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The thrill is gone.

The Party's over.

The hangover now begins......................

1 posted on 11/19/2018 11:16:43 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Pissing-off the half of your customer base that actually has money is not a good business model.


2 posted on 11/19/2018 11:18:17 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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Facebook is becoming MySpace


3 posted on 11/19/2018 11:19:00 AM PST by 2banana (Were you)
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to me, Facebook is a mere curiosity and an interesting toy. Quite average among all the other gadgets, programs, media and apps that I see every day. The idea that it is worth $400 billion is completely absurd.


4 posted on 11/19/2018 11:19:21 AM PST by PGR88
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Facebook is the next “My Space”. Someone and something better is on the way ...count on it.


5 posted on 11/19/2018 11:19:43 AM PST by Baynative (their degree in economics)
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Couldn’t happen to a better group.

I only hope it continues to die.


6 posted on 11/19/2018 11:20:03 AM PST by LeonardFMason (426)
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Stole his business idea

Stole all the shares from his BEST friend

Secretly sold users’ data

Stated in a confidential email to a friend that people who trust him are "dumb-f*cks".

Married in the community proprety state of California, the very day AFTER he took Facebook public.

Requested nude photos of users to “protect them against the risk of revenge porn”.

Secretly tried to get hospitals to release vast stores of patient data “so I can help cure diseases”.

Initially pursued total rights ownership of images uploaded to FB; if you'd been photoed as a happy youth with, say, a can of Coors then later got really famous, Zuck could be paid by Coors for zero work and YOUR old photo in a new ad while you, the centerpiece of the ad, would get NOTHING. Struck down after lengthy legal battles.

De-platformed numerous Conservatives because he didn't agree with their views, couldn't define hate-speech when asked by Congress.

Secretly requested banks give him his users' financial data, including transactions, so “my users can check their balances on my site."

Digitally permitted his housing advertisers to filter out customers whose search histories were strongly associated with terms like "handicapped" , "mobility scooter" and "guidedog".

Admonished that people "build bridges instead of walls", all while building walls around his Palo Alto homes and around the huge Kauai Estate he bought and then threw the Hawaiians off of, an effort requiring 300 seperate lawsuits against local Hawaiian land claimants.

Established a "trustworthiness index" for ALL his facebook users while disclosing it to none of them.

Altered FB algorithms to flag content from conservative publications as spam.

Revered Augustus Caesar, leader of Rome who assured 200 years of peace via harsh rule, possibly arranging the execution of his own grandson. On a wedding anniversary trip to Rome, Zuck gushed so effusively over sculptures and monuments dedicated to Augustus that his wife joked that three people, not two, were on their trip.

For years, Zuck traditionally closed high-level Facebook executive meetings by shouting, "DOMINATION..!", perhaps half-jokingly.

Proposed installation in the homes of FB users special Facebook cameras that would follow and monitor users around as they went about their private lives inside their homes. But the cameras, Zuckerberg assured, would come with privacy settings which Facebook would, like, totally respect, or something.

Asked for user telephone numbers for 2 factor authentication but within weeks used that data for marketing purposes. If users chose to share their entire contact list, Facebook also shared that data with advertisers, even phone numbers of people who NEVER had a facebook account! After the Cambridge Analytica scandal FB pleged to reinvigorate user privacy but neither of these practices has stopped.

In the runup to the 2018 midterm elections, FB removed over 800 conservative political pages and accounts in a clamp down on what the social media company arbitrarily termed, “inauthentic behavior”. The ambitious political move affected 66 million FB users, most of them Conservative.

Permitted the search term "white genocide" to be used as a targeting criterion to aim advertising for products at 170,000 users who interacted with that subject.

When at their SF HQ in 2016 FB employees replaced a mural slogal, "Black Lives Matter" with the words, "All Lives Matter", Zuck retured the slogan to its original and reprimanded the employees as "malicious and disrespectful".


7 posted on 11/19/2018 11:20:34 AM PST by gaijin
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Anyone here that is a Freeper,,,,,should not even be on FB.

Period.

8 posted on 11/19/2018 11:21:40 AM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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Awwwww! So suckerburg is now only worth $1.3 gazillion dollars for something he stole anyway? Hardly enough to complete his wall around his property in Hay-why-ee.


11 posted on 11/19/2018 11:28:29 AM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I wonder who will be the first advertiser to sue FB over all of the fake memberships.


12 posted on 11/19/2018 11:31:54 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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13 posted on 11/19/2018 11:32:42 AM PST by gaijin
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If you own a business, or are on the governing board of some sort of enterprise which provides WiFi, block social media sites.


15 posted on 11/19/2018 11:37:12 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Good riddance to Fakebook...I don’t use Fakebook and don’t want them mining my personal data.


18 posted on 11/19/2018 11:39:50 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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FB and all the other social media were NEVER worth their valuations...


23 posted on 11/19/2018 11:54:48 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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Is there an alternative to FB? Now or in the future where one can get Conservative views instead of far-left views??


26 posted on 11/19/2018 12:10:32 PM PST by Dawgreg
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Is there an alternative to FB? Now or in the future where one can get Conservative views instead of far-left views??


27 posted on 11/19/2018 12:10:33 PM PST by Dawgreg
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I remember my sister and her Friendster,still have no idea what that was ,LOL


30 posted on 11/19/2018 12:34:39 PM PST by butlerweave
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It would be interesting to see if this nose-dive correlates in time with the hiring of Alison Schumer to a position in Facebook management.

Investors Beware: Could gifted political hires be hazardous to your financial health???


36 posted on 11/19/2018 1:58:21 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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Baby, better come back maybe next week
Can’t you see I’m on a losing streak?


37 posted on 11/19/2018 1:59:08 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I was a little confused by the article. By losing streak I guess they mean market value. It still makes profit though, right?


38 posted on 11/19/2018 4:04:07 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Red Badger

I’m loving the fact that the social-ists are eating each other. That’s social justice.


40 posted on 11/19/2018 4:12:45 PM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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