If the product is free, you’re not the customer.
NOT shocked, I tell you!
I’ll be surprised if there is a Facebook by summer.
I use FB to keep in touch with friends and family, and as an alternative when FR goes down. (There’s a FR Page on FB.) I don’t do ANY politics on my own page and delete anything political that anyone else posts.
I know I’m being sold down the pike. They’ve sold me to Kohl’s and Zappos and a few other places. I totally understand it.
And ignore it. :)
Why is this horrifying or shocking? I never joined facebook precisely because I thought this was the very reason it existed.
- How big a fuss the media has made over Cambridge Analytica over the past few days
- How the MSM has insinuated some sort of plot between Trump and Cambridge Analytica to misuse our sacred personal data
- How Assange has reminded us that FB's Cheryl Sandberg offered HRC all the help she could provide
- How the media fawned over how clever and modern the Obama campaign was in its use of personal data analytics in 2012, one interesting and detailed example of which can be found here.
Just waiting for FB to fold up and wither away like some dried up leaf.
Earth calling Mark Zuckerberg....
Back to myspace.com! lol
It’s not just fake book that tracks you, they all do. If I look at an item on Amazon, then go to Drudge, an ad for that item appears magically.
This is shocking to people because???
The whole FB model is based on data mining and target marketing.
That’s why it’s free to sign up for FB.
I think a lot of people could see this coming from a mile away, back when Facebook became a “thing”.
This was not a “breach”.
This is how Facebook is supposed to work.
Whoa, whoa, whoa... You mean if you freely give you personal information to somebody on the internet, they may actually give your information to somebody else for $$$... That is astounding? Seriously astounding that anybody would be even the slightest be surprised by that fact.
How stupid can you be? Apparently if you’re a member of the news media... Pretty freaking stupid.
About 10 years ago I worked for a fortune 100 company who paid to NOT allow our employees to see facebook data. That company had a privacy policy that was extremely restrictive - WE could not know anything about a customer that the customer didn’t explicitly and knowingly provide to us (not just provided to facebook). Standard tools and reports from facebook partners showed all data, so we paid to have custom tools and reports that met our privacy standards.
Data was a huge part of facebook’s business then and the amount of data they tried to sell us 10 years ago was huge. I can only imagine how it is now and I’m sure they haven’t cut back on data collection or selling the data. As a public company, I think they should have to provide the same services to any customer (just like Christian bakers) and not just to liberal customers.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2546
I think this is a good reference on some inappropriate bias by Facebook trying to rig the presidential election.
We seriously need a more moderate or conservative channel for social media than Facebook as they have proven to be pretty extreme left. Any suggestions?
So that’s why the little turd is so rich. He sold his customers to the devil
Their data is skewed anyway. Everybody is richer, smarter, more intelligent, more exciting, more beautiful and more attractive than in reality.