1839

Is that an actual human?

1840

Sometimes the human overlay doesn’t take as well as it should. They’ll probably try again after the next molt.

1841

Thanks!

1842

Bill has character and is a wonderful human being. Zuckerberg notsomuch.

1843

So what would it cost for me to target my religious nutbug/trump loving relatives with a targeted ad that goes on about the Anti-Christ, leading them to believe it is a Democrat that will be named, only to show Trump in the end, fitting the profile to a “t”?

1844

But that’s not even lying.

1845

They’ll just ignore the end.

1846

Is it wrong that I look forward to this? I mean, there is potential for some real zingers. The Daily Show\Colbert Report\Onion are/were really good at stuff like this. If the end result is that no one will take Facebook ads seriously anymore, isn’t that a kind of victory? Maybe I am expressing this wrong, but there is nothing on Facebook that is worth making sacrosanct.

1847

I don’t understand why anyone who isn’t a super old person that doesn’t know any better, is still using Facebook.

Although i don’t know why people were still using it 10 years ago either.

1848

Well, to keep up with distant acquaintances, family and even friends is a reason for many to not want to deactivate the account. I get it, but I never thought having eternally public and easily identifiable conversations was remotely an acceptable price.

1849

People say this all the time, but it ignores those who pay attention to privacy settings. My Facebook posts are only visible to people on my friends list by default, and I don’t think I’ve ever made a public post. I also often choose not to comment on posts made my friends that they made public, since any post I make on an already public post will be visible to everyone forever. (I probably have a small handful of those, but they are generally meaningless, non-controversial topics.)

Yes, I know that Facebook can always see everything I’m posting, and does who-knows-what with it. I know that arguably nothing that gets posted online anywhere is truly “private”, but someone who wants to see my Facebook posts is going to have to put in effort to do so.

Twitter is far worse when it comes to everything you say there being public forever.

1850

And people say that all the time, but it ignores how often Facebook decided to change your settings for you :P
Exaggerating a little, the last time I heard about it was ages ago. I’m willing to believe it works now if one takes the time to figure it out and never slip up, but you’re an outlier.

1851

Some people legitimately don’t care about the ‘privacy’ of the kinds of things they put on Facebook, and understand that the ads and the news are not to be trusted. In any event, people use google all the time, don’t they?

1852

Not to mention Gmail.

I know how to use privacy settings on Facebook. I expect a zero percent chance Facebook will honor that, so like everything I put on Facebook, I expect it could easily be public one day. Of course these days walking down the street and tripping and falling can make you a public entity so… it’s kind of with what today society just seems to mean.

1853

If Google’s system doesn’t actually delete my data when I do a periodic purge of my web activity, it would do such a good job at pretending to follow European regulations that I would think it’s AI would already be super-human.
This isn’t to say Google is nice and friendly, but they don’t seem to intentionally ignore all their impact on the world yet, so the cutting it off keeps getting delayed.

1854
1855

So basically Facebook put this policy in place for one person: Trump.

1856

I see a cabinet level position opening up soon for Mr. Zuckerberg…

1857

Minister of Truth would be apropos

1858

So why was Brietbart included in the first place?