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Consciously been making the effort to post on it more 'cause i'll be plugging gigs soon. Clever girl.
 
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What Zuckerberg is doing, especially in the developing world, is to make people think that Facebook means the internet – and he has been quite successful. More than half of Indians and Brazilians now equate the internet with Facebook.

For me, as someone who spent six years in prison at a time when being online was a serious and intellectual activity, it is heart-breaking to see how Facebook has changed the internet into little more than a portal for entertainment.

Mark Zuckerberg killed the open web and all the bridges it had created in order to make money. But when he, with an innocent face, starts warning the world about walls, divisions and intolerance, it feels like a dark Orwellian nightmare. The open web could have been a remedy at a time when closed borders rule. But Mark Zuckerberg destroyed it.

Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite - Facebook has destroyed the open web
 
Facebook, on the other hand, gives itself access to your phone's mic – seemingly by default despite earlier claims – and is capable of always listening and does not tell you what it does with the information it receives.

None of this should comes as a surprise to people: Facebook has repeatedly given itself access to people's personal data and then begged forgiveness afterwards.

It continually tweaks its privacy settings, requiring people to keep making changes to prevent the company from sharing the information you provide. And whenever there is an uproar, it announces small changes that require people to actively change their settings again. Most don't.

Facebook claims the feature is good for users because it makes it easier and faster for you to post about what's going on around you. If that's a persuasive argument for you, continue on, but for everyone else the answer is to go into your phone's settings and manually prevent your Facebook app from accessing your microphone.

How to turn it off
iOS: Settings > Facebook > Settings > Microphone.

Android: Settings > Privacy and emergency > App permissions. Find Facebook and turn off mic access.


Shhhh! Facebook is listening
 
Facebook says this about its use of the microphone: "We use your microphone to identify the things you're listening to or watching, based on the music and TV matches we're able to identify."

holy shit.
 
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Every wondered how Google gets the data for the 'Popular Times' graph when you search for a specific business? Gleamed from Android users.
 
A guy I've known for a number of years through social media sites died last week. Facebook reminded me it's his birthday today.
 

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