To clarify, I'm talking about the recent hate bandwagon. I'm not saying that you don't have your own valid reason for hating Facebook. The recent bandwagon is based in ignorance though. Here's two examples:
People being angry that Facebook allowed Netflix, and Spotify the ability to read, and delete messages.
This is a super common practice. Spotify isn't going in, and looking at your nudes. Apps need read/write access for messenger integration. If you go on spotify and click "share" on a song and click facebook messenger, it will open a window of your contacts, inside spotify and who to send it to, then it goes right back to normal spotify. This feature is only possible if spotify has CRUD access. Create, read, update, delete. Getting mad about this would be like getting mad that your email manager wants to read, write and delete your emails.
Netflix wasn't looking at your nudes either, this was the thing where you could click "join account" on your netflix or something and it would take you to a facebook page which said "company xyz would like to access your account to do the following things..... allow / deny"? It just meant you could do things like for example (not a real example) click like on a netflix video and it would autopost on your facebook that you're enjoying the new TV show.. That was the purpose behind it. It needs the ability to read your account and write to your account for that, and the user agreed to that. They didn't go to facebook and say "hey facebook give us write access to all your user's accounts!".
Think of being able to have Alexa read your email aloud or to read your email on Apple’s Mail app, it's the same thing. When you agreed to this, it was clearly listed under this app need to : "access your phones location & read and write messages" we've all seen that warning 10-100 times . . its pretty blatant...For all those who are upset by this: how many of you are accessing reddit right now through a 3rd party app? Apparently people don’t want to be held responsible for their own decisions. People want relevant google results when they search for restaurants but get angry that google tracks their location. Android apps do this all the time when installing them, in that it allows you to see what an app can do on your phone. It's standard practice. You literally tell these apps “yes you can use this info” when they ask for permissions, and now everyone feels so violated? Don’t install the applications and grant them permission then!
People being angry about Facebook selling data
Facebook doesn't sell data. That's actually a common misconception. They direct ads to you based on the data that they have. They never sell that data to advertisers, and advertisers never see the data. The implication often made by people that say "FB sells data"is that facebook tells whoever has money anything about you, in truth facebook never tells anyone anything about you. Facebook takes things people want to show to a certain demographic, and if you're in that demographic you see it, but they don't give info about you to advertisers. They don't take data, you agree to let them use data. You give them data in exchange for free facebook. They don't show advertisers any data, they do use data to make money. There's nothing wrong with that, most sites on the internet make money through ads, and ads are target based on data the sites have on you.
If a banana seller asks you to go show a banana to someone that likes bananas, and you never tell them who that person was that you showed the banana to, then you never gave that person any information about the person. You just found someone that likes bananas, and connected them with the banana. In short Facebook doesn't sell data, Facebook sells access to your attention.
I plagiarized from u/lanebrn711, u/DramamineQueen, u/houseflip, u/liquidpig, u/saquino88, u/3000dollarsuitCOMEON, u/Fireproofspider, u/dr_gonzo_13, u/halr9000 because I was too lazy to write some parts.
Please don't take news headlines to heart without follow up research. Companies like the New York Times list Facebook as a direct competitor.
Submitted December 21, 2018 at 12:26PM by SuchRush http://bit.ly/2EDCapY via TikTokTikk
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