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Facebook decides which posts are ‘interesting’ to you
The Daily Caller ^ | 9/21/11 | Jordan Bloom

Posted on 09/21/2011 12:32:51 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

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I wonder how many anti-Obama posts will be deemed "uninteresting" by the powers-that-be at Facebook?
1 posted on 09/21/2011 12:32:56 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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I don't get Facebook at all... Actually it gives me the creeps because it is the most unnatural “Web service” I have ever seen. Why would you want, at the same time, talk to your best friend, your sister, your mother, your boss, your old classmates...

It's like having a party with mismatched guests.... I hope that in ten years we will say: “What was that all about?”...

2 posted on 09/21/2011 12:39:18 PM PDT by ToxicMich (PLEASE LEAVE THIS SPACE BLANK)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I’ve been watching it today. Anything on the Right or critical of the Left seems to somehow end up as an also-ran, even if I have the author marked as important.


3 posted on 09/21/2011 12:39:18 PM PDT by Ingtar (Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
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To: ToxicMich

Facebook is not for everyone.

But I love it, as do millions of others.


4 posted on 09/21/2011 12:41:15 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

If anyone using Facebook thinks they are ‘anonymous’, they should go and type their last name here:

http://youropenbook.org/?q=&gender=any


5 posted on 09/21/2011 12:41:43 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Bigh4u2

I should also add that nothing is ‘private’ no matter what Facebook tells you,.


6 posted on 09/21/2011 12:42:21 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

It’s just a tool to me. As long as it retains some useful aspects and allows me to talk to the people I want to talk to, I’ll use it and tune out the dross.


7 posted on 09/21/2011 12:43:17 PM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I have to admit that I have a FB page for keeping track of misc relatives. I keep it pretty content free and avoid clicking on the ads and other clutter.

For my real social networking a number of friends and I use other networks that have no cloud storage and use strong encryption for message traffic. The problem is that Facebook is popular and easy and people overlook the fact that FB is monitoring you for salable marketing data.

The video here is an interesting and concise statement on Facebook: “Why Mark Zuckerberg is Bad for the Human Race.” It’s only 3 minutes long.

http://www.internetevolution.com/video.asp?section_id=1361&doc_id=230795


8 posted on 09/21/2011 12:43:34 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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“I should also add that nothing is ‘private’ no matter what Facebook tells you,.’

No, and that’s why only fools put all their personal info out there.

Nevertheless, it is an AWESOME way to get the truth out about the lying liberals (via posting conservative articles and comments).

It is a GREAT counterpunch to the lying leftist media.

I suspect this may be a move to “change” that prior to the 2012 elections.


9 posted on 09/21/2011 12:44:59 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: ToxicMich

You can control that with groups. Of course at my age most of my friends are current and past co-workers (including bosses) any way, so all my parties are “mismatched”.


10 posted on 09/21/2011 12:46:08 PM PDT by discostu (yeah that's it)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I don’t like the new setup.


11 posted on 09/21/2011 12:46:15 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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>>It’s just a tool to me. As long as it retains some useful aspects and allows me to talk to the people I want to talk to, I’ll use it and tune out the dross.<<

The problem is, it is Facebook who is determining which of your friends you hear from, and which friends are “uninteresting” to you.


12 posted on 09/21/2011 12:47:26 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears; Xenalyte; TheMom; El Gato

13 posted on 09/21/2011 12:48:12 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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“I don’t get Facebook at all”

Me neither. To me it’s basically just the “CB radio” of the new millenium.


14 posted on 09/21/2011 12:49:55 PM PDT by Pessimist
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To: Bigh4u2
If anyone using Facebook thinks they are ‘anonymous’, they should go and type their last name here: http://youropenbook.org/?q=&gender=any

I must still be anonymous. Tons of posts returned, but not a single one from me or about me.

15 posted on 09/21/2011 12:51:29 PM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
I had no idea just how far to the left some of my friends were until they started posting on Facebook.

I had no idea how intolerant of my views some of my friends were until I started responding to their posts.

16 posted on 09/21/2011 12:52:03 PM PDT by GSWarrior (To activate this tagline please contact the Admin Moderator.)
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To: Allegra

Haha, exactly.

Look at all the hostile feedback on Facebook’s own blog.

Whether or not people “get” Facebook, millions DO, and this was a STUPID business move.

https://blog.facebook.com/


17 posted on 09/21/2011 12:52:33 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: Bigh4u2

I typed my last name into that website and all I got was a bunch of people I didn’t know misspelling a common word the same as my last name!


18 posted on 09/21/2011 12:56:46 PM PDT by Dizzy Lizzy
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Reason number 73 why I’ve built a wall between myself and Facebook.

Facebook: You can sign up but you can never leave.


19 posted on 09/21/2011 12:59:58 PM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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I don’t show up at all, common last names are nice, even my phone number is anonymous while being listed.


20 posted on 09/21/2011 1:00:45 PM PDT by discostu (yeah that's it)
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