Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
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Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
#2Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
#3Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Adashe...
If that doesn't come up, the text-only link works for me:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dashes....
Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
#4Apologies for the server flakiness; Trying to address it now. Please feel free to repost/share -- everything is CC licensed.
Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
#5Regarding "Web sites are deemed unsafe, even if Facebook monitors them", wouldn't it be worse if Facebook deemed websites that it monitored 'safe'? Then Facebook would be saying: "use Facebook services on your site, or we'll scare all of your users with an interstitial message"
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#6Cache link is essential, of course the term 'gaslighting' [1] may be common in some groups, it was new to me. The general theme is that Facebook is making changes which make the service benefit Facebook more and is less user friendly. I'm not sure it rises to the level of abuse implied by the term but that is clearly subjective. The 'answer' of course is to leave.
I know, I know, "But all my friends are there!" or "Nothing else has the reach of Facebook!" or "I've invested thousands of hours in Facebook!". At the end of the day, Facebook is on the road to becoming a 'public' company, and they are making choices which are in Facebook's interest (mostly about the whole Open Graph stuff which they will sell for money to advertisers for revenue.
The 'good' Facebook you are looking for has to charge its users for accounts because that is the only way to pay the bills without selling you off to less purient interests.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting (warning Wikipedia link)
Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
#7Regarding "Web sites are deemed unsafe, even if Facebook monitors them", wouldn't it be worse if Facebook deemed websites that it monitored 'safe'? Then Facebook would be saying: "use Facebook services on your site, or we'll scare all of your users with an interstitial message"
This is true. I presume a preferred option would be dumping the warnings altogether, but this would be a big boon for phishers.
What I don't like about the article is the suggestion that the best way of combating Facebook's excessively paranoid and usually unwarranted warnings about offsite content is to show excessively paranoid warnings to people trying to get into Facebook. Particularly when one of the principal gateways to Facebook is the browsers and websites operated by Google - not exactly a disinterested third party.
Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
#8Aside: I really like the typography of your title/subheads. I mistook the font for Gill Sans Light initially, though.
Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
#9Cache link is essential, of course the term 'gaslighting' [1] may be common in some groups, it was new to me. The general theme is that Facebook is making changes which make the service benefit Facebook more and is less user friendly. I'm not sure it rises to the level of abuse implied by the term but that is clearly subjective. The 'answer' of course is to leave. I know, I know, "But all my friends are there!" or "N…
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What's the warning for? If it's warning against being confronted with Jimbo's piercing gaze, that seems a bit snarky.
Re: Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
#10The only thing that will "fix" facebook is the next thing to popup to diminish their influence.
Of course shooting themselves in the foot wouldn't hurt either.
Remember MySpace? How about Digg?