Re:Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you...
by nashashmi on Saturday July 13, 2019 @08:02AM
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Agreed. Facebook is like a commercialized implementation of CIA and other miscellaneous intelligence practices. And its commercialization is skewed towards benefitting the advertising companies. This is a double negative.
There motto could have been to SERVE THE USER. Instead it became FOCUS on the user. They focus their product towards three dark patterns: extracting data from the user, manipulating the user, and addicting the user. For now it is towards the benefit of advertisers which is Relatively harmless in the future scheme of things.
A more benign use could have been connecting users across the world to each other and to other companies for healthy conversations. To be what FRIENDS were meant to always be.
There motto could have been to SERVE THE USER. Instead it became FOCUS on the user. They focus their product towards three dark patterns: extracting data from the user, manipulating the user, and addicting the user. For now it is towards the benefit of advertisers which is Relatively harmless in the future scheme of things.
A more benign use could have been connecting users across the world to each other and to other companies for healthy conversations. To be what FRIENDS were meant to always be.
Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend.