Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield

Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by netsharc on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:01AM (#18959755)

Well, at least this will hasten their death. Hopefully people are leaving FB because of their toxic "political discussions" (more like insult-flinging), and with this crap, they'll stay away even more from it, because every time they log in, they'll see Wendy is telling them to support her cause of vegan lipsticks, or similar.

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by rblion on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:38AM (#18960615)

Yup. One more nail in the coffin.

They are trying to be everything to everyone. And in the process alienating the people who make social media interesting...

The influencers and sponsored content was the beginning of the end. This is the next step, along with manipulation of media and democracy.

Facebook is the epitome of dystopian dysfunction.

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by j16sdiz on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:28AM (#18959891)

I hope facebook die soon. It have too strong network effect. It need to die before alternative arise.

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by justtopost on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:47AM (#18959991)

Might as well tell them to be born in the correct place. Hn in multinational, and english is not always a primary language.

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by renholder on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:46AM (#18959981)

>Hopefully people are leaving FB because of their toxic "political discussions" (more like insult-flinging)...

If that were the case, reddit should be suffering the same mass exodus plight but - it seems to me - that people (predominantly in the states) revel in that sort of behaviour.

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by thousandautumns on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:29AM (#18960229)

Due to the way reddit is subdivided, it mostly keeps that toxicity quarantined to the groups that revel in it. For people who want to avoid it, it isn't particularly difficult to.

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by netsharc on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:53AM (#18960032)

Well, people thought they could join FB to connect with their friends and family, but later on it turned to an insult-slinging platform, so hopefully the saner ones have left. As for reddit, I guess people are in the news and politics subreddits to actually fling shit at each other.

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by hugh4life on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:29AM (#18960554)

You can use reddit and completely avoid politics.

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by jsemrau on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:52AM (#18960029)

One could argue that the anonymity of Reddit in addition to the mods encourages a civil discussion

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by kace91 on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:59AM (#18960067)

People aren't exactly nicer to each other when they're anonymous...

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by SiempreViernes on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:18AM (#18960481)

Sure, but it is a strange argument: morality is very sensitive to context, but in anonymous discussions lack most context and have to guess it.

So anonymous discussions are largely free of the restrictions imposed by the notions of common decency, so any civil discourse in unregulated media is a minor miracle.

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Re:Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield by SketchySeaBeast on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:12AM (#18961275)

The online disinhibition effect would argue the exact opposite.

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