VERY annoying background "music" . . . I suggest turning the sound down or off..
http://talknetwork.com/2016-11-11-facebooks-five-darkest-secrets-video.html.
{Note--much of the below is my paraphrase}
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5. Doubledealing in creating Facebook--ripping off friends who'd requested his help in refining, setting up their site. He later bragged about delaying work for them until FB was ready to go.
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4. Emotional contagion experiment for Cornell & Univ of CA . . . deliberately withholding positive exchanges between friends on the one hand and on the other withholding negative exchanges . . . also resulted in members staying online longer with more ad revenue
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3. Messenger . . . mobile aps 80% use . . . allows FB access to all the user's phone data etc. . . . caught tracking logged out users . . .
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2. Under Review 4 billion pieces of content needing reviewed for objectional content daily . . . out-sourced third world workers earn $1/hr & have to see lots of rather ugly stuff.
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1. Not so private . . . mining personal data and sharing it with lots of 3rd parties for $$$.
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Welllllllllllll, if you had insufficient reasons to avoid FB . . . those could give you pause.
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Sigh.
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The times are a changin' and it ain't gettin' prettier.
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George Orwell was right.
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