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>a walled garden with omnipresent surveillance and advertising So... a shopping mall? A school? Any corporate job? A walk through downtown? "In-network" minute

>a walled garden with omnipresent surveillance and advertising So... a shopping mall? A school? Any corporate job? A walk through downtown? "In-network" minutes and long distance charges on your phone? Religious institutions? Whatever Facebook is doing wrong for society, they are standing on the backs of giants. Walled garden or not, surveillance or not, advertising or not, people have never been as free to socialize as they are today. If there is something negative on your Facebook feed, you are solely responsible for it being there. It takes two clicks to make it go away forever.

AlexandrB 9y ago
> If there is something negative on your Facebook feed, you are solely responsible for it being there. It takes two clicks to make it go away forever. What do I click on to make the stuff Facebook decided I shouldn't see show up?
- freehunter 9y ago
  That's a very different problem in a very different league of problems. Where do you click to see the stuff the New York Times decided not to show you? Or scenes a movie editor left on the cutting room floor? Or pages an author never sent to print? Or words I left untyped in this comment? Content editors and curators have existed for a long time.
  - adrianN 9y ago
    But they weren't automated and couldn't tailor the content for each user individually to maximize the time they spend looking at ads.
- nytesky 9y ago
  There used to be Facebook lists (NOT groups, lists are a private sorting friends can’t see). I would make a list of friends I most want to follow and open just that list. But that feature seems gone (I also used list to limit friends visibility and access to my wall... honestly google plus has this right)
  - torstenvl 9y ago
    Facebook still has lists. It's a little convoluted and only really works well from a desktop/laptop browser, but they're there.
    - wyclif 9y ago
      I had a list I really liked that just disappeared recently. I think he's right that they removed the feature.
brokenbyclouds 9y ago
Yikes, you don't know anything about how this works do you?

AlexandrB 9y ago

> If there is something negative on your Facebook feed, you are solely responsible for it being there. It takes two clicks to make it go away forever. What do I click on to make the stuff Facebook decided I shouldn't see show up?

freehunter 9y ago
That's a very different problem in a very different league of problems. Where do you click to see the stuff the New York Times decided not to show you? Or scenes a movie editor left on the cutting room floor? Or pages an author never sent to print? Or words I left untyped in this comment? Content editors and curators have existed for a long time.
- adrianN 9y ago
  But they weren't automated and couldn't tailor the content for each user individually to maximize the time they spend looking at ads.
nytesky 9y ago
There used to be Facebook lists (NOT groups, lists are a private sorting friends can’t see). I would make a list of friends I most want to follow and open just that list. But that feature seems gone (I also used list to limit friends visibility and access to my wall... honestly google plus has this right)
- torstenvl 9y ago
  Facebook still has lists. It's a little convoluted and only really works well from a desktop/laptop browser, but they're there.
  - wyclif 9y ago
    I had a list I really liked that just disappeared recently. I think he's right that they removed the feature.

brokenbyclouds 9y ago

Yikes, you don't know anything about how this works do you?