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From the article: "Facebook said it also uses automation to process the tens of millions of reports it gets each week, to recognize duplicate reports and route

From the article: "Facebook said it also uses automation to process the tens of millions of reports it gets each week, to recognize duplicate reports and route the flagged content to reviewers with the appropriate subject matter expertise." Everyone who is slightly or highly annoyed by FB's policies surrounding how hard it is to leave their ecosystem should take note. They already get millions of reports each week. So just go around randomly flagging all kinds of harmless videos. I bet in short order you will get banned from their site. Once that happens, then tell your friends FB banned you for no good reason... IMHO it is the best possible answer to "What? How can you not be on Facebook? Are you crazy?"

eriknstr 10y ago
Why be dishonest to your friends, though? Besides, seeing how rare it is for someone to be banned from FB for no good reason, I don't think most people will believe you; they'll think you did something bad, which you did by flagging harmless videos, but they might even imagine that what you did to get banned was much worse. If you don't like FB and don't want to be there anymore, I suggest instead removing most things you have on your profile and writing a post explaining that you want to remain in touch with your friends so you are keeping your profile in order to still be reachable but that you won't be as active on FB as you used to any longer because you've come to realize that you don't want FB to have all this data about you (or if your reason is different then write that instead). Just keep the motivation really short so that people see that you have a reason but they don't feel that you are bombarding them with a long argument that they can not relate to.
- thr0waway1239 10y ago
  >> Just keep the motivation really short so that people see that you have a reason but they don't feel that you are bombarding them with a long argument that they can not relate to. OK, I will definitely keep it in mind because I do have a tendency to waste other people's time. While I am at it, I will also send a personal note to Mark Z expressing my profound sorrow that I am not dedicating more of my life to FB's mission to connect people. Since I am not cheap, I will also attach a $20 bill to the note to compensate for his loss.
TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
FB's automation is frankly useless. A couple of groups I'm on were spammed by people posting kiddie porn (AI failure #1) and the automated responses to complaints utterly failed to reassure anyone that Facebook cared (AI failure #2). I've also seen people complain about violent racist extremist groups and get an automated "We've reviewed this and it's fine" email - which makes Facebook look complicit, or at least indifferent. If you're going to use AI to make these decisions, you absolutely need to make it clear that you're using AI, it may get things wrong, and there's an escalation path. Of course that needs more human reviewers, but if you're running a social network it's reasonable to expect that as an operating cost.

eriknstr 10y ago

Why be dishonest to your friends, though? Besides, seeing how rare it is for someone to be banned from FB for no good reason, I don't think most people will believe you; they'll think you did something bad, which you did by flagging harmless videos, but they might even imagine that what you did to get banned was much worse. If you don't like FB and don't want to be there anymore, I suggest instead removing most things you have on your profile and writing a post explaining that you want to remain in touch with your friends so you are keeping your profile in order to still be reachable but that you won't be as active on FB as you used to any longer because you've come to realize that you don't want FB to have all this data about you (or if your reason is different then write that instead). Just keep the motivation really short so that people see that you have a reason but they don't feel that you are bombarding them with a long argument that they can not relate to.

thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> Just keep the motivation really short so that people see that you have a reason but they don't feel that you are bombarding them with a long argument that they can not relate to. OK, I will definitely keep it in mind because I do have a tendency to waste other people's time. While I am at it, I will also send a personal note to Mark Z expressing my profound sorrow that I am not dedicating more of my life to FB's mission to connect people. Since I am not cheap, I will also attach a $20 bill to the note to compensate for his loss.

TheOtherHobbes 10y ago

FB's automation is frankly useless. A couple of groups I'm on were spammed by people posting kiddie porn (AI failure #1) and the automated responses to complaints utterly failed to reassure anyone that Facebook cared (AI failure #2). I've also seen people complain about violent racist extremist groups and get an automated "We've reviewed this and it's fine" email - which makes Facebook look complicit, or at least indifferent. If you're going to use AI to make these decisions, you absolutely need to make it clear that you're using AI, it may get things wrong, and there's an escalation path. Of course that needs more human reviewers, but if you're running a social network it's reasonable to expect that as an operating cost.