WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton advises to delete Facebook?

[DarkLense]

A tweet from What-App's co-founder appeared saying "It is time"
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17145200/brian-acton-delete-facebook-whatsapp

 

[ivwshane]

People should delete all the apps of the Facebook type.

 

[Moonbeam]

People should delete all the apps of the Facebook type.

I can’t.

 

[WelshBloke]

A tweet from What-App's co-founder competitor appeared saying "It is time"
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17145200/brian-acton-delete-facebook-whatsapp

FTFY

 

[ivwshane]

I can’t.

I don't blame you, they've literally conditioned/programmed people to check their phone and apps for notifications and updates.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-hacking-tech-insiders-60-minutes/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-society-with-dopamine-driven-feedback-loops/

 

[Zorba]

I agree, while I haven't completely deleted FB, outside of looking up company information, I might use it once every 2 years.

Our parents don't understand why we won't let them post pictures of our daughter, and they get illogically upset about it.

 

[Rifter]

Ive never used facebook, cant see why anyone would.

 

[quikah]

I find it funny that this whole thing is being characterized as a data breach when in reality this is Facebook's business model.

I don't care about my FB account, I post maybe a couple of times a year, anything on there I am fine with anyone seeing. I have some family members that post obscene amounts of junk and take those idiotic quizzes, I wonder what their feed looks like.

 

[hal2kilo]

Ive never used facebook, cant see why anyone would.

Yea, I just own the stock. Waiting for the vultures to buy back in, then I will sell. Hoping to get back to 185 before I do.

 

[Moonbeam]

I don't blame you, they've literally conditioned/programmed people to check their phone and apps for notifications and updates.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-hacking-tech-insiders-60-minutes/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-society-with-dopamine-driven-feedback-loops/

Very true, but in my case, the reason I can’t delete social media is because I have never downloaded any.

 

[dank69]

Ive never used facebook, cant see why anyone would.

It's great for keeping in regular contact with long-distance family. Other than that it's only good for influencing elections and reminding everyone what pieces of shit liberals are.

 

[cytg111]

facebook linkedin ... anandtech forums ONLY ONLY ONLY through the browser. Anything else is nuts.

 

[Moonbeam]

It's great for keeping in regular contact with long-distance family. Other than that it's only good for influencing elections and reminding everyone what pieces of shit liberals are.

My father claimed to be 200% American because he hated everybody and I am his son. I already knew what pieces of shit liberals are. One brush-up with the Coupmaster in Grief and their marbles spill all over the floor. Weak knees I guess. Have some faith. I may hate you but the Divinely Beloved loves you more than you can possibly imagine. Lock those knees and you'll discover I'm right.

Just imagine if time is a flow created by a something nothing pulse that is constantly refreshed, like watching a movie or a computer screen, how that would mean that every instant in time is a new refresh. If you were to enter the now you would be born constantly new. The wounds of the past would all disappear.

 

[FerrelGeek]

40 years ago, kids put their thoughts and feelings in a diary / journal and freaked out if anyone read them. Now, kids (and adults) post the stuff on FB and freak out when no one 'likes' it.

 

[paperfist]

facebook linkedin ... anandtech forums ONLY ONLY ONLY through the browser. Anything else is nuts.

I don't have FB, everyone around me does so I'm not really paying attention. You're saying using the FB app is where all the trouble/phising/hacking stems from?

 

[Starbuck1975]

Don’t have Facebook. The whole company is one big breach of ethics right down to its inception. Don’t understand the outrage over our enemies exploiting American narcism for political gain.

 

[cytg111]

I don't have FB, everyone around me does so I'm not really paying attention. You're saying using the FB app is where all the trouble/phising/hacking stems from?

Not all of it but some, these apps requests access to a large number of resources on your phone, so it is not "just" facebook activity that gets logged.. and then later pulled by Cambridge Analytica.
If you run it in a browser you are sandboxing your activity to the browser, of course that doesnt keep you from using those "how would I look as a viking" apps or whatever that also harvests your data.
Not using the apps is a good first start.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...t-cambridge-analytica-data-scandal/446863002/

"First, we will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity. We will ban any developer from our platform that does not agree to a thorough audit. And if we find developers that misused personally identifiable information, we will ban them and tell everyone affected by those apps. That includes people whose data Kogan misused here as well.

Second, we will restrict developers' data access even further to prevent other kinds of abuse. For example, we will remove developers' access to your data if you haven't used their app in 3 months. We will reduce the data you give an app when you sign in -- to only your name, profile photo, and email address. We'll require developers to not only get approval but also sign a contract in order to ask anyone for access to their posts or other private data. And we'll have more changes to share in the next few days."

 

[ElFenix]

Not all of it but some, these apps requests access to a large number of resources on your phone, so it is not "just" facebook activity that gets logged.. and then later pulled by Cambridge Analytica.
If you run it in a browser you are sandboxing your activity to the browser, of course that doesnt keep you from using those "how would I look as a viking" apps or whatever that also harvests your data.
Not using the apps is a good first start.

the problem with facebook (at least, back then) is not only could you give cambridge analytica's dumb app access to your stuff, you could give it access to your friends' stuff, and access to their friends' stuff (which was beyond just seeing who knew who), etc. per yesterday's make me smart podcast this changed back in 2015 just after CA did it, but i'm not certain to what extent.

meanwhile, zuckerberg is telling people to look at their privacy settings.

Don’t have Facebook. The whole company is one big breach of ethics right down to its inception. Don’t understand the outrage over our enemies exploiting American narcism for political gain.

the two biggest problems with facebook right now are: a) even if you delete your profile, facebook doesn't delete your data (nor does anyone else who got it from facebook); and (much creepier) b) facebook builds profiles about people who aren't on facebook ("Starbuck1975") by monitoring the conversations of people talking about Starbuck1975 using facebook.

the first strike against this is the EU's general data protection regulation, which goes into effect some time this spring. it'll be interesting to see if the US follows, though i doubt it (we don't have the same concept of privacy in public over here, not to mention our politicians are complete whores see: dropping the regulation disallowing your ISP from adnetworking you).

 

[Challenger]

Not all of it but some, these apps requests access to a large number of resources on your phone, so it is not "just" facebook activity that gets logged.. and then later pulled by Cambridge Analytica.
If you run it in a browser you are sandboxing your activity to the browser, of course that doesnt keep you from using those "how would I look as a viking" apps or whatever that also harvests your data.
Not using the apps is a good first start.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...t-cambridge-analytica-data-scandal/446863002/

Like the Obama For America App?

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-scandal-trump-election-obama-2012/


Anyway Facebook is a big steaming pile of crap.

 

[cytg111]

Like the Obama For America App?

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-scandal-trump-election-obama-2012/


Anyway Facebook is a big steaming pile of crap.

Admist the Cambridge Analytica crap you pull that one out of your ass? CAUSE CLEARLY IT IS THE SAME THING.... ON BOTH SIDES. AM I RIGHT?
Obama : no laws was broken.
Trump : all the laws was broken.
ITS A RIGGED SYSTEM MAN.

 

[Challenger]

Admist the Cambridge Analytica crap you pull that one out of your ass? CAUSE CLEARLY IT IS THE SAME THING.... ON BOTH SIDES. AM I RIGHT?
Obama : no laws was broken.
Trump : all the laws was broken.
ITS A RIGGED SYSTEM MAN.

What laws were broken? Besides Trump didn't use Analytica for the general election.

 

[ivwshane]

What laws were broken? Besides Trump didn't use Analytica for the general election.

Several potential laws were broken. Receiving help/donations/things of value from foreign sources to help with rumors election, is illegal. Super PACs coordinating with the official campaign is also illegal.

 

[FIVR]

At one point in my life when FB was restricted to people with a .edu email I had a Facebook. It was actually pretty cool back then. I think I dumped my account in 2008


The service called Facebook today is nothing like it was in 2005 or 2006. If you weren't a member of Facebook during that time then why in gods name are you a member of them now?

 

[cytg111]

What laws were broken? Besides Trump didn't use Analytica for the general election.

All of the laws. Google it. And yes they did use Cambridge Analytica during the GE. Dont worry, it'll all come out in court when Mueller starts frying fat ass.

 

[Challenger]

All of the laws. Google it. And yes they did use Cambridge Analytica during the GE. Dont worry, it'll all come out in court when Mueller starts frying fat ass.

Well, according to most sites I read including NPR it's a uhh maaaybeeeee.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/5955...-s-2016-campaign-raises-potential-legal-flags