Had Enough Of Facebook’s Duplicity And Incompetence? - Comments Page 3

I have avoided Fecebook Whoops! That was a real typo but just too good to correct. Anyway I've never signed up to it and am certainly now vindicated. All along I have been waiting for http://arsebook.co.uk to launch and possibly the window of opportunity has duly arrived.

I would highly recommend Trumping Democracy, a one hour documentary outlining the history of Robert Mercer, Cambridge Analytica, and Face Book.

Funny how all this is suddenly a problem now that Trump- and Brexit-supporting group(s) were found to be doing it. When Obama- and Clinton-supporting grous did it, in the 2008 through 2016 campaign seasons, the descriptions used were "clever", "tech-savvy", "innovative", and suchlike. If 'progressives' didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.

Why do we need even more government intrusion in our lives? Facebook is voluntary! You are not required to use Facebook nor to make the info you share accurate. We don't need yet another government bureaucracy created to "protect" us.

James Horn mentioned Ma Bell. 1st class mail went from .03 to .25 during the same time long distance calls went from $2.50 to .25 so the Justice Department attacked the Bell system.

Since we obviously can not do much about the companies harvesting our data, then we the people need to be paid a royalty on that data.

Tho as fat lazy Facebook Reading Amazon shopping Google-rs on Bing we will not get off our lazy asses and get the fat lazy tech lobbied congress make it so.

We have best representation their money can buy. Doesn't matter if its Democrats or Republicans.

Welcome to the money talks American way

If I didn't have Facebook I wouldn't know what my family in another state were up to or my friends overseas. It has been a blessing (most of the time). I could do without the MISINFORMATION POSTS which I keep reporting. If it was that easy to cure cancer then I wouldn't have had that operation.
In Australia we have a new boy on the block called NABO which is primarily to connect neighbours. It is great. We can sell on it, warn of robberies, advertise events. Check it out Aussies.

Probably not everybody knows that our privacy laws aren't strong and Homeland Security isn't interested to make them stronger at all.
The Europeans are much more tough.
Best is to leave FB and look for options located in Europe and of course not sharing everything.
I never had a FB account because these guys don't respect what I want and that's a no no.
If you really need social media look for smaller companies and don't store to much there.

Too many well-meaning defenders of Facebook resort to the myth that people with special concerns (disease, political oppression, LGBT issues, unusual hobbies, etc.) need social media like Facebook to connect with each other. In reality, these platforms are not the only way to do that. A simple Internet search can easily help people find others like themselves. The search results will include existing websites, support groups, and especially forums, where their special interest is discussed (anonymously when necessary) and relevant material can be posted. To say that Facebook needs to know about it and be at the center of everything is a little like saying you can no longer suffer the inconvenience of gathering what you need to make a simple meal at home - you must now always eat at a restaurant.

But the problem, of course, is that social media is involved not just with what you had for lunch today, but also everything else about you (and every one of your "friends"). You are their product, whether you can see what these unnecessary and invasive middlemen are collecting and selling, or not. Meanwhile, let's not let this topic be yet another excuse to make distracting political rants based on false equivalencies and imagined motivations. Yes, when someone games the system and uses big data to manipulate a gullible electorate, it's extremely consequential. But it's only one example of the ethical problems with Facebook's business model.

I find myself intrigued by how this Facebook scandal was once praised for being the new face of Presidential campaigns and now it is a bad thing because it was used by the Trump campaign. I pieced some information from the past together to demonstrate this duplicity.
There was no privacy outcry when Barack Obama's 2012 campaign took advantage of an API to ex filtrate information of tens of millions of Facebook users without each voter's knowledge and consent. The Obama campaign started with a list that grew to a million people who had signed into the campaign Web site through Facebook.
When people opted to do so, they were met with a prompt asking to grant the campaign permission to scan their Facebook friends lists, their photos and other personal information. In another prompt, the campaign asked for access to the users’ Facebook news feeds.Once permission was granted, the campaign had access to millions of names and faces they could match against their lists of persuadable voters. Carol Davidsen, director of Integration and Media Analytics for Obama for America was collecting this data. Once she had it, she could find potential donors, and was able to find unregistered voters. Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, happily turned all of that over to Obama,
Carol Davidson called herself responsible for "The Optimizer" and "Narwal."She added on Linkedin: "Narwhal was a real time scalable data integration and campaign API platform that fused together facts gathered about multiple identities into a single unified profile available to every arm of the campaign."
Time.com's report immediately after the election was laudatory. Extracting data from Facebook, it said, "will transform the way campaigns are conducted in the future." It concluded, presciently, that by 2016 the Obama campaign's approach "is almost certain to be the norm."

Man!! That Donald Trump has got to be the most powerful force in the universe, while at the same time being the biggest villain. Kinda sound like Déjà vu with George Bush?

First it was Russia, and now Facebook. The claim is that it was a complicated web of relationships that tied Trump to this Facebook thing.

When will the dems give it up and admit their defeat?