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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCartoon: Is this what your Facebook feed looks like?
[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/22/1750626/-Cartoon-Is-this-what-your-Facebook-feed-looks-like|
Hehe and oh my
Ohiogal
(31,669 posts)Maven
(10,533 posts)Funny because it's true.
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)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
(7,220 posts)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
(22,671 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)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
(22,671 posts)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.
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
(37,748 posts)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
(22,671 posts)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
(267,825 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)Mine is mostly news about friends and relatives and interesting conversations with friends and relatives.
Nitram
(22,671 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)my Facebook feed has never resembled this. most Facebook haters are not Facebook users.
DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)trixie2
(905 posts)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
(22,671 posts)trixie2
(905 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)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
(905 posts)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
(2,380 posts)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
(1,294 posts)Wednesdays
(17,249 posts)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.