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Facebook's "impact"? Many millions of people spend several hours each day on Facebook, writing "LOL" and "OMG" and "ROFL" and posting pictures of what they eat for dinner and have become incapable of having a normal face-to-face conversation with another person.
Papua New Guinea to ban Facebook for a month to assess its impact on society
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018...mpact-society/
Darn it! Now we'll have to find another site where we can read hoaxes, conspiracy theories and phony stories posted by Russian trolls!
Facebook is shutting down its Trending Topics section
http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-is...opics-section/
Remember when teenagers would actually talk to each other face-to-face?
It's true: Teens are ditching Facebook
CNN, May 31 2018 3:18 PM
A new study has confirmed what we've long expected: Facebook is no longer the most popular social media site among teens ages 13 to 17. The Pew Research Center revealed on Thursday that only 51% of US teens use Facebook. That's a 20% drop since 2015, the last time the firm surveyed teens' social media habits. Now, YouTube is the most popular platform among teens -- about 85% say they use it. Not surprisingly, teens are also active on Instagram (72%) and Snapchat (69%).
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/31/tech...pew/index.html
Over the past decade, and without users' consent, Facebook has allowed Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry and dozens of other companies to access user's personal information. Facebook calls it "data-sharing partnerships." I call it "illegal. "
Facebook gave device makers deep access to data on users and friends
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...ends-data.html
Most of us will never be able to travel to China -- but the same can not be said about our personal information. Thanks to Facebook, it goes all over the world!
Facebook confirms data sharing with four Chinese companies including smartphone maker Huawei, scrutinized by US intelligence agencies over security concerns
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fa.../idUSKCN1J11TY
Another day, another big headache for Facebook and its users:
Facebook glitch changed millions of privacy settings to 'public'
CBS News, Jun 7 2018 5:14 PM
Posts of as many as 14 million Facebook users were shared with a broader audience than intended. The social-media giant says a software glitch for 10 days last month switched privacy settings to "public" for millions even if they had wanted only friends to see their posts. "We have fixed this issue and starting today we are letting everyone affected know and asking them to review any posts they made during that time," Erin Egan, Facebook's chief privacy officer, said in an emailed statement. "We'd like to apologize for this mistake."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faceboo...ngs-to-public/
Another day, another big headache for Facebook and its users. In 2015, Facebook was supposed to have stopped sharing users' friends' data with Nissan and other companies. Supposed to have stopped.......but didn't.
Report: Facebook shared data about users' friends after 2015
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook...r-2015-report/
Don't start feeling sorry for Facebook -- Facebook owns Whatsapp.
People turning away from Facebook to Whatsapp for their news, study says
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/peop...institute.html
Schrage, who will continue to be an "adviser," said his job left him "little time for much else." Yes, I can see how trying to explain all the fake news, phony accounts, data sharing and other scandals would indeed take a considerable amount of time.
Elliot Schrage to step down as Facebook's head of policy and communications
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elliot-...wn-2018-06-14/
Phony accounts, false information, hate speech, propaganda, data sharing. Is it any wonder so many people no longer trust Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites?
People don't trust social media and that's a growing probem for businesses
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edelman...-social-media/
This falls under the category of "Better Late Than Never":
Facebook expands efforts to stop hoaxes and fake news
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...D=ansmsnnews11
Facebook is now trying to weed out fake political ads -- and they've been mistakenly identifying ads from restaurants, hair salons and other businesses as "political." This is just the latest in a long string of problems for Facebook.
A day care center and a dog rescue benefit: On Facebook, they were political ads
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/b...tical-ads.html
This is the Facebook news thread -- and lately all the news about Facebook is bad. Here is the latest example:
Yet another massive Facebook fail: Quiz app leaked data on 120 million users for years
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...htLh?ocid=AMZN
The problems for Facebook just keep coming and coming and coming and coming and,,,,,,,
Facebook says more than 800,000 users may have been affected by a bug that unblocked people the users had previously blocked
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faceboo...800k-accounts/
Facebook bought Moves in 2014 and tbh in 2017 and launched Hello in 2015. All three apps are being shut down. Facebook needs to develop an app that can tell them which other apps are not worth buying.
Facebook shutting down three apps due to 'low usage'
http://www.businessinsider.com/faceb...w-usage-2018-7
A market research firm just released lists of the most popular apps, games and streaming services. Even with all its many problems of fake accounts, fake news, data leaks and data sharing, Facebook is the number-one app. Go figure!
Facebook is most downloaded app of all time
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...C3u5?ocid=AMZN
Con artists known as "catfishers" pretend to be lonely so they can meet others and scam them out of their money -- and Facebook is launching a dating app that wil make the con artists' jobs a whole lot easier. Lovely.
Facebook's dating app revs up romance scams
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faceboo...romance-scams/
Another embarrassment for Facebook. To their credit, they apologized and restored the post. I wonder if Facebook would censor "War is hell," "Damn the torpedoes" and "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Facebook censored a post for 'hate speech.' It was the Declaration of Independence.
http://www.latimes.com/business/tech...706-story.html
Cambridge Analytica used leaked data from many millions of Facebook users in an effort to ensure Donald Trump won the Presidential election. I wonder if Trump will reimburse Facebook for the cost of the fine. Hmm.....Naaahhh!
Facebook hit with UK fine for failing to safeguard users' data
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faceboo...-user-privacy/
This Boston-based data analytics firm has an archive of more than one trillion social media posts. That is scarier than any scenario George Orwell could have envisioned.
Facebook suspends Kremlin-tied data firm Crimson Hexagon
Firm had government contracts Facebook was unaware of.
https://www.thewrap.com/facebook-sus...gon-data-firm/