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The real problem is not that such content exists, the problem is that Facebook makes it horrifically easy to distribute such content. Back when Facebook was mor

The real problem is not that such content exists, the problem is that Facebook makes it horrifically easy to distribute such content. Back when Facebook was more of interacting with people rather that liking and subscribing to whatever these content and joke pages shoved down these concerns where not present much. Clickbait, etc is just a natural progression of like and subscribing culture. My Facebook feed about a year ago, when i last opened facebook was filled with the same memes and "inspirational messages" shoved down by a handful of pages being shared by dumb idiots. I had to search and go directly to a person's profile to see what they were up to. The real problem is that Facebook started behaving like a TV channel that a social network. If Facebook goes to only keeping profiles of real persons and removes any and all of these pages and blogs and news agencies and the lot, a lot of its woes with regard to content will be solved. These pages give a sense of anonymity to the people behind them. Take that anonymity away. Once you know that your personal image will be directly tied to whatever you post and held responsible by everyone in your friend list, you will begin to curb your tendencies in public.

auxym 9y ago
I've taken to blocking all those random joke pages on sight.
Viliam1234 9y ago
I believe that the "one account = one real person" policy actually makes things worse. Regardless of what Zuckerberg claims to believe, in real life I have multiple "profiles". For example, I don't debate Java programming with my family members, I don't debate politics or religion (or generally any opinions, because no one knows what will become a hot political topic tomorrow) with my colleagues, etc. Similarly, I have different rules for reading stuff. I hate memes, but if my cousins post some, I am not going to block them like I would most other people; I will just sigh and scroll down. More importantly, I do not want to read stuff from all my social circles at the same times; sometimes I am in a mood for family stuff, sometimes programming, sometimes other things. Even better would be to have advanced tools (but with simple user interface) to specify what I want to read; e.g. "what my cousin wrote, but not what someone else wrote and my cousin shared"; to filter posts containing certain words, etc. Merely removing anonymity will simply divide users into two groups: those who care about not getting fired tomorrow so they only post completely unobjectionable politically correct vanilla stuff, or those who are not very smart or young and inexperienced or too rich to care about what other people think, so they post anything that comes to their minds.

auxym 9y ago

I've taken to blocking all those random joke pages on sight.

Viliam1234 9y ago

I believe that the "one account = one real person" policy actually makes things worse. Regardless of what Zuckerberg claims to believe, in real life I have multiple "profiles". For example, I don't debate Java programming with my family members, I don't debate politics or religion (or generally any opinions, because no one knows what will become a hot political topic tomorrow) with my colleagues, etc. Similarly, I have different rules for reading stuff. I hate memes, but if my cousins post some, I am not going to block them like I would most other people; I will just sigh and scroll down. More importantly, I do not want to read stuff from all my social circles at the same times; sometimes I am in a mood for family stuff, sometimes programming, sometimes other things. Even better would be to have advanced tools (but with simple user interface) to specify what I want to read; e.g. "what my cousin wrote, but not what someone else wrote and my cousin shared"; to filter posts containing certain words, etc. Merely removing anonymity will simply divide users into two groups: those who care about not getting fired tomorrow so they only post completely unobjectionable politically correct vanilla stuff, or those who are not very smart or young and inexperienced or too rich to care about what other people think, so they post anything that comes to their minds.