People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook • Hacker News Board

Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by txcwpalpha » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:11 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #2

What age demographic still really uses facebook? American's 35+? All my friends us Messenger and the rest is on other social media platforms for content. edit dont know why this got downvoted, it was a legit question because everyone knows who the primary age group of votes is, so Im wondering if there is data on age demographics of actual FB use.

>All my friends us Messenger and the rest is on other social media platforms for content.

Be cognizant of your bubble. All of my friends (aka people I actually regularly interact with) don't ever use FB anymore, but a quick glance at my FB feed shows that a huge population of people from my high school (people in their mid-to-late 20s), mostly the ones I haven't interacted with in years, still use it heavily.

Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by rhino369 » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:13 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #2

What age demographic still really uses facebook? American's 35+? All my friends us Messenger and the rest is on other social media platforms for content. edit dont know why this got downvoted, it was a legit question because everyone knows who the primary age group of votes is, so Im wondering if there is data on age demographics of actual FB use.

The ones that vote in high numbers.

Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by buboard » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:13 PM UTC

love how the only facebook comment under the article is a fake "make money from home" bot

Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by avivo » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:13 PM UTC

I actually just published a guide on how you can help ensure that ("deepfake") tools that you make are less likely to end up misused like this: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614912/ethical-deepfake-t...

Curious what folks think. I also just posted it to /newest if you want to respond there.

Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:16 PM UTC

tabtab wrote: post #3

Fake people reading and writing fake news on fake websites? If this keeps up, we'll end up with a fake President. Don't give me negative points, for this is a fake reply.

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Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by andrewbinstock » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:17 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #2

What age demographic still really uses facebook? American's 35+? All my friends us Messenger and the rest is on other social media platforms for content. edit dont know why this got downvoted, it was a legit question because everyone knows who the primary age group of votes is, so Im wondering if there is data on age demographics of actual FB use.

> American's 35+?

FB has >1 billion real users. So by the simplest arithmetic, the vast majority of its users cannot be American, regardless of age.

Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by mlpinit » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:18 PM UTC

jeffdavis wrote: post #7

It will be interesting when the election cycles start to cross over into eachother. For instance, start lining up primaries for an election 5 years away. We could be in a permenent election, with people slowly positioning themselves to be elected sometime later. Then, we can finally give up and just draft our representatives. Two months before it's time for new politicians to take over, they would draw names, and do…

Multivac to the rescue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)

Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by kraftman » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:21 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #2

What age demographic still really uses facebook? American's 35+? All my friends us Messenger and the rest is on other social media platforms for content. edit dont know why this got downvoted, it was a legit question because everyone knows who the primary age group of votes is, so Im wondering if there is data on age demographics of actual FB use.

I have a bunch of events and groups on facebook, what do you use instead of these?

Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by fareesh » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:21 PM UTC

On Facebook you would mostly encounter such people if someone you know shares their posts. Comments are buried too deep to have a widespread impact.

If a fake person writes the post and your friend shares it, or a guy named "Joe the Plumber" writes it, does it really make a difference?

It is also in the realm of possibility that a group of folks is "false flagging" these profiles to make the other side look disingenuous and shady.

Re: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

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Post by blondin » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:23 PM UTC

kraftman wrote: post #18

ProAm wrote: post #2

What age demographic still really uses facebook? American's 35+? All my friends us Messenger and the rest is on other social media platforms for content. edit dont know why this got downvoted, it was a legit question because everyone knows who the primary age group of votes is, so Im wondering if there is data on age demographics of actual FB use.

I have a bunch of events and groups on facebook, what do you use instead of these?

meetup.com worked for me in the past