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Why is this at the bottom? It is amazing that people (even on this site) still don't get how targeting works. Pick a page, word, or interest, and the platforms
by gibolt 7y ago
Why is this at the bottom? It is amazing that people (even on this site) still don't get how targeting works.
Pick a page, word, or interest, and the platforms will target users to match the input, and optimize who is show based on predicted preferred action. It is a blackbox to the client and mostly to the platform.
- dragonsh 7y agoFacebook hire armies of people to discredit it's criticism. So this is normal any critical comments will be at bottom. In case of"Cambridge Analytica" it's not advertising or targeting but personal datafeeds access provided by Facebook. It's the same feed they offer to large MNC's. It's not an anonymous system but a system based on personal and private information of individuals including their address or contact books and their communication history.
- cameronbrown 7y agoI hate Facebook yet can understand the difference. Just because some of us want fair representation of a situation doesn't make us shills.
- dragonsh 7y agoI didn't get the difference part. I do not think Facebook provides advertising and datafeeda from anonymous data. I believe there system is based on intimate personal data they collect not the anonymous data respecting user's privacy.
- cameronbrown 7y agoI didn't explain myself properly. You're right they do share extremely targeted data to big companies/advertisers and that's deplorable, but they also have less invasive methods of advertising. What we need is a discussion on where the line lies, rather than 'facebook bad'.