Finally I turned on a TV – the three enormous flat-screens in our suite at the resort have been very underutilized – and discovered that Facebook is now running commercials on every channel promising to be good from now on.
I don’t know why they bother. It’s not like people will abandon them for any reason other than a more attractive social network rising to squeeze them out.
It seems like all companies are on a PR apology tour these days. My TV is inundated with similar ads from Well Fargo and Uber.
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“What’s Uber apologizing for?”
I was thinking taxi-driver suicides (about one a month in NYC now apparently) but I think it’s more about a driver beating up a passenger and/or a driver sexually harassing a passenger…
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“I was thinking taxi-driver suicides (about one a month in NYC now apparently)”
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Umm, everything? The adverts are vague as hell but Uber has been in the news for – abuse of employees by senior management, data privacy issues, abuse of drivers by Uber, abuse of passengers by the Uber drivers. The list is endless.
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FB has been very bad for me lately.
They inundated everything with advertisement and ridiculous news and were not showing almost any posts from my friends. Once I hid/killed each advertisement, one by one, FB refused to show me anything for a while. Blank page. Sometimes not blank, but suggesting that I should make some FB friends.
Selecting “most recent” as preference resulted in FB passive-aggressively showing posts that were at least 5 days old.
Finally, I just wrote a post, addressed to “Dear Facebook”, briefly describing all the above symptoms and threatening that if this shit continues, I will unsubscribe. This actually worked. My FB is free, for the second day by now, of anything I did not explicitly subscribe for.
I am not joking.
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Wow, good for you. That sounds like a great strategy.
I did have a vague feeling that it’s gotten much worse and isn’t showing anything interesting any more, so I just stopped going.
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