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I used to live here. Then I moved. I came to visit a few times and found that you can never go home again. But now I'm leaving Facebook, which has been my home for about 19 years, and @arthwollipot suggested I come back, so here I am, giving it a try. On my mind is how to exist in a...

About as secure as the back of a pickup on the wrong side of the tracks in an unlit area of the town overnight.

I don't need hugs, I want information. I joined a support group looking for knowledge for one of my medical conditions. Crowd sourcing some prognosis among the members with the disease. But it seems anything besides "You Go Girl!!" type platitudes is seen as "misinformation". I think I hear...

Apple takes a swipe at Facebook and will cut into Zuckergerg's billions. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/ios-14-privacy-settings-will-tank-ad-targeting-business-facebook-warns/ :big:

After Coca Cola, Unilever and others withdraw all advertising from Facebook and Instagram, at a community meeting on Friday Zuckerberg announced that Facebook now "will hide or block content considered hateful or that could harm voting, with no exception for politicians." I guess all that pablum...

David Icke has been kicked off Facebook, apparently, after claiming that 5G mobile networks prevent people absorbing oxygen, Germany is legalizing rape for Moslems and the Jews started the coronavirus pandemic. I don't blame Facebook; while loss of freedom of speech is a bad thing, I don't think...

A few days ago, I noticed that I was no longer able to log in to Facebook. They said a security check was needed, and they would send me a "confirmation code" to my phone. Unfortunately, the phone number which was on my profile (and which they used) was no longer valid (it was the phone number...

Facebook blames 'technical issue' for offensive Xi Jinping translation You'll have to go to the link to read the actual word, but it's one that Donald Trump recently used to describe poor third-world countries, as in "******** countries."

From The Guardian: Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator Worth clicking through for the full article. It's pretty disturbing.

A freshman planning to attend Harvard (who is named as a minor in the article) was reportedly treated poorly by immigration officials. According to the article: The part that pisses me off the most as someone who believes in personal liberties: I don't like this practice, but the kid did it...

That scary feeling when Facebook shows you an ad from something you looked at elsewhere? "To help shed more light on these practices that are common yet not always well understood, today we’re introducing a new way to view and control your off-Facebook activity. Off-Facebook Activity lets you...

Facebook "aim to build a culture that explicitly protects and promotes civil rights on Facebook." Here's the second update from their Civil Rights Audit. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/06/second-update-civil-rights-audit/ They now ban posts from people who intend to bring weapons anywhere...

Watch Zuckerberg confess: “Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people’s stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures.” Except it's not him. Videos faking people out has moved ahead another step. What goes around comes around. The Zuckerberg...

Facebook has launched a public survey on how to improve oversight. Newsroom announcement: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/input-on-an-oversight-board/ The survey: https://facebook.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bOUlYqCh6jD7gI5 "In this consultation, we are actively seeking...

I'm trying to pinpoint why the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica has caused such a stir. From the first time I used Facebook, or even Google for that matter, the fine print warned me that people were gathering data about me - didn't it? In a trivial instance, I was trying to put together a few...

NB: Although there has been some discussion of Cambridge Analytica in the Trump thread, the company has also been implicated in Brexit campaigning, and thus spans both UK and US politics. BBC News: Cambridge Analytica offices searched over data storage "The London offices of Cambridge...

Just for fun, I visited the Facebook pages of various presidential candidates to see how many of my Facebook buddies publicly like them. Here are my results. I'm including the names of some of candidates who have dropped out. Some of the candidates have two official pages. I ordered the...

I am following a Facebook page and monitor the development of the number of "Likes" it has. For a while now, I have written down the number of likes every day around the time of my second coffee in the morning (so sample frequency wasn't exactly constant). I found that the number increases by...

First, something about Facebook. Some people's Facebook activity will also generate an email to me to go check out the site. I don't know why it happens with some people and not others. Anyway, my cousin keeps sharing links and I keep getting tons of email notifications. She's doing it like 20...

I'm looking into facebook ads and found this rather delicious little video that seems to show that FB advertising is a waste of money. Well done and definitely worth ten minutes of your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag :)

Investors seem to think so: Zuckerberg Loses $3 Billion in a Week as Tech Titans Fall Considering the Market Cap of Facebook is over $150 billion, it seems like a bit of an overreaction unless you think it's going to become a pattern for Facebook to fritter away its money on speculative...

So, I've been looking at cars lately. As most guys my age do, I assume. And Facebook started showing adverts for the new Skoda. No biggy. FB knows I'm a family guy in my early forties, and that I'm employed. I don't mind relevant advertising. However. Last week I wanted to buy some goodies...

Facebook does all in its power to avoid having to deal with its users in any actionable way. I am not a rabid frequenter of the site, but I do have an account, and I check in once every few days. Some time ago I joined a Facebook Group of employees and alumni of a company I used to work for...

Mitt Romney's Facebook page "Likes" have been falling noticeably. They've gone down by 500 in the past two hours. Currently he has 12,005,796 likes. Watch them fall!

JFYI - Those of you who make a lot of use of Facebook may be interested in the new Facebook analytics in WolframAlpha. Just go to WolframAlpha and type 'facebook report' for a comprehensive analysis of your Facebook data. It's not a great deal of use to me, but it should be interesting for...

I'm trying to disable "places" in Facebook. I've found several sites that describe how to do this, but when I go to my privacy settings I'm getting a different looking page without the options needed to do this. When I login to FB, and go to top of page by my user name, and click on the arrow...

Let me be the first to state: If you require a prospective employee to fork over his or her facebook ID and Password, you're a butt hole. But apparently that's exactly what's happening. There is NO good reason for asking for such information. Is this another example of real-life and...

Well, at least that seems to be the ultimate goal of the new social site that started today. According to the news articles I read their intention is not to get as much information as possible about you. They claim that you're the one that owns your uploaded and shared data - in contrast to the...

Facebook is beginning to creep me out. I'm sure some people naturally use it as their home page and the company wants to build it as THE Internet portal for searches, streaming video, digital downloads, shopping, etc. Someone mentioned that changes in the news feed were amplifying an...

So once again I have had people demanding I copy and paste their staus into facebook, because apparently FB is about to start charging. Not the end of the world if it happens, but is this a real conspiracy to crush down all us subscribers who have no choice but to suck it up (except for the...