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The film explains that when they say “you are the product” they mean Facebook is selling a chance to influence your behavior. It’s an interesting perspective, but this PR piece from Facebook seems to willingly misinterpret this
"Influence your behavior" seems like an over dramatic description of "show me ads".
I thought about writing a point-by-point rebuttable to this, about the obvious lies and wilful misdirection ...
But then I realized that I just don't care anymore. I love being free of this company and I almost got sucked back in to writing flame war comments about [thing that gets more attention].
Folks, just give this company up. You'll be much happier, I promise.
The film explains that when they say “you are the product” they mean Facebook is selling a chance to influence your behavior. It’s an interesting perspective, but this PR piece from Facebook seems to willingly misinterpret this
"Influence your behavior" seems like an over dramatic description of "show me ads".
Facebook’s manipulation is arguably much harder to spot.
Sure they’re both forms of advertising, but at some point a new technology is so much more effective that it should be treated like a new thing.
I think that’s what people are arguing here.
The film explains that when they say “you are the product” they mean Facebook is selling a chance to influence your behavior. It’s an interesting perspective, but this PR piece from Facebook seems to willingly misinterpret this
"Influence your behavior" seems like an over dramatic description of "show me ads".
Reposting my comment from a dead thread here on the subject: Ha, I just finished watching the movie an hour ago with a friend. Of course its obvious how the debate was going to be framed from the beginning: Facebook is supposed to be "unbiased" and from this point of view political inaction is the high-minded route over traditional low-minded autocratic rule. Instead of possibly curating a high-quality news feed for…
> The big question I think should be how do we design this "good" bias into our social media Yeah, no thanks. Algorithms aren’t the solution to this particular problem.
The film explains that when they say “you are the product” they mean Facebook is selling a chance to influence your behavior. It’s an interesting perspective, but this PR piece from Facebook seems to willingly misinterpret this
“What we really mean is that we keep it free for you [because you are product exactly like they said, this is the only reason advertisers come here, not for the traffic but for the precision targeting]”
The film explains that when they say “you are the product” they mean Facebook is selling a chance to influence your behavior. It’s an interesting perspective, but this PR piece from Facebook seems to willingly misinterpret this
"Influence your behavior" seems like an over dramatic description of "show me ads".
Reposting my comment from a dead thread here on the subject: Ha, I just finished watching the movie an hour ago with a friend. Of course its obvious how the debate was going to be framed from the beginning: Facebook is supposed to be "unbiased" and from this point of view political inaction is the high-minded route over traditional low-minded autocratic rule. Instead of possibly curating a high-quality news feed for…
> The big question I think should be how do we design this "good" bias into our social media Yeah, no thanks. Algorithms aren’t the solution to this particular problem.
This Chrome extension named Social Book Post Manager ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m... ) seems to be the easiest way for users to delete all their past history (or selective portions) on Facebook, seeing as how Facebook provides no way to bulk delete your likes, posts, photos, etc except by deleting your account entirely. The authors claim it is completely safe to use: > This extension…
It worked as advertised, and I deactivated my now-empty account and went on my merry way.