CunningCanuk
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Throughout this discussion I was wondering how many Australian photographers with Facebook accounts had 3 day bans.
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Facebook & Social Media
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xtsho
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When I think social media I think garbage. Air headed bimbos that couldn't get into college unless their rich mommy bribed people.
Influencer? More like dumb as a rock. This is now the norm. No wonder America's youth are so messed up. They follow morons online and treat them like idols.
Exhibit A:
Influencer? More like dumb as a rock. This is now the norm. No wonder America's youth are so messed up. They follow morons online and treat them like idols.
Exhibit A:
Budley Doright
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My girlfriend showed me a FB pic of a Right Whale in front of Toronto and wanted to go see it lol. This is how Trump won
. Yes I know but she keeps the house clean and me fed lol.
xtsho
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Keeping the house clean and the belly full goes a long way. Sounds like a keeper.My girlfriend showed me a FB pic of a Right Whale in front of Toronto and wanted to go see it lol. This is how Trump won
Budley Doright
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Yup, makes it easy to overlook a small thing like thinking there is a whale in front of TO
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Lucky Luke
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Lucky Luke
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Good point.As for the shooting someone remark. I think, and I could be way wrong, but it takes in a different meaning when you live in a country that it is actually not that uncommon. Here when we say “you should shoot the fucker” it does not mean literally pull out your handgun and shoot someone
Roger A. Shrubber
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https://www.thewrap.com/facebook-name-change/
you think they might want to concentrate on treating all their employs fairly and equitably, and getting a better system in place to flag and remove misinformation and hate speech before they did ANYTHING ELSE.....seems like those might be considered pretty major ongoing problems by anyone who actually gave a flying fuck at a rolling rats asshole about their customers
you think they might want to concentrate on treating all their employs fairly and equitably, and getting a better system in place to flag and remove misinformation and hate speech before they did ANYTHING ELSE.....seems like those might be considered pretty major ongoing problems by anyone who actually gave a flying fuck at a rolling rats asshole about their customers
DIY-HP-LED
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Not stopping 'Stop the Steal:' Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection
Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook's Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company's role in what had happened.
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Not stopping 'Stop the Steal:' Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection
Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook's Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company's role in what had happened.
"We know this was organized online. We know that," she said in an interview with Reuters. "We... took down QAnon, Proud Boys, Stop the Steal, anything that was talking about possible violence last week. Our enforcement's never perfect so I'm sure there were still things on Facebook. I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don't have our abilities to stop hate and don't have our standards and don't have our transparency."
But internal Facebook (FB) documents reviewed by CNN suggest otherwise. The documents, including an internal post-mortem and one document showing in real time countermeasures Facebook employees were belatedly implementing, paint a picture of a company that was in fact fundamentally unprepared for how the Stop the Steal movement used its platform to organize, and that only truly swung into action after the movement had turned violent.
Asked by CNN about Sandberg's quote and whether she stood by it, a Facebook spokesperson pointed to the greater context around Sandberg's quote. She had been noting that Jan. 6 organization happened largely online, including but not limited to on Facebook's platforms, the spokesperson said.
The documents were provided by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen as evidence to support disclosures she made to the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to Congress in redacted form by Haugen's legal counsel. The redacted versions were obtained by a consortium of 17 US news organizations, including CNN.
One of Haugen's central allegations about the company focuses on the attack on the Capitol. In a SEC disclosure she alleges, "Facebook misled investors and the public about its role perpetuating misinformation and violent extremism relating to the 2020 election and January 6th insurrection."
Facebook denies the premise of Haugen's conclusions and says Haugen has cherry-picked documents to present an unfair portrayal of the company.
"The responsibility for the violence that occurred on January 6 lies with those who attacked our Capitol and those who encouraged them. We took steps to limit content that sought to delegitimize the election, including labeling candidates' posts with the latest vote count after Mr. Trump prematurely declared victory, pausing new political advertising and removing the original #StopTheSteal Group in November," Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone told CNN Friday.
"After the violence at the Capitol erupted and as we saw continued attempts to organize events to dispute the outcome of the presidential election, we removed content with the phrase 'stop the steal' under our Coordinating Harm policy and suspended Trump from our platform."
Facebook also on Friday night published a blog post by its vice president of Integrity, Guy Rosen, about its efforts around the 2020 election.
"Our enforcement was piecemeal"
Among the tens of thousands of pages of documents Haugen provided is an internal analysis of how the Stop the Steal and Patriot Party movements spread on Facebook, first reported by BuzzFeed News earlier this year.
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injinji
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Since I don't drink, I will replace with smoke lots of Blueberry My Ass.
DIY-HP-LED
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What I and many others are thinking.
So long, Facebook, this goodbye is forever
We are splitting over irreconcilable differences
I’m quitting you, Facebook. And it’s all your fault.
Don’t bother trying to win me back, although with almost 3 billion other monthly users (actually, you’re using them) I know you won’t try to make up with me. You’ve had years to fix things, so why should I trust you now?
The social media behemoth, dreamed up by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard buddies, has been sucking up humans’ existence since 2004. If you think it’d blow your mind to see how much of your life you spend stuck in commuter traffic, try guesstimating your Facebook time (DataReportal puts it at 19.5 hours a month — seems a bit low to me).
Since joining in 2008, I’ve cherished the hours connecting with friends and family, sharing photos and developments about my life and loved ones while embracing the steady stream of updates, pics, opinions, emotions and even the sad news my list of connections that’s grown to almost 1,500 has posted in return.
Face it, fellow Facebookers: We’re addicted. It gives us pleasure, making us smile, laugh, cry and discover. It gives us a chance to show off, spout off and feel fulfilled when others react positively to what we’ve shared.
But for several years, I’ve wrestled with the truth that behind all the wonderful images, the moving, nostalgic and informative posts, the beautiful life moments that so many have let me be a part of, Facebook has been a debacle. For over a decade, the world’s largest social media network has been a constant target of criticism, shrouded in unending controversy.
The backdrop to all the engaging scenery we’ve been commenting and clicking like, love, care, haha, wow, sad and sometimes angry on is plainly evil.
Most users are like me: They only want to stay in touch with friends near and far to know what’s happening in their lives — and reciprocate, and they consider Facebook a free, easy way to do that. They find so much to love about it. But in reality, there’s so much to hate.
Facebook’s mantra has always been about bringing the world closer together. Instead, it has fostered division, allowing the platform to be a cesspool of hate, misinformation, fake news, hoaxes and conspiracy theories (Holocaust denial and the like). Too many use it as a place to whip people into a lather on politics and social issues, transforming timelines from peaceful places where photos of babies, families, dogs and weddings reside into arenas for verbal fisticuffs.
Those who live to incite violence and fear and to spread lies have had a field day on the platform. And those who run Facebook — bringing in $86 billion in revenue in 2020 — along with Instagram (which I’m not on), haven’t taken enough steps to make it a safer, less hostile environment.
Some accuse Facebook of undermining democracy with its failures. I agree.
Many Facebook users get much of their news through the platform — I’m not talking links to legitimate journalism that I and others post — and much of it is false or misleading content from dubious sources.
Facebook has made various changes to its content policies and has banned inflammatory public figures including Alex Jones, David Duke and Louis Farrakhan over their hate speech. But the moves haven’t worked to rid the network of its most destructive elements and scrub it clean so the original intent will be all that’s left. Like in the Alien film series, getting this monster under control seems almost impossible.
There have been numerous lawsuits against Facebook as well as security breaches, one of the largest involving Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that illegally obtained the information of millions of users in 2018, which Facebook failed to disclose. Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections was linked in part to Facebook ads and accounts created to carry out the meddling.
Facebook posts have played a role in political uprisings and violence globally, and U.N. investigators blamed the platform for spreading hate speech that incited the Myanmar military’s genocide against the Muslim Rohingya minority. Two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for violations of user privacy, a record fine for a tech company. Chillingly, Facebook Live has been used to broadcast murders, suicides and other acts of violence. More recently, Facebook has been criticized for its role in perpetuating COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
These are just a fraction of the reasons I’ve finally made this decision. The prospect of losing immediate contact with so many loved ones and not being able to keep up with what and how they and their families are doing saddens me. But this is about doing the right thing.
...
So long, Facebook, this goodbye is forever
I’m quitting you, Facebook. And it’s all your fault. Don’t bother trying to win me back, although with almost 3 billion other monthly users (actually, you’re...
www.dallasnews.com
So long, Facebook, this goodbye is forever
We are splitting over irreconcilable differences
I’m quitting you, Facebook. And it’s all your fault.
Don’t bother trying to win me back, although with almost 3 billion other monthly users (actually, you’re using them) I know you won’t try to make up with me. You’ve had years to fix things, so why should I trust you now?
The social media behemoth, dreamed up by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard buddies, has been sucking up humans’ existence since 2004. If you think it’d blow your mind to see how much of your life you spend stuck in commuter traffic, try guesstimating your Facebook time (DataReportal puts it at 19.5 hours a month — seems a bit low to me).
Since joining in 2008, I’ve cherished the hours connecting with friends and family, sharing photos and developments about my life and loved ones while embracing the steady stream of updates, pics, opinions, emotions and even the sad news my list of connections that’s grown to almost 1,500 has posted in return.
Face it, fellow Facebookers: We’re addicted. It gives us pleasure, making us smile, laugh, cry and discover. It gives us a chance to show off, spout off and feel fulfilled when others react positively to what we’ve shared.
But for several years, I’ve wrestled with the truth that behind all the wonderful images, the moving, nostalgic and informative posts, the beautiful life moments that so many have let me be a part of, Facebook has been a debacle. For over a decade, the world’s largest social media network has been a constant target of criticism, shrouded in unending controversy.
The backdrop to all the engaging scenery we’ve been commenting and clicking like, love, care, haha, wow, sad and sometimes angry on is plainly evil.
Most users are like me: They only want to stay in touch with friends near and far to know what’s happening in their lives — and reciprocate, and they consider Facebook a free, easy way to do that. They find so much to love about it. But in reality, there’s so much to hate.
Facebook’s mantra has always been about bringing the world closer together. Instead, it has fostered division, allowing the platform to be a cesspool of hate, misinformation, fake news, hoaxes and conspiracy theories (Holocaust denial and the like). Too many use it as a place to whip people into a lather on politics and social issues, transforming timelines from peaceful places where photos of babies, families, dogs and weddings reside into arenas for verbal fisticuffs.
Those who live to incite violence and fear and to spread lies have had a field day on the platform. And those who run Facebook — bringing in $86 billion in revenue in 2020 — along with Instagram (which I’m not on), haven’t taken enough steps to make it a safer, less hostile environment.
Some accuse Facebook of undermining democracy with its failures. I agree.
Many Facebook users get much of their news through the platform — I’m not talking links to legitimate journalism that I and others post — and much of it is false or misleading content from dubious sources.
Facebook has made various changes to its content policies and has banned inflammatory public figures including Alex Jones, David Duke and Louis Farrakhan over their hate speech. But the moves haven’t worked to rid the network of its most destructive elements and scrub it clean so the original intent will be all that’s left. Like in the Alien film series, getting this monster under control seems almost impossible.
There have been numerous lawsuits against Facebook as well as security breaches, one of the largest involving Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that illegally obtained the information of millions of users in 2018, which Facebook failed to disclose. Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections was linked in part to Facebook ads and accounts created to carry out the meddling.
Facebook posts have played a role in political uprisings and violence globally, and U.N. investigators blamed the platform for spreading hate speech that incited the Myanmar military’s genocide against the Muslim Rohingya minority. Two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for violations of user privacy, a record fine for a tech company. Chillingly, Facebook Live has been used to broadcast murders, suicides and other acts of violence. More recently, Facebook has been criticized for its role in perpetuating COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
These are just a fraction of the reasons I’ve finally made this decision. The prospect of losing immediate contact with so many loved ones and not being able to keep up with what and how they and their families are doing saddens me. But this is about doing the right thing.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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i think this hit on something for me...i have an absolute horror of not being in control of my life, to at least the amount anyone can be in control of their lives in this world...it's one of the reasons i do not try any new drugs...i used to do mushrooms and acid, and peyote a few times, but now ALL i do is weed. because i've seen what meth, pills, coke, even shit like ayahuasca...can do to people, and i'm not fucking having anything in my life that controls my behavior...and that's exactly what facebook is...a drug that controls your behavior, an addictive "substance" that people have trouble living without once they get addicted to it. my girlfriend is a pretty smart person, but she keeps telling me about shit she "hears" on facebook, and i have to go through hoops to convince her that 99% of it is horseshit...
i had a facebook account, i guess it's still existent, but i literally have 0 friends, and no desire for any, one week in about 2007 or 8 convinced me that it was horseshit from top to bottom, and i had and have no use for it at all
i had a facebook account, i guess it's still existent, but i literally have 0 friends, and no desire for any, one week in about 2007 or 8 convinced me that it was horseshit from top to bottom, and i had and have no use for it at all
DIY-HP-LED
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For me and others it has taken the place of the local newspaper and other things that used to connect people in smaller communities. I tend to keep my friends group small and it is mostly local people and those I've worked with, people I know in the real world. However it is a great time waster too and I'm into a secular Buddhist group there writing and discussing things, time better spent practicing meditation!
Fogdog
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That Facebook bitch creeped me out the first we met. Didn't give her my phone number. Sometimes I get it right.What I and many others are thinking.
So long, Facebook, this goodbye is forever
I’m quitting you, Facebook. And it’s all your fault. Don’t bother trying to win me back, although with almost 3 billion other monthly users (actually, you’re...www.dallasnews.com
So long, Facebook, this goodbye is forever
We are splitting over irreconcilable differences
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I’m quitting you, Facebook. And it’s all your fault.
Don’t bother trying to win me back, although with almost 3 billion other monthly users (actually, you’re using them) I know you won’t try to make up with me. You’ve had years to fix things, so why should I trust you now?
The social media behemoth, dreamed up by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard buddies, has been sucking up humans’ existence since 2004. If you think it’d blow your mind to see how much of your life you spend stuck in commuter traffic, try guesstimating your Facebook time (DataReportal puts it at 19.5 hours a month — seems a bit low to me).
Since joining in 2008, I’ve cherished the hours connecting with friends and family, sharing photos and developments about my life and loved ones while embracing the steady stream of updates, pics, opinions, emotions and even the sad news my list of connections that’s grown to almost 1,500 has posted in return.
Face it, fellow Facebookers: We’re addicted. It gives us pleasure, making us smile, laugh, cry and discover. It gives us a chance to show off, spout off and feel fulfilled when others react positively to what we’ve shared.
But for several years, I’ve wrestled with the truth that behind all the wonderful images, the moving, nostalgic and informative posts, the beautiful life moments that so many have let me be a part of, Facebook has been a debacle. For over a decade, the world’s largest social media network has been a constant target of criticism, shrouded in unending controversy.
The backdrop to all the engaging scenery we’ve been commenting and clicking like, love, care, haha, wow, sad and sometimes angry on is plainly evil.
Most users are like me: They only want to stay in touch with friends near and far to know what’s happening in their lives — and reciprocate, and they consider Facebook a free, easy way to do that. They find so much to love about it. But in reality, there’s so much to hate.
Facebook’s mantra has always been about bringing the world closer together. Instead, it has fostered division, allowing the platform to be a cesspool of hate, misinformation, fake news, hoaxes and conspiracy theories (Holocaust denial and the like). Too many use it as a place to whip people into a lather on politics and social issues, transforming timelines from peaceful places where photos of babies, families, dogs and weddings reside into arenas for verbal fisticuffs.
Those who live to incite violence and fear and to spread lies have had a field day on the platform. And those who run Facebook — bringing in $86 billion in revenue in 2020 — along with Instagram (which I’m not on), haven’t taken enough steps to make it a safer, less hostile environment.
Some accuse Facebook of undermining democracy with its failures. I agree.
Many Facebook users get much of their news through the platform — I’m not talking links to legitimate journalism that I and others post — and much of it is false or misleading content from dubious sources.
Facebook has made various changes to its content policies and has banned inflammatory public figures including Alex Jones, David Duke and Louis Farrakhan over their hate speech. But the moves haven’t worked to rid the network of its most destructive elements and scrub it clean so the original intent will be all that’s left. Like in the Alien film series, getting this monster under control seems almost impossible.
There have been numerous lawsuits against Facebook as well as security breaches, one of the largest involving Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that illegally obtained the information of millions of users in 2018, which Facebook failed to disclose. Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections was linked in part to Facebook ads and accounts created to carry out the meddling.
Facebook posts have played a role in political uprisings and violence globally, and U.N. investigators blamed the platform for spreading hate speech that incited the Myanmar military’s genocide against the Muslim Rohingya minority. Two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for violations of user privacy, a record fine for a tech company. Chillingly, Facebook Live has been used to broadcast murders, suicides and other acts of violence. More recently, Facebook has been criticized for its role in perpetuating COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
These are just a fraction of the reasons I’ve finally made this decision. The prospect of losing immediate contact with so many loved ones and not being able to keep up with what and how they and their families are doing saddens me. But this is about doing the right thing.
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CunningCanuk
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I hear ya brother. Zero friends is one friend too many.
I never had a Facebook account. My wife has one to stay in touch with family and friends in California, so that’s understandable, I guess.
the buy and sell option is convenient though. I sold a set of winter tires last week. Put them up on Tuesday and Wednesday they were gone.
injinji
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My wife uses facebook a lot. But I make sure there is adblocker plus on her laptop and phone. And she knows what they are doing with her info and it's worth the trade-off for her. I've got an account, but it's been years since I logged on.
It is good to see what's the special at the diner and food truck.
DIY-HP-LED
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