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I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
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#42This 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.
I don't care about them, it'd be interesting to find out only out of personal curiosity.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only up to the limits of Google being able to track you anyway. There's IP address, user agent, and any other HTTP header information your browser leaks.
A VPN + Incognito should be enough. Not to truly anonymize you, but probably enough to disable the personalization layers. It doesn't make economic sense to waste engineering hours and computing time trying to show ads to the 0.0001% of paranoid users, which are likely blocking them anyway, even if the data is there. Of course, there's no such thing as the vanilla user. You'll still be targeted on generic features (l…
I don't get why people recommend VPNs so much. I never bothered to look for a free one because I didn't think it'd have a decent speed and all ports opened, but doesn't Tor basically do the job?
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#44Confirmation 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…
Haven't confirmation bias and information bubbles always been the way though?
Historically you lived in a place which - through economics and upbringing - was full of people who were a lot like you. You worked in a job where your colleagues were - through reasons of education and geography - a lot like you. Where you found people disagreeable generally you'd avoid them if you had the chance. You chose the newspaper you liked and the news show you felt most comfortable with on TV or radio.
We've always put ourselves in information bubbles, this isn't anything to do with the internet, the internet is merely recreating what we already had. The only difference is that with the internet it's a larger wasted opportunity because there is so much more information out there you might subject yourself to.
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#45So if you like everything on Facebook, the result is political extremism and the most insipid pop culture trash. What frightens me is what if this has nothing to do with Facebook, but is instead about human nature? Does this also describe what happens to a person's life when they stop caring, when they are no longer motivated to put forth the effort to be discerning, when they give up trying to make anything but the…
I don't think it's telling us what most people would rather hear - I think it's more likely that it shows us exactly who is trying to yell loudest.
But working backward, if we see somebody who is into political extremism, it could hint at the behavior that lead them there. What if the members of radical hate groups are not aggressive idealists, but people whose spirits have been crushed, have low self-confidence, or are afraid to go against those that yell the loudest.
Actually, that does not sound surprising at all.
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#46So if you like everything on Facebook, the result is political extremism and the most insipid pop culture trash. What frightens me is what if this has nothing to do with Facebook, but is instead about human nature? Does this also describe what happens to a person's life when they stop caring, when they are no longer motivated to put forth the effort to be discerning, when they give up trying to make anything but the…
I don't think it's telling us what most people would rather hear - I think it's more likely that it shows us exactly who is trying to yell loudest.
The kind of person who clicks "Like" on these stupid things is kind of like the person who buys the Enquirer magazine from a supermarket tabloid shelf. They're going to click "Like" on a bunch of other stupid things, and visit the stupid links.
Facebook has the advantage over a supermarket that they can sell you extreme political material without pissing off their other customers. What you end up with is probably what supermarket tabloid shelves would look like if people only saw what was tailored to them.
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#47So if you like everything on Facebook, the result is political extremism and the most insipid pop culture trash. What frightens me is what if this has nothing to do with Facebook, but is instead about human nature? Does this also describe what happens to a person's life when they stop caring, when they are no longer motivated to put forth the effort to be discerning, when they give up trying to make anything but the…
In this case, it does have to do with Facebook. To quote the article:
" By the end of day one, I noticed that on mobile, my feed was almost completely devoid of human content. I was only presented with the chance to like stories from various websites, and various other ads. Yet on the desktop—while it’s still mostly branded content—I continue to see things from my friends. On that little bitty screen, where real-estate is so valuable, Facebook’s robots decided that the way to keep my attention is by hiding the people and only showing me the stuff that other machines have pumped out. Weird. "
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
A VPN + Incognito should be enough. Not to truly anonymize you, but probably enough to disable the personalization layers. It doesn't make economic sense to waste engineering hours and computing time trying to show ads to the 0.0001% of paranoid users, which are likely blocking them anyway, even if the data is there. Of course, there's no such thing as the vanilla user. You'll still be targeted on generic features (l…
The EFF has a service called Panopticlick[1] that gives you a sense of how unique your browser looks to the sites you visit. My result: "Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 886,262 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours." [1] https://panopticlick.eff.org
Well, if the rate holds for Google, it means there's 1320 users that look just like you.
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#49I 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…
Yeah that sounds like creepy facebook. Blowing content tumbleweeds through its digital ghost town. This explains recent likes I've had on stuff I posted 3-4 years ago.
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#50So if you like everything on Facebook, the result is political extremism and the most insipid pop culture trash. What frightens me is what if this has nothing to do with Facebook, but is instead about human nature? Does this also describe what happens to a person's life when they stop caring, when they are no longer motivated to put forth the effort to be discerning, when they give up trying to make anything but the…
The comments people put on those kind of posts scare me more than the posts themselves! I think you can tell a lot about what's wrong with our society and the root of a lot of our problems from internet comments..