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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 readhn »

I think it would be fun if consumers of digital information did perform en masse exodus from Facebook after an event like this.

It may serve as an example for other service providers that there is a risk of losing their customers base if they screw up too.

As of today google, twitter, fb, apple really have carte blanche from consumers since they know most consumers are not going to lift a finger and the whole thing will be forgotten in a week due to short attention span of most consumers.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by zentiggr »

magic_beans wrote: post #228
ftlio wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook owns Whats App. It's one of the first thing they acquired with IPO money.

Then what on earth was the WhatsApp CEO thinking when he told people to abandon Facebook?

He wised up? Many former FB execs and top employees have started speaking out, having major changes of opinion, against what they created.

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Post by tjwds »

AnatMl2 wrote: post #254

Does anyone know if there's a way to delete the account completely? I mean, I tried deactivating it months ago, but knowing that the profile is still out there bothers me a lot.

Allegedly there's a form to specifically request that they remove your data: https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_co...

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

d--b wrote: post #54
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 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...

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, I assume they share all the data they wish to.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

magic_beans wrote: post #228
ftlio wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook owns Whats App. It's one of the first thing they acquired with IPO money.

Then what on earth was the WhatsApp CEO thinking when he told people to abandon Facebook?

Guilty that he'd knowingly sold everyone on WhatsApp out to Facebook?

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by AnatMl2 »

tjwds wrote: post #255
AnatMl2 wrote: post #254

Does anyone know if there's a way to delete the account completely? I mean, I tried deactivating it months ago, but knowing that the profile is still out there bothers me a lot.

Allegedly there's a form to specifically request that they remove your data: https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_co...

Thank you, I might try it out!

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Post by cx1000 »

patrickdavey wrote: post #175
jamesrcole wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't see how there's any downside (other than the time of getting people to switch). Network effects. It's hard to switch if not all of your contacts also switch.

Absolutely, that's why people like you and me (who care) should put in the effort to try and influence those around them. Once enough people do it, and once it's cool to do it, it'll happen.

We should also make them all switch to Ubuntu and vim too, right?

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Post by lifty »

codingdave wrote: post #222
TimJRobinson wrote: post #170

I've started using Scuttlebutt recently (A decentralized social network, setup guide at https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ ) and it's surprisingly good. It's mostly geeks on there, and it'll still be a few years before my Mum can use it, but that's the way I like it. Facebook is mostly just a photo feed of what I'm up to for my family now.

That is exactly my fear - that people will use this as an opportunity to try to jump in and literally become the next Facebook. Not that I am opposed to a replacement... I even put together a design myself to avoid the problems we've learned in the last 10 years. But I'm not building it -- because unless it is a service that is paid, open-source, and easy enough for Grandma to use, the realities of operating such a b…

Scuttlebutt is open source and peer to peer, but not paid, because there is no one to pay. I recently joined, although I knew about it for a long time, and I was pleasantly surprised on how well it works. The communities have a very nice feel as well, like IRC had in the 90s.
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