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Facebook Celebrates Turning 12 Today (cnbc.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the happy-birthday-facebook dept.

12 years ago today, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, and since then the site has grown at a nearly unbelievable pace. Now, with about 1.6 billion monthly active users, Facebook makes an average of $3.73 in revenue per user worldwide. And as the company continues to grow, engagement is only getting higher. According to an analysis by CNBC, users spend an aggregate of 10.5 billion minutes per day on the social media platform -- that's around $3.5 trillion in squandered productivity, by their estimate. Facebook is celebrating its birthday by marking today "Friends Day" and adding personalized videos to each user's account showing their best moments with friends, or at least what Facebook's algorithms think are the best moments. (Users can opt to share the video or keep it private.) The company's also announced an updated degrees-of-separation metric to make it easier to connect with other users.

153 comments

  1. Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by sinij · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Celebrate? Lets mourn our collective privacy. Lets mourn proportionality of outrage. Lets mourn moving on from your mistakes. Lets mourn minding your own business.

    1. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by ArchieBunker · · Score: 3, Informative

      Facebook gets its content from users. Blame them. This is what the public wants.

      --
      Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
    2. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by sinij · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Facebook gets its content from users. Blame them. This is what the public wants.

      Absolutely not. Users didn't sign up for this, they signed up to stay in touch with their friends. Facebook pulled bait and switch. At no point do they actually explain the implications of what their users are doing.

    3. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My privacy, relatively speaking, is just fine, since I refuse to have anything to do with Facebook. Ask yourselves: Do you really need Zuckerberg all up in your business? You people literally give your lives away to Facebook; why would you do that? I haven't heard a single argument for it in 12 years that stands up to scrutiny, since all your reasons have alternatives that don't involve social media of any kind. Come on, people, take back your lives! At least stand up and demand to be paid for your data! If they're 'earning' (more like 'stealing' if you ask me) $3.73 per user, then how about they give you back at least half of that? If you're going to sell yourselves out it may as well be in cash money.

    4. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by drpimp · · Score: 1

      BS they clicked agree to a FREE service / website. Don't like it use the old archaic methods of email, phone, and (shocker) .... talking face to face!!!!

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      -- Brought to you by Carl's JR
    5. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      At no point do they actually explain the implications of what their users are doing.

      They probably imagined that the average person isn't legally fucktarded, which of course, isn't the case.

      It takes a pretty huge dumbass to imagine someone's going to offer a service at great cost to themselves in exchange for nothing.

    6. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by gstoddart · · Score: 1

      It is unfortunate that they don't tell people this, but if you're not paying for it, you're the product.

      Nobody is giving you something for free just to be nice.

      And I'm sure the terms of service nobody ever reads it spells out what they're doing.

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      Lost at C:>. Found at C.
    7. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm on Facebook because many friends and relatives send invitations to events only via Facebook. What's your solution to that, don't attend those events?

    8. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      "They probably imagined that the average person isn't legally fucktarded..."

      Wrong. Their business model has been built from the START on this idea. For reference, see Zuckerberg's comment (years ago) about his users:

      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

    9. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by m2shariy · · Score: 1

      And Facebook is making $3.73 per head!

    10. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1

      Let's mourn the lack of a "dislike" button, because, god forbid, I have my own opinion and I disagree with your stupid shit Why can't we agree to disagree?

      Let's mourn the apathy & stupidity of the sheeple who don't give a fuck about How they, the users, ARE the product.

      But I forgot the /oblg. "Amerika Fuck Yeah! We're #1 -- Yay for greed & capitalism!" Who needs to give a damn about respecting people and not (ab)using them! :-/

      --
      I don't want to be real-life friends with anyone stupid enough to use fazebook. (And nothing of value was lost.)

    11. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You do realize if Facebook was called something else you'd have posted the same thing, right?

      If you don't like the average person, that's fine.

    12. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1

      Celebrate? Lets mourn our collective privacy

      That is entirely within your hands. Facebook knows exactly what you have told them or one of their partners. They know too much about you? Look in the mirror.

      --
      If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
    13. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My family does the same. I tell them to call me if they want me to attend. When they call asking when I'm going to get there, I tell them I didn't know it was happening and if they want me to show up, they should call. It took a while, but they've learned. As far as I'm concerned, if you can't be bothered to call me, then we're not really friends.

    14. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You have a strange definition of friend. I have a friend who doesn't make it to a lot of of events anymore because he's not on Facebook and we aren't going to coddle him by calling him every time something is going on. He's extremely paranoid about his privacy yet there is nothing in his life the government or a corporation would care about. I believe my friend and people like this are mentally ill.

    15. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They also know what other people have told you about them.

      Or what their embedded like buttons report that you are doing (unless you've gone out of your way to firewall them).

    16. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh my God! Shut the fuck up, you crybaby bitch. Stick to Slashdot and newsgroups where trolls like you belong.

    17. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by sinij · · Score: 1

      Dear Frosty Piss,

      Facebook knows exactly jack shit about me. This is because I am paranoid with history and value my privacy over convenience. I am certain you can relate.

      Sincerely yours,

      Screwtape

    18. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by sinij · · Score: 1

      I believe you are a bad friend for passing judgments and being unwilling to overcome minor inconvenience of calling or texting to include your supposed friend.

    19. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's extremely paranoid about his privacy yet there is nothing in his life the government or a corporation would care about.

      And who the fuck are you to decide that about anybody but maybe yourself? Never mind that it's completely besides the point: We have a right to keep our private lives private, regardless of whether anyone else would think anything about our lives would be of interest to some corporation, government, or individual, and if you believe otherwise, then you are the one who is 100% wrong, and perhaps you are the one who is mentally ill.

      Oh and by the way: On the flip-side of your (weak, incorrect) argument: What the fuck make you think that anything about your pathetic, generic, useless little excuse for a life is so gods-be-damned interesting or important to anyone, anywhere, that you need to broadcast it on shitty social media? Do you have some sort of attention-seeking disorder? Perhaps megalomania? Narcissistic tendencies?

      Complains about people who want to exercise their basic human right to privacy being mentally ill
      Likely suffers from an entire spectrum of mental disorders himself

      'Pot calling the kettle black' much?

      Get fucked.

    20. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Celebrate? Lets mourn our collective privacy.

      You may speak for yourself, but you certainly do not speak for me and people I know. Virtually nothing about me is
      on Facebook, nor have I ever used it, nor do any of my close friends or business associates use it.

      Not everyone is an idiot.

    21. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm on Facebook because many friends and relatives send invitations to events only via Facebook. What's your solution to that, don't attend those events?

      Your friends and relatives are lazy idiots if they insist on only using F**b**k for such things.

      And if you don't realize this is the case, you're an idiot too.

    22. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So you have no respect for your friend's preferences ?

      Then you are not a friend, and the guy you call paranoid probably realizes this
      and doesn't care that he doesn't get invited to places where you will be, because
      he understands the sort of person you are.

    23. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Indeed, I don't attend events that are only send via Facebook. Because friends and relatives actually want me to visit those events, they also invite me with regular SMS, e-mail are just face to face. Many people don't use Facebook, so it's not they have to do something special to send me an invitation.

      'Friends' who only who to be befriended with Facebook friends do send invitations via Facebook only. But if they can't bother sending non Facebook friends an invitation, I don't bother to visit their event either. You can see it as natural selection where there is a breed that only chooses their friends and potential mating partners through social media, and the others who have others ways to communicate. Even though 1.6 billions seems like everyone is on Facebook, I still know more people who are not on Facebook than people who are on Facebook. This is probably a result of natural selection. Maybe I don't even meet people who use Facebook only to make contact? Who knows? And more important, who cares?

    24. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by jrumney · · Score: 1

      By posting videos reminding people of their ex-girl/boyfriends, the backstabbing friends that later became worst enemies, their dead friends and relatives etc, this is effectively what they are promoting isn't it?

    25. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is unfortunate that they don't tell people this, but if you're not paying for it, you're the product.

      I hate this fucking quote. It's bullshit because it doesn't even match reality anymore.

      These days even people who PAY for a product are still treated like the product and suffer privacy abuse and what now. Take Windows 10 for example. Yes it's free if you're upgrading and grab it during the free 12 month window, but it still costs money if you buy it outright, and it'll still cost money if bought after the free upgrade wraps up (it ain't free forever). And guess what - even when it's bought, it'll still have heavy telemetry and targeted advertising. I'm not ragging on Microsoft just because of Microsoft though, basically every corp and startup seems to want additional data of its users transmitted silently despite whether the product the users themselves are interested in is free or not.

      This saying needs to die. It's highly misleading.

    26. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by KGIII · · Score: 1

      The thing is, on Slashdot we've got user generated content, journals, a friend and foe system, ways to include contact information, ways to link to other's content, and ways to contact each other in private. Slashdot is pretty much a social network - the friend and foe system, being public, makes it even more so as you develop a network. Hell, I've met dozens of people from this site in the real world. I've communicated with many more by off-site means or, if you'd prefer, a private message.

      I don't have a Facebook account but I'll happily tell folks all about my on Slashdot - and I've even invited them (and had them come) to celebrate with me. I gave good directions to my house and then gave refined directions via email. We had a blast. There were a bunch of people, not just from Slashdot, and a good time was had by all. I'll probably do it again.

      So, I dunno? I mean, Slashdot pretty much fits the bill as being a social networking site. Albeit the methods aren't as well polished... But, still... Given the longevity of your account, I could probably read your post history and figure out quite a bit about you on a personal level. You'd be a rarity if that wasn't true. Hell, I know people's spouses, kids, and sometimes their pets - all from Slashdot.

      But no... I don't have a Facebook account. :/ Meh, I've got all the 'friends' I need already and some pretty good folks came from Slashdot itself. Hell, I've gifted hardware to folks here. I've actually gifted a few things to folks here - and even offered a few desktops that are rather recent just the other day. They're only a few years old and have 8 to 16 GB of RAM in 'em. So, now those have gone to a good home too - but not to a Slashdot member. We've got contacts with others, we've got our journals, we've got links, and we've got a public facing friends/foes list.

      --
      "So long and thanks for all the fish."
    27. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by KGIII · · Score: 1

      Promoting or enabling? While I've no love (or use) for Facebook - I'm not sure that they're explicitly promoting such though I'd accept an argument that they're facilitating such. I'm a pretty firm believer in that tool are just tools - it's how you use them that matters. Some people will use tools to do bad things, others will use them for good things.

      It's a bit like speech, really. You can say good things or you can say poor things. You can use it to create art or you can use it to create wrath. It can certainly be abused, at the very least abusive, but it isn't bad in and of itself. It can even be dangerous and used to cause real harm or hardship. Yet, I'd really hate to see it prevented or banned.

      So, no... I'd not say that they, themselves, are "effectively promoting" that sort of behavior. I'd say that they enable it, that they facilitate it, and that they might even tolerate it. I'd tolerate you saying racist things but I don't think that'd be me "effectively promoting" it. It's a tool and people make of it what is in their nature to make. I own a variety (and an obscene number) of firearms but they're just tools and usually used for sport. There's nothing inherently wrong with a tool. There can be something wrong with what a tool is used for. In the firearm example, I use it to feed myself (and others) or I go on mass shooting sprees where I've been known to kill hundreds of innocent bits of paper. Even if you're paper, there's no need to fear the firearm but there might be cause to fear the operator.

      Yeah, as I think more about it... I don't think that is "effectively what they are promoting." That might be some of what they enable but I don't think they're promoting it. However, there's a chance that there's something I am unaware of? I can't say that I know a lot about the site other than what folks tell me and what I read on Slashdot. From what I know, which might not be as much as you know, they're not really promoting any such thing(s). Maybe I'm missing something?

      --
      "So long and thanks for all the fish."
    28. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by jrumney · · Score: 1

      To clarify, Facebook is posting the videos (visible initially only to the account holder). The behaviour I was suggesting they are promoting is "mourning our collective privacy" etc, vs Facebook's stated intention of "celebration". I was not suggesting that Facebook is promoting relationship breakups etc, though I do believe they may be culpable in some case.

    29. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

      So the online home for petulant self absorbed teenagers is nearly as petulant self absorbed teenager itself

      --

      Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.

    30. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by sinij · · Score: 1

      It is something I have considered, but I believe you would be out of luck. Unless you are an especially talented PI you would end up knowing a lot about my believes and opinions, and how they have changed over years, but nothing about who I am. I think this aspect is important and what differentiates /. from social sites.

      I certainly belong to /. but I can happily do so without ever bringing up my real identity into it. I am happy being a dog.

    31. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. by KGIII · · Score: 1

      Those are probably quite a bit of info that can be used for a variety of results. They can be used to track you, monetize you, and probably even dig deeper if they had server logs. Me? Oh no... Err... I'm David. I've met a bunch of you crazy bastards. I've fed some of you, gotten you drunk, and entertained you. So, I guess it's what you do with it that matters?

      Though, I suppose, with access to server logs and some sleuthing it might be possible to ferret you out. Given your likes and dislikes and some access to the back-end at a few similar sites, they might be able to. But yeah, I presume I'd be able to figure a lot out about you just by your post history. Possibly more than we might realize.

      --
      "So long and thanks for all the fish."
  2. Happy Birthday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Too bad its average user doesn't act any older than the company.

  3. 12 years of that shit by NotInHere · · Score: 5, Insightful

    when can we get rid of facebook?

    1. Re:12 years of that shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      when facts are more important than how people feel.

      fact: being social means engaging in 3D space with a real human(s)

    2. Re:12 years of that shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Most of my close friends, I've known for over 30 years (grade school even). If I called any of them up and asked for anything, I'm sure they would give it to me (and visa versa) to the extent of our abilities. I only know one has fb because they own a business.

    3. Re:12 years of that shit by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      As someone who's on the other side of the world than all the people I've made friends with over the last 10 years I hope it stays.

      Don't want it, don't use it.

    4. Re:12 years of that shit by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

      I'm just looking forward to being able to say "Oh that's just so facebook" in a few years time (Hopefully not too many) I mean it's progenitor Fiends Reunited is closing it's doors soon

      --

      Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.

  4. Normally, by jenningsthecat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd say "many happy returns". But in this case I'll simply say "sod off, and may you have no more birthdays - ever".

    --
    'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
  5. UNLIKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    As I say.

  6. "Squandarded productivity"?That depends... by evolutionary · · Score: 1

    Given that facebook has collected so much data that can be used by intelligence agencies, I'm sure they see this is VERY productive: People voluntarily giving lots of private data that has been used by hundreds of agencies including but not limited to government intelligence, insurance investigators, human resources, private intelligence/investigation, recruiting and marketing companies. Facebook has probably injected "nitro" into the fuel of face recognition technology development. Happy Birthday, Facebook (aka "The Facebook"). You've given us insight into our friends and family, in some cases more than the data owner probably would like if the thought about it in between postings...

    --
    "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
    1. Re:"Squandarded productivity"?That depends... by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 1

      Well I still submit my antarctic born, hogwarts attending, international, two-spirit gender facebook avatar has sabotaged someone's productivity and finances. At the very least a past employer on whose dime I created it, and whatever big brotherish agencies are slurping facebook and have the unholy job of fumigating the nonsense. Most of my uploaded photos are of cats I do not own, internet memes I didn't create, and lately every derp face Trump picture ever taken. The latter itself could fill a sizable storage array.

      Still, i can do what passes for interaction with my family in a synthetic and non-time consuming way, which is all facebook has ever been good for anyway.

    2. Re:"Squandarded productivity"?That depends... by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

      How useful is data that is complete bullshit to begin with? Do you believe everything people post of Facebook?

      --
      I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
    3. Re:"Squandarded productivity"?That depends... by deKernel · · Score: 1

      So are you saying that I didn't actually climb Mount Everest, jet ski across the Pacific ocean on a half a tank of gas, help in the birthing of 15 white rhino's in Africa AND submit a 3 line patch of code to Slashdot to fix their Unicode character issue?

    4. Re:"Squandarded productivity"?That depends... by KGIII · · Score: 1

      Most of my uploaded photos are of cats I do not own, internet memes I didn't create, and lately every derp face Trump picture ever taken. The latter itself could fill a sizable storage array.

      I'm not really a religious person but, and I think this is a first, I'm inclined to say, "You're doing God's work, son."

      --
      "So long and thanks for all the fish."
  7. Celebrate booting gun forums/owners? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, they did get rid of all the gun forums and put all admins of them in FB jail for a few days... if that is a good thing, it needs to be said, but kicking the gun owners out did spike FB's stock.

    1. Re:Celebrate booting gun forums/owners? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You don't have a right to do and say whatever you want to while using someone else's platform. They are in charge of what is displayed on their website. Pretty fucking straight forward honestly, and the fact that you can't figure that out is pretty god damned stupid.

    2. Re: Celebrate booting gun forums/owners? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not a good thing. Guns are a legal item in the United States.

    3. Re:Celebrate booting gun forums/owners? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      FB can do what they want; they are a private company. You agreed to the EULA, and if you don't like it, there are many other social networks.

      Personally, I have been pleasantly surprised with WeMe. However, long-term, it would be nice to "decentralize" and have it where there are interlinked social networks so a person on one network can post to another person's wall on another, given appropriate permissions. However, I doubt this will be done.

    4. Re:Celebrate booting gun forums/owners? by gstoddart · · Score: 0

      Yeah, so are the 4th and 5th amendments, and habeas corpus, how's that working out for 'ya?

      The 4th and 5th have been gutted or ignored, and you had an AG who famously said habeas corpus doesn't exist.

      Why does everyone let the other Constitutional rights get shat upon, but act like that one damned thing is inviolate?

      Why aren't all those people loudly braying about their 2nd amendment defending the other Constitutional rights?

      --
      Lost at C:>. Found at C.
    5. Re: Celebrate booting gun forums/owners? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hopefully Hillary can fix this when she gets inaugurated next year.

    6. Re:Celebrate booting gun forums/owners? by Hylandr · · Score: 1

      Why does everyone let the other Constitutional rights get shat upon, but act like that one damned thing is inviolate?

      Why aren't all those people loudly braying about their 2nd amendment defending the other Constitutional rights?

      Because the 2nd amendment is what will enable us to get those others back. There is a LOT of civil process still available before the braying you hear is gunfire.

      I for one do not look forward to that. But the 2nd amendment remains as a legal means to enforce the will of the people as a *last resort*

      --
      ~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
    7. Re:Celebrate booting gun forums/owners? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      its not and never has been the purpose of the 2nd. it was to keep slave states in the union. no govt ratifies the method by which it can be violently overthrown. and, incidentally, there is no fucking way that armed civilian militias will overthrow the US government. nor do i want any such groups to do that in my name. I will fight alongside ANY US GOVT to stop the 2nd amendment loonies from gaining power. sign me up.

  8. Family and old friends ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The only reason I have an account is for friends and family - I wonder how many other accounts are purely for this reason?

    I guess, just for that, it serves a purpose - but it does seem the laziest of options.

    1. Re:Family and old friends ... by sims+2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Only reason I have an account is to communicate with companies that don't have their own login system.

      I'm on my second account now my first one was locked.
      Apparently I fell awry of their real name policy. For some reason they didn't believe my name was ikate facebork.

      --
      Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
    2. Re:Family and old friends ... by jones_supa · · Score: 2

      The only reason I have an account is for friends and family - I wonder how many other accounts are purely for this reason?

      Huh? Keeping up with friends and family is the main purpose of Facebook.

    3. Re:Family and old friends ... by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

      I wonder if Deez Nutz has a Facebook account?

      --
      I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
    4. Re:Family and old friends ... by truck_soccer · · Score: 1

      No, the main purpose of facebook is to analyze your activity and sell the pertinent data to a third party. That is facebooks main purpose. How and why you use it are part of the data that facebook collects.

    5. Re:Family and old friends ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Yes., Also, And, And, And, And, And, And, And, And, And, And,
      And More!

    6. Re:Family and old friends ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Didn't someone post in a thread a while back that they lost a job because the interviewer considered them too incompetent to hire because they were not supposedly "hip" to FB, and didn't put all the intimate details of their life for public consumption? I do know that no LinkedIn == no employment oftentimes.

    7. Re:Family and old friends ... by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 1

      I heard of some Asian guy having trouble with FB. His name was Fook Yu. I don't know if that was a true story.

      --
      Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
    8. Re:Family and old friends ... by jones_supa · · Score: 1

      I meant from the perspective of the user.

  9. Well intentioned, but creepy. by scunc · · Score: 1

    I just watched my "Friends Day" video, and I'm now confused as to whether I have a social media account or a stalker.

    1. Re:Well intentioned, but creepy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's a social network account not social media account.

      Don't confuse it with what the ancient media companies want it to be.

  10. Retro by Harold+Halloway · · Score: 5, Funny

    People still use Facebook? How quaint!

    1. Re:Retro by truck_soccer · · Score: 2

      Is that supposed to be funny? They have 1.03 BILLION WITH A B daily active users.

    2. Re:Retro by Ian+A.+Shill · · Score: 1
      What that means is that there are more than a billion dumb motherfuckers. That's billion with a "b". Also, Mark, please go.

      Is that supposed to be funny? They have 1.03 BILLION WITH A B daily active users.

      --
      For hire.
    3. Re:Retro by antdude · · Score: 1

      What were you expecting they would be using? :P

      --
      Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
    4. Re:Retro by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Oh what's so dumb about using a social media platform to communicate oh enlightened Slashdot commenter?

    5. Re:Retro by truck_soccer · · Score: 1

      You were able to detect that I am indeed Mark Zuckerberg?! I mean, who else would know how many active users are on Facebook? It's not like that information is readily available to anyone with access to a search engine. You're obviously so much better than the 1 in 7 people who use Facebook, simply because you use it. Please continue to shower us in the glory of your power and wisdom, oh great and mighty Oracle. We must show these 1.03 billion people the sin of their ways, shine a light on the path to Enlightenment! Praise Him!



      Was that sarcastic enough? I've only had 1 cup of coffee this morning.

    6. Re:Retro by truck_soccer · · Score: 1

      I left a pivotal word out of my stupid rant, thus taking the wind out of my sails. You win, asshole.

  11. "lost productivity" claim rather dubious by Bearhouse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, I'm no Facebook fan, (have been "wasting" my time here for years on /. instead.)
    That hasn't stopped me holding down a job and delivering value to my clients over those same years.
    Also, before the interwebs people did crossword puzzles, and other "non productive" stuff.
    Plenty of people find Facebook a useful marketing tool also; my wife breeds and sells cats, and plenty of contacts have come via fb.

    1. Re:"lost productivity" claim rather dubious by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

      Remember the days before Facebook, when you had to do things like play solitaire in order to waste time?

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      I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
    2. Re:"lost productivity" claim rather dubious by penguinoid · · Score: 1

      If I understood you correctly, you're saying that your wife posts pictures of her pussy on Facebook, which you consider a useful marketing strategy.

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    3. Re:"lost productivity" claim rather dubious by Pseudonymus+Bosch · · Score: 1

      :)

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  12. Thanks Yaelk! by sims+2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thanks for posting! Timothy was about to drive us all nuts.

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    1. Re:Thanks Yaelk! by yaelk · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're welcome!

    2. Re:Thanks Yaelk! by McGruber · · Score: 1

      ^ First comment?

  13. 6 more years, 10+ if they major in the humanities by Overzeetop · · Score: 3, Funny

    At 18 you can kick them out, but if you let them get a BA degree in Afrikaans Translations of Shakespeare, they're going to end up back on your couch.

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    Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
  14. Weird equivalency - times = lost productivity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Only in reference to the US could it seem logical or reasonable to map 'minutes spent on Facebook' to 'dollars of lost productivity'....the land of the 'home & the brave & the 24 hour indentured slave'....oops I mean employee! Seriously how does CNBC know that the minutes spent on FB were during the users 'normal work hours' such that a monetary comparison to 'productivity' is at all relevant...secondly how the heck do they know that any given users time on FB isn't part of their job description and is thus 'productive time' not 'lost time'.

  15. Never used it before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What's facebook?

  16. So that means that next year.... by dskoll · · Score: 5, Funny

    That means that next year, Facebook will be old enough to get a Facebook account, and the entire Facebook computing infrastructure will disappear in a burst of recursion...

  17. I Celebrate 12 Years Without Facebook by Striek · · Score: 2

    With this news, I can now celebrate 12 years of not being on Facebook!

    It's arguably the biggest threat to consumer privacy in our age - a Three Letter Agency's wet dream. I have never, and will never, ever use the steaming pile of user-exploiting, privacy-invading, advertiser-serving shit that Facebook has always been, and will always be. I can happily be a consumer, but I will never be a product if I can help it. I am the lone Facebook holdout amongst everyone I know, and proud of it.

    Here's hoping we've already reached Peak Facebook...

    --
    "Government is like fire; a handy servant, but a dangerous master." -- George Washington
    1. Re:I Celebrate 12 Years Without Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Aren't you a special little snowflake? We are so proud of you for letting us all know that you don't use Facebook. Let me give you a gold star little Timmy... you are head of the class today!

      Oh, I just wish everyone could be as special as you Timmy. Oh wait, you are ALL special in your own special way.

    2. Re:I Celebrate 12 Years Without Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I lol'd

    3. Re:I Celebrate 12 Years Without Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agreed, Facebook is great. :^)
      Shall we go there and never come back to Slashdot, ever?

    4. Re:I Celebrate 12 Years Without Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, the CIA did help fund Facebook in the beginning :) (and other startups to collect data).

  18. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by cayenne8 · · Score: 1
    I'm still proud to say, I'm one of the last 3 folks on planet earth that does not have a FB account, nor have I ever had one....

    I suppose that puts me on some sort of watch list...hmmmm.

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  19. Damn Odd by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 2

    How a company that will do anything they want with your info, and seriously can't be trusted is held in such high regards.

    On the flip side I need to access facebook to keep up with the family, and their doings, Facebook is their social setting.

    1. Re:Damn Odd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can't they just email you? Why is it better to send the contents of all of that to a third party who will (1) analyze it for marketing reasons, (2) sell it, and (3) send it on to you? Why not bypass the middle man, and just communicate directly with your family?

    2. Re:Damn Odd by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 1

      Can't they just email you? Why is it better to send the contents of all of that to a third party who will (1) analyze it for marketing reasons, (2) sell it, and (3) send it on to you? Why not bypass the middle man, and just communicate directly with your family?

      Who knows (mass audience?). Birthdays are killing me, everyone else knows my Sons birthday is coming, but yours truly; and to a smaller extent special occasions planned in the spur of a message. It was hard to give any info to facebook, but rewarding family wise.

      And facebook is damn hard to get back into, I still have an active hotmail account that I used to join Facebook, then MS blocked my access to it, I had it forwarding my email to Gmail, so while I can't access it, all my mail makes it through - now try to get that across to facebook with the right page for that purpose, and url of your page who's name you share with 34k others.

  20. Next Year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Facebook can sign up for an account.

  21. my facebook story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    when I deleted my account, it demanded a reason. I tried to just click "delete". Nope. I didn't want to scan through the idiot choices (one being "i will be back soon, mark!"), so I selected custom reason. Click. Nope. I filled in "fuck off", and then clicked. Finally!

    1. Re:my facebook story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you didn't delete your account. you deactivated it. all your data is still there, on their servers.

    2. Re:my facebook story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Even if you never create an account, it's there as a shadow account if anyone you've ever known mentioned your existence somehow.

    3. Re:my facebook story by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 1

      you didn't delete your account. you deactivated it. all your data is still there, on their servers.

      There is a way to delete your account rather than have it waiting for you. I mentioned it on /. long ago and was given a link that did the trick.
      Google: how to permanently delete your account on facebook
      https://www.facebook.com/help/... - no promises

  22. Before Facebook by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember the days before Facebook, when you had to actually go over to someone's house and hide in the bushes to stalk them?

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    I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
    1. Re:Before Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yep, ahhh those were the days

    2. Re:Before Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, youngsters these days don't get outside enough.

    3. Re:Before Facebook by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      haha yeah those days were fun. Except when they looked out the window.

    4. Re:Before Facebook by k6mfw · · Score: 1

      no, you play "Ding Dong Ditch It."

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  23. Only 'ive mo years 'ill Facebooks legul! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    o'boy, i hope 'er kinfolk has broken her IN!

  24. Re:Happy birthday social media? by Locke2005 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is it just me, or are old white males the only people actually using the SJW acronym?

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    I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
  25. Social Network by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "users spend an aggregate of 10.5 billion minutes per day on the social media platform"

    No it's a social network not a social media.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt12...

  26. Facebook by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

    Where else could you find out how hot that girl you refused to date in high school turned out to be later in life? (The hot girls I went to high school with now look like meth heads, whereas the girl I _almost_ asked out still looks exactly the same, despite being 40 years older.)

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    I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
    1. Re:Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now I feel like a stud because I'm actually connected to ex girlfriends.

      Thanks!

    2. Re:Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      whereas the girl I _almost_ asked out still looks exactly the same, despite being 40 years older.

      Well, what are you waiting for? Make your move now!

    3. Re:Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I tried Facebook for a few weeks, and It was kind of like that for me. In the years since high school I had my highs and lows, I moved across country. My life isn't perfect, but I think it's at least somewhat interesting on some level. One of the girls that everybody wanted had become a total soccer mom, and was still in our home town rooting for the home team and talking about how much she had drank last weekend. I clicked that shit off pretty fast. Anybody who did anything interesting, I already knew. This one girl in our class became a country singer. I already knew.

    4. Re:Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Let me guess: Rehashing all that has you so excited you're off to whack off to gay porn you like?

    5. Re:Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe she uses a photo from 40 years ago?

  27. Re:Celebrate? by Provocateur · · Score: 1

    CELEBRATE!

    The anti-social network I have celebrates tomorrow. Celebrate! Your invitation never made it to the mailbox. But have a drink to commemorate the occasion, and have your dinner (for two-one now the other later) delivered to your door. Come on, do *I* have to think of everything?

    Provocateur

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    WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
  28. Re:Happy birthday social media? by Scottingham · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think you're onto something....

  29. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by Locke2005 · · Score: 2

    But you have a slashdot account... that's SO MUCH BETTER!

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    I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
  30. LUST FOR LIFE! (bom-dom di-dah dum) by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    Lets mourn our collective privacy. Lets mourn proportionality of outrage. Lets mourn moving on from your mistakes. Lets mourn minding your own business.

    I would, but I'm too busy grieving for the poor lost apostrophes.

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  31. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by whipslash · · Score: 4, Funny

    I agree.

  32. Yes, Minister by Hognoxious · · Score: 2

    It takes a pretty huge dumbass to imagine someone's going to offer a service at great cost to themselves in exchange for nothing.

    I think people knew that there was a something. They didn't know that the something could turn out to be anything.

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  33. Re: Happy birthday social media? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's just you.

  34. Worst idea by Ormy · · Score: 1

    This should be their tagline: Facebook, the worst idea you wish you'd thought of first.

  35. Tell me again .. by tetraverse · · Score: 1

    Tell me again, how Facebook makes its money?

  36. Re:Happy birthday social media? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Actually you can tell from the wording that this person is in their late twenties to mid-thirties and is very angry at the early twenties females that he is unable to get attention from. These are the people he pictures when he crunches his face as the term SJW enters his mind.

    Fun fact, any time you see a TLA used, especially to represent a class of people or a political point of view, it is almost always a privileged male, and their constant use of TLA informs you that they are both stupid and ignorant, and can safely ignore anything else they say because there is no thought or content behind it, it's just soundbites. It's not at all a coincidence that both TLA and soundbites are shortening of something until it loses all meaning or very often adopts a new, even opposite meaning.

  37. Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My friends talked me into making a myspace page, back when myspace was a music site. I loved it because I could really fuck with the UI on other people's pages just by dropping some code in a comment. They even had CHAT ROOMS. Then myspace became too mainstream for us crusty punk types (corporations started making myspace pages for their different brands), so we hopped on to facebook immediately after they lifted the college student requirement. Since then I've watched my beloved internet nerd culture become appropriated by the out of touch average people. I've watched as the English language loses effective words to misuse by complete idiots who think that a lawn chair is fit to be described as "epic" not realizing the bar they've just set. I stopped fighting to keep my culture and language, and have given in to the machine. Since I've been culturally neutered by facebook I've used it mainly to look at bullshit media aggregate from various "tech blog" and "news" pages and bands/celebrities that I enjoy. Family and friends are a secondary benefit. It is mainly a way for me to waste 8 hours a day while I sit here and wait for the IRS to close the shop where I am currently employed. On weekends and evenings I don't even bother checking it because I spent my entire day on it. And slashdot.

  38. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by gstoddart · · Score: 1

    As long as you understand that unless you've actively blocked them at the firewall or in your browser an alarming number of sites you visit will still cause Facebook to generate data about you ... because, well, between the Facebook button and embedded scripts, you might be surprised just how much they're already tracking you.

    Well, them and the 15 other tracking sites embedded in most pages that people don't notice is happening.

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  39. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yep. I've never had a FB account, never been to a FB page, yet i get in my personal email invitations from FB saying these people i know all use it, and they are correct, i always know at least half of the people they think i know!

  40. Just rub it in Facebook... by Admiral_Grinder · · Score: 1

    ...I didn't need you to remind me that I have no friends.

    The preview for me was just my kids, my wife, and my mother followed by a bunch of "Happy Birthday" messages people sent me because people subscribed to me, mostly from the rest of my family.

    Kinda like the bottle of coke I had with a pizza, in a hotel room, on a business trip that instructed me to "share with friends".

  41. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    On other hand, I choose to be non-joiner to the bitter end.

  42. Lovely, just lovely by erp_consultant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Zuckerberg becomes one of the richest people in the world by building...the biggest waste of time ever devised.

    Bill Gates is a prick. But at least his company built something - Windows - that makes people productive.
    Andrew Carnegie was a prick. But his companies built railroads that allowed for westward expansion and are still in use today.
    Jay Gould was a prick. But he too built railroads that helped to expand the economy.

    What has Zuck done, exactly? He created a program that is such a time waster that many companies simply block it for fear of their employees surfing cousin Sally's wedding photos on the company dime. Sure, it has helped to reunite some families and I applaud that. And maybe it helped you find that long lost high school chum from 20 years ago. But maybe if you haven't heard from them in 20 years then they don't really give a shit about you? But I digress....

    And the advertising...I mean does anyone really look at those things? If i buy a copy of Car & Driver then I'm really into cars and if I see an ad for car stuff I'm likely to at least read it. But if I'm looking at Sally's wedding photos do I really care about adds for car stuff?

    I know that it makes money for Facebook but the whole thing just seems like a giant house of cards to me.

    1. Re:Lovely, just lovely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      What has Zuck done, exactly?

      He made millions then married an ugly woman, lot of people did respected that.

    2. Re:Lovely, just lovely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "And maybe it helped you find that long lost high school chum from 20 years ago."

      It certainly helped a lot of people bang the ones that got away...

    3. Re:Lovely, just lovely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      by building...the biggest waste of time ever devised.

      Which is why I celebrated Facebook's birthday today by removing Facebook from my toolbar... bad habit, must break.

    4. Re:Lovely, just lovely by thegarbz · · Score: 2

      I concur. Facebook is the biggest waste of time ever. Now excuse me while I finish reading these random comments on Slashdot before I go do a few Sudoku, then sit down in front of the TV for 3 hours on a Simpsons binge. Maybe this afternoon I'll play some candy crush and then fry my brain by driving a tuktuk around in circles in Far Cry 4.

      By many metrics Facebook is far more useful and has far more utility than the stupendously large list of things human beings "waste time" with.

    5. Re:Lovely, just lovely by erp_consultant · · Score: 1

      I'm not suggesting that FB is the only time waster. As you point out, there are many avenues for that. My main point was comparing Zuckerberg to a few other people that have amassed vast fortunes. The others, not without their flaws by the way, at least created something of great value. Something enduring.

      What has FB created? Yes, there have been some positive benefits such as people locating long lost friends, etc. But you have to dig pretty deep to find them and it was probably more by accident than by design. Sorry but clicking the "Like" button does not qualify as a boon to mankind in my books.

      Even if you look at people that were not rich - Hemingway, Shakespeare, Mother Theresa, Isaac Newton, Alexander Fleming - each of them contributed to the betterment of the human race in their own ways. Contributions that far outlived them.

      What will become of FB in 20 years time? Sure, it's all the rage right now. But how long until some shiny new thing comes along? How long before people get bored of clicking Like?

    6. Re:Lovely, just lovely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And it is STILL MY interface they are using and WERE on the good path finishing the code they STOLE, as I had planned it to be. Money? Nothing seen yet, but problem is they seem to HAVE LOST ALL BEAUTIFUL GIRLS WHO SUBSCRIBED TO ARABS AND INDIANS. Like that. Bravo for the Den of Thieves, that was Fallout, but they turned it REAL.

  43. Re:Happy birthday social media? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Did you write that yourself, or did you steal it from some brain damaged idiot on Tumblr?

  44. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by justthinkit · · Score: 1

    (3) or in the hosts file.

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  45. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by gstoddart · · Score: 1

    Yep. I've never had a FB account, never been to a FB page, yet i get in my personal email invitations from FB saying these people i know all use it, and they are correct, i always know at least half of the people they think i know!

    It can actually get worse ... they have a feature which allows you to find contacts ... basically you (like a trusting idiot) upload your contacts to Facebook, who then scour through it to link you to anybody they can identify. So your friends can all get harassed and have their contact information provided to the assholes at Facebook without their knowledge or consent.

    It'll even go one further, and let you just enter your email address and password, and then Facebook will log into it and scour it directly. That people would provide Facebook with their email address and password defies comprehension.

    If you know such a person, Facebook has your email address because one of your idiot friends gave it to them ... which is how they know who you probably know, and what your email is.

    And then once they can associate you with your browser, likely due to crap embedded in the email ... they can track you all over the web.

    Isn't it fucking awesome?

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    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  46. I'm surprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Usually women who surround themselves with cats have no 'friends' on Facebook at all...

  47. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Me too! Kinda figured that bitter end would've happened by now, though.

  48. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by omnichad · · Score: 1

    But do you have a TV?

  49. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by omnichad · · Score: 1

    It'll even go one further, and let you just enter your email address and password, and then Facebook will log into it and scour it directly. That people would provide Facebook with their email address and password defies comprehension.

    I believe they at least use federated login for that so you're not actually submitting credentials to FB itself. But I've never been willing to find out.

  50. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    gstoddart it sounds like you have been that trusting idiot that went through all of that. Can it be that the great (albeit in his dull mind only) gstoddart is projecting his own faults again?

  51. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How would you know all that unless you were a chump that fell for it and got sucked in too gstoddart?

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  53. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by whipslash · · Score: 1

    I was like that with Myspace, caved on Facebook though. Mostly just for the login.

  54. Re:Happy birthday social media? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually you can tell by your projecting you are an old impotent limp whimp viagra dependent withered prune penis that never got any to begin with you withered old wrinkled mummy dementia ridden projectionist of your own issues.

  55. Re:Happy birthday social media? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hahahahahaha that was FUCKING CLASSIC! Best put down I've seen in a long time!

  56. Re:Happy birthday social media? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No, he's just an old disgrunted never got any withered 2" willy prune penis that is trying to make it sound like he is a stud and failing miserably at it.

  57. So much better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So much better? You like being a slave to cookies and javascript so you're trackable for trolling like an idiot would be? Your delusional fantasy fake name online here is no protection against it so best not piss anyone off or it will be the beatings you got in highschool by more manly men against nerdy whimps like yourself. Of course, we understand it gives your kind a sense of validity and worth playing Mr. Fake Name online when you have none in the real world where it matters. Us normal people pity you. We do, but we understand that some human beings, like you, were cursed given no gifts the rest of us have naturally.

  58. Facebook Celebrates Turning 12 Today by MicheleGenobles-Pars · · Score: 1

    Please show me mine.Thank you.

  59. I've never been a user... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...but I almost certain that Facebook knows a heck of a lot about me. And I don't trust facebook to not share such info with other people. And since I never have signed up/ joined Facebook, as far as I know there is not way to contact Facebook and tell them I want my privacy. Does Facebook have a procedure for non-members to see any info about themselves, and correct errors?
    Same reason I never asked for my FBI under the Freedom of Information act. I suspect that if I have a file, it would be fairly short. But I also suspect if I asked to see it, then I would definitely get one, and any pre-existing one would balloon and get larger.
    I suspect if I contact Facebook in an attempt to get them to 'cool it' about me, it would only increase the chatter about me.

  60. Re:Happy birthday social media? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is it just me, or are you another self-hating liberal?

  61. Re:Celebrate? Lets mourn our privacy. (Not ME!!) by jenningsthecat · · Score: 1

    I'm still proud to say, I'm one of the last 3 folks on planet earth that does not have a FB account, nor have I ever had one....

    You're one, and I'm another - I wonder who the third is. ;-)

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