Facebook – You are the Product
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Facebook – You are the Product
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Re: Facebook – You are the Product
#2It's been years since I deleted my Facebook account, I do use WhatsApp though, and I don't feel like I am missing up on anything.
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#3It's been years since I deleted my Facebook account, I do use WhatsApp though, and I don't feel like I am missing up on anything.
Deleted my Facebook account two months ago, but kept the Messenger for keeping up with a handful of friends. Haven't missed the newsfeed spam a day since! Rest assured you're not missing out
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#4It's been years since I deleted my Facebook account, I do use WhatsApp though, and I don't feel like I am missing up on anything.
Most people I know dislike FB. But there are hundreds of millions out there for whom FB had become an addiction. B
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#5I stopped using Facebook years ago and I could not recommend it more. I found it to be mental pollution at best and and a total waste of time.
If you want to 'keep in touch' with people, call or text them. Make an effort to actually interact with the people who matter to you.
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#6I wonder if, in the future, being able not to be on any social media will be an higher class privilege.
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#8There is a certain irony in an article criticizing of Facebook as a data-retailer disguised as a free service being "free with exchange of an email address".
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#9I read more and more articles and comments about things we've been saying for years. How come you wake up now and say that like it's a surprise ?
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#10Indeed.
Any service online, where you do not explicitly pay money for goods/services rendered, you can rest assured that you are paying with data or influence (advertisement).
HN is no different. They control the news, and how the news is displayed. They run the YCombinator venture capital fund. You do not pay them, but they control influence (advertising). I would expect different if I paid YC for news access... But I dont.