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I've really slowed using Facebook because of the amount of misinformation or straight up lies by some acquaintance. Comments on any kind of news source are pret

I've really slowed using Facebook because of the amount of misinformation or straight up lies by some acquaintance. Comments on any kind of news source are pretty bad as well. So many lies just made the platform unusable for me.

apatters 8y ago
It's quite remarkable really how tone deaf the product planning at Facebook has been. For centuries thousands of families have deemed it a wise decision to forbid politics as a discussion topic at the dinner table. Zuck jumps right in the middle of the table and "connects the world" by shoving Trump articles with unmoderated comment threads in all their faces. Because an A/B test showed that it "promoted engagement." Such idiocy lol.
- Haydos585x2 8y ago
  I'd love to see a Facebook where either I or the page itself could hide/forbid comments. I'm sure that no news company would ever turn off comments on their pages but they might. A lot of companies have disabled comments on their websites. I really don't care that some bloke thinks everything is a Zionist conspiracy to eradicate the white race. The smaller lies and falsehoods are what gets me even more. It's basically the Gell-Mann amnesia affect on steroids: "You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray [Gell-Mann]'s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the 'wet streets cause rain' stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
- Theodores 8y ago
  They have WhatsApp for people to send pictures of the grandchild to grandma with everything being in a nice politics free bubble, safely disconnected from the 'real world' (of fake news) and 'likes'. Family group chats on WhatsApp is probably what a lot of people use now rather than the original Facebook product. This being the case they have been able to experiment a bit with how the monetize mainstream Facebook.

apatters 8y ago

It's quite remarkable really how tone deaf the product planning at Facebook has been. For centuries thousands of families have deemed it a wise decision to forbid politics as a discussion topic at the dinner table. Zuck jumps right in the middle of the table and "connects the world" by shoving Trump articles with unmoderated comment threads in all their faces. Because an A/B test showed that it "promoted engagement." Such idiocy lol.

Haydos585x2 8y ago
I'd love to see a Facebook where either I or the page itself could hide/forbid comments. I'm sure that no news company would ever turn off comments on their pages but they might. A lot of companies have disabled comments on their websites. I really don't care that some bloke thinks everything is a Zionist conspiracy to eradicate the white race. The smaller lies and falsehoods are what gets me even more. It's basically the Gell-Mann amnesia affect on steroids: "You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray [Gell-Mann]'s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the 'wet streets cause rain' stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
Theodores 8y ago
They have WhatsApp for people to send pictures of the grandchild to grandma with everything being in a nice politics free bubble, safely disconnected from the 'real world' (of fake news) and 'likes'. Family group chats on WhatsApp is probably what a lot of people use now rather than the original Facebook product. This being the case they have been able to experiment a bit with how the monetize mainstream Facebook.