Posted on 01/16/2018 2:18:59 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
With more than 2 billion users, Facebook's reach now rivals that of Christianity and exceeds that of Islam. However, the network's laser focus on profits and user growth has come at the expense of its users, according to one former Facebook manager who is now speaking out against the social platform.
"One of the things that I saw consistently as part of my job was the company just continuously prioritized user growth and making money over protecting users," the ex-manager, Sandy Parakilas, who worked at Facebook for 16 months, starting in 2011, told NBC News. During his tenure at Facebook, Parakilas led third-party advertising, privacy and policy compliance on Facebook's app platform.
"Facebook is a living, breathing crime scene for what happened in the 2016 election — and only they have full access to what happened," said Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google. His work centers on how technology can ethically steer the thoughts and actions of the masses on social media and he's been called "the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience" by The Atlantic magazine.
It's not just your name and age. Facebook can also track your likes, the content you write, your purchases and your location.
McNamee said the formula simply isn't good for democracy.
"All the content is stuff that you like, right? It's what they think you like. But what it really is, is stuff that serves their business model and their profits," he said. "And making you angry, making you afraid, is really good for Facebook's business. It is not good for America. It's not good for the users of Facebook."
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Totally agree. Like blaming guns for a shooting instead of the perp.
Having said that, I’ve never used Fakebook nor do I intend to.
Actually, it was quote only 30@ or 1/3!
Facebook cited in a third of all divorce cases: ‘It’s like having a massive ...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/.../facebook-cited-in-a-third-of-all-divorce-cases-its...
Jan 21, 2015 - Facebook is now cited in about a third of all divorce cases, researchers said. ... “The sharing of written posts and pictures, often with geo-tagging, provides a record of activities that can be used in a court case.” Frequently, warring parties in divorce cases now turn to Facebook as a truth teller of claims, she ...
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More than a third of divorce filings contain the word Facebook | New ...
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May 21, 2012 - More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word Facebook, according to a survey by Divorce Online, a UK-based legal services firm. And over 80 ... “I see Facebook issues breaking up marriages all the time,” says Gary Traystman, a divorce attorney in New London, Conn. Of the 15 cases he ...
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What is Facebook Doing to Your Relationship Status? - ABC News
abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-relationship-status/story?id=16406245
May 24, 2012 - A third of all divorce filings in 2011 contained the word “Facebook,” and more than 80 percent of U.S. divorce attorneys say social networking in divorce ... Although most of Gershon’s research involved college students, she interviewed older and now-divorced adults who were often stuck in cycles of making ...
I use it. I just don’t put anything on it I wouldn’t put on the nearest billboard. It’s a useful communication platform, and a decent gaming site.
I’d be very careful about having an account there. I’ve never opened one, I sensed it was trouble.
What an overblown lead.
On FB, I post regularly just to let the relatives know I’m still breathing.
Smart. I don’t either. I email, call or write people. FB is just so creepy. At this point when someone gets fired for their moronic post I have no sympathy.
Facebook is for women to share stuff with their girlfriends and look at what their families are doing on vacation
Nothing more
Apparently Instagram is for the preteen and teenage as I’m learning from my very adept 10-year-old who knows more about my iPhone than I do
My two cents it’s stupid and boring
Cheers Boring
Really? Since months before the election, I've avoided Facebook like the plague. I think I've logged on to Facebook no more than a dozen times in more than a year. I got tired of all the "Trump is dumb," "Trump is evil," "Trump is a 'doo-doo head,'" idiocy, and I wasn't a Trump supporter until he won the nomination, because he wasn't the criminal running as a woman demonRAT. It wasn't because of "social media" that I voted for President Trump.
Much to my surprise, President Trumps has been keeping his promises, something I'd figured was gone forever. I've become a POTUS Trump supporter, only partly due to the media attacks. I LOVE what POTUS Trump is doing, both with his policies, AND with the way he has the propaganda wing of the Communist Party USA (AKA demonRATS) blowing gaskets on an almost hourly basis.
Mark
*** “I closed and deleted my FB last June and have never missed it..............” ***
How did you get out? I left years ago and get facebook please come back your friends miss you emails to this day....
It is like a Cult that you can’t leave.
*** “President Trumps has been keeping his promises” ***
This is what the Establishment Swamp Fears and Detests the most ... for so many years they all said it couldn’t be done, just Vote for me again and I’ll have Seniority... ETC ETC ETC rinse and repeat and THEN this Outsider comes in and just DOES IT, like it is as easy as breathing and doesn’t give a Rip.
I really Loved Ronald Reagan and always will, but I am so just JAZZED and Excited about what Trump has done and can do...
I deleted EVERY post back to the beginning, edited the personal info to delete or obfuscate or fake everything.
Then went thru the ‘Quit FB’ line of questioning and was told my info would be saved for two weeks, in case
I changed my mind, but I suspect it is still there, somewhere, since they lie about everything.
They don’t have my real e-mail address, since I changed it on the way out, so they can’t call me back.
Here’s a tip: Go to Microsoft Outlook or Google and create a e-mail account that you will never use for e-mail to anybody you know. Use it only for signing up or use for fake info when necessary. Their software can immediately detect a false e-mail address, so this will get you past that part............
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