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comment by veen
veen  ·  3992 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me

That would be actually interesting - this article isn't. Maybe it's because I don't like his writing style (written like a middle school trip report) or the gist of what he has to say (why would I care that you had "problems" with liking related people, it doesn't matter).

He spends one paragraph brushing over society and then continues his account of looking at Buzzfeed articles in his Facebook feed, talking about mechanics that are no surprise at all. Of course Facebook wants me to like as much as possible, that's how they get to know me better. There's a reason the site constantly asks me what movies I've seen, what books I've read etc.

I think an analysis of how social media works, the intricacies of Facebooks algorithm is worth talking about, but I have to agree with _refugee_; this article is kinda stupid.





lil  ·  3992 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess one person's stupid is another person's interesting. We are many and varied.

_refugee_  ·  3992 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Facebook recently tried to ask me what sports teams I liked. They wouldn't accept the answer of "loose butthole." I guess they knew that wasn't a sports team.

I generally refuse to like things on Facebook, including (especially) content providers. The few things I have liked on Facebook are generally small start-up bands and brands - where I feel my "like" actually matters or when I really do want to know what they are up to locally - or they are tongue-in-cheek. For instance I have one "Inspirational Person" and it's RIchard Nixon.

I don't like Facebook asking me to tell it stuff, but it asking doesn't mean I'll tell.