The scourge of Facebook

[PeteC]

Reports indicate it’s down Throughout much of the world.

[Big Boy]

Normal service has just been restored.

[Dannie Boy]

Pity it couldn’t have lasted a bit longer - like a year or ten!!

[buksida]

Co-founder: It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
The last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. We met at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., office and drove to his house, in a quiet, leafy neighborhood. We spent an hour or two together while his toddler daughter cruised around. We talked politics mostly, a little about Facebook, a bit about our families. When the shadows grew long, I had to head out. I hugged his wife, Priscilla, and said goodbye to Mark.

Since then, Mark’s personal reputation and the reputation of Facebook have taken a nose-dive. The company’s mistakes — the sloppy privacy practices that dropped tens of millions of users’ data into a political consulting firm’s lap; the slow response to Russian agents, violent rhetoric and fake news; and the unbounded drive to capture ever more of our time and attention — dominate the headlines. It’s been 15 years since I co-founded Facebook at Harvard, and I haven’t worked at the company in a decade. But I feel a sense of anger and responsibility.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opin ... rberg.html


Very in depth article but a must read for Facebook addicts.

[PeteC]

It's a bit scary how this FB system works. I haven't replied to our new "mandatory insurance" thread on the Forum, and I haven't even visited the Forum FB page where there may be a post about it. However for the past 3 days my private FB page is besieged with ads from Expat insurance companies. Coincidence?....I think not. Digital cancer may be a good name for it all.

[Dannie Boy]

Even though he wouldn’t have been able to accurately predict how the internet would develop, George Orwell must have had some sort of premonition about “Big Brother would be watching you” when he wrote 1984 way back in 1949!!


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[handdrummer]

Even though he wouldn’t have been able to accurately predict how the internet would develop, George Orwell must have had some sort of premonition about “Big Brother would be watching you” when he wrote 1984 way back in 1949!!


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And Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. After 50+ yrs. I'm re-reading it. That's some scary shite. So much of what Huxley said is happening now. Especially in the US.

[buksida]

Facebook to Launch ‘GlobalCoin’; Can it Be Trusted With Crypto?

The world’s largest social media platform has finally laid out its crypto intentions. By early next year Facebook plans to roll out a digital payments system in a number of countries and wants to start testing its own ‘GlobalCoin’ by the end of this year.

According to the BBC, Facebook has already spoken to Bank of England governor Mark Carney and will release more details on its crypto ambitions this summer. Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, met with the central bank boss to discuss the risks and opportunities for launching its own cryptocurrency. He has also been in touch with the US Treasury regarding regulatory issues.

Following a ban on crypto advertising last year, the social media giant clearly wants to monopolize on this venture as it has done so successfully in other areas. It aims to provide its users with a digital payments platform and disrupt existing networks by breaking down financial barriers. Having already gobbled up WhatsApp and Instagram, Facebook is now targeting Ripple and the raft of perfectly capable crypto currencies already in existence.

GlobalCoin is likely to be a stablecoin, pegged to the dollar or local currencies in the countries allowed to use it. It is also likely to run on a private, centralized blockchain, owned and controlled by the company, so does not really come in the same category as Bitcoin or other peer to peer decentralized digital currencies.

The concerns are already mounting. The US Senate and Banking committee wrote an open letter to Zuckerberg earlier this month questioning how the crypto will work, what consumer protection will be offered, and how data and finances will be secured.

https://ethereumworldnews.com/facebook- ... th-crypto/

[handdrummer]

Now we have something else to avoid and not partake in. Why would anyone trust facebook about anything?

[Big Boy]

My Facebook has just crashed, and doesn't want to be revived. Is it just me or widespread?

[Big Boy]

Seems to be a Chrome problem - works on other systems such as IE and Firefox.

[PeteC]

Seems to be a Chrome problem - works on other systems such as IE and Firefox.

Yes, it's down on my Chrome too, but works fine on Opera browser.

[Big Boy]

Thanks

[Big Boy]

Chrome has resolved the problem - Facebook is back.

[Lost]

We've all seen them.

Not long after the viral 'Ice Bucket Challenge' (which was for a good cause I may add) we got flooded with different challenges to partake in. Some silly, some fun and some downright dangerous. Everyone seems to want their face on FB and the like participating in these things. In a world where some would sell their own mother to gain more likes, we are seeing an increasing amount of these pop up.

We've had the cheese challenge. This entailed an adult throwing a slice of cheese at a cat or a baby's face. The reaction of the cats, to be fair, was quite funny but... really!



We had the 'Look at me, me, me Cleaning Up' Cleaning challenge. Post a photo of a dirty place. Clean it. Post a photo. Or... go to a clean area with loads of bags of rubbish. Take Photo. Dump rubbish. Take 'nother photo. Swap pics round.

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The Evil Knievels of the social media world had a ball with the 'Tide Pod' challenge. Rules are simple. Eat a laundry pod without dying. Preferably a Tide laundry pod but I guess Daz or any other brand would satisfy the baying social media mob.

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All good fun so far. But...

I believe humanity may have taken a step too far with this next one. The cheese challenge obviously didn't quell the hunger of many a social media parent. "What else can we do to our kids for 'likes and loves'?" Up steps the brains of the operation.

"I know! Let's vacuum wrap our kids in bin bags."

Yes. That's it. That's the game changer. Behold! The 'Vacuum Wrap in Bin Bag Challenge'.

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All hail the next generation! These are our future leaders. This is our future. Bravo!