I use the fb paper app instead of their main app. I like the way it works and it has messenger in it. But I feel like they'll get rid of it sometime soon. It hasn't been updated in a while.
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Facebook Forcing Users to Install 'Moments' App to Retain Synced Photos
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I think it's embarrassing how much you hate Facebook. I usually find that people who hate Facebook believe all users operate it the same way. I use it. I use it to keep in touch with my family since moving away, I follow groups that upload old photos of the place I grew up, I use it follow newsfeeds in one convenient cross-platform service, I use it to quickly share project files with friends. I don't use it to play games, I don't use it to argue on political pages, I don't use it to view cat photos. But most importantly I don't begrudge people who do those things. Because I understand some people love it, that some people need it because of disabilities or social problems, and I'm not the gatekeeper of fun.
I've connected with random people on it who grew my business. So who would have thought you can do such varied things on such a platform.
Now it's not perfect but it's just a site for connecting people and that will continue to evolve. Just like Macrumors, how nice it used to be in the old days (and I met people back then who I contracted).
Hilarious that you think Facebook is free. They may not charge you to use the service, but you're not getting it for free. Just paying them with information instead of cash.
Although statistical probability prevents the following scenario from ever happening, it would still be wonderful if it happened nonetheless.
On a given Monday, every person in the world deletes their Facebook account.
Bankrupt them before lunch.
On a given Monday, every person in the world deletes their Facebook account.
Bankrupt them before lunch.
I think what happened is they ended up with a few dozen petabytes of people's photos from folks who turned on the sync feature but never really used it, and they're using this as a convenient excuse to delete some of that data.
Think about how many people are on Facebook, how many photos people take, and how many people probably turned on this feature. That's a CRAPTON of data. Just from pure attrition due to most people not installing "Moments" they're going to free up a lot of space.
Think about how many people are on Facebook, how many photos people take, and how many people probably turned on this feature. That's a CRAPTON of data. Just from pure attrition due to most people not installing "Moments" they're going to free up a lot of space.
Love this post. We should be friends. I quit FB in 2010 because it was taking up too much of my life and I was creeped out by them. Now I've got a kid and yeah, what you said.
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This is what happens when you get what you pay for. I'll just be over here with my Dropbox and iCloud, spending 37 cents per day for 1TB of space for anything I want and 200GB of iCloud for backups and syncing every photo and video I've taken with my iPhone for the better part of the last decade.
Seems like the condescending parts are really in the "People still use crapbook?" and "I don't use that crap" type of posts that are there to show show others how "enlightened" those posters must be and how "simpleton" the others are.
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The messages one makes a fair amount of sense even if it might be more convenient for some to do it all in one app. Basically Facebook messenger has been getting used more and more as a separate messaging service by many where they would just mostly talk to people using it (similar to using Hangouts or Viber or something else of that nature) and wouldn't care much about the other aspects of Facebook like making status updates or reading what others are sharing.
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It seems for most people the information that they provide isn't anything that they really care about or find "tangible" essentially, so for them, they aren't really giving up anything that they would miss or that has value to them.
Wait until she start growing, starts dancing and playing sports. You want to show those photos off to everyone even the person you don't know. You will know the feeling when other people starts liking your photos. ROFL!
You do realize that most of the people here who say they never use FB are full of ****, right?
Try deleting something from facebook, you're busy for days.
This is THE perfect way to finally get rid of that content, WHOO..
This is THE perfect way to finally get rid of that content, WHOO..
Sounds like the issue is on the side of people.
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Because people can't have both somehow?
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Seems like having a separate messenger app would work against that actually.You must be new to the Internet. Welcome! Glad to have you on board
Internet Lesson #1 - Facebook isn’t free.
The product being sold is you.
Here’s one article about it and you’ll find dozens or hundreds more with a simple Google search.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/doug-rushkoff-hello-etsy
The more time you spend on Facebook, the more ads they can serve up to you. Why do you think they want you to IM other people so much? So you have to come back and look at the responses. And get ads served at you.
i use facebook to connect with Luddite friends and family. i don't share everything i do, everywhere i go and i certainly don't sync all of my photos. the kind of person that would sync all of their photos is the person that comes up to you at work and says "i dropped my phone in the ocean, how do i get my pictures back?" and present a blank expression when i ask what they were doing to back everything up.
When you log in using FB, they save your information on said website. It's just that they gather them from Facebook instead of directly asking you to input them in a form
They don't save the facebook password which is what is importantWhen you log in using FB, they save your information on said website. It's just that they gather them from Facebook instead of directly asking you to input them in a form
Everything else personal of mine is set to private already so besides my profile pic and my name there isn't anything else they can grab. Its better to have websites log in through facebook than creating a password for each of them whenever possible.
I'm 39 bro.
My eldest is 17.
NO. I do not seek validation from strangers checking out my kids; glad it makes you happy. I find that creepy & weird.
Handing over that personal information is not a cost to me. Just because it helps them doesn't mean it hurts me. The ads? I block that s***. The only cost is time, I guess, and I spend more time on MacRumors.
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Well, do the same thing for other sites you visit, like MacRumors. Facebook is just another forum to me, and it does help in ways. I'm in college, and people in college send invitations through Facebook, so if I didn't use it to check for stuff, I'd be missing out. Definitely MacRumors is the time-waster for me. I go here when I'm bored / waiting for a process to finish.
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It is Zucks vision - make millions. He succeeded.
[doublepost=1465700822][/doublepost]Facebook was partly funded by the CIA's investment arm. It's just a honeypot for the surveillance society.
Do you have a source for "Facebook was partly funded by the CIA's investment arm."
If only that was true, Facebook has a long history to tracking non users too.
You only need ONE Facebook user to post a photo with your name on it and Facebook will then use facial recognition to trace you on every photo they can. From this they can figure out everything about you. Your age, Race, Religion, political affiliation, friends, residential address, income bracket, etc etc etc etc etc.
Wow such a witty comment. Must be awesome to be that cool
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Would you like a cookie?
How do I get this free version? The one I use harvests my personal content and bombard me with ads. Your free, no reason to complain account sounds much better.
Just because something is free it doesn't mean that you have to like it. And if you don't like it, surely there is something you find not so pleasant about it, so when you talk about it it comes as complain. Something like Facebook have the potential to be great, but it seems to go on a wrong path. That's why people complain.