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Jim Yates |
I hate it when I see one of these posts on Facebook. If you know who will share it, why bother? It tries to guilt me into making my Facebook friends feel guilty.
3 comments on “Why Post This?”
Chadbanjo Says:
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 @11:08:47 AM
I don't have a facebook, and hear appears another good reason to stay away. What bullshit, the world is gone b'ye. Laughable atleast, HA!
Jim Yates Says:
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 @11:30:42 AM
There is a lot of crap on Facebook, but there's a lot of good too. I've found that if I post a gig on Facebook, we have a full house. One posting is more effective than postering the town and takes way less time.
rbergesch Says:
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 @8:50:44 PM
Some of these are generated by commercial ventures, designed to flesh out their knowledge of your network of FB friends.
The original-post organization can track the post and the responses it generates through FB, and derive demographic information that may be useful commercially or politically.
Strangely enough, while your own demographic information as a single set of data isn't so terribly valuable in itself, how information travels between you and your peers is knowledge that is useful to someone.
These innocuous-seeming 'tests', as well as some of the 'news story generators' like Upworthy, are really data-mining shops that then sell the information to others who then further target advertisements or political content. I took the time to read 'Upworthy's" website carefully; this is really the core reason for its existence.
I don't respond to these.
But I do find FB useful for keeping up with my musical friends, some of whom are pros, some semi-pros, and some merely followers like me. And, of course the usual assortment of old high school & college chums...
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