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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by SomeStupidPoint on Thursday December 29, 2016 @09:51PM (#13282146)
The problem I have with it is that Facebook decides what "improve" means -- it tries to groom me like cattle rather than ask me how I want to experience it or who I want to be "optimized" in to being.

And that's okay, so far as they're open about it. But I don't think they are, especially the sophistication of their psychology research (and experimentation).

Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by kalleboo on Saturday December 31, 2016 @03:31AM (#13290148)
I appreciate that, but most people don't know how they want to experience it. E.g. people will say they want to see everything in their feed, but if they do get everything, they complain about how much crap there is
Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by tripzilch on Saturday December 31, 2016 @11:57AM (#13291815)
The assumption being that this is not how people want to experience it?

If there's so much crap, maybe I want to be able to complain about it.

People might act on the tsunami of crap in manners that may not be profitable for Facebook.

The solution to undesirable, stupid, homeless, uneducated, etc etc isn't to hide it from your vision.

Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by maverick_iceman on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:11AM (#13282670)
If you don't like Facebook, don't use Facebook.
Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by harry8 on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:32AM (#13282732)
Not an option. They have a shadow profile about you anyway.

Aside from that this is as silly as "If you don't like organized crime don't buy stuff from the mafia and there's no problem."

Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by csydas on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:27AM (#13282718)
I think the problem rests more on the fact that as it stands Facebook profits regardless as to whether or not you use it. The same collection happens across numerous non-Facebook sites and apps, from data other people reveal about you, from apps and companies that are bought up by Facebook, and so on. The idea of "if you don't like it just don't use Facebook" becomes very difficult to implement when modern existence feeds into Facebook it seems.

It's the involuntary participation in facebook's arrangement that people are bothered by.

Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by FabHK on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:34AM (#13283491)
> If you don't like Facebook, don't use Facebook.

And don't use any site with the Facebook "Like" thumbs-up thingy, which is tracking what sites you visit.

Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by petre on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:15AM (#13283643)
I blocked those pesky buttons using Ublock no social list.
Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by nihonde on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:24AM (#13283444)
Actually, if you don't like Facebook, litter it with disinformation until it becomes an unreliable and undesirable source.