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Month: January 2018

Facebook users decrease usage an average of 2 minutes per day

Facebook users decrease usage an average of 2 minutes per day

Much noise is being made over Facebook seeing a decline in usage of 50 million hours per day and a decline in number of daily users in North America. Source: Facebook stock falls 4 percent as user time dips, revenue growth slows Facebook is continually tweaking its algorithms for what information is presented in our FB news feed – sometimes to increase engagement, sometimes to increase ad sales, sometimes to apparently decrease engagement.

As long time users of Facebook reduce their minutes of usage, FB aggressively seeks to get them back

As long time users of Facebook reduce their minutes of usage, FB aggressively seeks to get them back

More and more people seem to be reducing their involvement with social media. Not necessarily eliminating social media but curtailing the amount of time they spend online and making fewer posts. In response, Facebook seems more aggressive about emailing users reminding them of updates from friends and urging them to log in. When I do not log in for a few days, I get pestered with emails from Facebook urging me to see what my friends are doing. If I…

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Highly successful propaganda operation concerning road and highway funding

Highly successful propaganda operation concerning road and highway funding

“Hundreds of bridges in Oregon and Southwest Washington are structurally deficient, according to a new report released Tuesday.” Source: Bridges in trouble: Report names hundreds of Ore., Wash. ‘structurally deficient’ bridges | KATU The organization that issued this report is a lobbying organization: “Established in 1902, Washington, D.C.-based ARTBA is the “consensus voice” of the U.S. transportation design and construction industry before Congress, the White House, federal agencies, news media and the general public.” Congress is about to consider legislation…

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Social media’s surveillance-of-users business model may get regulation

Social media’s surveillance-of-users business model may get regulation

Most people associate Facebook with cute family photos and think of Google like a semi-reliable encyclopedia. But these services have only a tangential relationship to the way either company actually makes money. The twin Silicon Valley titans rely on two closely intertwined technologies, customer surveillance and advertising, to maximize shareholder profits. Source: Facebook And Google’s Surveillance Capitalism Model Is In Trouble | HuffPost Social media’s surveillance of end users conflicts with European laws, and may conflict with the general public’s…

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Social media's surveillance-of-users business model may get regulation

Social media's surveillance-of-users business model may get regulation

Most people associate Facebook with cute family photos and think of Google like a semi-reliable encyclopedia. But these services have only a tangential relationship to the way either company actually makes money. The twin Silicon Valley titans rely on two closely intertwined technologies, customer surveillance and advertising, to maximize shareholder profits. Source: Facebook And Google’s Surveillance Capitalism Model Is In Trouble | HuffPost Social media’s surveillance of end users conflicts with European laws, and may conflict with the general public’s…

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