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Facebook sucks so much

So Facebook users in EU and Canada are about to be asked if they want Facebook to use facial recognition with them.

I like that this article refers to the tech as "privacy-hostile". Of course Facebook is calling the new Facial Recognition option a "privacy enhancement". Yeah it totally is not going to be used to violate your privacy. Zuck is in charge and he wouldn't do that, well not again. I guess Facebook started using it to identify people left untagged in pictures without anyone's permission. What kind of of sketchy shit is that? Getting tagged by robot big brother without your consent?

So the opt out is of course a hassle, you have to click thru a few screens telling you how great it is first. I hate when sites act like you are making a mistake by protecting your privacy, but they promote the privacy violating feature. And try and scare you that not saying yes could risk your privacy.

Don't give up your privacy because a site tries to scare you!

When they ask just say NO.

Facebook has a long history of privacy rape.

Like I don't know why you need to know so much about me for advertising. I am in 100 groups on there if you could just base the ads on that I would consider that a trade off. But the whole getting ads for stuff i looked at on Walmart's or Amazon's website on a day later on Facebook, that's too far. What I do off Facebook should not be Facebooks business.

At the end of the day its not that Cambridge Analytical or whatever got that data, its that anyone with money could buy your data.

Other reasons Facebook sucks

• The little mini feed. I have my posts set to friends only, but some people have their posts totally public. So my stoner friend posts a picture of a big joint and I comment. Well in the mini feed my employer sees me commenting on my friend's drug related photo. Just because I forgot to check if that little global sign is in the corner. Protecting your privacy after a few beers, it could happen to any of us (with Facebook).

• Most people, over 60 percent, have their profiles set to public, the default setting. Maybe they don't care but you interact with a person with a public profile in any way and your comment, like, emoticon etc are all public. You should be able to opt out of that. At least a big warning that says " PUBLIC POST VISIBLE TO ANYONE" that you have to click okay first. People notice too, my friends are replying on my comments all over facebook because it showed up in their mini feed.

• Phishing paradise. People use their real names it's great for stealing your identity

• App privacy breaches. Lots of those. Lots of stupid face swap /who will you marry etc nonsense pages that go surprising viral with everyone logging in off site with facebook password.

• Prospective employers have even asked for password to Facebook account, that should defiantely be illegal

• A few online mistakes can come back to haunt you. Party pictures, stupid posts etc. Prospective employers are checking your profile, hopefully yours is friends only. But like I mentioned your digital trail is harder to control than just flipping a switch in the Facebook Settings.

• University can expel you for what you post. Complaining about a prof can get you sued. It's a massive distraction too, sit at the back of a lecture hall and you see a sea of blue Facebook screens. I hate to sound like your dad, but you are there to learn. At least check your Steemit and get paid, stupid students!

• Bullying is big on Facebook. It's pretty much the the epicenter of online bullying

• Bad for kids self image. Those other kids (and adults) are lying about how great their lives are, but when you are a depressed broke 16 year old I imagine it gets depressing.

• Trolling kids to the point of suicide, happens all the time.

• A small get together among your 16 old kid's friends can turn turn into a mega party with a few clicks.

• Terrorist recruitment and incitement of violence for various causes. Organizing riots and looting.

• So much hate. Every group you could possibly imagine has people that hate them vocally on Facebook. It comes back to how the fuck is there still not a downvote button on Facebook? You can post racist Nazi stuff on Steemit but you will be downvoted into invisibility pretty damn quick. We are able to handle that problem by simple group consensus because Steemit is better. A lot of the problems Facebook has that we don't have is because we can downvote.

• Slow reaction to copyright infringement. When its a brand new viral video taking 3 days to remove it isn't acceptable. That is big money.

• Really bad content gets uploaded. All sorts of horrible crimes have been posted on Facebook live. Even if they act fast to remove it still gets copied, and facebook was the place the horrible video originated. I hate Youtube but they take shit down pretty fast. I have never complained to Facebook and got an answer in less than 3 days, why do reviews take so long?

• And crazy censorship too, they may suck at removing the horrible content but you post a nipple in a closed group or among friends and get banned. Maybe get the videos of crimes down instead of nonsense bannings for petty shit. Once again Steemit is better because you are free to post nipples under NSFW tag and everyone is happy. To me our system beat the problem. People can't have nudity on work computer so we have a tag preventing that. Facebook must pump tons of money into flagging all the nipples when they should just institute NSFW options you can turn on or off depending on where you are.

• 80 million plus accounts are estimated to fake. Mostly for the purpose of fake upvotes, Better get on that fake account detection Steemit. Like fraud is epidemic on Facebook . You can buy upvotes from Facebook to give your page the appearance of more fans.

Biotechnology company Comprendia investigated Facebook’s "likes" through advertising by analyzing the life science pages with the most likes. They concluded that at as much as 40% of "likes" from company pages are suspected to be fake
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• Even if you don't pay them for fake likes, you are getting fake likes. Facebook denies they own the fake like bots and claim they are fighting problem. But why would a fake account like a page for no reason? Why would thousands of fake accounts like something unless they got paid to do so?

• Fake News. But I don't want them deciding what is real news either.

Thanks for reading I was just going to rant about facial recognition technology but decided to make a companion piece to my "Youtube sucks" piece.

Information sources used to create this article

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/20/just-say-no/

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/04/19/facebook-seeks-consent-for-facial-recognition-tech-in-canada-eu_a_23415491/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#2010_application_privacy_breach