Sunday, April 8, 2018

We Are Facebook's Product

Facebook makes money by sucking as much data from your profile and your actions as possible. There is no reason to believe the company will stop doing that until it is compelled to.

Imagine a stranger walking up to you on the street and saying: “If you give me your personal information and that of your friends and family, I’ll tell you which character from Harry Potter you are.” What sounds like a ridiculous proposition is, in a nutshell, the business model of Facebook.

You can read the rest @
https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/04/08/to-facebook-youre-not-the-customer-youre-the-product/

At present we are NOT on a path which will compel them to do anything different.

How long are we going to remain FB's "dumb f-cks"? If we listen to this dumbass, perhaps forever:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-walker-perils-of-private-censorship-20180408-story.html

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