Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

And I don’t know about you but every time I post on the forums, I get ads for Marky Mark and Celine Dion concert tickets, albums, CDs and related merch popping up. WTF?

That's your wheelhouse now bub.  Embrace it.

I’m planning a NYE dance party spinning those vinyls. Thanks to this forum, my inner Celine has been released. Like a kraken.

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

And I don’t know about you but every time I post on the forums, I get ads for Marky Mark and Celine Dion concert tickets, albums, CDs and related merch popping up. WTF?

That's your wheelhouse now bub.  Embrace it.

I’m planning a NYE dance party spinning those vinyls. Thanks to this forum, my inner Celine has been released. Like a kraken.

When you crank out Marky Mark please be sure to give props to the real Diva Ms Williams.

And dance around in your Calvins

hedonist said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

CM189191 said:

dignin said:

The thread for all things Facebook related.

I think it's a shithole.

I will get things started with this huge story.

Facebook must be broken up, the US government says in a groundbreaking lawsuit

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/tech/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-ftc-attorney-generals/index.html

Attorneys general from Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and South Dakota did not join the lawsuit.

...wondeR why...

Freedumb.

I have never spent a second on it, have never opened an account and hate those “log in with faceturd” sign in thingies. I haven’t read up on the lawsuit or issues because I’m not personally affected, as far as I know and if I am, I can’t control the outcome. It’ll be what it’ll be. I do find it interesting that people scream about privacy but post every brain fart, picture, thought, basically everything about their lives, health conditions, you name it, and then complain about big gubmint and privacy. Their “privacy” has been sliced and diced a million ways to Sunday and sold to anyone willing to pay.

I’m not sure it has a monopoly as what’s stopping someone from creating a competitive platform that all the cool kids will migrate to? And who cares?

Me neither, in terms of Facebook, Twitter, etc.

As to the bolded part - amen, brother!

Hobbes said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

And I don’t know about you but every time I post on the forums, I get ads for Marky Mark and Celine Dion concert tickets, albums, CDs and related merch popping up. WTF?

That's your wheelhouse now bub.  Embrace it.

I’m planning a NYE dance party spinning those vinyls. Thanks to this forum, my inner Celine has been released. Like a kraken.

When you crank out Marky Mark please be sure to give props to the real Diva Ms Williams.

And dance around in your Calvins

Hobbes is a better dancer.

No doubt @Hobbes likey cuts a mean rug!

Just not in facegarbage.

mace1229 said:

I don’t get the hate for FB. It’s exactly what you make it. If you don’t like the posts people make and the cesspool it’s become, well, you followed those people. 

I was one of the last in my circle to join. Had no interest, but living in Venice Beach/LA in my 20s that’s how people communicated, so I joined to get updates on our happy hour groups and so on. Had zero desire to post and read posts. 

But now I actually enjoy that. I’m 20 years out from high school, 15 years from college, and in another state now, it’s harder to keep up with people I was friends with 10 years ago. It’s fun to see who just had a kid, married (or remarried at this point). Before I was still in town, only a few years out from HS or college and was easy to keep up and even bump into people on occasion. Now that never happens.

But I only have about 200 friends on FB. Some have 5,000 or more. I’m convinced those people wouldn’t even recognize their “friends” if they ran into them on the street. I don’t follow people that annoy me. One exception being this lady who posted every day encouraging the looting and riots in the summer and promoting violence against the police, and said destroying businesses and rioting is the only way to get your voice heard and get change. Knowing she was a small business owner herself I eventually got tired and replied just saying she should offer up the address of her business for support. She unfriended me.

Point being, Facebook is only as bad as you let it be.

PJPOWER said:

mace1229 said:

I don’t get the hate for FB. It’s exactly what you make it. If you don’t like the posts people make and the cesspool it’s become, well, you followed those people. 

I was one of the last in my circle to join. Had no interest, but living in Venice Beach/LA in my 20s that’s how people communicated, so I joined to get updates on our happy hour groups and so on. Had zero desire to post and read posts. 

But now I actually enjoy that. I’m 20 years out from high school, 15 years from college, and in another state now, it’s harder to keep up with people I was friends with 10 years ago. It’s fun to see who just had a kid, married (or remarried at this point). Before I was still in town, only a few years out from HS or college and was easy to keep up and even bump into people on occasion. Now that never happens.

But I only have about 200 friends on FB. Some have 5,000 or more. I’m convinced those people wouldn’t even recognize their “friends” if they ran into them on the street. I don’t follow people that annoy me. One exception being this lady who posted every day encouraging the looting and riots in the summer and promoting violence against the police, and said destroying businesses and rioting is the only way to get your voice heard and get change. Knowing she was a small business owner herself I eventually got tired and replied just saying she should offer up the address of her business for support. She unfriended me.

Point being, Facebook is only as bad as you let it be.

I guess FaceTime is okay if you don’t mind being a commodity for ad revenue.  I have ethical reasons for not supporting them.  Have you seen the documentary “Social Dilemma”?

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

And I don’t know about you but every time I post on the forums, I get ads for Marky Mark and Celine Dion concert tickets, albums, CDs and related merch popping up. WTF?

That's your wheelhouse now bub.  Embrace it.

I’m planning a NYE dance party spinning those vinyls. Thanks to this forum, my inner Celine has been released. Like a kraken.

When you crank out Marky Mark please be sure to give props to the real Diva Ms Williams.

And dance around in your Calvins

tempo_n_groove said:

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

And I don’t know about you but every time I post on the forums, I get ads for Marky Mark and Celine Dion concert tickets, albums, CDs and related merch popping up. WTF?

That's your wheelhouse now bub.  Embrace it.

I’m planning a NYE dance party spinning those vinyls. Thanks to this forum, my inner Celine has been released. Like a kraken.

When you crank out Marky Mark please be sure to give props to the real Diva Ms Williams.

And dance around in your Calvins

Z Cavarichi's you savage.

what dreams said:

Merkin Baller said:

I go on Facebook a handful of times a year, & it’s the same shit over & over so I don’t bother with it much. I only keep the account open for the messenger which I use to stay in touch w/ family overseas. 

I did find it odd the one time that I clicked on my Facebook tv feed and there were several Charlie Kirk videos queued up. I don’t have much political stuff if any on my wall or in my likes... & I’ve never clicked on right wing videos or articles that would suggest I’m into that sort of content, so I was genuinely curious as to why those videos were being suggested for me. If anything it should have suggested concert videos as all I ever used to post about was music. 

They have access to your phone or computer, all of it. If you're on the AMT discussing something political, they know it.

They're even hooked into the microphone. I've had every app shut down while having a person-to-person conversation, and as soon as I got back online, the ads were relevant to the offline conversation I was having. 

I struggle with the privacy thing. I wonder what happens when this power ends up in the wrong hands. It seems relatively harmless as it is, but it's not guaranteed to stay that way. Remember the technology in 1984 is the TV that looks inside everyone's homes to track compliance. 

I have not seen Social Dilemma but the novel, The Circle by Dave Eggers, really made me think hard about the topic.

Merkin Baller said:

what dreams said:

Merkin Baller said:

I go on Facebook a handful of times a year, & it’s the same shit over & over so I don’t bother with it much. I only keep the account open for the messenger which I use to stay in touch w/ family overseas. 

I did find it odd the one time that I clicked on my Facebook tv feed and there were several Charlie Kirk videos queued up. I don’t have much political stuff if any on my wall or in my likes... & I’ve never clicked on right wing videos or articles that would suggest I’m into that sort of content, so I was genuinely curious as to why those videos were being suggested for me. If anything it should have suggested concert videos as all I ever used to post about was music. 

They have access to your phone or computer, all of it. If you're on the AMT discussing something political, they know it.

They're even hooked into the microphone. I've had every app shut down while having a person-to-person conversation, and as soon as I got back online, the ads were relevant to the offline conversation I was having. 

I struggle with the privacy thing. I wonder what happens when this power ends up in the wrong hands. It seems relatively harmless as it is, but it's not guaranteed to stay that way. Remember the technology in 1984 is the TV that looks inside everyone's homes to track compliance. 

I have not seen Social Dilemma but the novel, The Circle by Dave Eggers, really made me think hard about the topic.

Yeah, but I don’t have the app on my phone at all, nor do I have it open in safari. 

Every 4-6 weeks I either login from my work pc, or get the app on my phone, but once I’m done I log out / delete the app. 

Even if I did, there’s nothing in my habits to suggest Facebook should think I’m interested in Charlie Kirk’s content. Maybe they were simply featuring the most popular videos of the day, idk, but it seemed odd.