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The only winning move is not to play. Or in this case like/post.
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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
While it can be an issue, browser fingerprinting isn't as powerful as the EFF claims. Any change to your user agent (browser updates), plugin list, time zone, or screen size makes Panopticlick think you are a different user.
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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
While it can be an issue, browser fingerprinting isn't as powerful as the EFF claims. Any change to your user agent (browser updates), plugin list, time zone, or screen size makes Panopticlick think you are a different user.
The only winning move is not to play. Or in this case like/post.
I never like anything except my friends, anywhere. Of course Facebook gleans stuff from that as well. I would pay to have a site where all you could do is interact with friends posts/photos/movies with zero commercial features but we all know FB would kill such a thing in its infancy.
Could there be a browser plugin to like and share everything as you wander through the web? That would be an interesting way to demonstrate tracking technologies.
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. 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…
A friend of mine died last year. Her FB account is still active. From time to time I get old "likes" of hers. It is a bit creepy.
Nice. This is the post I needed to read, as I am on one-week fasting from Facebook (in fact, I am fasting from all kinds of email/group, facebook interactions). It is hard work, but much needed. I tend to believe, as humans in this age and time, we are losing our fundamental ability to delay gratification.
It's been 3 weeks so far[1] and it's amazing how after the first day Facebook started sending me two emails per day, along the lines of "you are missing important posts from your friends" and "you have 8 pending notifications". It instantly reminded me of Zynga's tactics to try to suck you into a game and paying for content.
[1] I made ONE exception- my close friend was missing for 24 hrs, left his wallet and phone at home, his parents freaked out so I reached out to all his friends on Facebook. This tells me I only need one feature Facebook has to offer - access to my own social network. Somehow we conditioned ourselves to only share Facebook information but not phone numbers or emails or any other means of communication. If Facebook suddenly went away I would lose 3/4 of my contacts. That's a scary thought.
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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 wha…
Nice. This is the post I needed to read, as I am on one-week fasting from Facebook (in fact, I am fasting from all kinds of email/group, facebook interactions). It is hard work, but much needed. I tend to believe, as humans in this age and time, we are losing our fundamental ability to delay gratification.
Same here. I decided to remove myself from FB altogether (inspired by 99 days of freedom). It's been 3 weeks so far[1] and it's amazing how after the first day Facebook started sending me two emails per day, along the lines of "you are missing important posts from your friends" and "you have 8 pending notifications". It instantly reminded me of Zynga's tactics to try to suck you into a game and paying for content. [1…
If one builds it properly, Facebook is a good replacement for email's Address Book. Beyond that, it is not much more.
I am not removing myself, nor even going to delete from Facebook, because ultimately, it all boils down to how we can manage ourselves with discipline.
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. 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…
That's what worries me about Facebook too, about being able to destroy someone else's experience in this way. Of course you can hide posts from users but Facebook's algorithm should be able to intervene when things get "out of control". A few months ago Facebook shared it would rank news higher, maybe this is the result about why Huffington posts were ranked so high. Interesting experiment. Tweaking Facebooks algorit…