The only winning move is not to play.
Or in this case like/post.
I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
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#32I did sort of the opposite. I would click on "don't want to see this" for any link to an external site. It took a few days, but now pretty much all I see is updates from friends.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> because you can't actually delete it You can. At least, this seemed to work effectively for me: http://deletefacebook.com/
It's hidden from public view. They hold on to all of your data, which the page you linked says.
That's not what the page or the Facebook Data Usage Policy says. Quoting from the page:
> In theory, deleting your account immediately removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated, taking about a month.
> Even data tagged for deletion can still take 90 days to be deleted.
> "‘It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days.’" — Facebook Data Use Policy.
> Allegations of complicity with US National Security Agency surveillance suggest that your data may never truly be deleted.
the last of which links to the Glenn Greenwald PRISM article:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-...
The article says the NSA has "direct access" to Facebook systems, but doesn't mention Facebook deletion policy. If the NSA has a copy of your data, we can't really expect Facebook to be responsible for deleting it.
By my reading of the page, deleting your Facebook account functionally deletes your account immediately (that is, you no longer appear on Facebook) and after the two-week deactivation period, if you don't reactive your account, your data will be deleted within 90 days.
Of course, if any of this is true, I have no idea.
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#34Confirmation bias bubbles like a social media feed like this are atrophying the debate muscles of our society. When we don't actively participate in two-sided discussions we lose the empathy and scope of how so few things are really black and white. I wish there were more discussion venues where the quality of your participation was based on the value to the discussion, not as to whether or not you supported what tha…
You only say that because you keep reading the news stories about confirmation bias,
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's hidden from public view. They hold on to all of your data, which the page you linked says.
So the steps would be: 1) Obfuscate the private view by liking everything. This raises the signal-to-noise ratio exponentially and surely makes it hard(er) for "them" to characterize you. The longer you do this for, the more effective this strategy will be I would think. 2) Delete from public view.
Notice how Facebook noticed what she was doing and got a PR person to talk to her. They have algorithms to detect abnormal behavior like that and flag it.
If you want to have any real effect, you'd need to provide a fake but plausible signal, not noise.
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#36Interesting read. wonder what would happen if they added a dislike button.
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#37I was thinking of a way to destroy my facebook account because you can't actually delete it, this is pretty much it, like everything. Also I guess you could check-in every where at once all the time. I didn't think about the collateral damage it could cause to others, which is to bombard your "friend's feeds". This is also interesting because, well you can destory facebook in this manner. If enough people are peeing…
When I deleted my account I first unfriended everyone, unliked everything I had liked, deleted all my pictures and posts and changed my name and personal details to fake information. Then I waited a couple of days and went through the official Facebook deletion process. I don't know if any of this worked but it made me feel better and like I did more than just stop logging in or rely on Facebook to stop using my account information once I "deleted" my account.
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#38I did sort of the opposite. I would click on "don't want to see this" for any link to an external site. It took a few days, but now pretty much all I see is updates from friends.
I do the same. Changed all settings I possibly could and unfollowed (while still remaining friends) a few people, and my news feed is now basically exactly what I want to see. It still hides some news events, like I found out that someone got their driving exam months after everyone else did, but that's the algorithm's fault and it's a lesson that you can't expect all friends to see everything you post.
These modifications might also cause me to spend less time on my news feed because all the garbage is filtered out, so Facebook might at some point decide that it hurts them and disable these modification options, but then I'll probably just stop using Facebook's news feed altogether. I mostly use FB for groups and chats anyway. Just like with Youtube when they started showing what friends liked, I unfriended everyone and kept subscriptions.
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#39This made me think about creating a second profile on facebook, adding myself as a friend and liking whatever I post on my original - just to find out what "advertising value and quality" I create. Anyone got any ideas on how to automatise this?
I'd be surprised if they didn't flag your second account as just spam and ignored it completely.
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#40I was thinking of a way to destroy my facebook account because you can't actually delete it, this is pretty much it, like everything. Also I guess you could check-in every where at once all the time. I didn't think about the collateral damage it could cause to others, which is to bombard your "friend's feeds". This is also interesting because, well you can destory facebook in this manner. If enough people are peeing…
> I was thinking of a way to destroy my facebook account because you can't actually delete it, this is pretty much it, like everything. This kind of bloody-minded civil obedience is something that I very much like. Many years ago the supermarket (20? 25?) Safeway (UK) started a customer loyalty card. My flatmates and I applied for one in the name of "Ivor Trotts". That card was only ever used to buy loo paper. So a b…
this is very simple and should like all the loaded like buttons http://pastebin.com/CUhS9vq4, it also unlikes whatever was already liked though, since fb doesn't seem to change the class.