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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.
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.
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.
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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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..
Yeah... I'm thinking this isn't much of a story.
Personally, I log in to Facebook about once a year or so. I get the emails of things other folks are doing, and a few asking me nicely to return, but nothing that looks like phishing.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
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 ...
AOL-like CDs in the mail are the next logical step in escalating this.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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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Wouldn’t that possibly disable texts from other services too? I’ve noticed multiple unrelated services seem to use the same numbers.
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.