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Re:Facebook bends the rules of audience engagement to its ad... by Mendenhall on Thursday May 05, 2016 @08:45PM (#11640872)
All i think of when I see the word facebook is who would use that data mining, censoring, manipulative product. To each their own but I think many dont see whats going on with it.
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Re:Facebook bends the rules of audience engagement to its ad... by amelius on Thursday May 05, 2016 @09:19PM (#11641030)
> many dont see whats going on with it

I think we need some realistic examples of what could go wrong. To many, online privacy issues are a bit too hypothetical and abstract.

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Re:Facebook bends the rules of audience engagement to its ad... by gvurrdon on Friday May 06, 2016 @03:31AM (#11642325)
Indeed; a common response I encounter if I complain about Facebook is along the lines of "I don't see why it matters that FB knows stuff about me, and I think I get more value from them than they possibly could get from me for the trivial information they learn about me."
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Re:Facebook bends the rules of audience engagement to its ad... by Mendenhall on Saturday May 07, 2016 @03:03PM (#11650888)
A prime example is on the front page of hacker news right now IMO.

http://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-newest-privacy-problem-fa...

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