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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by nickpsecurity on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:47PM (#14557811)
"The combination of a wildly successful company, not caring about privacy, and a (formerly) bombastic founder. It's the perfect storm for HN shitposting"

Them implementing a feature so poorly that it tells people 6 miles away to confirm they're safe from a building fire is a "perfect storm for HN shitposting" because of the success of the company, privacy issues, and the founder? And not because the feature is a failing in ways causing false alarms and unnecessary stress?

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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by austenallred on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:50PM (#14557820)
No, because people already hate Facebook so much that when they make a small mistake it gets blown up and turned into a giant news story and hits the front page of HN, filling it up with "delete Facebook!!!" posts.
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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by TeMPOraL on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:41AM (#14558149)
Frankly, thank the mainstream media.

I bet if Techcrunch didn't write about it, we wouldn't even have this story. If I posted it on my personal blog, I'd be rightly laughed out of the room.

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