After years of Facebook leaking, selling, & sharing people's data - or manipulating user feeds to play with their emotions like ginny pigs, I'm surprised so many people still use any of Facebook's products.
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Facebook Messenger Limits Message Forwarding to Cut Spread of Misinformation
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Facebook? deleted that crap years ago. good riddance. dont miss it.
The ability to think critically and for yourself should be a goal of education. Sad when it doesn’t happen.
I too live in America...
*keeps reading*
Oh we haven’t gotten there yet. If anything knowing the vocal 40% of our country, we would block legitimate news first before blocking fake news.
Delete your Facebook account. I did it years ago and don’t regret it at all.
A terrible service, run by a greedy crook who has violated user privacy over and over and over again.
Delete your account and be rid of it.
A terrible service, run by a greedy crook who has violated user privacy over and over and over again.
Delete your account and be rid of it.
Good, I hate all those forwarded messages. People believe them and to me, it's just stupid.
If they’re excitedly copying and pasting “information” to all their friends because someone told them to, they’re not a victim, they’re part of the problem.
And your immediate family communicates via Facebook Messenger? Weird.
And you do so with a series of individual conversations, endlessly forwarding things from one family member to another, rather than just posting it in a family group chat? How inefficient.
A better solution would be for Apple to ban all facebook apps, and block it from being loaded in web browsers. All in favor?
Why in the world would anyone still even USE facebook? There's a myriad of other social media sites that actually give a crap about your privacy and respect you enough to let you do as you please.
If it's medical advice... and it's on Facebook... it's misleading. Go talk to your doctor if you want medical advice.
Banning Facebook app is fine, but I disagree about banning any websites, no matter how you dislike those websites, from a web browser. That's a really slippery slope.
Posted in a private group a few days ago, pointing out that Facebook is censoring certain kinds of information. The post was censored of course, and I got a warning.
Agreed ... it's kinda sick really.
Think about you having an arranged marriage coming up, and you're doing anything you can to avoid it. Yet the other family threatens to do something like this to you ... a simple message sent to the right people and your life is over. I'm not saying anything about arranged marriages, just it's serious enough to really push into and we've seen men returning home being forced under weapons to have a marriage (Google employee had this happen to him just in 2018 was all over the internet).
I really sincerely hope many people there realize the gravity of how serious this is and stay away from initial unproven belief of just a message and let authorities do their investigation and courts to go through evidence to prove guilt/wrong doing.
Wow, if you wanted to prevent that someone gets hold of something really wrong happening, then this is the way to go.
Well executed. Use an incident like in India to portray the problem, then offer a solution. Use the same solution to limit the spread of things that you are planning to do.
The internet and in particular, social media give the power to the people to make people around the world aware of what is going on elsewhere so that more upset can actually lead to changing a situation. This ability is now gone.
Oh boy, I am not looking forward to what is coming next.
Well executed. Use an incident like in India to portray the problem, then offer a solution. Use the same solution to limit the spread of things that you are planning to do.
The internet and in particular, social media give the power to the people to make people around the world aware of what is going on elsewhere so that more upset can actually lead to changing a situation. This ability is now gone.
Oh boy, I am not looking forward to what is coming next.
5 people or groups at a time. You can still use that thingy to send your world changing news or cooking recipes, and the internet hasn’t seized to exist either.
Its the advertisers’ boycott that is the biggest threat to them, they don’t have the subscriber fees other companies in similar circumstances have had.