asia (Myanmar and Nepal) who have just accessed the internet for the first time in the past 12-24 months (through their Android smartphones). But they don't know the true internet - they only know the internet through the Facebook app. They use it like we use Google and web browsers. To them, Facebook is the internet. They don't have email accounts. They don't use the browser. T…

I didn’t know you can have Facebook account without having email address.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by bogomipz »

tuna-piano wrote: post #92
sydli wrote: post #64

A point that is brought up occasionally, but probably not enough: Deleting Facebook really isn't possible for a nontrivial percentage of the world population, since Facebook is the internet in some places. Their monopoly over internet infrastructure in some developing countries is such that people can't afford non-Facebook internet packages, and seems to disincentivize actual low-cost internet infrastructure from bei…

Absolutely correct. I've met people in Asia (Myanmar and Nepal) who have just accessed the internet for the first time in the past 12-24 months (through their Android smartphones). But they don't know the true internet - they only know the internet through the Facebook app. They use it like we use Google and web browsers. To them, Facebook is the internet. They don't have email accounts. They don't use the browser. T…

>" I've met people in Asia (Myanmar and Nepal) who have just accessed the internet for the first time in the past 12-24 months (through their Android smartphones). But they don't know the true internet"

Yes and at one time AOL occupied a similar role. And everyone moved out of the walled garden and onto the real internet just fine.

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