Facebook, Google, et al

[ousdahl]

It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opin ... rberg.html

(Penned by Chris Hughes, one of facebook’s founders)

[pdub]

Something needs to be done.
They are buying up any and all competition or using legal might ( $$$ ) to squash any reasonable alternatives.
And they know/collect/possess all the data about you.

[ousdahl]

yeah.

the article is actually a pretty good case study in how markets work.

This was an interesting bit on dat dam gummint regulation:

We don’t expect calcified rules or voluntary commissions to work to regulate drug companies, health care companies, car manufacturers or credit card providers. Agencies oversee these industries to ensure that the private market works for the public good. In these cases, we all understand that government isn’t an external force meddling in an organic market; it’s what makes a dynamic and fair market possible in the first place. This should be just as true for social networking as it is for air travel or pharmaceuticals...

[NewtonHawk11]

Facebook and Amazon are just completely owning, or dominating as Zuckerberg puts it, their respective areas. Amazon is turning into a monopoly in the shopping and shipping business and Facebook is doing the same with Social Media. I actually use Facebook much less than I use twitter or the internet in general.

[defixione]

Heard this this morning.

[ousdahl]

iPhone users can sue Apple

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/72283170 ... l-justices

[noosh]

good luck with that

[MICHHAWK]

If you want to stick it to the man delete your account.

[twocoach]

Facebook and Amazon are just completely owning, or dominating as Zuckerberg puts it, their respective areas. Amazon is turning into a monopoly in the shopping and shipping business and Facebook is doing the same with Social Media. I actually use Facebook much less than I use twitter or the internet in general.

I stopped using Facebook more than a year ago. I hate what they have become and I do not support their model.

[ousdahl]

If you want to stick it to the man delete your account.

Thanks, illy

[TDub]

Well, hes not wrong. Facebook only has power because people are addicted to social media. People have allowed them to have power and control.

[ousdahl]

well, yeah.

that, and Facebook also derives its power from the fact they've monopolized the social media market.

[TDub]

I suppose that's true to some extent. But if everyone broke themselves of their social media habit as mich suggests they would have nothing to influence or monopolize. Sure, that's asking a lot I guess but it's a fact. Facebook is a cesspool of misinformation and people searching for self validation. I dont understand the draw to it. Personal opinion, I'm sure some people have more positive reasons for using it. But, I dont see the need to have a million "friends" if my friends want to talk they can call or I can call them, if you cant bother to call me to stay in touch then you're not my true friend.

[ousdahl]

Social media is a useful and powerful networking and communication tool, in itself.

But Facebook made it less about networking, and more about commercializing, with no regard for user privacy, quality, any real truth to the content shared, any real honesty in whether the users were actual users or Russian spam bots, etc.

Meanwhile, their growth model was to either acquire every competitor, or simply steal their innovations, until there’s little real competition left.

But hey, Zuckerberg succeeded in the end game of making himself filthy fucking rich, so do you think he gives a damn that everybody hates him now?

[ousdahl]

[Deleted User 89]

lol

[Deleted User 266]

Facebook.....
Had such a nice evening last night. Woke up in a good mood. Sun shining. Saturday. All was well in my world. Then I foolishly decided to gaze at Facebook posts this morning. Foolish me allowed what I read to turn me in to a bigger cynical asshole than I already am. Shame on me! Sad when I allow other's ignorance to affect me and my mood. Of course I shouldn't turn a blind eye to ignorance that can hurt me and/or others but no need to cater to those who spew the ignorance for the sole purpose of just trying to rile people up.
Hopefully lesson learned. Probably not.

[KU76erfan]

Some sort of demented stream of consciousness haiku?

[ousdahl]

So I try to create a new Instagram account.

First, I create a brand new email to use for it. Then I go sign up on the gram, and get an error message that that email is already in use.

So I try to login with that email and select “forgot password.” I get an error message that that email is not found in their user system.

[ousdahl]

the Facebook annual shareholder meeting sounded fun

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwm ... g-dictator