Facebook is fucking shit -

[Lithop]

Facebook is the worst fucking piece of shit I have ever seen,They own so much fucking shit and they use it to spy on people and with facebook the app itself if you even ignore the spying facebook is fucking despressing and is just another way to shove advertising in your face.

Just a short rant.

 

[Maskull]

Thanks for sharing such hot controversial opinion. We super appreciate it.

 

[Zamzz]

I'm pretty sure the only people that still regularly use facebook are boomers considering 99% of everything that is posted there nowadays is boomer "humor".

 

[Yotsubaaa]

Welcome to the Farms, @Lithop!

And yeah, Facebook is awful. If you really want to blackpill yourself, there was that Facebook internal document leak a little while back:

Facebook fought to keep a trove of thousands of explosive internal documents and emails secret. They were just published online in full.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-internal-documents-executive-emails-published-six4three-court-leak-2019-11 Thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents were published on Wednesday, shedding new light on how the company profited from user data and grappled with rivals. The...

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We started going through the documents a little in that thread (and then got bored so we never made much headway, but whatever). Two of my favorite highlights from the pdf that we did get around to seeing were:

1. Facebook talking about a partnership with credit service Argus. See, Argus wants data on everyone, but they currently have to get the anonymized transaction data from the banks, and then work with another company to add back in the identifiers. It's all so tiresome. Surely Facebook can help them get straight at the user data they want without all that extra regulation hassle?

2. For a while, Facebook was recording and using their users' call record data without their knowledge, and only really stopped once their lawyers stepped in and told them to knock it off. Such a trustworthy company!

Merry Christmas!

 

[Dreamland]

With the mobile facebook page there's literally no need to install the app unless you use messenger (which has it's own app). Also use container tabs to prevent faceberg from tracking your browsing behaviour.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Who uses Facebook in this day and age except for old people and Hindus trying to see bobvagene

 

[Bad Headspace]

Welcome to the "tech industry". Convenience at the price of your privacy and even more access to your mind by the powers that be.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Darpa lifelog was ended on the same day as facebook was launched (though the wikipedia falsely states that it was ended in january rather than the beginning of february, even though the linked source says it happened in february)

 

[Pargon]

tenbux sez OP wrote their post using Chrome and thinks avoiding Facebook means they're not being spied on, datamined or advertised to.

 

[Jack O'Neill]

Such an understatement.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Facebook has it's place for people to read some (((approved))) blogs and be reminded that some friends and family are still alive and saying stupid shit. But everything except that is both pointless and potentially puts you on a wrongthink list.

 

[Slav Power]

The only reason I've made a Facebook account is because all my friends and family use that and only that and I would never fucking convince them to use something autistic like XMPP, just because I don't want to be spied on. I even registered with and abstract name, but later on Facebook blocked access to my account until I insert my real name and surname. Fuck Facebook.

 

[qu_rahn]

Facebook was alright from like 2006-2008. It's been a pozzed shadow of its former self for the past decade

 

[MissyR]

Facebook was alright from like 2006-2008. It's been a pozzed shadow of its former self for the past decade

Very much agreed

 

[Lithop]

facebook is not epic so cringy my daddy hit mommy pls help

 

[saralovesjuicyfruit]

I quit FB when they got rid of the trending column. That feature was so useful for "information war" purposes. You could easily compare the way different news outlets were writing about a particular story, and see what people were saying that you'd otherwise never be connected to. It was invaluable for propagandizing during the 2016 election, which is probably why they got rid of it. I had already lost interest in using FB for actually sharing my personal life a few years before that point, and most of the people on my friend list were people I hadn't seen in 5 or more years and had no intention of ever seeing again anyway, so the trending column was the only thing still making the site useful to me at all. Once that was out, so was I.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The people behind it even admitted they designed it to be addictive, despite knowing it would tear the fabric of society.

 

[אΩ+1]

I can think of a website that's even worse.
TWITTER

 

[Silver Chariot]

initially I quit because it fucking depressed me just to go onto facebook.

now I don't go on it because FB just sells your data to people anyway.

I quit FB when they got rid of the trending column. That feature was so useful for "information war" purposes. You could easily compare the way different news outlets were writing about a particular story, and see what people were saying that you'd otherwise never be connected to. It was invaluable for propagandizing during the 2016 election, which is probably why they got rid of it. I had already lost interest in using FB for actually sharing my personal life a few years before that point, and most of the people on my friend list were people I hadn't seen in 5 or more years and had no intention of ever seeing again anyway, so the trending column was the only thing still making the site useful to me at all. Once that was out, so was I.

I learned about that in a documentary called "The Great Hack". Company called Cambridge Analytica bought data from FB in order to influence people to the Trump campaign. Pretty good doc for the hour drive I had to do one time

 

[robot-99]

Oh, there is a Facebook personality I´d like to comment on here, but I am not sure if opening a thread about a FB "personality" is viable here. He has kind of a cult, lives in NY under an alias, pretends to lead a life he doesn´t have and so much shit.

I can think of a website that's even worse.
TWITTER

Totally. Like dumb and dumber (being Twitter the second one).

The people behind it even admitted they designed it to be addictive, despite knowing it would tear the fabric of society.

With that new colors and overall appearance it looks like a cheap app.