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#deletefacebook is not about "conspiracy theories". It's because their personal data was exploited to aid the election of someone they hate. Whether it actuall

#deletefacebook is not about "conspiracy theories". It's because their personal data was exploited to aid the election of someone they hate. Whether it actually moved the needle enough to elect Trump is open to debate, but that's not a "conspiracy theory". Even the very idea that their personal data can be exploited this way, against their will, via friends who were tricked, is unsettling. That's more than just being mad about the election. They do not want a service that can exploit them that way in their life. Maybe Facebook has locked down the API, or maybe there's some other way to exploit it next round. People are realizing that trusting Facebook with their personal data was a bad idea to begin with and not in their best interests.

fareesh 9y ago
Which is my point I guess - Facebook apps have had much more intrusive access to user data in the past. The only reason people care now is political.
- abalone 9y ago
  Well no, you said more than that. > "Your side won because... Facebook made you vote that way" #deletefacebook doesn't mean that people think Facebook made people vote a certain way. It's about Facebook being a poor custodian of personal data and allowing it to be exploited to guide adversarial campaign efforts. Guiding where to invest efforts and dollars in an election campaign is extremely strategically valuable intelligence. That's different from just changing people's minds.. it's where to push for more voter turnout, for example. So at a minimum Facebook helped identify the psychological profiles and locations of people who were prime targets -- thanks to just a handful of friends who were exploited.
  - fareesh 9y ago
    My comment is about the coverage of this story, not the story. The story is being covered in the way that I've described. Facebook privacy stories never get this kind of coverage. This story is everywhere right now, for political reasons. People want to delete Facebook because of trust and that reasoning is perfectly sane. As far as the coverage is concerned, this is the same story with a Facebook flavour today.

fareesh 9y ago

Which is my point I guess - Facebook apps have had much more intrusive access to user data in the past. The only reason people care now is political.

abalone 9y ago
Well no, you said more than that. > "Your side won because... Facebook made you vote that way" #deletefacebook doesn't mean that people think Facebook made people vote a certain way. It's about Facebook being a poor custodian of personal data and allowing it to be exploited to guide adversarial campaign efforts. Guiding where to invest efforts and dollars in an election campaign is extremely strategically valuable intelligence. That's different from just changing people's minds.. it's where to push for more voter turnout, for example. So at a minimum Facebook helped identify the psychological profiles and locations of people who were prime targets -- thanks to just a handful of friends who were exploited.
- fareesh 9y ago
  My comment is about the coverage of this story, not the story. The story is being covered in the way that I've described. Facebook privacy stories never get this kind of coverage. This story is everywhere right now, for political reasons. People want to delete Facebook because of trust and that reasoning is perfectly sane. As far as the coverage is concerned, this is the same story with a Facebook flavour today.