Bend Over, Facebook is Back

[specious_reasons]

Has anyone used Facebook "Home"? I haven't heard much about it since April, and I suspect that it didn't get much traction. I ignored it because I would like to control my own Android experience, thank you. Also, I just checked and it apparently isn't available through Google Play for my device.

A quick search shows that there hasn't been much news about it, but it's been downloaded over 1 million times.

[Dingfod]

Facebook: 'We Will Make Our Product Worse, You Will Be Upset, And Then You Will Live With It' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

[Dingfod]

And they did: Facebook to allow advertisers to insert 15-second autoplay video ads into user newsfeeds.

And thus ends my fling with Facebook. Sorry friends and relatives, you'll have to contact me by email or text message.

[Demimonde]

Shit. If they do that on their mobile app I will delete in a heartbeat. I am not wasting my precious data on that crap.

[MonCapitan2002]

Wow. Even more reason to never join Facebook. At this point, I consider Facebook a malicious site and service. I think at this point, companies that develop software that blocks malware, viruses, and trojans should start treating Facebook the same way.

[lisarea]

Corporations are a lot like creepy dudes and toddlers. They don't give a shit about what you say the boundaries are. They're going to test them and see what you'll tolerate, then wait until you're acclimated and push them further.

So people will complain. They don't care about that. They'll start to care when they start losing enough business that it outweighs the benefits.

It's the same deal with that new XBox One, where when you die in the game you die in real life.* People will waah waah about it, but enough of them will probably put up with it that that'll become an industry standard too.

Autoplaying ads are already a thing, and there are enough people not running blockers to make that profitable. Same thing. People will just get used to that and it will become the norm. And Facebook being Facebook and all, the standards they set will be industry standards before long, and people will think you're a paranoid technophobe or an entitled brat if you have a problem with it.

* No, really. Rest in peace!

[BrotherMan]

Originally Posted by lisarea

It's the same deal with that new XBox One, where when you die in the game you die in real life.*

* No, really. Rest in peace!

It's happened to me several times!

[Dingfod]

I hate when that happens.

[Shelli]

Facebook can suck my nonexistent dick.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Shelli

Facebook can suck my nonexistent dick.

Holy crap, it can?

[SR71]

In fact it can suck all cocks, existing, conceivable or imaginary.

[JoeP]

* JoeP checks user agreement

OK, it can

[MonCapitan2002]

Originally Posted by Shelli

Facebook can suck my nonexistent dick.

You'll get an infection.

[Shelli]

[Dingfod]

Bend over even more, having me as a Facebook friend could be dragging your credit score down.

[MonCapitan2002]

I heard about that. It amuses me that Facebook use has deleterious effects that extend beyond the loss of privacy.

[Ensign Steve]

We spend a lot of time thinking about what to post on Facebook. Should you argue that political point your high school friend made? Do your friends really want to see yet another photo of your cat (or baby)? Most of us have, at one time or another, started writing something and then, probably wisely, changed our minds.

Unfortunately, the code in your browser that powers Facebook still knows what you typed—even if you decide not to publish it.* It turns out that the things you explicitly choose not to share aren't entirely private.

Facebook calls these unposted thoughts "self-censorship," and insights into how it collects these nonposts can be found in a recent paper written by two Facebookers. Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have put online an article presenting their study of the self-censorship behavior collected from 5 million English-speaking Facebook users. (The paper was also published at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.*) It reveals a lot about how Facebook monitors our unshared thoughts and what it thinks about them.

Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don't publish?

[JoeP]

Please say you didn't mean to press post.

[JoeP]

The study examined aborted status updates, posts on other people's timelines, and comments on others' posts.

And abortion is wrong, mmm'kay?

[JoeP]

The article is at the moment, but looks fascinating. If you can overcome the source of the data. Which is a bit like conducting experiments on concentration camp prisoners.

[LadyShea]

OMG, do you suppose livius is doing that here at too?

[BrotherMan]

[erimir]

Oh hey, that guy is in my school. Want me to go beat him up?

[SR71]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don't publish?

I heard it happens at too and livius just posts that shit all over the secret fora.

[BrotherMan]