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Wow, this feature and the comment history feature(when editing a comment) make me uncomfortable. They might as well begin showing you who is seeing your profile and how much.
Inspired by FuzzyDunlop's subcomment to another participant, I have to ask the direct question: does this help Facebook monetize and gain value for shareholders any more than any of its other features? I'm beginning to think that there really is a market for a PAID service where customers (the people paying for the service) are treated like customers, rather than advertisers being treated like the customers. Some of…
Favoring the content producer over the consumer won't necessarily lead to less confusion or a better user experience. It's kind of a forced form of social regardless of the group's size.
I can't decide if this is good or bad. I don't participate in a lot of FB groups, but I do a lot of politely keeping my mouth shut in other forms of online communication. I think I would feel like I was being put on the spot to say something, particularly in a small group. A lot of times, I'm not going to lie and agree with that thing someone said, but I also don't want to invest the energy into arguing it with them,…
Probably as a way to show visual "engagement" for companies that are on Facebook but don't get a lot of likes. Its more derivative crap. We can call them "seens". And of course there the creep factor. I'm having a hard time determining if Facebook is just terrible, low value, and creepy, or I'm just cynical about Facebook. Probably both.
This is a feature for groups, not for pages (the way companies generally interact with people who use Facebook). Groups are generally created by people for groups of people that already meet/know each other in person or to discuss a shared interest, not by companies (unless they're company-internal groups, I suppose). They are for things like for a bowling team in a league or a user group or other ad-hoc group of peo…
Zero friction, sure. I'd call it zero consent. Most Internet lay users don't have the mental capacity to understand the legalease of a TOS, so to me saying they agreed to it is thin moral ice to stand on.
I can't decide if this is good or bad. I don't participate in a lot of FB groups, but I do a lot of politely keeping my mouth shut in other forms of online communication. I think I would feel like I was being put on the spot to say something, particularly in a small group. A lot of times, I'm not going to lie and agree with that thing someone said, but I also don't want to invest the energy into arguing it with them,…
I hope this doesn't spread to Events too... it'll be harder to flake out of stuff. Or maybe that's what they're going for?
I still file this one under fuck Facebook.
Inspired by FuzzyDunlop's subcomment to another participant, I have to ask the direct question: does this help Facebook monetize and gain value for shareholders any more than any of its other features? I'm beginning to think that there really is a market for a PAID service where customers (the people paying for the service) are treated like customers, rather than advertisers being treated like the customers. Some of…
I don't understand the prevalent HN stance that this is a user-hostile feature, which seems to be the source of your question. iMessage and BlackBerry Messenger do the same thing, though users can opt out. People like those products.
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I don't understand the prevalent HN stance that this is a user-hostile feature, which seems to be the source of your question. iMessage and BlackBerry Messenger do the same thing, though users can opt out. People like those products.
Blackberry doesn't steal your email address, follow your browsing history on other devices outside your phone, sell your personal data to advertisers, continually change your privacy settings in hopes you won't notice, etc.
Do you mean that advertisers pay to get information like your name, email address, street location, and other identifiable information about you, like in a huge spreadsheet?
Or do you mean that advertisers can pay money to have their adverts displayed to the sorts of people who most likely will be interested in them but receive no personal data, as explained at https://www.facebook.com/about/ads/ ?
While I get that some people like to make it sound more dramatic by saying "sell your personal data to advertisers" while understanding how it works, it's also common that people just don't understand.