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Posted by
Chris in Tampa on 7/1/2015, 10:56 pm
I agree with everything you guys said about Facebook. It has its benefits and drawbacks. A great way to share great information quickly, but a great way to spread fake information and harass people. (Social media sites are starting to get better about harassment, but it will always be one of the biggest problems) A great way to reconnect with people, but a great way to constantly get bugged with friend requests from people you don't know. People overshare sometimes too.
You can block selective things from people. If someone shares a particular site you don't like, you can block further shares of that site. I did have to do that once. Someone shared some political stuff constantly that went way beyond the line. I guess you could silently mute people too, but I never did do that either.
I spent too much time posting things on Facebook. I got rid of my personal Facebook, but kept it so I can connect and manage the page I have for my website. I got spam messages and somehow spammers got a hold of my friend list and some of their emails, as well as mine. (I can't blame Facebook for sure, but it seems too convenient.) So I deleted everything. It ended up deleting my friend list too, but that works because I even had some people bother my friends to add them as a friend so that they could then try to add me as a friend. (My friend list was private, but when someone liked something from me that revealed who my friends were.) I only had like 30 friends. Family, friends in person or friends through CaneTalk. I always rejected everyone else. (Yes, I too got all the women from around the world trying to add me as a friend. I'm totally sure they were all models and not spammers and scammers, lol.)
I do still have pages I like on Facebook, so I can get all that weather and news information in my news feed. I do like that a lot to get a variety of different information, such as news from around the world. I check Google News ( https://news.google.com/ ) all the time. I check single news sites occasionally too to get a variety of different opinions, but a lot of times I do it through Google News. I'll read articles from different sources they have just to see different takes.
There are important privacy concerns with Facebook, but I do like to share things at CaneTalk using embedded Facebook or Twitter posts. If I share a single article or a single piece of information you don't know where I got it. You might like to see similar things, so embedding the Facebook post that shares the link allows you to visit that organization's Facebook page to see more of that, maybe comments as well on the post. (sometimes comments are helpful, other times not at all, probably spam) Or you can only visit the link. And most government pages and other news pages are visible without requiring you to login. (although sometimes Facebook and Twitter can get real naggy if you don't login)
I like how fast information can be disseminated, but it often needs to be verified unless you get it from a reliable source. Twitter can be even worse about that. It's so easy to put something out there. Unless it comes from a trusted source, like the government or a reputable news site, it needs to be verified. There are so many fake Twitter accounts and people that have way too much time on their hands. (Was a weather picture from now, from a decade ago or is it Photoshop for example?) |
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