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It feels like Facebook has been around forever, right? Well, you're not far wrong, since it's been around for 20 years today, launched on 4th February 2004 and was then called The Facebook.
I have a love / hate relationship with Facebook due to its datamining, but especially its dodgy auto moderation nailing me for nothing at all and not even allowing me to see the post that supposedly broke the rules. Even the issue cited is boilerplate generic, like "your post broke community guidelines". Given these two things, I have a warning and / or sanction handed down to me and I don't even know why. How is anyone supposed to "improve" under circumstances like that? It's abusive, ridiculous and highly frustrating.
After the last incident a few years ago, I've reduced my Facebook time and number of posts drastically, plus deleted the app from my iPhone, too. However, I still had a post deleted a while back and I never even said anything controversial. I have no idea which one it was, or why it was deleted. I was given the option to "appeal" the decision, but as usual, that was ignored. I hate being taken for granted like this, hence my partial withdrawal from Facebook.
On the other hand, it's a good way to keep in touch with friends who live far away in other countries whom the friendship would die simply due to distance. Yes, there's WhatsApp and other ways, but it's not the same. The news feed and thousands of groups are good, too. If it hadn't been for this, I may have closed my account. Indeed, I have a few friends who did close their account as they got sick of Facebook's ways.
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I have a love / hate relationship with Facebook due to its datamining, but especially its dodgy auto moderation nailing me for nothing at all and not even allowing me to see the post that supposedly broke the rules. Even the issue cited is boilerplate generic, like "your post broke community guidelines". Given these two things, I have a warning and / or sanction handed down to me and I don't even know why. How is anyone supposed to "improve" under circumstances like that? It's abusive, ridiculous and highly frustrating.
After the last incident a few years ago, I've reduced my Facebook time and number of posts drastically, plus deleted the app from my iPhone, too. However, I still had a post deleted a while back and I never even said anything controversial. I have no idea which one it was, or why it was deleted. I was given the option to "appeal" the decision, but as usual, that was ignored. I hate being taken for granted like this, hence my partial withdrawal from Facebook.
On the other hand, it's a good way to keep in touch with friends who live far away in other countries whom the friendship would die simply due to distance. Yes, there's WhatsApp and other ways, but it's not the same. The news feed and thousands of groups are good, too. If it hadn't been for this, I may have closed my account. Indeed, I have a few friends who did close their account as they got sick of Facebook's ways.
Facebook at 20: Four ways the app changed the world
How the world's most popular social network has altered society, business and politics
www.bbc.co.uk
