Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites
by ticmasta on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:14PM
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The nefarious problem with FB is the illusion of recommendation/discovery. They're not trying to find new and interesting things for you the way say, the cultural aspects of HN performs this feat; they're trying to define your profile and then serve up more of the same to increase engagement or capture your entire sphere of awareness so they can manipulate and shape your perception.'
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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites
by Randypea on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:13PM
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so they can manipulate and shape your perception.'..... then group you together with people like you and sell those groups to advertisers, claiming they have some exclusive access to groups like "yoga-loving cat owners"
Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites
by paulddraper on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:00PM
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> they can manipulate and shape your perception.
That sounds pretty malicious for what basically amounts to attempting to serve you the content and ads you want.
Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites
by stcredzero on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:43PM
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That sounds pretty malicious for what basically amounts to attempting to serve you the content and ads you want.
Basically, serving you the content and ads you want can turn out to be pretty malicious. By doing so, a big company can manipulate and shape your perception. Year by year, data processing is making big companies ever more potent at doing just this. Is it any wonder that it eventually got to a point where we started seeing problems?
Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites
by r3bl on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:31PM
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They've already intentionally manipulated emotions of a "small number of users" (700k), proved it was possible, and released a paper on it: https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/facebook-unethical-expe...