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Anyone else find Facebook a rather creepy, not very good company?

fr336

I see their homepage today:

"Peace begins with us
We believe that kindness and love can change the world. Join all of us at Facebook in observing an International Day of Peace today and spreading hope, one person at a time."This from the company that behaves like an arrogant child when it comes to terrorist activity on its network. I find their style very intrusive, sure their product is very good but people are there for that not them as a company. They're seemingly constantly trying to manipulate users and make out they are some saintly operation that just happens to have so much of your data and information. I don't have the same views on Twitter and Google, maybe they're just better at hiding their weirdness.

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Atoms for Peace

bee06 wrote: »

If only there was some way of not interacting the Facebook ...

Theres always the Russian facebook, VK.

WoollyRedHat

I'll stick to my tamagotchi, thank you very much.

Poor Uncle Tom

A lot of adults have problems with others privacy boundaries. FB seems to be a means to crawl around and try to find out more about people, all for backbiting purposes.

I was once told there were pictures of me on FB taken at home in my own sitting room, that lead to the souring of a friendship very quickly.

Boundaries people, don't just know them, respect them.....

seamus

fr336 wrote: »

Is it bad to say that Zuckerberg scares me a little bit more than Trump?

No, Zuckerberg's whole agenda comes across as very contrived, very polished.

Even the stuff about his child comes across with a real, "Oh, nobody had ever had an experience like this before, my child is so unique, so I'm dedicating this new charity in her name" bolloxogy.
Even though he and his wife spend 20 hours a day working and have a team of people running their household and minding their child for them.

I get the feeling that Facebook as a company is keeping up appearances when it comes to managing the "social" aspect of what they do. Their technology operation is very slick, run incredibly well.
But the business of managing a social network is proving difficult and they're just about keeping the worst of it out of the press.

As the latest stuff about Russian election-manipulating ads, and the leaked moderators' manual has illustrated, they don't have a proper grip on how people use Facebook, and they don't understand the ways in which it's being abused.

For the most part it's a free-for-all for users. To gain any kind of control over it would require an literal army of moderators that it can't afford.

The problem is that Facebook presents itself as a safe environment, a place where people don't need to worry about being hacked, or their children being stalked by paedos, or themselves being stalked by lunatics. When in reality Facebook is exactly the opposite of safe.

Wanderer78

Aiden Thundering Thriftiness wrote:

Would rather have the entertainment value of the Donald, sure Zuckerberg would send folks to sleep on about all that html slash this and dot that jizz.

The only problem is, the Donald isn't exactly entertaining, I much rather my entertainment come with some sort of intelligence, he has a severe deficit in this department. He's just an unintelligent, ignorant loathe, and bloody dangerous to. He personifies major failings in many of our modern day ideologies. We need to take note of this or we potentially could be accelerating our demise

[Deleted User]

Facebook is obviously a creepy company. Their practice of creating "virtual" accounts for people that don't have membership is just odd.

4068ac1elhodqr

Facebook was applauded by Obama when it worked out well for him 2012 (some folks are still waiting on 'change' as promised back then). Now that Trump has cleverly made and art-form of this marketing tool (specifically through data mining, profiling, universe and sub-group ad targeting) they've suddenly become the bad guy, for facilitating this freedom of expression.

The thing is for Potus20, Mr.Z won't even need to hire the specialist external marketing partners, can do all that themselves. Add in newer advanced profiling, immersive-vr, ai-chat bots and it could turn out to be a easy walk in the park for him.

degsie

Remember when newspaper groups were deemed 'creepy' in the past? Nothing to see here, it's just fear peddling.

Wanderer78

Aiden Thundering Thriftiness wrote: »

Facebook was applauded by Obama when it worked out well for him 2012 (some folks are still waiting on 'change' as promised back then). Now that Trump has cleverly made and art-form of this marketing tool (specifically through data mining, profiling, universe and sub-group ad targeting) they've suddenly become the bad guy, for facilitating this freedom of expression.

The thing is for Potus20, Mr.Z won't even need to hire the specialist external marketing partners, can do all that themselves. Add in newer advanced profiling, immersive-vr, ai-chat bots and it could turn out to be a easy walk in the park for him.

or as sarah palin said, hopey changey thing:)

Atoms for Peace

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Facebook is obviously a creepy company. Their practice of creating "virtual" accounts for people that don't have membership is just odd.

The're the digital equivalent of the mormans.

jimgoose

I only joined Ye Book of Faeces lately, and my impression of it thus far is that it has it's uses, and is very much what you make of it - much depends on your friend-list and what groups you choose to follow.

[Deleted User]

Facebook camera roll. Look! All your private pics can be in fb with one accidental tap!
X do not show this again
X ok you will not see this again

And repeat... All the time. Giving me a heart attack