Wait, did this guy really just expose dozens of his friends' private newsfeed posts to the public while criticizing Facebook?!
Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
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#72If anyone is reading this, and they use facebook, get the hell off there. Delete your account today. They will always take take take. The most egregious of these kind of rights violations 4 years ago is today's standard practice. They will only get worse and drag the rest of the web down to their new lows. "Do be evil" is the motto of Zuckbergs ilk.
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#73The question is: can I opt out of this, or am I obliged to deal with this as long as I'm a Facebook user. I personally find this is pretty bad. I don't want my friends seeing my past likes from several years ago and seeing me endorse something stupid that I liked before (on the front page). Do I need to go through my likes and curate it all the time? It's different if it's just on my profile because having it in the…
You can opt out, but get ready to have to go re-opt-out every time Facebook changes a font somewhere on the website.
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#74See my reaction to Condon's story here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/21/faceboo... As he suggests, “The only way to prevent re-posted content is to unlike everything.” And as Facebook continues to abuse the Like function, or to allow (or at least be unable to prevent) third-parties from abusing it, many users may find themselves doing just that, or ditching Facebook altogether.
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#75No, it just says that you "like" something. The tense works both in the past and present. Facebook never says that you liked something that you did not.
The tense doesn't work in both the past and present. That's why you had to switch to the past tense to make your second point. Translating it back to the present gives "Facebook says that you like something that you do not", which is what the OP is complaining about.
"Gruseom likes McDonalds Hamburgers." It works if you just did it, or did it 3 years ago.
Re: Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tense doesn't work in both the past and present. That's why you had to switch to the past tense to make your second point. Translating it back to the present gives "Facebook says that you like something that you do not", which is what the OP is complaining about.
"Gruseom likes McDonalds Hamburgers." It works if you just did it, or did it 3 years ago.
This is so obviously not the case that I wonder why you would say it. What a person likes changes over time.