Out of Pod Experience

When you, "Provided tacit consent to be used in research studies when they signed up for Facebook."

Facebook secretly experimented with the moods of 700,000 of its users

With them doing this, "Facebook injected the feeds of nearly 700,000 of its (unknowing) users with negative content to see if it would make the posts they wrote more negative." One can only wonder how negative VR content will affect users. Another research paper coming soon.

More shocked that FB has positive content. It's a lie!

Great clip. Can't help but believe that FB is using every cheap trick in the advertising book(The ones that work.) to keep eyes fitted on their website.

Now feel the need to buy a bottle of whiskey. Sweet, sweet nectar.

Article also contended these two links:

Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults
Facebook makes users envious and dissatisfied

i deleted my facebook some time ago. have managed to keep it deleted the whole time. it's like a record for me. and i haven't missed it lol.

lol, how did that happen?

much like twitter, a means of spewing ones internal monologue without first filtering it through the frontal lobes.

So, the UK data regulator want a talk. What can go wrong?

UK data regulator probes Facebook over psychological experiment

I have used Facebook for a couple of years as a personal communication tool, but a couple of months ago I've got to the conclusion that I was using it in the wrong way.

That conclusion came after comparing it to Twitter. I always saw Twitter as a pure marketing tool and have used it exclusively for marketing purposes. Facebook, although well masked as a social media communication tool that you should use personally to communicate with your friends, is nothing more than a marketing tool as well.

There are two types of people on Facebook: content producers and content consumers. Content producers use it as a marketing tool, while content consumers are used by producers to spread the influence of producer's marketing campaigns and add a cash bonus to Facebook. So basically, if you are a content consumer (aka. the "regular Joe" who uses Facebook to share stuff with his friends), you are being used by:
- content producers by providing them with free marketing of themselves or their products (virtual or literal) by simply interacting with them (liking, sharing, commenting);
- Facebook by accepting them to analyze your every move in order to serve you ads that bring them direct profit;

Before I closed down my account, I did some personal research on posts that I was seeing from my friends. 95% of those posts were in one way or another linked to a company, a product or a media agency. The rest are personal life events. So, basically, what I was getting from my friends on Facebook is not who they really are, but rather a marketing echo that Facebook decided to serve me.

Since then, I've simply decided to ditch Facebook and use RL / phone / direct IM communication instead. So far, it works. (why shouldn't it... that was THE way to communicate long before Facebook)

Rofl.

My only notable facebook experience was some random guy asking me to be friends because I commented something on a CCP FB Post. He claimed it would be "cool" etc. because we both "play" eve... I bet he wanted to spy on me, steal my precious and publicly disgrace my corpse. I told him to get lost, but after all these years, I still go him on my watchlist... Ever vigilant... always watching...