this could be some kind of metaphor? =D it starts with a simple but very humanist text, about everybody should like everybody, but this all ends with the statement that after he had liked everything, he got with nothing that he really likes. This could be the same with our relationship with people, where if you dont stand for your principles you could get around with people you don't appreciate.
I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
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#82There's going to be a lot of Facebook bashing in this thread, but I'm going to posit that this response from the Facebook software is not unexpected or even wrong, because the author is purposefully playing against the assumptions built into Facebook algorithms.
Most people rarely "like" branded or advertising content on Facebook. So Facebook has tuned their algorithms to be very sensitive to the few data inputs it receives per person.
Now, here is a person flooding it with input. I am not surprised that the result is crazy deluge of branded content. It's like taking a carefully balanced lever and pushing real hard on one end. The other end is going to move a lot.
> I kept thinking Facebook would rate-limit me, but instead it grew increasingly ravenous.
Why would they build in a rate limit? The vast, vast majority of the time, the level of input is very low. To build in a rate-limiting system would be pointless gold-plating.
The rarity of this sort of flood is obvious from the fact that a human being at Facebook noticed the level of activity and contacted the author. That is an incredibly high bar at Facebook, which prides itself on automating everything.
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#83I 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…
Another thing to do with store loyalty cards is to always look up by phone number - many people in my extended family live nearby and use the same phone number, so the card has so many purchases on it it becomes useless to target.
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
That's not going to work. Facebook will block you from liking on account of "going way too fast". Calling a sleep() function after every like might help...
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing there are legal requirements that prevent them from truly deleting your content. Abusive ex-husband posts pictures of himself making threatening remarks to his wife. Other potentially incriminating documents. If he was able to delete it, then that evidence is lost. My only thought of how to preserve privacy rights is to have the "deleted"-not-deleted user files sent to a legal-compliance department and o…
In the US, at least, I believe there is no such legal requirement unless the party doing the deleting is aware of pending legal action relevant to the documents being deleted. I'm not a lawyer though and may be wrong.
Agreed, it's not Facebook's job to retain evidence for all their users' lawsuits.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
"So if you like everything on Facebook, the result is political extremism and the most insipid pop culture trash." Bear in mind that "extremism" is the expected result of any reasonable algorithm that you abuse like this. If you like X, the algorithm will focus around X. If you like everything the algorithm suggests, you'll end up liking a "bigger target", and it will start suggesting stuff yet further away from your…
Your idea that it was due to his pre-existing politics could be tested if others wanted to repeat the experiment, but the fact that he ended up with both extreme left and extreme right political news seems to be disproof enough. The expected outcome of liking everything the algorithm suggests indiscriminately should be more moderation, not more extremism. If (as a oversimplified example) you like colors so the algori…
Sure, if time wasn't a factor. However, if you were to like green first, the algorithm might show you this "destroy non-green" community before giving you the opportunity to like other colours.
Similarly, purely out of chance you might be given the opportunity to like the "destroy non-green" community before the "destroy non-blue" community.
Maybe what we can take from the fact that the writer ended up shown/liking both left and right views is that the algorithm doesn't give a very strong weighting to negative correlation; i.e. even though people who like left-wing pages (presumedly) don't like as many right-wing pages; facebook still gives users the opportunity to like both. And possibly will not necessarily bias on one side of apparently conflicting interests when choosing what to present in the news feed.
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#87I 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
"Maybe that was true in the past, but today when you delete your data it is gone. Trust me, I wrote it myself. The law enforcement guidelines that have been circulating recently corroborate this."[0]
"If you don't think you'll use Facebook again, you can request to have your account permanently deleted. Please keep in mind that you won't be able to reactivate your account or retrieve anything you've added. Before you do this, you may want to download a copy of your info from Facebook. Then, if you'd like your account permanently deleted with no option for recovery, log into your account and let us know."[1]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3320240
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#88Earlier 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.
I'm sure they have a history of all your actions. They could easily revert your profile to a time before you went to town liking irrelevant stuff.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's not going to work. Facebook will block you from liking on account of "going way too fast". Calling a sleep() function after every like might help...
So i guess the script would need to include some kind of gradually escalating random "like" increase.
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#90I 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 "Maybe that was true in the past, but today when you delete your data it is gone. Trust me, I wrote it myself. The law enforcement guidelines that have been circulating recently corroborate this."[0] "If you don't think you'll use Facebook again, you can request to have your account permanently deleted. Please keep in mind th…
I guess not being able to erasing data on FB servers is now just an urban myth.