Posted on 08/30/2016 4:28:10 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
I’ve been creeped out by Facebook for a long time now. The following story takes it to another level.
From Fusion:
While some of these incredibly accurate friend suggestions are amusing, others are alarming, such as this story from Lisa*, a psychiatrist who is an infrequent Facebook user, mostly signing in to RSVP for events. Last summer, she noticed that the social network had started recommending her patients as friends—and she had no idea why.
“I haven’t shared my email or phone contacts with Facebook,” she told me over the phone.
The next week, things got weirder.
Most of her patients are senior citizens or people with serious health or developmental issues, but she has one outlier: a 30-something snowboarder. Usually, Facebook would recommend he friend people his own age, who snowboard and jump out of planes. But Lisa told me that he had started seeing older and infirm people, such as a 70-year-old gentleman with a walker and someone with cerebral palsy.
“He laughed and said, ‘I don’t know any of these people who showed up on my list— I’m guessing they see you,’” recounted Lisa. “He showed me the list of friend recommendations, and I recognized some of my patients.”
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Leave Facebook. Zuckerberg is a disgusting human being and I can see no reason to patronize his business.
Screw Facebook.
Me I don’t get any off this crap and don’t subscribe.
I have 3 sibs all within the same age group of the mid late 40’s and they do..
???
I’ll give a short form of what I usually say about Facebook: delete your accounts and avoid their vile stealing of your identity!!!!
Zuckerberg and Sandberg are creeps! Period!!!!
I de-activated my FB account 8 years ago because of this sort of crap!
Zuckerberg took his company public literally the DAY BEFORE his marriage, why..?
Cuz Calif is a community-property state.
The way he did it, all his Facebook stock is HIS OWN in case he gets divorced.
Romantic, huh..?
There is almost NO ONE important in his life whom he has not eventually ended up betraying.
Blog pimp.
Why is it that when I see Zuckerberg and think of Facebook, I think of the Matrix and Skynet?
How do you get off facebook? Seriously. I want off.
Some of us make some decent cash off it.
FB is both insidious and incredibly efficient.
You may want to check. You’re probably still there.
No, it is location.
I have a practice, and just started seeing my clients on FB within the month.
It is GPS that is telling the world where they are.
Good luck to you.
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What kind of psychiatrist would want to “ friend” their patients on Facebook?
Or vice versa,
Seriously?
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Please keep in mimd that Skynet was ultimately defeated. Saw the movie.
Got a little misty at the end.
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