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Re:Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens,... by sandworm101 on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:35PM (#19284459)
I used to teach a course at a local university. I asked the kids every year about facebook. Starting in 2015 the female students basically stopped using it. It wasn't politics or even advertising. They said the "creep factor" just got too high. Everyone one of them had a story about an unwanted stranger suddenly appearing on their or their friend's facebook.

The next wave of political manipulation is those "private chats". Facebook/Google/Apple can crack down on the adverts. They cannot so easily police invite-only chats that are often end-to-end encrypted.

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Re:Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens,... by Qwertystop on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:57PM (#19284666)
On the other hand, private chats are harder to get into; someone has to actually get invited, by the very nature of things. Manipulation that way is going to be harder (though not impossible, especially when they get bigger than everyone-knows-everyone size).
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Re:Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens,... by johannes1234321 on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:50PM (#19286436)
Which also can lead to social exclusion of individuals, which is critical at school age. In the past time rumors spread between groups, so even the not-liked kid could overhear it somewhere. Now all the discussions move into the private group, where only the "cool" kids come in and spread less over smaller groups ...
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Re:Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens,... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday March 01, 2019 @04:47PM (#19285606)
You just need to generate memes that people will willingly copypasta into their private groups.
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