Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

Post by ReverseCold » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:31 AM UTC

bogomipz wrote: post #109

tuna-piano wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by joering2 » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:38 AM UTC

sumoboy wrote: post #131

If people knew the amount of info collected and sold they would abandon everything. Even 7 months before your born, someone has a profile on you. What CA did leveraging data for targeting is just the beginning, ML applied to data in the future will make what CA did look like amateur hour. Like others have said with elections, this all started long ago with social, CA just happened to do it better this time. Even with…

Post by AndrewKemendo » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:45 AM UTC

shiado wrote: post #31

I have a bad feeling that like the Snowden revelations and Occupy Wall Street these findings will actually embolden companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica the same way the NSA and Wall Street banks were likely emboldened because it will once again prove that after a short outburst of moral outrage people will go back to being complacent without substantive change being enacted. They will get away with it and…

Post by oh-kumudo » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:48 AM UTC

Post by visarga » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:52 AM UTC

rndmind wrote: post #74

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 am sure that MZ is the latter. F*book is a farce. You are the problem. Be the change you want to see. Reach out to people other ways for events. FFS, you are connected 24x7 to the internet, not facebook exclusively, never in the history of humanity have we had this level of instantaneous hyperconnection, that excuse is a lie.