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Facebook To Eliminate Voting On Privacy Changes
Orome1 writes "Facebook has announced some proposed updates to their Data Use Policy (how user data is collected and used) and their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (explains the terms governing use of their services). These updates include new tools for managing Facebook Messages, changes to how they refer to certain products, tips on managing one's timelines, and reminders about what's visible to other people on Facebook. Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president of communications, public policy, and marketing, said: 'We found that the voting mechanism, which is triggered by a specific number of comments, actually resulted in a system that incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality,' he explained. 'Therefore, we're proposing to end the voting component of the process in favor of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement.'"
Therefore, we're proposing to end the voting component of the process in favor of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement.'
It's called turn off the computer, go outside, and act like a human being for once in your god damn life.
My captcha is Uncouth.
Translation: whatever the various government surveillance agencies tell us to do.
Anybody who reads Gawker or sibling websites will know that they changed over to a system called "Kinja" and removed voting for the same reasons. The system was awful on release and only tolerable now and definitely not an improvement. Instead of having a meaningful thread that goes down the page you end up with conversations with 1 other person that nobody else will ever see unless they randomly stumble across your post by clicking multiple times.
How can a crowd make a good decision: half of the voters are more stupid than the average.
lucm, indeed.
I didn't like their privacy system so I cancelled my FB account.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
So the only people that should be allowed to "vote" are people that can contribute "quality" comments? Are they saying that having a large number of people vote is a bad thing, and they would prefer that fewer people vote but have a larger say because their comments are higher "quality"?
You know, if FB had a dislike button to go along with the like button, then they would have an *actual* mechanism that could be used for voting.
Better known as 318230.
Stands on soap box
I vote we keep the voting system! What do you mean I can't vote on it?
If Facebook actually used the "voting" data they did get, they wouldn't have forced people to that timeline crap. In the end what they are saying is, we didn't care what you thought then, and we still don't.
Did they care what people thought about privacy before? I mean we're talking about a company that wont even let you delete your account or photos. A company that admitted to hiring PR firms to smear their competitors about privacy (so FB wouldn't look as bad in comparison).
Anyways, did they ever even pay attention to what users said or voted?
First they get rid of your privacy, then they get rid of voting on privacy, what's next?
This is about social-networking within a captive audience. Anyone with an activate brain understood it was only a feel-good measure. Facebukake never had the slightest intention of considering these 'votes' unless they happened to align well with the interests of the corporation.
And your observation about the electorate within the U.S. is trivial... everyone who believes their vote doesn't count self-selects out of the process which is surface level participation at best, anyway. If you are interested in government, you're involved at a deeper level, not just sitting on the sidelines voting for people on the basis of dubious information.
Give thanks that you don't live in a secular nation where everyone is encouraged to surveil their neighbor and the police have the power to investigate you at will, without oversight of the courts. A nation where military power is used across the planet, in your name, without your understanding or consent. One wherein propaganda is a mission within agencies that are only accountable to whomever holds office.
Oh, wait...
Thank God, for a second there I thought I was having a flashback to the '50's.
I've no idea what they are talking about. Must be because I deleted by FB a while ago.
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Okay, this is perhaps stating the obvious, but recently, facebook seems to be making such a bewildering set of changes which trample your privacy, that it's impossible to keep track of what's going on. Take FB messages -- without any notification that I was aware of, it started telling people whether I'd read their messages or not. Then it stopped doing this (as far as I can tell), but kept doing it for group messages. Then it started telling me where people were located when they were messaging me. Incredible!
Deconstruct the State
I actually need Facebook for scheduling events and informing people in several FB groups about them. It's great for that. And a lot of the people in those groups are just happy enough with it that they'd need a really good reason to change. So to an extent, I'm stuck. However, I have certainly felt no obligation to be truthful with Facebook about my age or any other "facts" in my profile. My friends know what's real and what isn't. Nobody else needs to know.
Facebook has been so dickish toward its users that I can't help but think it's just one good alternative away from oblivion. Google Plus wasn't it. Diaspora was stillborn. Alternatives like Orkut and Friendster have never really caught on in North America, but have been moderately successful elsewhere.
So like millions of perpetually-annoyed Facebook users, I'm just waiting for that one great alternative that I can move to along enough contacts to lever the rest over as well. When it comes along, Facebook can kiss my rosy ass.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
>>Therefore, we're proposing to end the voting component of the process in favor of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement.'
Therefore, we're proposing to end the voting component of the process in favour of a system that leads to us being able to get more cash
I'm disturbed by the fact that you know this.
I honestly have no idea what they are talking about. I admit I'm not a big Facebook user, but I enter some times a week and never saw such voting.
Can someone clarify?, is this a US only thing?
Care-o-meter: barely moving.
I'll just keep on using adblock, such a first world anarchist...
I know we all love ragging on facebook for its anti-user and anti-privacy practices, myself included, but the entire idea behind social networks was sharing things with people. If you don't want something on the internet, don't put it there.