Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Product Named “Portal”

Re:Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Pr... by ysavir on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:51PM (#16109912)

I think you missed my point. Facebook's goal has always been to control the users. There have been numerous articles recently about how Facebook was designed to mess with user psychology to increase their engagement. They're practicing social engineering, and that to me is incredibly harmful.

And while Google is much more omnipresent (no argument there!), at least their tactics involve letting the users do what they would normally do, even if they're spying in on it. Google might be watching, but at least they aren't controlling.

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Re:Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Pr... by drdaeman on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:47PM (#16110445)

Got it now.

Yeah, I guess you're right - Facebook is insistent on suggesting their way of doing things, constantly trying to tell me what to read and what to do.

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In my personal experiences they have failed, though.

All their suggestions were way off and totally useless. So I just auto-ignore their mails, dismiss the notifications just by type without checking and whatever and use only what I want to use (they have some good uses).

Heck, even their Android apps are so awful, so even though I wanted some of features they sort of forced me to not install any apps and just use a browser. ;)

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Re:Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Pr... by bcherny on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @09:10PM (#16112045)

Maybe one is just better at PR than the other? FB manipulates people through notifications and ordering in news feed; Google does it with notifications and ordering in search results. I don't see a substantial difference.

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