One day we'll stop using Facebook. What happens next?*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

 

Get back to Normality.

 

In this world now-a-days, right.

 

I have never had a facebook or twitter acct. but for the first time in my life I can see where it might be the only place to go for honest info. before the media runs their agenda over it. As always pick carefully what you believe and do more listening than talking.

 

Ditto .... to aforementioned post!

 

Honest info, You have to be kidding me.

 

I have friends who are political activists and tried to use their FB accounts to express their opinions and have had their accounts frozen so you might find some honest info on FB depending on whose FB you read, but you probably won't get too much.

Having said that the same people have had their regular websites attacked too. One of them told me recently, the lady who manages his website said she had never seen anything like it and she manages hundreds of websites.
The attackers took his website down entirely at one point, removed his subscribers and he said he was inundated with complaints that they now found it impossible to resubscribe.

 

It was also designed to be addictive, besides whatever mathematical properties may have been designed in.

 

Sorry, forgot to give a link:

"Diaspora (social network)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)

 

I agree that there is nothing wrong with the "social network" idea itself. What I hate about FB is all of the tracking, and it's a very slow and bloated site. I also can hardly find any cute women on it, so I almost don't use it anymore, I log-in once a month or so.

 

"German domestic spy agency hits out at Silicon Valley

BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency accused U.S. tech giants like Facebook (FB.O) on Monday of failing to take enough responsibility for content on their sites, undermining democracy by not distinguishing between fact and opinion..."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ency-hits-out-at-silicon-valley-idUSKBN1DR1XA

 

"The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency accused U.S. tech giants like Facebook (FB.O) on Monday of failing to take enough responsibility for content on their sites, undermining democracy by not distinguishing between fact and opinion...."

I agree. I'll go further. At some point my *belief* is Facebook, other companies & individuals have committed & continue to commit high treason against the United States of America & their citizens.



*belief* - Not asserting as fact.

 

Facebook is a monster, at least in terms of javascript. It runs on a whole set of domains and subdomains, all with different script functions. I currently use Vivaldi for it with uBlock and uMatrix to keep it under control and ad free. I allow some domains to run script or frames but not others with uMatrix and uBlock Origin even gets the notorious ads that are whipped out under Facebook's own domains. I have a private black hole DNS server that would get almost any ads under other domains before they even got to my router so the burden on uBlock is reduced and it loads pretty quickly even on my slow connection.

I have a curious history with Facebook. I got into it due to political activism around a specific local issue and didn't post anything very personal at all for a long time. I just communicated with other activists in that cause. We had a public Facebook page and I ended up being the administrator. I hadn't logged on for a couple of years when that happened and I started using Facebook again after a long hiatus.

In terms of content, there is a lot of crap on Facebook, even without ads. I'm amused to see a lot of idiotic political memes and posts from last year were from professional trolls and even troll bots. On any national or international issue, Facebook will blind you with ideological idiocy and conspiracy theories. For local affairs, it can be quite informative and much quicker than local media. We've had several crimes in our local community where Facebook was much better than any local media outlet. Some of it is stuff that would fly below the media radar or, conversely, something so twisted and convoluted that the amount of coverage needed was beyond the time the local media would give it. On Facebook, new developments were posted right as they happened.

I've never tried to sell anything on Facebook. In political issues, I've had a pretty similar experience to what other posters have said about using it for business. It quickly gets a lot of superficial interest but few real buyers. It is, all in all, a pretty superficial medium with a very short attention span.

 

Facebook and Google pose 'clear and present threat' to civil society, British TV executive says

 

Former Facebook executive has sworn off social media because he doesn’t want to be “programmed”
December 11, 2017
https://qz.com/1153007/former-faceb...dont-realize-it-but-you-are-being-programmed/

 

Facebook?

 

Re: former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, I saw him on the news, he is like someone who severed ties with a cult, very outspoken. He actually shared the same views as those of us who are disgusted and dismissive of Facebook from the beginning. Does a high-ranking executive of RJ Reynolds smoke cigarettes? Hmmm, not such a wildly divergent analogy, not to me.

 

I've been suspicious of the effect social media and the internet in general has on the psychological state of society because for many, it replaces real human interactions with a pseudo social life that offers very little restraint to ones attitudes or behaviour because while online in that isolated space that is the user and their computer there appears to be no real retaliatory or social consequences to what is said or posted.

 

I notice people are less forgiving & more critical irl.

 

Facebook is nothing more in my opinion than a clever grand rip from Yahoo Messenger and poor ole yahoo didn't see yearbook, err uh, I mean facebook coming at them.

Isn't it amazing how grown men and even managing officials fell hook, line, and sinker for more online pc (now mobile embedded) kiddie stuff and now the thing is a wild scavenger gone ballistic and etc.

Long way from the days of walkie talkies, pagers, and the good ole wall tele. But how long will it last?

 

I think will fb or a worse concept will last forever. People under 20, 25 are not outraged or even care. So it'll get worse. They'll be no fight for privacy or freedom.

 

The sad part about it is the a very high percentage of those people on Facebook believe everything that is posted on that website.

 

2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-14/2017-was-bad-for-facebook-2018-will-be-worse

Two billion users - that is one huge cult.