Delete Facebook
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- DaveO1
I find it amusing that people get so annoyed when they find out a free service that trades on information & sharing is using that data for something other than connecting them with old racist friends. People make careers and businesses from this platform but get hugely indignant if something either changes on the UX or they see an ad. The data breach is on this scale for sure.
Everyone shreds paper bank statements but pisses their personal info & passwords across multiple devices.
- pablo28-1
I find it amusing.
- monoboy-2
What about everything you type on here?
Who owns that? What do they do with it? Where are the T&Cs?
Anonymity? Are you sure?
- shapesalad3
So you join Facebook. They hoover up as much data about you as possibly can. Sell it to marketers who advertise to you. Allow, either intentionally or not for politically motivated agencies to try to draw phycological conclusions from the data and use that to display adverts.
Ok... but you the public don't have to follow what adverts say, or pay any attention to adverts. You don't have to be so easily influenced or gullible.
All this leaked data to Cambridge analytical etc.. yeah so, the issue is the general public if they acted on the adverts/fake news, then we have a problem, and education is clearly what's needed.
Over my life I've seen 1000's of adverts for Fairy washing up liquid. And never once considered buying it. I just buy the cheapest or a more eco friendly one if it's on offer. Fairy are welcome to spam my Facebook for the rest of my life, I'll still pay no attention to it.
- but your hands that do dishes feel as soft as your driveway.Fax_Benson
- why does fb ads think you are target audience for Fairy? Do you talk a lot about dishes? did you google it?uan
- Are Fairy claiming their rivals run a sex ring and will get your dad's job at the iron foundry back? I bet they are. Never trusted that little kid.Fax_Benson
- yup. totally agree.Gnash
- Who the fuck, in the year of our Crystalline Jesus 2018, uses facebook or any of these digital cunt factories *without* an adblocker?face_melter
- you make 'cunt factory' sound like a bad thingGnash
- +1 for adblocker - essential, as is a tracker blocker etc etchans_glib
- ^ if to be trusted. Also Fairy washing up liquid doesn't profile you, know where you are right now, what your thinking. Its a bit deeper than all of this.mugwart
- I’ve never used an ad blocker of any type.monospaced
- Fairy doesn't need to use fear and lies to sell itself... right wing politics does. That's the differenceSlashPeckham
- yep mugwart, way deeper than this.fadein11
- ad blockers are a funny thing to mention in a forum where a lot of people make their living from creating ads...SimonFFM
- @slash - right and left seem to be both as bad as each other. We live at a strange timesmugwart
- Fairy was just an example brand. Though one could argue I won't even think of such a brand if it wasn't for their advertising.shapesalad
- fear is exploited all the time in advertising.
Fear of: aging, dying, being alone, not fitting in, being a bad parent/lover/caregiv...Gnash - and just look at ANY political TV ad -- it's always DOOM & GLOOM if you vote for the other guyGnash
- interwebs is no differentGnash
- ^ miss the days when it was just sex!mugwart
- What the fuck are you not buying Fairy for? Its the only washing up liquid one should even consider buying. I'll never understand people.detritus
- lol det (nods in agreement)fadein11
- difference is you know when it's a TV political ad as opposed to an online fake news storyfadein11
- I don't have as blocker. I'm just immune ads. I'm practically jimmypango
- shapesalad, do you even work in advertising??? You are like a lumberjack cutting down trees then claiming that forest isn't disapearing because of your actions.pr2
- You are totally oblivious to how your senses and biology work.pr2
- Because of that i'm CONVINCED that adverts work you over all the time. Only acute self awarness protects individuals from their onslaught.pr2
- ignoring consumption is the only thing that saves you.uan
- but then it becomes irrelevant and only eats resources, your cpu, memory and bandwith and you end up installing ghostery or using braveuan
- still those don't safe you from information consumptionuan
- hans_glib1
if facebook /goggle /etc shared out some of the obscene amount of money they make with the people they make it from (i.e. you) then i might think something of them.
but they don't.
they take your data and monetise for themselves. they bang on about transparency so they can continue to hoover up all this info and turn it into cash, but won't share anything themselves.
so they can fuck right off as far as i'm concerned
- Cathy Newman: ‘The internet is being written by men with an agenda’Gnash
- The internet is being filled with photos of pillows and salads by women without an agenda.detritus
- Delete the Internet! The whole thing. Emails, etc, gone. Imagine that. Life would be amazing! The time we'd all have, the symphony's that would be composed!shapesalad
- * symphoniesshapesalad
- I believe they have an annual report somewhere availablekodap
- @shapesalad, a world did exist prior to the internet. It was good and bad just as it is now.emphor
- The internet's great. It's just that large chunks of the modern web are shit.
Bring back small member forums and IRC!detritus
- Wolfboy3
@shapesalad
I agree with you that a few ads on our timelines shouldn't be an issue in this day and age to those who are savvy to their dark ways (fuck Fairy Liquid and Nanette Newman).
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.c…
But that's not the issue with what has happened over the past couple of years – it's the fuckwits who are susceptible to the kind of vulgar persuasion being used that are the issue. The simple minded Trump followers in the US; the gammon faced blowhards in the UK. In the US it only took 70k voted to swing the electoral college and with Brexit, leave had a tiny majority.
Never underestimate the ignorance and gullibility of the man on the street. On a purely anecdotal level, I watched my own Dad turn into a dribbling xenophobe during the Brexit campaign and I was shocked at the level of arsehole he was conversing with on Facebook. The state of his feed was ridiculous and he would not accept it was colouring his view of the world.
- Fair point. Fairy point.shapesalad
- yep +1fadein11
- propaganda has always worked on the weak minded, and will always work on the weak minded. whatever form it takes.Gnash
- this kind of hyperbolic creation only serves to strengthen and justify the inevitable calls for more gov't intervention where it doesn't belongGnash
- there are already laws for this kind of privacy breach. charge them appropriately and move on.Gnash
- the catastrophizing is just colouring the other 'dribbling' arseholes world viewsGnash
- I should say about my Dad, and I think this is key, I was wrong to say 'turn into a dribbling xenophobe'; it obviously always there and the micro-targeting...Wolfboy
- ...and fake news bots brought it to the surface.Wolfboy
- I often wonder how far does this 'fake reality' lead us? BBC? FOX? Or just facebook?mugwart
- the problem is the internet is still relatively new media, kids will be able to identify all the signs of blatant manipulation. The old guard can't and that'sfadein11
- why it worked so well with Brexit and Trump. Throw in stupidity and hunger for a vote of protest (as opposed to voting for something you genuinely believe in)fadein11
- and the process is pretty much screwed from the outset.fadein11
- and let's not forget Cambridge Analytics didn't just work the data, they also came up with some of the key campaign soundbytes used by the Dotard.fadein11
- sounds like CA were doing their job, thenGnash
- Oh yes, they delivered.fadein11
- and I don't think that was ever in question, was it?fadein11
- burnt0
Why don't we all go around following and liking total random shit just to fuck with these algorithms.
- ideaist2
"It is time. #deletefacebook"
https://twitter.com/brianacton/s…
I know he's now pushing https://signal.org/, BUT none-the-less what he's saying and whom he's saying it for feels like the first real "threat" to Facebooks future.
I think it would be great to get rid of or cripple what I consider to be the largest distraction in human history from progression.
- Indeed.fadein11
- AND the alignment of this whistleblower to everything happening with Trump & the Russians...
HOW can things possibly move forward from here?!ideaist - ^ zuckerberg cries and says things will change. Shareprice continues to lose value, staff laid off, competitor takes over, public use social media less.shapesalad
- sarahfailin5
QBN IS SELLING YOUR DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION! I have obtained a leaked copy of all the data gathered so far:
- Pango is asian
- Set is a cunt
- Georges disappeared, but used to be black
- some of us live in England.that's all so far.
- Bennn0
If you quit Facebook, you'll also quit the QBN FB group wich is our last boat if this website close tomorrow morning. If we drown the FB group we'd need a new safety boat.
- Google +monospaced
- they killed the group thingBennn
- Line messaging app is the best.shapesalad
- @Bennn
Who is "they"?soundofreason - Sigh. Bennn. Does QBN look like it's on the verge of closing down to you?
Fuck me, you can be so alarmist sometimes.Continuity - Survivalism. You have to be ready. Anything can happenBennn
- fooler1
Massive Attack Leave Facebook Due to Cambridge Analytica Scandal
“We sincerely hope they change their policies around these issues”
- pinkfloyd3
I left facebook a long time ago when my friends mom kept posting on my professional artwork page.
- detritus0
- he waited to see how bad the damage is; it's substantial, so now he speaks. haha! he's as lame as the data leak. SMHchukkaphob
- chukkaphob9
- niceGuyFawkes
- i guess he has no FB stockGnash
- That's a pain in the ass...I look forward to the SpaceX notifications of launches.BusterBoy
- Pretty much my only use of Twitter is to check SpaceX and ElonMusk's feeds
#DeleteTwitterToodetritus - Why does mark look like an alien...pango
- I don't care for either one of these cunts.utopian
- colin_s2
https://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz…
guy asks facebook for his own data, gets extremely unnerving results
- kona10
No way I'm deleting Facebook. Where else am I going to see my friend's ugly baby pictures 24/7.
"Look everyone, it's Jimmy and the Easter Bunny!"
Me: Sweet fuck I thought it was a photo of the QBN chupacabra goat with sets face swapped onto it.- hahapockets
- LOLrenderedred
- Instagram?fooler
- Instagram is owned by Facebook...elahon
- fb is happy to track new users from birth till death. tell your friends to stop violating their babies privacies ffsuan
- ^
;-)BustySaintClaire