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Tuesday, April 10. 2018

What is Facebook?

Re Facebook:



 Facebook now admits that it is behaving more like a publisher, with an editorial view, than a neutral platform where users get to choose what they read. Its head of news partnerships has said that Facebook now has a “point of view” on the news, while Zuckerberg himself says that Facebook, not its users, will now determine what counts as a “quality” news source.


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 It is not as if news publications can go elsewhere. Facebook, with 2 billion users, has no serious competitor in social media. Other methods of distributing news on the internet are inferior, rapidly declining, or else controlled by one of the other tech giants, whose track record of arbitrary rule-changes is as bad as Facebook’s.


Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 17:43 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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I think you are starting to see the cracks in the foundation. My Space had no rivals either and look where it is now.

The curtain has been pulled back and I don't think people like it.

Plus I think you are going to see some gub'mint regulation soon on the tech giants.
#1 Mark M. on 2018-04-10 18:37 (Reply)
You know, when I'm sufficiently upset with Facebook I'm going to demand my money back.
#2 Michael R. Kesti on 2018-04-10 19:53 (Reply)
I had deactivated last week. Tonight I went for the full delete. What does it provide me, anyway?
#3 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-04-10 20:34 (Reply)
I have neither been there nor done that. I shall continue....
#4 Dorf on 2018-04-10 21:10 (Reply)
Facebook reminds me of an old Internet saying:
"A Life ??
"Where can I download one of those?"
#5 Riick on 2018-04-10 21:12 (Reply)
Still hanging in on FB but I will say please don't assume the problem is only Facebook.
#6 Christopher B on 2018-04-10 22:39 (Reply)
Facebook has become as bad as newspapers.
Worse! There are no comics!
#7 Confused Old Misfit on 2018-04-10 23:10 (Reply)
I had always tried to protect my privacy on FB by posting only the minimal info (some of which was incorrect) and opting for the most restricted settings and using NoScript to block tracking after logoff. I now only rarely and briefly logon on usually only to respond to notifications from firends. A new (free) free speech social media site aimed at conservatives and libertarians just now starting up: www.freedomvine.com. ("FV") FV was founded by Todd Cefaratti who was with the The Tea Party News Network on FB which before FB squashed them had about 60 million views per month.
#8 TANSTAFL on 2018-04-11 10:15 (Reply)
It's a stretch to say they have no competitors.
A huge stretch.

After all, Snapchat and Twitter don't have as many users, but are FAR more popular in terms of overall usage by their members. Instagram (owned by Facebook, admittedly) has a more active base as well.
There are other places in the world of social media where publishers go to get the coverage, too. Youtube (Google), as well as a variety of other Over-the-Top (OTT) video outlets which all compete with Facebook.

Facebook has been declining in popularity ever since mom and dad joined. Is it still huge and does it really work well? Sure. But it's no monopoly. It's absurd to even think it is.
#9 Bulldog on 2018-04-11 15:01 (Reply)
What is Fakebook? As far as I can tell, it's some sort of cyber-hangout for narcissists, which is why it never interested me.
#10 Tennessee Budd on 2018-04-11 19:47 (Reply)

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