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If you want to fight it: don't use Facebook! No matter how much an individual thinks they're resisting or messing with the system, they're not. The only way to

If you want to fight it: don't use Facebook! No matter how much an individual thinks they're resisting or messing with the system, they're not. The only way to win is to not participate.

TremendousJudge 9y ago
if other people still upload pictures of you to Facebook it's the same thing
- gaius 9y ago
  Just as, if you’re ever in an e-mail chain that includes just 1 person on GMail.
bitL 9y ago
I don't use Facebook myself for a few years already, which is paradoxical as they were headhunting me recently to lead one of their ML teams and didn't mind that I quit them long time ago :D But maybe they were just harvesting my own "outlier" training dataset - who knows if I was filmed while onsite and now my gait is analyzed to smallest details including reconstructed skeleton and muscle attachments, my appearance is predicted for the next 30 years under various aging assumptions, maybe later used to fabricate realistically faked video etc. These things are now possible and not that difficult anymore.
- jacquesm 9y ago
  I don't understand this. Why would you want to interview with a company whose core product you do not support?
  - bitL 9y ago
    Why not? You keep up to date, experiencing world-class hiring process and its requirements (IMO FB's hiring process is the best I've ever experienced, Google's feels one level down), you meet interesting people you might later work together on something cool either there or at another company, you visit interesting places, get some inspirations for your own businesses, interviews might be also a lot of fun (one interview I had at FB was an hour of one-joke-after-another while discussing/inventing architecture of some scalable system; imagine Cryptotinder which is a joke on its own) etc.
  - crpatino 9y ago
    It is possible to be a non-drinker and yet work for the beer factory. You recognize that other people has the right to choose options that you'd rather not pick up for yourself. Now, if you're a belligerent teetotaler, taking such a job would be very hypocrital...
JKCalhoun 9y ago
I won last week then. Pro tip: if you try to delete your account and your password isn't recognized, re-enter it all lower-case. (Smooth one, FB.)

If you want to fight it: don't use Facebook! No matter how much an individual thinks they're resisting or messing with the system, they're not. The only way to win is to not participate.

TremendousJudge 9y ago

if other people still upload pictures of you to Facebook it's the same thing

gaius 9y ago
Just as, if you’re ever in an e-mail chain that includes just 1 person on GMail.

bitL 9y ago

I don't use Facebook myself for a few years already, which is paradoxical as they were headhunting me recently to lead one of their ML teams and didn't mind that I quit them long time ago :D But maybe they were just harvesting my own "outlier" training dataset - who knows if I was filmed while onsite and now my gait is analyzed to smallest details including reconstructed skeleton and muscle attachments, my appearance is predicted for the next 30 years under various aging assumptions, maybe later used to fabricate realistically faked video etc. These things are now possible and not that difficult anymore.

jacquesm 9y ago
I don't understand this. Why would you want to interview with a company whose core product you do not support?
- bitL 9y ago
  Why not? You keep up to date, experiencing world-class hiring process and its requirements (IMO FB's hiring process is the best I've ever experienced, Google's feels one level down), you meet interesting people you might later work together on something cool either there or at another company, you visit interesting places, get some inspirations for your own businesses, interviews might be also a lot of fun (one interview I had at FB was an hour of one-joke-after-another while discussing/inventing architecture of some scalable system; imagine Cryptotinder which is a joke on its own) etc.
- crpatino 9y ago
  It is possible to be a non-drinker and yet work for the beer factory. You recognize that other people has the right to choose options that you'd rather not pick up for yourself. Now, if you're a belligerent teetotaler, taking such a job would be very hypocrital...

JKCalhoun 9y ago

I won last week then. Pro tip: if you try to delete your account and your password isn't recognized, re-enter it all lower-case. (Smooth one, FB.)