Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006) • Hacker News Board

Re: Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006)

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Post by dorkwood » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 4:49 PM UTC

ideonexus wrote: post #3

One part of this still infuriates me and restricts my behavior on the platform (which I barely interact with anymore): showing my friends what I click like on if it's a public post. I've had politically-impassioned relatives attack me for liking candidates they don't like or if I comment on a public post and Facebook points my comment out to them. It also works the other way too. I really didn't need to know that my…

I noticed yesterday that I've stopped clicking the like button on anything that I don't want to be broadcast to other people, on any platform. It's no longer about what I like, it's about what I like that is also palatable to my friends, family, coworkers, and any future employers.

Re: Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006)

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Post by devtul » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 4:51 PM UTC

grawprog wrote: post #39

ideonexus wrote: post #3

One part of this still infuriates me and restricts my behavior on the platform (which I barely interact with anymore): showing my friends what I click like on if it's a public post. I've had politically-impassioned relatives attack me for liking candidates they don't like or if I comment on a public post and Facebook points my comment out to them. It also works the other way too. I really didn't need to know that my…

The idea of a like feature on a platform that's supposed to be for you, your friends and family is kind of fucked in general. Likes, contrarily enough, encourage you to not give a fuck. Why bother responding to your friends or family when you can just click like, give them acknowledgment and move on to the next thing. It's bad enough on random internet forums, but if it's your friends and family you should put the ef…

Yes, yes, yes! This has been bothering me lately, I see a friends picture on Instagram, tap twice, move on. This means, at best, that I acknowledge seeing that photo but it tricks my mind into thinking I did "something" better than that.

I myself don't even check the likes I receive so I suppose some people out there don't too, that reinforces my feelings towards liking stuff being shallow substitutes of real interactions. I will make a point of writing a comment now, if I can't come up with something then I guess I don't really care and there is nothing to like about it.

Re: Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006)

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Post by kdtsh » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 3:50 AM UTC

There’s a recent WIRED article [0] where this is discussed in some depth. I wasn’t a Facebook user at the time, but it’s interesting how everyone was against this and then ... wasn’t. Facebook called their users’ bluff and won. This really was the beginning of Facebook’s culture of doing whatever the hell they want and weathering the storm when users push back, because most of the time, users will come to accept it, even come to love it. I can’t imagine Facebook without a timeline anymore, and I kind of hate that.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-lost-no...