Personal Reason for Hating Facebook (2015)
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Personal Reason for Hating Facebook (2015)
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#2Note that carrying a smartphone and using a credit card is entrusting a great deal of information to advertising companies. All major phone and credit companies are selling your data (anonymized, to the degree they feel is optimal). I'm not sure that Facebook is any worse.
To be more clear: They know where you go, who you call and text, and what you buy.
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#4Honestly, this is true even if you're on facebook, if the algorithms don't feel like putting the event in your feed.
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#5"I hate how I don't get updates from the social network I don't use"
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#6Updated to reflect that I wrote this in 2015. Still feel raw about it.
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#7Sorry, but for the most part this sounds stupid. You're hating a widespread method of communication because it doesn't work for you _when you're not using it_. That's like complaining that no one text messages you if you never opted in to owning a phone.
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#8Facebook's primary feature is a newsfeed which uses an algorithm to shape and influence who you ultimately interact with. If you consign your interpersonal relationship to Facebook's algorithms then it has become normal for facebook's algorithm to shape and control the opinions and relationships of people en-masse.
Whether you consider facebook's algorithms benevolent or not, the danger actually lies in the fact that people's opinions and friendships are not forming in a more natural and organic way. If relationships and opinions are shaped by an algorithm from a single source, it's more prone to failure, influence, if not by malevolence than by simple incompetence of not knowing the macro effects of a line of code applied to hundreds of millions of people.
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#9“I don’t spend a lot of time with my friends. I have frequently gone a year or more without seeing people I consider close personal friends.”
I feel so sorry for Chris. He did not have real friends, friends who would have made time for a call or stopped by or actually invite to go on a camping trip, anything, where MAYBE he would have slipped a little of a warning of the troubles he had. So sorry for Chris and his mom.
I don’t even know what to say about you ignoring your high school reunion. It’s not FB fault, but it feels such a non issue compared to Chris being gone.
I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but if you don’t talk to people you are really not what most would consider a good friend of them. You are just some reflection of what the good old childhood times used to be.
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#10If you're concerned about "consign[ing] my personal data, beliefs, preferences, relationships, work history, daily plans, and private messages to a massive advertising corporation" but don't want to miss out on seminal life events, why not just maintain a Facebook account without ever posting to it?
As long as you remain friends with people you need to keep in touch with, but never post anything or fill out your personal details, you will not be giving up any privacy or missing out.