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May 26 2018 is going to be a very interesting day. The GDPR will trigger across Europe, and Facebook will become legally compelled wrt any European citizen to s
by Joeri 9y ago
May 26 2018 is going to be a very interesting day. The GDPR will trigger across Europe, and Facebook will become legally compelled wrt any European citizen to share everything they know about them, discard data not relevant to delivering the Facebook service, and allow users to correct any of the data, or remove all of it. It will be fascinating to see what exactly they know about me. In theory, not that much, since I barely engage with Facebook at all, but in practice I suspect quite a lot.
- snarf21 9y agoOne thing people are oblivious about is they say "Facebook is awful, I only use Instagram and WhatsApp" and forget that the whole network is insanely large and growing. People lose sight that FB and Google account for 99%+ of all online advertising in the US. Social has become such an echo chamber and so manipulative.
- ryanwaggoner 9y ago99% sounded like a made-up statistic, so I looked it up [1]. What do you know, it's more like 60% combined. What's the purpose of throwing out numbers like this? It only hurts whatever point you're trying to make. (Edited for tone) 1. http://www.adweek.com/digital/u-s-digital-advertising-will-make-83-billion-this-year-says-emarketer/ http://www.adweek.com/digital/u-s-digital-advertising-will-m...
- snarf21 9y agoI apologize, I misremembered the statistic from an article I read months ago. They only account for 99%+ of the growth in the last year, according to this article. [http://fortune.com/2017/04/26/google-facebook-digital-ads/ http://fortune.com/2017/04/26/google-facebook-digital-ads/]
- ryanwaggoner 9y agoEven that source is a real stretch to support your point. Yes, some analyst thinks it's close to 100%, but sounds like most experts don't agree.