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HN sucks more time than FB for me :/
If it makes you feel any better, the time you spend on HN is infinitely more productive. :)
0/0 is "undefined" rather than "infinity" (:
I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
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Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#92There'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 r…
i have yet to meet anyone who wants the things they've 'liked' to show up in their friends feeds. it's a purely user-hostile feature that facebook insists upon because it drives their engagement numbers up.
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
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When I deleted my account I first unfriended everyone, unliked everything I had liked, deleted all my pictures and posts and changed my name and personal details to fake information. Then I waited a couple of days and went through the official Facebook deletion process. I don't know if any of this worked but it made me feel better and like I did more than just stop logging in or rely on Facebook to stop using my acco…
And to cap it all off: - create a new email address with a long random password - change your FB account to use this new email - destroy your copy of the email password - change your FB account to have a long random password and don't keep a copy of it
Or you could simply request a permanent deletion: http://deletefacebook.com
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
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The kind of person who clicks "Like" on these stupid things is kind of like the person who buys the Enquirer magazine from a supermarket tabloid shelf. They're going to click "Like" on a bunch of other stupid things, and visit the stupid links. Facebook has the advantage over a supermarket that they can sell you extreme political material without pissing off their other customers. What you end up with is probably wha…
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Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#95So if you like everything on Facebook, the result is political extremism and the most insipid pop culture trash. What frightens me is what if this has nothing to do with Facebook, but is instead about human nature? Does this also describe what happens to a person's life when they stop caring, when they are no longer motivated to put forth the effort to be discerning, when they give up trying to make anything but the…
"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…
It's less to do with how underlying algorithm reflects the author and their network's pre-existing preferences and more to do with the entities that buy vast amounts of "promoted content" (political moderates don't buy "likes", except maybe when running for office) and what garners clickthroughs (surprisingly, outside HN "Key Advances in the OpenGL Ecosystem", "A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra" or even "Conway's Proof Of The Free Will Theorem" isn't really clickbait, but "What Celebrity X Did Next Will Make You Laugh, Cry and Orgasm all at the same time" does very well indeed)
Lowbrow celeb culture trash and political extremism was selling newspapers for decades before the internet.
If there's anything interesting it's the proportion of content political extremist organizations are sharing to win "likes" from relatively sane people that actually isn't political extremism, or even vaguely related to their agenda.
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#96I 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…
I like Facebook. It helps me keep up with friends in distant places. If you find it to be pernicious and intrusive, don't use it (or use it differently). Don't impose your dislike on others. "Peeing in the pool" is a great metaphor in that regard.
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#97There'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 r…
i have yet to meet anyone who wants the things they've 'liked' to show up in their friends feeds. it's a purely user-hostile feature that facebook insists upon because it drives their engagement numbers up.
User hostile? If displaying liked content to friends increases engagement, what's wrong about that? What would a feed that wasn't optimized for engagement look like? Facebook would already be a dinosaur in that case. People go to Facebook to see the most relevant and engaging content, what your friends like seems like a great source for this!
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#98I 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…
of course, it wouldn't be hard for a facebook engineer to write graph queries that would ignore such obvious noise, thereby preserving the original information they had on you.
You'd have to slowly blend it in to your normal activities so that the abnormal behavior would be harder to classify.
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#99Confirmation bias bubbles like a social media feed like this are atrophying the debate muscles of our society. When we don't actively participate in two-sided discussions we lose the empathy and scope of how so few things are really black and white. I wish there were more discussion venues where the quality of your participation was based on the value to the discussion, not as to whether or not you supported what tha…
Nonsense. If anything, the nature of our civilizations have caused the atrophying of "debate muscles" and technology has allowed us, more than any other time in history, to actively research more viewpoints and narratives than ever before. The information/medium is there, the problem is the people.
Re: I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
#100Interesting read. wonder what would happen if they added a dislike button.
I think it would not be used much other than to dislike a brand status update. It could create bad feelings in your Facebook community if you disliked someone's status update. Probably why they never have added the dislike button; it could sow flame wars -- "Hey, why did you dislike my update?" -- kind of like on HN when someone gets a bunch of downvotes.