Cartoon: Is this what your Facebook feed looks like?

[Soph0571]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/22/1750626/-Cartoon-Is-this-what-your-Facebook-feed-looks-like

Hehe and oh my

[Ohiogal]

1. HILARIOUS

[Maven]

2. OMG, that's hilarious

Funny because it's true.

[Brainstormy]

3. actually, not even close

and you can't "boost" a post of family and friends. Boosting is paying for an ad or post from a company or product account. For all its faults, this is a very inaccurate representation of FB.

[flibbitygiblets]

7. The ONE thing on that cartoon that was inaccurate/too hyperbolic

Admit it, the rest is pretty spot-on. Maybe not all at one time, but I've seen a version of everything EXCEPT the "boost" ad on many occasions. These fuckers need to be called on their bullshit.

[Nitram]

9. flibbity, how many times have you been asked for your social security number in a FB quiz?

[flibbitygiblets]

12. Sigh. Really? You're going to defend Facebook?

Obviously there's sarcasm used in there, that's why it's a cartoon. Read between the lines, for Gawd's sale: What are they really doing with your information when you take one of those "innocent" quizzes? I think the question has already been answered.

[Nitram]

14. I'm just responding to your reply to brainstormy that he cherry-picked "the ONE thing..."

I'd prefer we criticize FB for their real sins, not invented ones. Facebook's real sins are far worse than this sophomoric exercise in satire.

By the way, the app that harvested the scammed FB users' data "As part of the login process, it asked for access to users' Facebook profiles, locations, what they liked on the service, and importantly, their friends' data as well." Sure "innocent" quizzes are probably collecting some sort of marketing data (my favorite color, topics I'm interested in, and perhaps they can infer the level of my education), but I've never seen one ask for my FB data. When I'm asked to do any of that, I just close the page and move on.

[Brainstormy]

23. Ditto

It's not any different from any other data mining, fake news, etc., etc., on the internet. It requires a modicum of sophistication and internet savvy, but what doesn't? There was a time that Email was a tool of the devil. Cell phones will give us cancer. Texting is making the whole world stupid. Ad infinitum. This is the world we live in. Does Facebook have weaknesses, possibly dangers? Sure. But it helps me keep up with my family and far-flung friends. It's re-united me with 63 high school friends! It helped me find an unknown half-brother. It's the absolute touchstone for local activism and county politics for me and keeps me in touch with my meet-up group that has grown from a dozen to 234 members in three years as a result of Facebook introductions and dialog.

It's not all bad, folks. It just isn't.

[LanternWaste]

17. don't read Snoopy. It's depiction of dog-ownership is fiction and hyperbolic.

One of the best things in the world is a guy who takes a funny sentiment and then deconstructs it for accuracy.

Just a heads-up: don't read Snoopy. It's depiction of dog-ownership is fiction and hyperbolic. Calvin & Hobbes too.

(humor, by its nature, is often designed to be hyperbolic)

[Nitram]

26. You're right Waste, this was indeed on the same level of discourse as Peanuts.

I don't know why I took it seriously enough to reply. I guess I read more into it than was intended. Judging by the people who liked it, they thought so too.

[malaise]

4. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Nothing like that

Mine is mostly news about friends and relatives and interesting conversations with friends and relatives.

[Nitram]

10. Same here.

[Brainstormy]

20. agree.

my Facebook feed has never resembled this. most Facebook haters are not Facebook users.

[DavidDvorkin]

21. I suspect you're right.

[flibbitygiblets]

6. I posted this on FB, which I mostly keep open just to troll FB.

[trixie2]

8. No and I hate FB

Just had to unfriend a cousin because he posted a photo of the white nationalist (I refuse to capitalize) with their tiki torches and said something like, "We need more of this". The kicker is he is married to someone not of his race and has kids. WTF?

[Nitram]

11. You can block people like that.

[trixie2]

15. Oh he's blocked

[Brainstormy]

22. so? you learned something about your cousin

possibly you circumvented a future family situation that might have ambushed you. You don't have to read his crap anymore. But you could have responded. And fostered a good bit of blowback for him. This happens to me all the time when someone posts genuine fake news or promotes a horrible idea. I respond with the Snopes link, for example, and often get support, sometimes real dialogue, from others. Depends on my mood, the issue, etc. Point is: where is the damage, ultimately, if you can dump this person when you choose to?

[trixie2]

24. He lives down river from Detroit

He was always my favorite cousin and I am blown away by the post. I deleted the post and blocked him. I don't even respond. I work for the community at large and serve everyone so my FB is squeaky clean and is pretty much how I keep up on family outside of the Detroit area. I voice my views here and only here, outside the dinner table. He grew up very poor, his education is high school and was lucky to get a job in entry level and is now a supervisor. His teenage kids are "friends". How the hell does he explain this? Just found out that my brother, sister and his mother and siblings have all blocked him.

I am waiting for the news he lost his job since his page is public. Nice to know he is an asshole.

[Brainstormy]

25. worrying.

I hope we don't hear about him in headlines soon. Maybe you should reach out to his kids? And then, maybe I should mind my own business.

[blake2012]

13. Nailed it

[Wednesdays]

16. One inaccuacy:

FB wouldn't post a "privacy settings" drop down menu where you can easily find it, along with instructions. You have to hunt around for it on your own.

[Achilleaze]

18. LOL

[LeftInTX]

19. LOL - Which Golden Girl Are You?