Facebook’s “I F*cking Love Science” does not love artists
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Facebook’s “I F*cking Love Science” does not love artists
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#2Nor do they love science. Most of the things they post are not accurate. The picture of the universe and a synapse for example springs to mind.
They are just a "Like" farm. They use their tracking of likes to mine relationships so you can get personalized spam that appears that it came from your friends.
Re: Facebook’s “I F*cking Love Science” does not love artists
#3Nor do they love science. Most of the things they post are not accurate. The picture of the universe and a synapse for example springs to mind. They are just a "Like" farm. They use their tracking of likes to mine relationships so you can get personalized spam that appears that it came from your friends.
Samething they did to:
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#4I don't know if it's necessarily fair to call out "I F*cking Love Science". The same could be said about Reddit/9gag/thousands of other Facebook groups/etc.
It's an Internet-wide problem, not just one FB group.
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#5Nor do they love science. Most of the things they post are not accurate. The picture of the universe and a synapse for example springs to mind. They are just a "Like" farm. They use their tracking of likes to mine relationships so you can get personalized spam that appears that it came from your friends.
I think we should relax about the idea that most people post inaccurate facts when they're cheering science.
What they're doing is cheering for the idea of science. It's similar to people cheering at a basketball game. They're not basketball players, so most of what they have to say about the topic is going to be wrong. But they're still rooting for you, and this is a good and powerful thing.
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#6I feel like it's a little bit unfair to Facebook Inc. to have their name as the first word of the title since a glance at the title makes it seems as if Facebook yet again overstepped their boundaries (though it speaks volumes to FB's past behavior that I have that reaction right away)
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#7I don't know if it's necessarily fair to call out "I F*cking Love Science". The same could be said about Reddit/9gag/thousands of other Facebook groups/etc. It's an Internet-wide problem, not just one FB group.
A fellow robs my house. I catch him and hold him for the police. He complains, "No fair! Most robberies are unsolved because we lack the manpower to chase every lead!!"
Lie is indeed "unfair" to him in some statistical sense, but I am absolutely not being "unfair" to him in a moral sense.
Or to put it another way, the reality of the Internet as you describe it is that a certain %age of copyright violations go unpurusued. It's a statistical model, just as it's a statistical model that a certain number of robberies are unsolved and a certain number of people are killed by lightening.
Is that unfair? It may seem so when you're being struck by lightening, but someone has to be struck by lightening.
Likewise, given enough copyright violations, someone is going to be called out. Today the blow falls on Elise.
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#8In addition to the main point of this article, it's interesting to see that people are building a career out of Facebook pages in a similar way to we saw with prominent Youtubers taking off.
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#9Yes, I agree. But why call out something like this page? Surely there are more successful and profitable content farms.
Not justifying the behavior, just saying that this example is the 'little guy'.
Re: Facebook’s “I F*cking Love Science” does not love artists
#10Nor do they love science. Most of the things they post are not accurate. The picture of the universe and a synapse for example springs to mind. They are just a "Like" farm. They use their tracking of likes to mine relationships so you can get personalized spam that appears that it came from your friends.
In hindsight, I shouldn't have been so surprised to hear of groups farming likes for profit...
Are there any good articles that talk about this practice? Seems like that could be interesting...