Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?

Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by pronlover723 on Saturday July 16, 2022 @12:38PM (#32119643)

free labor lol, they're providing a service. For free where free = no money, They give user a way to share with each other, ways to organize events, ways to sell things, ways to send messages with each other, ways to make calls to each other, ways to have video chat with each other, all for free (again free = no money). In return they put ads in your face and to make those ads more relevant they look at whatever data they can gather.

I don't like be spied on but gees, they aren't getting free labor. They're paying like crazy. As someone that once at a > $1000 phone bill it's amazing to me I can video chat with friends all over the world via FBs services and pay no direct money to do it and that to keep up with them I can now just post to fb instead of send out a newsletter or write each individual person

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Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by ipaddr on Saturday July 16, 2022 @01:33PM (#32120134)

Many sites offer these things for free without the need to track you around the internet. Facebook's business model breaks social expectations of privacy. They make a lot of money because they sell other people your data through ad targeting.

Facebook controls the barely tech literate crowd by offering an aol type experience.

These services are popular with the masses. No one cares that they give data to facebook so they can be sold more things and leave them poorer.

You end up paying facebook no direct money but you have less money and spent when you didn't need to.

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Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by winternett on Saturday July 16, 2022 @04:54PM (#32121875)

The only time I fill out pop-up surveys is when I want to enter wildly inaccurate data bout myself. That time back when Facebutt forced everyone to use their government names (as if it was an authentic requirement) I was shocked at how many people caved into entering their full name.

Companies are having a field day with all this data collection. I hope they get real karma for the deception.

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Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by wahnfrieden on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:32PM (#32122918)

there'll be no karmic payback or redemption story without organized action against the root of these behaviors. there's certainly no hope in a market solution

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Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by dredmorbius on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:31PM (#32122913)

FB costs each family of four in the US, EU, Japan, and other wealthy nations roughly $468/year whether they use the survice or not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32118404

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Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by wahnfrieden on Saturday July 16, 2022 @01:15PM (#32119992)

I don't care, there are ways to build public goods services

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