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I have a Words with Friends account. They give users a choice, a video ad after each move or pay a one time fee of $10 to eliminate all ads, going forward.
I've never had a facebook account and probably never will. I'm feeling pretty smug about that these days
I created one when many forums required a secondary source of ID, so to speak. It's a serious waste of time unless you like crap from people you barely know sent to you because their lives suck. I'm stuck in a blizzard, here's some memes you've seen 50 times already. What's the dumbest one, candy crush. I still don't know what it is but see that stupid invite still when my redirect logon takes me there.
Same for me. Why would someone want to publish the intimate details of their life for all the world to see?
There was a time not too long ago when Facebook privacy settings allowed you to permit only friends to see that you even had a profile at all.
Not anymore.
Facebook keeps moving the bar more and more to their benefit at the expense of your privacy expectations.
Now, even if you have your privacy settings set as strict as possible, anyone who searches your name can see that you have an account, your profile pic and some basic info.
And if you're not savvy enough to keep up with Facebook's ever changing parameters and privacy settings, you may be allowing a lot more of your information out there to anyone who cares to look than you think you are.
You see that aspect, others see them as a germinating ground for the likes of Cambridge Analytica and other fake news that helped put Trump in office.
I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm not saying you are right. My guess is that their "agenda" is to make money. Everything else is just a byproduct.
I agree to a point. However, their owners, management, and employees are by far Progressive with a radical, leftist agenda. So far this has coincided with their success, as many people that aren't progressive, or political at all have been duped, and continue to be exploited. Often, unknowingly.
Facebook is a wasteland full of people's opinion, both left and right, that I don't care a nickel about; as opposed to this forum in which I care very deeply how its members think and very much value their opinions.
I agree to a point. However, their owners, management, and employees are by far Progressive with a radical, leftist agenda. So far this has coincided with their success, as many people that aren't progressive, or political at all have been duped, and continue to be exploited. Often, unknowingly.
At 2017 year end, FB had 2.2 billion active users.
None of them were forced to use it.
At 2017 year end, FB employed more than 25,000 people compared to 150 employees in 2006. No telling the ideology each employee.
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I agree to a point. However, their owners, management, and employees are by far Progressive with a radical, leftist agenda. So far this has coincided with their success, as many people that aren't progressive, or political at all have been duped, and continue to be exploited. Often, unknowingly.
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I also now found that Facebook removed a post from my page that was a news article of a NFL player whoburned the American flag in the locker room and it was removed but facebook as it was considered hate speech.
So burning a flag in a locker room is allowed but posting a news article from one of the major news papers is hate speech according to Facebook.
FB, like other media, makes use of technology to identify photo-shopped content. The news article you mention used a photoshopped picture to tell its fake news story.
Facebook is a wasteland full of people's opinion, both left and right, that I don't care a nickel about; as opposed to this forum in which I care very deeply how its members think and very much value their opinions.
Really? Not me.
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I've never had a facebook account and probably never will. I'm feeling pretty smug about that these days
