The utterly bizarre world of Facebook

[MWagner]

Facebook has no respect for individuals; only how much advertising money they can make.

It's a business. They provide you with a platform, tools, and a network. In exchange, they extract all sorts of information about you, sell it, and funnel personalized ads and content your way.

Perhaps this model could be replaced with a pay-to-use system that protected your privacy. But since 'free' trumps everything in the minds of most consumers, I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Glitch]

It's a business. They provide you with a platform, tools, and a network. In exchange, they extract all sorts of information about you, sell it, and funnel personalized ads and content your way.

Perhaps this model could be replaced with a pay-to-use system that protected your privacy. But since 'free' trumps everything in the minds of most consumers, I wouldn't hold my breath.

I don't have a problem with businesses providing advert supported platforms. But what I said was "Facebook has no respect for individuals".

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Facebook sets up an Ethics review process thing ...
But we have no idea of its ethics. Clear as mud.
Facebook has a new process for discussing ethics. But is it ethical?

 

[Foxbat]

A man is shot dead live on Facebook and the video is not removed because a spokeswoman says that it does not violate the company policy. They did put up a warning about the graphic nature of the video but I wonder if they gave any thought to the victim's family?
Chicago man shot dead during Facebook live-stream - BBC News

 

[Ray McCarthy]

the video is not removed because

of revenue from adverts.

 

[J Riff]

I remember when we thought the internet was going to solve a lot of problems. Must have been worrisome to the bigshots until they got this googleface thing running.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

googleface

Twitface or FarceLink

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Pure greed. People that buy these shares are mugs:
How to eat your cake and still have it.
Facebook investors approve new type of shares to keep Zuckerberg at helm - Independent.ie

 

[zlogdan]

I had a profile there before it became a serious hit here in Brazil but I have left it when everybody in Brazil seemed to have accounts there and started calling it "face".

 

[AstroZon]

I'm on it because my family wanted me on it. I do post ocassionally - mainly family photos and such. I don't read the newsfeeds or foward the latest OMG photos or vids. I could easily live without it.

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

word

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Facebook brings out the worst in people. Here's nine reasons why it's ruining the internet

 

[Ray McCarthy]

The Echo bubble.
Also Facebook decides what you read on Facebook

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Facebook tracking people's location.

You can only ensure it's not happening by using a browser on PC/MAC that allows the information to be blocked, and on a phone disabling all tracking GPS on the phone, unless you have a version of the OS that allows app permissions to be rescinded. It's best NEVER to install "Apps" for companies that have websites, use the web browser, but disable OS GPS etc first.

Facebook has tracked your location to see who you might be friends with.

No, they do it to make more money from advertising.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Mark Zuckerberg has a wardrobe full of hoodies -- just sayin'

The Wolves of Silicon Valley: how megalomaniacs in hoodies became tech's answer to Wall Street

Antonio Garcia Martínez. His CV includes Facebook product manager, Twitter advisor and start-up CEO. Today, however, the 40-year old is casting himself as lowly writer, soon-to-be “unemployable in tech”, thanks to Chaos Monkeys, his newly released exposé of life inside Silicon Valley. Martinez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team in 2011, but as a vocal critic of the company’s strategy, he was pushed out after just two years.

The tech hub [Facebook] is described as akin to a cult - with the day employees join dubbed their 'Faceversary’ (complete with baptism-style levels of celebrations), the day they leave classed as their 'death’ and a dress code to stop female employees 'distracting’ male co-workers. Beneath the Frat House-esque atmosphere, the company’s elite are painted as sociopaths in hoodies, with an internal security division called 'The Sec’ monitoring staff members’ movements. Forget the dog-eat-dog capitalism of Wall Street – these guys make Gordon Gekko look like Ghandi.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

This revolution will not be televised – Facebook mysteriously vanishes Philando Castile death-by-cop video
Do you believe that Facebook had a "Technical Glitch"?

 

[Ray McCarthy]

The BBC, RTE and others need to stop promoting Facebook and Twitter. They have there own massive web systems. They don't need to be in thrall.
Wolff: Facebook and the media's interests diverge

No, the fault is on the part of publishers who, against all reason, and without the wherewithal to imagine an alternative, embraced Facebook. Indeed, there is only one practical conclusion from the history of the publishing business' adaptation to digital: publishers, by sacrificing their independence, have lost their business.

Just like Record labels losing initiative to iTunes and streaming (which pays a fraction of what Radio pays, though the USA Radio won't pay performance rights!), Book publishers to Amazon etc. Google's wholesale "theft" of copyright via so called orphan works, scanning and YouTube.

 

[J Riff]

I remember the music biz...* Though it was not perfect, it was at least there. Wonder where it got to?

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Wonder where it got to?

Still exists. I bought a CD in Tesco last week. At least if iTunes crashes & burns, or my server does, or I have no internet, I can still listend to it on my phone, laptop, TV, hifi, Archos PMP etc.
My Grandchildren can inherit it. I buy all my music as CDs, but spend more on DVDs.
In the 1930s to 1980s there wasn't much competition for your entertainment purchases of Music apart from books and magazines, but from 1980s, VHS, then DVD / BD etc, Computer Games, Apps, Subscription (TV, Mobile Data Plans, Netflix, Amazon etc) reduce the percentage available for music. So the decline isn't really just due to Streaming or iTunes.
Also most music bought is OLD. The Industry has got rubbish at picking and promoting new acts that people want, or alternatively younger people spend all their money on drinks etc, subscription services (Mobile phones are eating a FORTUNE! Bad value!) etc.

 

[J Riff]

Yep. Extended adolescence, we sell you AB/CD again, no need for new troublesome artistico types.
There was a decade there, where the door was technically open to normal human beings, then it went back to dark age logic and full nepotism. The acts I see here, making $, downtown, are bad enough to make you want to utterly dissociate with all of it. Related people, with high-paying jobs, in their spare time, overide everything and claim the $ and accolades. Of course, that's here, where 'culture' is something other places have. )
Everything is free now, all the good stuff, laying around in piles of free cassettes, records, CDs, and online. Free for the taking. Wonder what happened to all those artists, who, last I heard, were struggling to make ends meet.