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As this stream of negative facebook articles continue, I can't help but feel duped about my experiences with it. I've quit fb since new years, but I can't help but wonder if I was played the whole time. I feel like they advertised fb as an altruistic platform, when in reality, I was just a means to marketing dollars and they fed whatever altruistic lines they wanted to keep me coming back. Serious question: does fb p…
Finally, somewhere I can appropriately vent about this. About TWO years ago I was constantly annoyed by the 'secure your account: add your phone number here' banner frequently displayed at the top of the page upon loading FB, so I input my number to make it disappear for good. (Also, they kept hiding the 'x' (close) icon in different spots, making the banner difficult to dismiss.) A few days later I got a text messag…
Finally, somewhere I can appropriately vent about this. About TWO years ago I was constantly annoyed by the 'secure your account: add your phone number here' banner frequently displayed at the top of the page upon loading FB, so I input my number to make it disappear for good. (Also, they kept hiding the 'x' (close) icon in different spots, making the banner difficult to dismiss.) A few days later I got a text messag…
At least three of those stood out to me as the kind of person to never do that, so I asked, and they hadn't. Facebook was blatantly lying and trying to influence me by showing the people that I interacted with the most on their website at the time.
Just reading this may have just pushed me over the edge to delete my account... except i need it to use tinder and bumble. I already havent signed in for months and i feel great. I only use messenger, but now im starting to see annoying ads polluting my messenger list.
ex. Health product -> "I heard this product causes cancer."
Just reading this may have just pushed me over the edge to delete my account... except i need it to use tinder and bumble. I already havent signed in for months and i feel great. I only use messenger, but now im starting to see annoying ads polluting my messenger list.
Problem is Facebook is still using the original revenue model that has made it rich, which requires engagement. Unfortunately they encourage engagement using the techniques that initially made it grow, which the market is now tired of. Facebook needs to diversify. Take a note from amazon, Netflix.
ex. Health product -> "I heard this product causes cancer."
I found a similar thing with email notifications. If you regularly login to FB and look at your feed they will leave you alone. Delete the app from your phone or neglect logging in and you’ll start to get email notifications about the silliest things. Of course they don’t contain much more than “so and so shared a link” without any description of what was shared (trying to get you to login and look.) Not quite as bad…
If you try and deactivate, there’s a horrible series of hoops to jump through which just make the service feel so desperate.
If you minimize your usage, you get flooded with desperate emails trying to convince you to login.
If you’ve stepped away out of fear it’s becoming a low-grade attention merchant full of bad practices, these tactics just reinforce the idea that you really really are doing the right thing backing away.
Finally, somewhere I can appropriately vent about this. About TWO years ago I was constantly annoyed by the 'secure your account: add your phone number here' banner frequently displayed at the top of the page upon loading FB, so I input my number to make it disappear for good. (Also, they kept hiding the 'x' (close) icon in different spots, making the banner difficult to dismiss.) A few days later I got a text messag…
> I realize that the proper solution is to terminate my account and never attempt to log back in I've had a "terminated" account that occasionally gets emails inviting me to "Log back in with one click". When I originally tried to delete the account, it told me it would be actually erased a month after. That was 6 years ago.
Finally, somewhere I can appropriately vent about this. About TWO years ago I was constantly annoyed by the 'secure your account: add your phone number here' banner frequently displayed at the top of the page upon loading FB, so I input my number to make it disappear for good. (Also, they kept hiding the 'x' (close) icon in different spots, making the banner difficult to dismiss.) A few days later I got a text messag…
Primarily, I just don’t like being a product.