Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ emotional states

Re:Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ e... by jamesrcole on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:10PM (#14239949)

But might that also have been the case even if Facebook never existed?

Eg maybe getting older was a factor in that.

I lived most of my life without Facebook (born in the late 70s) and it's at least not obvious to me that people had more deeper connections prior to it.

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Re:Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ e... by irixusr on Monday May 01, 2017 @09:56PM (#14243416)

I agree that most relationships weren't more meaningful, but I had less meaningless relationships too.

That's the sick part of FB. That I really don't care for my cousin saving the world in Africa, so why should I care what she's doing?

I don't. And the truth is most of us don't care either. We're unable to admit it to ourselves so we pretend to care

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