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Maybe I'm just too paranoid, but first thing that popped into my head is there are a lot of predators out there looking for weak prey. Maybe I need a support group to help with that :)
If any Facebook employees are reading this, there's a really annoying "feature" that will show a list of suggested friends to add to a private group. I've accidentally added people to private groups by accidentally clicking a single time while scrolling. Imagine being in an AA group or HIV support group and adding your coworker to it on accident. Please change this.
It's really easy to complain about this, but it's very hard to actually come up with a solution. Did you have any suggestions how cases like this could be detected?
Delay the action for five minutes and add an "undo" button for the five minutes.
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So I'm curious: have you tried removing details from your Facebook ad preferences? On the desktop website go to: Settings | Ads | Your Interests. There is a huge ontology of various subjects that have been algorithmically assigned to you. If you remove these, I believe ads targeted to those interests should go away. I periodically just sweep them all clean so I have no interests. I get very few ads and those that I g…
It’s pretty good that they allow you to do that now, but it can’t retroactively remove those interests from the personal data they’ve already sold about you. So it fixes the smaller issue of what ads Facebook serves, but doesn’t address the larger issue of privacy.
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It's really easy to complain about this, but it's very hard to actually come up with a solution. Did you have any suggestions how cases like this could be detected?
> it's very hard to actually come up with a solution Just not have "suggested friends"? I've never gotten anything out of that feature, and I imagine it provides little actual value to anyone since if someone was actually a friend or even an acquaintance, they'd have that person in mind when adding friends on Facebook.
If any Facebook employees are reading this, there's a really annoying "feature" that will show a list of suggested friends to add to a private group. I've accidentally added people to private groups by accidentally clicking a single time while scrolling. Imagine being in an AA group or HIV support group and adding your coworker to it on accident. Please change this.
It's really easy to complain about this, but it's very hard to actually come up with a solution. Did you have any suggestions how cases like this could be detected?
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It's really easy to complain about this, but it's very hard to actually come up with a solution. Did you have any suggestions how cases like this could be detected?
> it's very hard to actually come up with a solution Just not have "suggested friends"? I've never gotten anything out of that feature, and I imagine it provides little actual value to anyone since if someone was actually a friend or even an acquaintance, they'd have that person in mind when adding friends on Facebook.
This is why we can't have nice things.
“For example, according to Lewis, the algorithm might keep showing a post whose question has been answered. And it might deprioritize posts from new members that don’t get much engagement—ensuring they get even less engagement in a form of algorithmic ghosting.” Essentially the flaw with facebook’s entire system of selecting posts. When I recently posted on Facebook to my 2000 friends, the only people to react were m…
Anecdote, but it sure seems to me that the need for emotional support groups has skyrocketed within my lifetime. I’m sure all the members of these groups are legitimate (I’m not making a “snowflake” argument) but what in the hell is going on?
In meatspace if you want to set up a support group you'd have to rent a space, then participants would have to physically drive there, and your hours would have to coincide with theirs. It's not really fesible for many support groups to form in this environment, especially outside major metros.
With the rise of the Internet, you don't have those restrictions, thus people can reach each other, so they do more reaching out to each other.
Possibly internet support has taken the place of friends and family support though.
Maybe I'm just too paranoid, but first thing that popped into my head is there are a lot of predators out there looking for weak prey. Maybe I need a support group to help with that :)