Ha ha! I signed up as having a couple of mobile games linked to FB was the only way to transfer my stats to a new device, and weirdly “Bobo DaMonkey” has to date not been investigated…
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Maybe initially, but I keep seeing stories recirculate long after they originally are made public. It’s not like yesterday’s newspapers, where the old stuff winds up wrapped in fish and who wants to read that anymore, it’s the internet.
More generally, I wonder how these people think they are going to bury bad news and bad behavior when it’s just a click or two away. It’s like they think nobody is going to find out, by other means if necessary.
A lot of my facebook time is spent in a private, premium facebook group. Because I wrote extensively for them before they moved to facebook, I have a complimentary subscription-- which I don’t intend to waste.
Same. I had mine deactivated for the past two months, but finally deleted it and FB messenger yesterday. Everyone just messages me through my phone anyway.There was too much nastiness from friends who I knew wouldn’t be that snarky to me in real life. Now when I see friends we’ll actually have stories to tell each other as we catch up; stories which have had time to get better in the telling. I can’t count the number of parties where everyone nodded and had nothing much to say to each other as we already knew what everyone had been doing that week. I’m just going to miss getting updates on friend’s bands playing, but I discovered bands and business FB pages pop up in Google searches anyway. Sure, there’s a big, honking FB ad asking me to sign up, but you can read around it to see the posts.
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Life’s too precious to waste on facebook.
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I’m probably going to join FB, because so many organizations that I need to interact with have shut down all their other Internet presence, or worse yet have let their websites become 2nd class citizens.
I recently drove three hours to an event, following directions from the official website, only to find that it’d been moved to another site. The updated information had been available on FB for a week. I ended up driving about ten hours - three hours to the first site, five to the second, two back home afterwards. That’s a pretty strong incentive for me to join Facebook.
I think at one point I said Facebook and it’s rich bully executives were furthering the cause of institutional racism, but it definitely seems to have turned a corner since they appear to regularly (as a group and individuals) to chose to knowingly inflict harm on various ethnic groups. The harm isn’t violent, but I don’t see a way they are not acting out of some kind of malice - beyond a mere lack of empathy.
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And tell them that updating their facebook page but not their own website is insufficient (and unprofessional).
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It’s also myopic, what if fb implodes (we can dream) due to the next scandal next week? Then you’re unprepared and that’s never good for business.
And worse than unprofessional, it’s unamateurish. 
But yes, I notified the appropriate authorities, as Kukullen did battle with the sea.
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Mark me never. I get disgusted with businesses and groups that think having a Facebook page is the same as a real web presence. I’m active in several privately run special interest forums, and I’m happy that nice, real people are making the money off the ads, in one of them with a lot of traffic the site owner is a frequent participant in discussions, and generous with his advice. Sadly, some of the alternatives to FB for local community just suck, like NextDoor. It’s UI is awful and not conducive to actual extended discussions.
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Am I correct in understanding that Elliot Schrage is falling on his sword over this?
i feel that way about cowboys. why? masochistic.
It’s the ONLY reason I use facebook - I don’t even use my business page anymore. I really don’t want to see or have anything to do with Fuckerberg. I think he’s just a huckster who will sell data to the highest bidder.
To me it’s the height of unprofessionalism for a company to have only a presence on facebook if they’re going to have a web presence. I can see smaller organizations, clubs, etc. using it, though to be honest, I’m one of those vilified lib’rul arts majors and even I can write a danged webpage - it’s not that hard.
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Roger that! I had a falling out with some family just this fall over just this issue. FB came up in some way and I explained that I don’t use it. When pushed I explained why, but wasn’t judging anyone else for using it, just saying why I didn’t want to anymore. The response: “Well, jeez!!! Just ATTACK me, why don’t you?!?” I and another observer explained that I wasn’t attacking anyone, but we haven’t spoken much since. Honestly, it’s been kind of relaxing. I find conversing with people who get all their news from FB to be pretty predictable - half gossip about other people and half misinformed opinions about current events. I can live without it.
Hmmmm…maybe I was attacking them… 
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