Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted

Post by dorgo » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 9:36 AM UTC

kumarvvr wrote: post #256

ori_b wrote: post #173

You mean they follow what many people consider best practices? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1592... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/820466/never-delete-entr... https://serverfault.com/questions/31455/should-i-ever-delete... https://www.infoq.com/news/2009/09/Do-Not-Delete-Data http://udidahan.com/2009/09/01/dont-delete-just-dont/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2549839/are-soft-dele…

"best practices" is for developers. For the average Joe and Janet out there, "deleting" something is synonymous to "remove from the internet for eternity"

Post by richmarr » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 9:51 AM UTC

craigsmansion wrote: post #275

guessmyname wrote: post #8

This reminds me of the long conversations that I used to have with family members and friends several years ago. With their continuous requests to create my own Facebook profile so I can keep in contact with them and with their activities as well as to share my whereabouts. I always used the same argument to reject these suggestions — "I don't want Facebook to have too much data about me, more than the data that you…

Unfortunately there will be no prizes for having been right all along. Even now, as facebook is burning, statements of how one has quit or will be quitting facebook get swept into the pile of incendiary indignation, with encouragement from all sides. But never having used facebook, even at significant personal effort as you indicate, one is relegated from "elitist" before to "smug" now. One day in the future a recrui…

Post by austincheney » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 10:27 AM UTC

kerkeslager wrote: post #219

austincheney wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook's terms of services agreement that you must consent to in order to open or maintain your account. These are the rules not because Facebook says so, but because you say so when you agree to their terms.

Let's be clear here: I'm not the Facebook user in question. I've never uploaded a video to Facebook and never will. Users didn't sign or agree to anything just because they checked a checkbox next to a link to an ever-changing jumble of legalese to get past a screen. This isn't agreement, it's manufactured consent.

Post by pavel_lishin » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 10:42 AM UTC

john_minsk wrote: post #296

The funniest part of it: All the media hype around the topic is generated... BY DATA collected by NYT/Bloomberg/Techcrunch/you name it. Those articles generate additional views and they just continue to ride this wave. And all those publications share this data with 3rd parties (ad networks, analytics providers, cpa networks) On top of that, you know what else do they measure? SENTIMENT. So until kicking Facebook gen…

Post by johnchristopher » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 10:47 AM UTC

craigsmansion wrote: post #275

guessmyname wrote: post #8

This reminds me of the long conversations that I used to have with family members and friends several years ago. With their continuous requests to create my own Facebook profile so I can keep in contact with them and with their activities as well as to share my whereabouts. I always used the same argument to reject these suggestions — "I don't want Facebook to have too much data about me, more than the data that you…

Unfortunately there will be no prizes for having been right all along. Even now, as facebook is burning, statements of how one has quit or will be quitting facebook get swept into the pile of incendiary indignation, with encouragement from all sides. But never having used facebook, even at significant personal effort as you indicate, one is relegated from "elitist" before to "smug" now. One day in the future a recrui…