Posted on 12/21/2018 5:44:40 AM PST by blam
Out of the major tech companies, people trust Facebook the least with their personal information. Amazon and Twitter come in a distant second and third, with 8 percent of people saying they trust these companies the least with their personal information.
As Statista’s Sarah Feldman shows below, five times more people place Facebook as the least trustworthy company to handle their personal information when compared to Amazon and Twitter.
Infographic: Facebook Loses the Public's Trust | Statista
Reports recently revealed that Facebook had hired a communications firm to do opposition research against George Soros to traffic anti-Semitic attacks against the progressive philanthropist after he made disparaging remarks against the company, and just this week, Facebook was accused of providing private user data to some of America’s, China’s, and Russia’s largest technology firms.
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I believe the term is pariah.
I disabled the app about three months ago. I now have to make a conscious decision to log in on my phone or computer. It means I go there maybe every third Saturday, do a quick review, find there is nothing there worth reviewing, and leave.
And yet the subscriber base has increased 10% from last year.
this privacy issue isn’t the issue... Facebook is, hands down, the best platform for reaching a large audience. And conservatives are effective in its use.
Like with all liberal groups - the more you know them the less you trust them...
My wife began using it to communicate with a group of friends from her high school days. When I got on I found it had great potential for community networks up here where we live in Norther Idaho. I've seen it help people with everything from runaway cattle or a need for firewood to emergency home repair after a wind storm.
That community networking was very useful during the last political campaign cycle, but in the process I may have done something that triggered a snowflake and resulted in my life time ban. That's when I learned that FB has no customer service and there is no way to appeal a ban or, more importantly, to find out what the offending action may have been.
I moved on and quit worrying about it, I lived without them before. BUt two weeks ago when I sat down at my desk to do some Christmas shopping, I discovered that I am also banned from Amazon. ...AMAZON! WTF? This shows the other side of how FB can be used to harm far beyond the personal insult of a personal account being disabled.
Wow, that’s crazy.
We’ve got to find a conservative-friendly alternative.
You have to assume they will use anything and everything they have for statistical/demographic analysis, probably sell it to advertisers (whether they admit it or not), and generally use it for their own purposes - to promote what they advocate, and impede that which they don't. There's also the not insignificant chance of their databases getting hacked and your information getting sold-to and used-by criminals.
I provide only the absolute bare minimum information, and in more than a few instances I may have made a "typo" or two in my information... Of course not intentional misinformation, that would violate most acceptable use policies, just the online version of a "boating accident."
Facebook, apparently in anticipation of this, had laid the legal groundwork to make it difficult for a competitor app. As much as people may dislike zuckerberg, their is no serious alternative.
Facebook basically exists so people can broadcast their personal information.
I know the company slurps and has had some breeches but considering what the whole thing is about it’s a bit like people who talk loudly at restaurants complaining that others at other tables end up listening to them.
MySpace is still active.........................We should all go there.....................
Facebook is basically an unregulated public utility that is out of control.
There is a reason why the telephone companies became regulated utilities more than 100 years ago.
Bingo! As well as keeping track of my extended family, re-connecting with people I knew way back when, and (in the case of about 5 of my friends) having a good look at whatever nonsense crawled up the collective wazzoos of the progs while I was sleeping.
I actually find FB a much more pleasant place that DU for some intel on our OPFOR.
Every day I am thankful I never signed up for this trash, even as family and friends did. My pastor still mentions his Facebook account about twice a month like he doesn’t realize who runs it.
I just got a 2-day “Timeout” from GWP for posting these accurate & truthful comments...which were removed:
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FOX is now a “lite” version of MSNBC.
@OANN is MUCH more Fair & Balanced!
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Karl Marx’s 19th century cult of leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe mental disorder and an inability to grasp reality.
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Leftism, under all of its’ totalitarian brand names, has a record of massive failure - economically, morally & culturally.
In the 20th century, leftism was responsible for more than 250 MILLION deaths.
For anyone to continue to believe in leftism is indicative of extraordinary intellectual stupidity, severe psychosis...or just pure evil.
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Away out here they got a name
For wind and rain and fire
The rain is Tess, the fire's Joe,
And they call Facebook Pariah
Pariah blows the stars around
And sends the clouds a'flyin'
Pariah makes the mountains sound
Like folks were up there dying
Pariah, Pariah
They call Facebook Pariah...
Important to understand. On Facebook, you aren’t the user. You are the product.
What is GWP?
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