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Facebook may bring “a lot of good to the world”, but it brings a lot of bad, too. Is it worth the tradeoff?
Yes. The same is applicable to every social networking site.
Or media or practically everything else
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It's interesting how Facebook experiences differ. To me it's a peaceful place showing mundane updates from friends and family, with zero politics. Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people. The actual war zone to me is Twitter, not Facebook. I should add that I'm not from the US.
I'm from the US and have the same experience. Just glancing at my feed it's: Somebody celebrating getting out of rehab. Somebody heading to Italy for vacation. Somebody going in a hot air balloon. Somebody going to Santa Fe for vacation and asking for things to do. Somebody said last night was one of the best nights of their life. Somebody sharing progress updates on their offgrid homestead. Somebody got a new pizza…
In your list you left out a bunch of ads that were chosen based on targeted surveillance of the private lives of you and your friends.
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#213Trump is also BACK on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/
Hooray!
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#214Trump 2024
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Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts. I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other frie…
I think the question is, how do you keep the good and get rid of the bad? I think there's a lot of great things that social media has done to connect people, but all too often it's only a shallow or artificial connection. I think the other problem is that social media will make you find people "like" you. Humans have always sought that out, but there was always some variance that allowed us to remember that others un…
It’s just like YouTube. They need to tweak the algorithms for quality, not just quantity. Those are hard decisions for them because it will cost money in the short term. Ultimately governments will slap them down, which will cost much more.
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> Somebody got a new pizza oven for National pizza month There's a national pizza month?
Apparently: https://nationaltoday.com/national-pizza-month/ But honestly: who cares. Any excuse to eat some pizza is good enough for me!
I picked an awful month to start dieting…again
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It's interesting how Facebook experiences differ. To me it's a peaceful place showing mundane updates from friends and family, with zero politics. Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people. The actual war zone to me is Twitter, not Facebook. I should add that I'm not from the US.
I feel that way about Twitter. Lots of people in my feed complain about the baggage that dominates their feeds. Mine has none. There is only one person who was bringing baggage (all men are terrible people, here is a never-ending stream of examples of what they do to make me so bitter) so I just muted them. Other than that person, the people who I've chosen to interact with don't bring these negative experiences, and…
Most of my followers and followerees on twitter are artists, so it's pleasant. I ignore all the other crap.
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I'm from the US and have the same experience. Just glancing at my feed it's: Somebody celebrating getting out of rehab. Somebody heading to Italy for vacation. Somebody going in a hot air balloon. Somebody going to Santa Fe for vacation and asking for things to do. Somebody said last night was one of the best nights of their life. Somebody sharing progress updates on their offgrid homestead. Somebody got a new pizza…
In your list you left out a bunch of ads that were chosen based on targeted surveillance of the private lives of you and your friends.
Sure, although it doesn't seem to be doing very well at the targetting. All of the ads seem to revolve around a singular life event that I recently posted about.
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Yes, and as a submission I don't really see the point in it? Especially when it's not even a status page permalink (couldn't be, that was down too apparently). Post mortems very welcome of course. It's just karma bait as far as I can tell, and as you say, almost entirely uninteresting comments. There are/were a couple of other at least briefly front page submissions around it of e.g. twitter/reddit potentially-leaked…
Useless comments don’t make the topic being discussed useless to know about. This outage has arguably impacted more human lives than any other in computing history. I can’t back that up with facts yet, but you must agree it is a notable event for this community that has had ripples across the internet and real life.
Sure, that seems a bit dramatic, but basically sure; I did say the other contentful posts are fine of course IMO, there's a blog post from Cloudflare now too, it's just the initial [x is down](currently dead link) posts that I don't like/see a need for.
99% they just get used as 'is it just me' checks, and there are dedicated sites for that.
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Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts. I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other frie…
Proof by anecdote
This is a case where an anecdote is proof, at least a partial proof.
If the proposition is "Facebook brings at least some good to the world". A single confirmed anecdote of Facebook bringing a single good thing to the world is a proof. In the same way that all you need to prove that black sheep exist is to show a single black sheep.
The proposition is "Facebook brings a lot of good to the world" is a bit trickier, we need to define "a lot", but it can still be proven by "a lot" of anecdotes.
It is not a generality we are trying to prove, so we don't need to have data representative of the general case.
The part about Facebook being the best for dating is stated as a personal opinion.