Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy

Post by product50 » Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 6:45 AM UTC

jasonlingx wrote: post #22

product50 wrote: post #2

Another hit piece by NYTimes against Facebook. Personally, sharing good news across Facebook/Instagram and receiving acknowledgements has been a very satisfying experience for me. More than that, as a consumer of Facebook, I also really appreciate when my friends post their achievements/milestones as it lets me stay up to date with what is going on in their lives. Facebook allows you to scale the sharing of your happ…

FB’s business model is essentially putting ads next to your family photos.

Post by Nextgrid » Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 1:13 PM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #43

Nextgrid wrote: post #31

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> If you don’t like Facebook, don’t use it. I don't use it. It doesn't prevent them from using me anyway though. They're happy asking my friends for their contacts list (so they can get my phone number) and setting cookies through their "Like" buttons embedded everywhere without ever asking for my permission. The only way to stop that company is to kill it, and these "ridiculous" pieces might very well be the only so…

In what way are you being used by FB in ways that it affect you physically. Sounds like its more in principle you are complaining?

Post by basch » Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 1:40 PM UTC

y4mi wrote: post #50

basch wrote: post #49

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So you blame fb, instead of your friends, for your friends handing over your phone number to an advertising company? It might make sense to stop giving your phone number out to your friends. At some point, lets say you have 100 friends, and ONE gives out your number. That's it, its out there. Your phone number is either de facto public information, or you cant really give it out to anybody, except maybe banks for ver…

Facebook doesn't limit itself to phone numbers. They're just a convenient data point to pin everything else they've gathered to your name. And the thing people take offense in isn't the phone number directory... It's everything else that they not only know about, but also sell to unrelated third parties.

Post by basch » Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 4:40 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #56

basch wrote: post #54

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So you have a problem with them using the contacts in the literal way they said they would, to build a graph to suggest friends to people. Seems like being mad you got bacon from a bacon salesman, screaming that you were told it would be pork.

It's one thing to recommend me if I provided my number to Facebook. It's another thing to use my number as a means to link otherwise unrelated people especially if I am not a Facebook user myself. Oh and finally it's another thing to use the number for ads.

Post by Nextgrid » Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 6:20 PM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #58

Nextgrid wrote: post #53

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The data they are collecting about me & my friends is a growing liability. It's a goldmine of highly personal data that can be used for malicious purposes when it finally leaks. They are putting me at risk in order to grow their cancerous business, but when shit hits the fan I will be the one dealing with the consequences, not them (they will just issue their fake apology as usual and carry on).

But you haven't given a concrete example of you being actually affected by this so I will assume it's more an on principle argument rather than you actually pointing to any wrongdoing. Your ISP tracks you, Ycombinator tracks you, every site out there that have cookies track you. Everyone can potentially missuse that data they don't have to be Facebook for that.