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Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The social network is getting aggressive with people who don't log in often, working to keep up its engagement numbers, Bloomberg reports. Sample this for instance: It's been about a year since Rishi Gorantala deleted the Facebook app from his phone, and the company has only gotten more aggressive in its emails to win him back. The social network started out by alerting him every few days about friends that had posted photos or made comments -- each time inviting him to click a link and view the activity on Facebook. He rarely did. Then, about once a week in September, he started to get prompts from a Facebook security customer-service address. "It looks like you're having trouble logging into Facebook," the emails would say. "Just click the button below and we'll log you in. If you weren't trying to log in, let us know." He wasn't trying. But he doesn't think anybody else was, either. "The content of mail they send is essentially trying to trick you," said Gorantala, 35, who lives in Chile. "Like someone tried to access my account so I should go and log in."
Say no to the Silicon Valley mafia.
Maybe we get lucky and this is foreshadowing of the beginning of the end for Facebook? :-)
Yes, 2 years to get off FB and finally stop receiving their junk emails. Get a life by getting off FB.
Of course they want you back. How do they make money off you if you don't show up. How do they sell behavioural data on you if they can't track you.
Seems logical and not very surprising they want you back.
Overage charges at 25 cents each sucks when Facebook sends so much spam. I disabled very notification I could find, but still getting them.
MySpace never cut me off, and I haven't logged in there in a decade.
I'm coming back MySpace, so turn the light back on!
"Just click the button below and we'll log you in."
says every phishing e-mail ever...
Login when you need to look at something. Then deactivate again.
Does anybody still have a MySpace account?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I got one of these last year. It was a good reminder to log in and completely delete my account for good, after not using it for several years. I did the same for Google+ just last week. I came to the realisation that while superficially convenient, they weren't adding much value to my life and were in many respects a net negative. Facebook in particular had become a cesspool of irrelevant time-wasting nonsense. Finally deleting them all felt quite liberating. Like I'm no longer being spied on by super creepy people, though I'm sure they'll still try their best to track me.
Dear Facebook,
That wasn't me trying to log in. Better delete the account right now, lest you have some fake profiles again. Better safe than sorry, delete it NOW, NOW, NOW!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Delete Account. Add an email-rule *@facebook.com -> delete. Solved.
That's why their not logging in anymore.
This is lifted verbatim from the Bloomberg article. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-31/facebook-really-wants-you-to-come-back
If you think that is bad I've never had an account and get targeted to come back! I've been anti-facebook and dislike modern social media like twitter, facebook, myspace, etc for as long (ie longer than) as any of these companies have even been around. I never did the Google thing or the Microsoft thing or the Apple thing either. I did once have an AIM account and ICQ (preferred ICQ and later Jabber/XMPP). Forums, mailing lists, and Slashdot are as close to social networking as I dare get as my lack of a login here evidences that.
Of course you can disable the text messages. Just give your provider a call and say you want to disable it. Or disable the messaging app you use in the phone.
Companies the size of Facebook that really get into trouble whine at governments to bail them out.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Another sign that centralized social media is on its way out. Steemit is going to eat facebooks lunch. And Reddits.
I've seen other companies try to use security scares to get you to log back in, like ubisoft.
If your account isn't locked out then it's likely just pr scam to get you to remember their services and login again. They wonder why people are alert and ad overloaded and don't respond to things, even ones that matter, because all the shady scamming crap from 'trusted companies' is fake.
Security alerts used to mean something, and people shouldn't ignore them, but they've started to since companies are abusing that content.
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It seems more and more I log into Facebook less and less. I feel stronger, better, and I now can work harder than ever before!
I never used facebook very much and got a similar email recently. Honestly, I prefer Minds. The community is small enough that I don't have to deal with the vitriol of random relatives in my feeds or 1k friend requests as soon as I create an account..
Your wish has been retroactively granted. Keep looking...
How about getting fixing the issue for those who actual use it. NO i dont want to have zuckerburg as a friend. No I dont want the fifth cousin of a neighbors uncle's cousin as a friend.. WHile I hate ads, I understand them. I dont need help finding friends..
So I rarely login, but I've never received a message a security message - most likely someone is either intentionally or accidentally attempting to log in as you. The other ones you can just unsubscribe from.
I'm curious for alternatives to facebook. I think other slashdotters might be curious too. So, I'll pose the question: what do you use facebook for, and what is an alternative you might suggest?
Fwiw, I'm particularly curious about tracking events, and scheduling things.
FB was nice 10 years ago, we re-fond old friends, exchanged words and pictures, but now my FB feed is ads and useless articles, less and less real people posts things. I scroll my feed the morning for 1 minute and that's it. It looks like it's dying and FB has limited growth (1.5 billion people on it). :-/
With families and friends we have groups in Messenger and are using it way more than FB, but the application became a behemot and now, with ads, so at one time we wil have to change this. Techies easily can switch to a new app, but with older members of family it will be hard to switch
"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
An annoying practice, sure, but what ever happened to blocking a particular sender?
Stopped going on Facebook after being out of the country for a couple weeks without internet access. Facebook turns into the crazy jealous girlfriend, sending countless emails to you.
It's been a while since you've been here. Come back....
Why haven't you checked your feed lately?
Your friend did this thing. You should really look at it!
Something happened. You should really come see us and find out what.
Why aren't you checking these things!? You're missing out!
WHERE ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU IGNORING US!!?!?!?
is if you really want to find local underground/niche music events/raves or even some general music most of the promotion now happens on FB or unless you really hang around/are friends with the people in the industry. Pretty fucking silly if you ask me
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
This is an NSA/CIA/FBI/ETC wet dream for spying (on Americans and otherwise). I'm sure Facebook has deep in roads with the gov't.
I remember the old Onion article calling Zuckerberg CIA agent of the year many years ago. It's supposed to be satire but ...
If you're in the U.S. simply reply "STOP ALL" to any one of the texts. Every shortcode operator is required to implement this command by permanently ceasing all future messages upon receiving it. There are a few other keyword commands mandated by the CTIA but this one is by far, the most useful.
but when a local newspaper does not like the comments you post on their stupid, racist stories, they block your Facebook account for 30 days.
..part of the book. In the face, part of the book. In the face, part of the book.
So it looks like neither of us is going to get what we want, Facebook.
Oh well.
"Suckerberg *WILL* eliminate all stupid people."
So he'll eliminate everyone with a Facebook account?
aparently one guy recieving these emails is news (clearly he didnt uncheck the possible reasons to send him email.)
also fta: "In order to count as a monthly active user, someone must have logged into or shared content on Facebook at least once in the last 30 days of the quarter."
how does one share something on facebook with out logging in? even if they are logged in consantly (through cookies or the app) then one would think that a session start would be enough
another question, how are these people sure that they are not getting phishing emails?
Fuck Facebook and the TOS they rode in on.
My desire for privacy, distrust of a business, creepiness of a company violating my Constitutional Right of Privacy,* wariness of scams...all of this confirmed as not paranoid enough 8 or 5 years later by Edward Snowden, motivated me to never join in the first place.
As a positive side effect, I haven't been contacted by people I no longer wanted to contact me.
I'm still mystified why so many people fell for it!
* Yes, there is a Constitutional Right to Privacy, at least for us Californians
State of California Constitution
ARTICLE I DECLARATION OF RIGHTS [SECTION 1 - SEC. 32] ( Article 1 adopted 1879. )
SECTION 1.
All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.
Facebook is the run-down trailer court of the Internet. Sure, your neighbors are there, and so is the guy who owns the park. And the meth-head in trailer 4.
You are the company you keep.
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Hey retard Alexander Peter Kowalski you posted that already.
You really should claim your retarded antisemitic shit.
We know you don't like being down modded but when that happens it doesn't mean post it again.
I recently logged into Facebook for the first time in ages, and looked at my friend's list out of curiosity.
I was surprised at how many Facebook Friends I have, with live accounts, where I know that the person is actually dead (died since creating and last using their accounts).
This means that Facebook must be filling the e-mail accounts of a lot of dead people. How creepy...
How does it feel to be less successful - in likely every way imaginable - to someone you think is a moron?
AOL-like CDs in the mail are the next logical step in escalating this.
Wouldn't it make more sense to try and convert or marry in rather than to fight it?
So he'll eliminate everyone with a Facebook account?
I'd just about guarantee you have a FB profile. Do you think you're safe just because you didn't sign up or log in?
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
I know how to destroy FaceBook within an matter of hours, if not minutes.
FaceBook just needs to add a feature that allows people to "Like" likes.
'Course, the doe-eyed masses might be left wondering why someone didn't "Like" their "Like" of a "Like."
-CR
"So is the BSD licence even more 'free' (than GPLv2)? Yes. Unquestionably." --Linus Torvalds (TinyURL.com/2vugzl)
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
They put all FB emails into the "social" category and I never look there. I don't get bothered by FB's pathetic plea begging me to come back. It's desperate, it shows they don't actually have nearly the "viewership" they like to lead people on to believe they have. Just like any and all other social media platforms.
It's like a desperate small business owner chasing customers out the door trying to get them to make a purchase. It's sad, pathetic and a sign they are in the decline. Of all the tech companies out there today, only a small portion will still be around in 10, let alone 50 years.
Google, Microsoft, Apple, most of the telephone companies, these guys will be around for the long haul. But Facebook, Twitter, snapchat, intstagram, they are all passing fads and will disappear or end up like myspace with each new generation and with their death a replacement nobody has even thought off will come to be.
Amazon is questionable. I liken them to be the big box store of the internet. Big box stores have survived about 50 years and are now in the decline, many of them declaring bankruptcy or closing. Will the Amazon met the same fate?
I never signed up ever. Though I bet like linked I. They have my name, addresses and a picture.
It isn't enough to not ever to have an account you can't ever have a photo taken and posted to Facebook either.
Only linked-in is worse
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
The real problem with that is that there is no way to undo. Go back to the original web site after they clean up their act, and you can't re-enable it.
Because the USA far more than Russia with my information.
Less successful in everything?
Well, my wife loves me and likes spending time with me.
I've never been divorced.
I've never been disliked by the majority of my fellow countrymen
I have genuine friends
Sure he has more money, fame, and duped a bunch of people into voting for him. So if those are the things which are most important to you in this life...well that sounds like a pretty shitty life to me compared to genuine friendships and the love of a spouse.
...why I will never, ever have a Facebook account.
I don't know if using GMail is up this guy's alley, but if you click the "Spam" button on these, they will disappear quickly.
I always mod up spelling trolls.
I'll carry on using Facebook for the only thing it is useful to me: to sign in easily into sites that require me to sign in before I can participate. I couldn't care less what kind of garbage populates my Facebook account afterwards. I do not log into explicitly anyway. That's what Facebook is good for: as a trash bin.
Web users who have never signed up for Facebook, such as myself, still have a shadow profile that Facebook infers from two kinds of data source. One is information that Facebook members provide to Facebook about a non-member, such as contacts on their phones and tags in photos. The other is a click-stream, or the sequence of URLs of documents loaded in a non-member's browser that contain Facebook analytic devices, such as its like button or comments plug-in.
Added to my postfix header checks
Gone!
I'd love to know how to permanently delete an account, or has it been made possible since the last time I tried?
The other possibility I thought of is to create a throwaway email address, divert FB to it then throw it away.
"Looks like you are trying to log in". I just assumed some kid was trying to access my account and, frankly, didn't even care. I have 1 friend on Facebook (my wife) and I use it to view local news, kid activities and a couple hobbies. It's a aggregator, just like ./ or reddit for me.
clicking on the link didn't prompt me for a login password. It took me straight into the account with zero authentication.
It's probably the same code path as the password reset: "I forgot my Facebook password, but I remember my email password. Please mint a one-time code and send it to my email address on file with Facebook so that I can reset my Facebook password."
Must be a Russian bot trying to log in as me.
This is why I use a different email address for every service. If you don't have your own domain, then use one of the many services that let you do this easily. Then you can just delete the email address when companies like Facebook start spamming you. It also lets you know who is selling your email address to advertisers.
when did FB accounts become important enough that anyone really cares if their long unused account gets taken over?
Since sites like Slashdot started offering Facebook Login as a login option.
If they gave me that, I would join again.
Hell, if they doubled it, I would even post things.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
FaceBook just needs to add a feature that allows people to "Like" likes.
That's a good way to get your shield eaten.
...aren't spying on you.
The US has started rolling out commercially operated 'traffic cameras' at every intersection during stoplight/network upgrades, resulting in a huge quantity of high performance IP Cameras being attached to every stoplight pole, complete with the ability to rotate them.
Combined with the recent ICE approval to canvas these camera databases 'in the hunt for more illegals!' your facebook-like data mining and lack of privacy has carried over into the real world, and while you were too distracted to rebel, was codified into law. Now your travels, whether around town, county, state, or country are becoming that much less private. Within 5-10 years they will know every move you make by car if not foot traffic, and not long after that they will have a profile of you such that if you ever DO need to escape government persecution you won't have any way out. They will know everyone you know, they will know every path you know, and they will have a computer ranking them by likelihood of you choosing it, just like facebook has.
The future is even scarier than sci-fi predicted, because it is now, and it is everything they warned it would be. Including the part about nobody caring.
It's funny, but these emails have a real air of desperation about them. It's this very air of desperation that puts me off checking them.
That and learning that when I do follow through that it's never anything I'm interested in. Facebook is just so out of touch, and everything they do just discourages me more and more.
Why do people feel the need to continuously broadcast to all and sundry every random and banal moment or thought in their lives? If Facebook could filter this out, and all the sponsored and advertising crap, it might become more valuable again. Meanwhile they just sound desperate.
Facebook's nagging reminds me of the insane girlfriend
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
The more you tighten your grip, the more ... will slip through your fingers.
I finally gave up playing the FB game. I haven't posted. I haven't liked anything. I haven't read any shares in couple months now. I've been tempted to post, but I always stop short of pressing the button. I just look at the pictures that my friends who haven't figured out Instagram post.
Nothing drove home more how much of a game it was when a friend tried to shame me recently for not wishing him happy birthday on FB. For years I sent him, and several other friends (email) birthday wishes on their birthdays. Never got a response to any of those. Never got birthday wishes from them in return either on my birthday. (But I'm not bitter.) After years of that I finally gave up; figuring they didn't care about birthday wishes.
But now that it's a FB game to see how many pokemon, er, I mean likes you can collect they're all about the birthday wishes. So no, I'm not playing the FB Game any more.
Deleting your account doesn't stop the tracking. Blackhole their domains:
https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporations/facebook/all
I've been running with this list for quite a while now. No idea if it is comprehensive, but it seems like a good start.
I'm sure they miss me because I'm just a really great guy and they want to know how my cats are doing... yep.
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
Facebook wants me to use facebook.
I want all of Facebooks upper management to commit slow sepuku using chainsaws.
I guess we can't get everything we want in life.
Corporations are amoral psychopaths, sometimes immoral too.
They did that to me as well. Vague mails about someone posting something. With the app installed, I got the notification that someone posted someting, and it wasn't related to me at all. Clearly they wanted to "teach" me that I should check the damn thing every day.
When I deleted the app, I got those mails about someone posting something.
I ended up closing my account a year ago. Facebook was annoying, my investment in time and attention spent on Facebook didn't provide enough of value to my life.
L'Idiot
The emails saying someone has been trying to log in to my twitter account, which I don't use . . . BS
Recently started getting same type of thing from Instagram: "It seems like you're having trouble logging into Instagram. We can help you get back into your account." What is weird is I signed up a year ago, hadn't really accessed it since signup, recently logged and only then started getting the emails...
I visit FB once every couple of months (over the last three years -- I dislike some FB policies so I've moved on to other sites.) And yes, I've been getting emails about Friends' actions etc, which is OK. What TFA says though is new, and definitely underhanded, "trouble logging in" does suggest attempted misuse by dastardly hackerz; Zuck is sinking to a new low. BTW, no chance I would ever use a Facebook app on a smartphone; go in with a browser (and may I suggest you too have 5 or 6 of them lying about, each tailored to different purposes with varying defenses).
how can I return to FB when I've never been there?
1. Go and delete all your posts. Don't hide them, delete them.
2. Leave any groups, other than your direct family.
3. Unfollow any pages and any groups and any people, in that order.
4. Wait 72 hours.
5. Unfriend all your friends, in batches of less than 10 percent of all friends. Leave your family for last.
6. Specifically deny any pending friend requests, in batches of 100 or less.
7. Wait 72 hours.
8. Delete any tags in any pics you have still.
9. Delete the pics themselves, starting with those with your face in them.
10. Edit your interests. Change them all to none.
11. Wait 24 hours.
12. Now for the fun part. Send your family a message saying you're leaving FB or the social app.
13. Wait 24 hours.
14. Unfriend all your family.
15. Delete your own header, quotes, and pics. Replace them with eggs.
16. Wait 24 hours.
Now, delete your account.
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I'm surprised that farcebook would get up to any dirty tricks.
If 'success in life' is only measured with dollar signs, then our civilization is doomed. Besides which: how many times has he declared bankruptcy?
Trump is lying, cheating, criminal scum, and a windbag. He routinely gets machoed out by strong women. He marries blond bimbos who are only interested in the lifestyle he can give them, and who are too stupid and weak to stand up to him anyway. He's clearly compromised by Russia; they have something on him and are pulling his strings. He's not qualified or appropriate to be president, is making a complete hash of it, and our country has become a laughingstock of the WORLD. He keeps appointing corporate stooges to top government posts, who then proceed to do corporate bidding, and FUCK the American people.
Dumbshits like you who voted for him are ultimately responsible. We should round all of YOU up and put YOU up against the wall for the firing squad. YOU are responsible for America becoming SHIT and in the coming years you will be punished for it.
This is a tech forum, after all - bitching about FB doesn't count for much, unless an alternative is given.
The reason FB is so successful, is that is serves a purpose.
Is there a "clean/safe" FB alternative?
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That's what I've been working on for the last 2 years:www.bookdetective.net; feel free to call me crazy.
Suck my anal cavity!
When i was testing live ads in an app i was working on they kept showing ads to login or join facebook. I was like does facebook really need to buy banner ads in apps? Apparently they do!
Wouldn’t that possibly disable texts from other services too? I’ve noticed multiple unrelated services seem to use the same numbers.
There is no way to post quietly. As if to encourage and nurture narcissism, everything one posts is broadcast like a megaphone to the newsfeed of everyone in the audience list. If you want to share thoughts but not necessarily draw attention to yourself, if you seek to encourage closer more meaningful relationships through posts that your family and friends can only see if they "come visit"...you must look elsewhere.
Infinite scroll is an abomination which prevents the ability to gauge quantity of posts or one's position therein. It steals the light at the end of the tunnel, and consumes ever more memory the deeper the user browses on a given page, effectively hiding old posts. This malpractice is not limited to Facebook; this curse has grown far too popular on social media sites.
Search is likewise the ol' needle in the haystack, about as effective and versatile as the iOS app store (i.e. not) especially after crippling graph search.
Been experiencing this also, at first thought I was just going crazy. As as soon as I deleted the FB app I started getting weird email notifications like "So-and-so commented on your friend's photo"(WTF?), despite having all email notifications turned off. If they're trying that hard to get individuals back, they're dying. Goodbye.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
and no I won't be signing in with them.
If Facebook wants people to stop leaving, they need to be better.
About a week ago I started getting ads on my Android phone every time I unlocked. They were sourced from Adchoices, so Facebook wasn't suspect. It wasn't obvious which app was doing this. As I needed to clean up anyway, I just started deleting large apps and screen locking to see which one stopped them. It turned out to be Facebook's mobile app. I'm pretty sure it wasn't an intention on their part to show someone else's ads, but in many ways the incompetence is worse where private data is concerned.
Golly gee if only I had a rich father to let me be both a moron and successful.
I find people that claim this guy as successful to be suckers that buy his brand of IM DA BEST marketing.
Are yoiu really successful if investing in you would have been worse by a factor of about 3 than just investing in an index fund? Is that "success" to you? Lmfao
That's a really good point. We use Amazon SNS at work to send notifications from monitoring systems, and I shot myself in the foot by blocking a number used by a former vendor that also used SNS.
Facebook is a melanoma, a gigantic tumor on society, without question. An epic cancer on the human phenomena.
127.0.0.1 ads.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com facebook.com
127.0.0.1 pixel.facebook.com
There are about 100 other domains to block too, so look for those.
Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president in history. Yet here you are defending him, trying desperately to avoid admitting you made a mistake when you voted for the fucker.
Stop defending him, it just makes everyone else realize you're a racist, sexist, delusional child
How does it feel to be less successful ... to someone you think is a moron?
I'm pretty sure that to Donald Trump, everyone is a failure; but his opinion isn't important to them.
No, your children are not the special ones. Nor are your pets.
I'd recently been having an episode of depression and anxiety/panic attacks where i had decided to phase out facebook as it really wasn't helping me back in October, then had this https://i.imgur.com/iROTras.png email sent to me 2 months later. I ended up logging in and reactivating the account to see what device may have somehow gotten hold of my password... turns out i was baited by Zuckerberg.
Facebook almost ruined the internet for me. I spend maybe an hour a year there now and things are much better. Facebook is a giant time suck and lets face it, you learn more about your "friends" than you really need to know. I won't cry when Facebook goes away.
Got the same email a couple of month ago. not likely that someone was trying to log me in with that account, I changed Email address when i stopped using FB and it's only used for FB and contains a string of garbage letters and digits.
A couple of months ago I received an email with the subject line
"[username], we've made it easy to get back on Instagram"
and, in the body,
"Hi [username], It seems like you're having trouble logging into Instagram. We can help you get back into your account."
I immediately thought it was someone trying to log into my account, so I changed my password to something even more secure and thought that would be the end of it. I would have enabled two-factor authentication but Instagram doesn't care enough about my account security to provide that feature.
Note, I continue to receive these emails. Screw you Facebook.
when they introduce basic functionality like friends postings etc in timeline fashion instead of showing me 2week old kitten videos that i have never liked... ruining usability by adjusting default behaviour to shit... is rather good way to kill your product
In my case, FB domains are blocked at HOSTS file.
I wonder why it's taken so long for the adtech industry to realize that hosts does not block random subdomains. If you block (say) 22930cd3.analytics.example.com then 920fa116.analytics.example.com remains unblocked. That file's syntax doesn't provide a way to block *.analytics.example.com, though dnsmasq apparently does.
I for certain deleted my facebook account and not just deactivated it (went trough the process of waiting 30 days or so before my account gets deleted for good since i was determined at the time to remove my self completely from social media), and one week ago i received the same email from facebook saying i was trying to log in and to just click the button. since i know i deleted the account more than a year ago, i clicked and was surprised to find my account intact with all my contacts, photos, convos still there
Saw two ads that were like, "Connect with friends and family on Facebook" or some such.
I was like, "Ha hahahahaha ha haha ha."
Facebook was primarily a news portal, just like all the rest. They could have been a communications platform, or an entertainment site, or a blogging platform, or many other things. Now, they're nothing. Enjoy the cash/failure-in-life, Facebook workers.
I haven't used my FB account in over 5 years and I've started receiving the same notices. It's like that desperate ex that follows you around after seeing you pass on the street and won't stop nagging you.
...Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, said in an interview with Axios that he and other executives were guilty of creating a "social-validation feedback loop" to make Facebook psychologically addictive.
Early Facebook executive and former vice president of growth, Chamath Palihapitiya, also accused Facebook of creating "short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops" that are "destroying how society works."
(source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/01/23/facebook-addictive-and-should-regulated-like-cigarette-company-salesforce-ceo/1059920001/)
You are the product, not the user. That is just the reality of social media. If you don't like it, get out.
They locked my account for not providing ID because I set up the account as pseudonym in 2012. Reality is my ID and proof is all over my page.
I still see other pseudonyms all over the site however my critique of the Jesuits and 9/11 Vatican planning never got them ballsy enough to lock my page. Then I started the present phase of fix the world.. Jewish removal.. and boom I got locked out.
Oh well.
I'm pretty sure that to Donald Trump, everyone is a failure
Well, that's pretty much par for the course when you're talking about a narcissistic 5-year-old with delusions of godhood.
Do you have to keep a towel next to your monitor so you can wipe the spittle off it after you wind down from your temper-tantrums? Get off the Internets and go take your medication.
They just need you to confirm who you are so they can tie it back to all the nameless sessions they've recorded in a permacookie. That way, the value of the ads delivered to you will be higher since it's tied to what FB knows about you, as opposed to just being a rando.