GatewayRedbirds.com

if i ever used facebook as anecdotal proof of anything please punch me in the face

long read but scary how manipulative facebook is. so glad i'm off it but no doubt i still exist on it somehow which is gross and rude

https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figure ... 1819822691

I had a strange friend suggestion a couple years ago. The wife of a guy who I know from attending several industry conferences with over the years.

Strange factors at play:
* We live no where near each other. Not even in the same country (they're Canadian).
* I've never met the guy's wife.
* The guy never came up as a friend suggestion first. I only noticed the wife as a suggestion because of the somewhat unique last name, and I thought "WTF?".
* I don't have his contact info in my work or personal contacts. I've emailed him from my work account a couple times over the years, but that is not connected to my Facebook account. The only connection I see here is that I have the Facebook app on my work phone.
* It is strange that she would show up, but yet people who I work with every day (and email all the time) who I'm not Facebook friends with do not ever show up.

Popeye_Card wrote:I had a strange friend suggestion a couple years ago. The wife of a guy who I know from attending several industry conferences with over the years.

Strange factors at play:
* We live no where near each other. Not even in the same country (they're Canadian).
* I've never met the guy's wife.
* The guy never came up as a friend suggestion first. I only noticed the wife as a suggestion because of the somewhat unique last name, and I thought "WTF?".
* I don't have his contact info in my work or personal contacts. I've emailed him from my work account a couple times over the years, but that is not connected to my Facebook account. The only connection I see here is that I have the Facebook app on my work phone.
* It is strange that she would show up, but yet people who I work with every day (and email all the time) who I'm not Facebook friends with do not ever show up.

https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figure ... 1819822691

lukethedrifter wrote:

Popeye_Card wrote:I had a strange friend suggestion a couple years ago. The wife of a guy who I know from attending several industry conferences with over the years.

Strange factors at play:
* We live no where near each other. Not even in the same country (they're Canadian).
* I've never met the guy's wife.
* The guy never came up as a friend suggestion first. I only noticed the wife as a suggestion because of the somewhat unique last name, and I thought "WTF?".
* I don't have his contact info in my work or personal contacts. I've emailed him from my work account a couple times over the years, but that is not connected to my Facebook account. The only connection I see here is that I have the Facebook app on my work phone.
* It is strange that she would show up, but yet people who I work with every day (and email all the time) who I'm not Facebook friends with do not ever show up.

https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figure ... 1819822691

Yes. I also saw this.

https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figure ... 1819822691

The only thing from that article that would make the connection is if the guy has me (and of course his wife) in his phone contacts. Which I guess is possible.

I totally go birdsed this thread.

Even at only what can be demonstrated as true, there's some crazy tracking going on. Facebook engineers literally couldn't tell you how that information about you got to them and then to their partners and then to some ad (they really don't know). But good lord do they pump you for data.

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/

BottenFieldofDreams wrote:Even at only what can be demonstrated as true, there's some crazy tracking going on. Facebook engineers literally couldn't tell you how that information about you got to them and then to their partners and then to some ad (they really don't know). But good lord do they pump you for data.

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/

Had a brief interaction with statman on Facebook. Shortly after he got an ad for a Hank Williams poster on his timeline.

One time I got an ad on facebook for getting a bigger penis. Obviously, I screencapped and shared it on my feed. My aunt didn't like that. I'd love to know the path that got that ad got to me, or on facebook at all--there were pictures of several penises on it.

Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society

Palihapitiya’s criticisms were aimed not only at Facebook, but the wider online ecosystem. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works,” he said, referring to online interactions driven by “hearts, likes, thumbs-up.” “No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem — this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.”

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/167 ... rt-society