TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! THE DOWNFALL OF FACEBOOK: TRACY TALKS SOCIAL MEDIA & THE POLITICS OF DATA MINING!!!
For the late night we consider all of your frenemies online along with the future of a social media juggernaut that's enduring even more privacy concerns.
Even better . . .
WE REACHED OUT TO KANSAS CITY MARKETING LEGEND TRACY THOMAS FOR HER TAKE ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA HOT MESS AND HER PERSPECTIVE OFFERS A GREAT CONNECTION TO THE POLITICS OF THIS INTERNETS BEEF!!!
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I hate Facebook, check it just once a week at most, because of friends.
It's a time suck.
I feel sorry for people who rant there about Trump as if anyone cares. I've seen Facebook cost people jobs. You're a fool if you don't think prospective employers check it -- and even if yours is closed, if they can find a mutual friend, they can check what you post that way--this also goes for former relationships.
Facebook--It's like bubble-bath for narcissists.
Ironically, everyone on one side thinks FB sold out to the Cambridge Analytica folks, or whatever their name is -- But Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg gave it away for free to Obama!!! Cozied up to the left, naively thinking they would then be exempt from government control of their industry -- The last laugh is on Zuckerberg. When the left turns on you, it's faster than a snake bite. And deadlier.
FB will be controlled.
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And so, check the links and feel free to share your insights on all things Internets social . . .
New York Times: New Investigations Into Facebook Add New Pressures
Verge: How to delete Facebook
Re/Code: Facebook has lost nearly $50 billion in market cap since the data scandal
US: As Facebook reels from 'catastrophic moment' in Cambridge Analytica crisis, Mark Zuckerberg is silent
BBC: Cambridge Analytica: Facebook 'being investigated by FTC'
Time: Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Controversy Could Be Big Trouble for the Social Network. Here’s What to Know
Independent UK: The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works
Developing . . .
I just hope they don't take Instagram down with them.
ReplyDeleteThe hottie hookers and their pics are one of the best inventions the online world has ever known.
Save Instagram!
^^^^^ DORK!
ReplyDeleteagree with tracy absolutely. the political discussions on there have always been an embarrassment and something that distracts from the site. the billions of dollars they lost were all speculative anyway. It's not like twitter will benefit from this, the smarter play would be google & apple or maybe even microsoft who provide real infrastructure for the internet.
ReplyDeleteAhh the sexy sensuous and always mysteriously alluring surfaces. Tracy I wish you'd give Tony a better picture. Be well and stay safe.
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ReplyDeleteFacebook= A bubble bath for narcissists. That's hilarious and I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that same thing, just never heard it put that way LOL.
Great post TRACY.
ReplyDeleteIf Teddy Bull Moose R, can bust up Standard Oil, then the manipulation, obfuscation and censoring of social mass media vehicles, that control the lion's share of information, should be at hand.
Agenda driven companies (Google, Facefuck, Twitter etal) , led by cazzillionaires like Zuckerberg and Bezos will be bent to the will of the electorate, from BOTH sides of the political spectrum, in order, to assure objective platforms that disseminate the objective truths and not the daily talking points from either Conservative , or Progressive 'thought leaders'.
Tax Amazon so that brick and mortar retail has a chance.
Fuck the one sided agitprop and censorship from Wiki, Google, Facebook, YouTube and the rich shills in Silicon Valley, who NEVER have to deal with the consequences of their Globalist Agenda.
Tear them to pieces.
NEWSFLASH!
ReplyDeleteFacebook has always been a tool of the intelligence agencies.
One of Facebook's earliest investors was a venture capital arm (In-Q-Tel) of the CIA.
Imagine getting millions of people worldwide to voluntarily post their personal data and photos on the web. It's a goldmine for data gathering and surveillance. And if you think you're account is private, preventing Big Brother from snooping, you're totally naive.
And if that weren't bad enough, Facebook manipulates users behavior by controlling what news, etc., gets fed to them.
Fuckerberg dumping fuckbook shares before fuckbook stocks tumble highly suspicious, I don’t care if he declared to the SEC last year he would be doing it, timing is everything, if it looks and smells like a rat, it is. Also openlly censoring conservative sites/speech with the overtly racist southern poverty law scumbags as their censors. All social media are about to get a major reboot. Save yourselves before it’s too late. Delete fuckbook now!!!
ReplyDeleteWE REACHED OUT TO KANSAS CITY MARKETING LEGEND TRACY THOMAS FOR HER TAKE
ReplyDeleteFirst mistake.
I hate Facebook
I hate Tracy!
I stopped reading.
Tracy is spot on with her comments. I think she is being too nice in fact. The reaction to this is really bad news for the media company that doesn't make any media.
ReplyDeleteif employers are shocked by my facebook page, do not want to fckn work for the pretentious hypocrites.
ReplyDeleteTracy,
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy reading your view of things and this is no exception. And like 10:06, I love the bubble bath analogy!
Legislators are concerned about our privacy and protecting us from facebook, pffft.
ReplyDeleterussia using facebook as a dissemination tool, pffft. Russia is the only country where the spokespersons are rational and make any sense.
ReplyDeleteReally sad that some Republicans side with Russia over their own country.
DeleteNaturally, to be fair & balanced, Tony will be posting a progressive response to show that he's a grown up journalist, & not just a Republican Propagandist. Tracy should send Tony some racy pictures so we can celebrate her hotness. After all, nothing says Republican like pornography.
ReplyDeleteThis is a free speech zone, so Tony will be deleting this comment as soon as he sees it ...
Byron. Tracey is older and smarter then you. Self supporting also.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you offer? Punk.
Really liked Tracy's comment.
ReplyDeleteI'm not completely sure that Facebook is part of the Democratic Party agenda, they're a corporation and want profit - That's to be expected.
No need to disconnect. Sooner or later there will be another fad that the masses will follow.
The lady is spot-on. I opened a Facebook account several years ago, at the urging of family scattered across the country. It became a time-eater and frequent source of animosity among people who previously got along fine.
ReplyDeleteI finally deleted the account, weary of watching people I knew wreck their friendships, careers and marriages in a sad public karaoke of immature and asinine behavior.
I'm "not now, and have never been" a Facebook user, so I need some enlightenment that I'm sure Tracey and the other unbiased commenters on this site can provide.
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, we have statements like "Facebook is a tool of the Democratic Party" and "Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg cozied up to the left".
On the other hand we have facts, such as Russia using Facebook to disseminate propaganda to help elect our current President, and Cambridge Analytical, an organization set up to facilitate Trump's election, hiring some so-called "researcher" to obtain data from Facebook under false pretenses.
How can the known misuses of Facebook, either as a platform for dissemination of foreign propaganda or as a source of illegally obtained private data be blamed on the Political Left?
Why aren't the posters on this site ranting against the blatant and fraudulent misuse of Facebook by the GREEDY OLIGARCH'S PARTY?
Gosh folks, Russia and Trump benefited! Qui Bono?
FB is essentially doing what it says it does, so if people are unhappy, it's because they never thought about it.
ReplyDeleteEuropeans have extant institutional memories of tyranny, recent and dating back to the Inquisition. They'll be impelled to try to regulate social media.
ReplyDeleteThere might be parallel antitrust action in Europe, too.
7:06
ReplyDeleteThis from John Hawkins who ran a Conservative web site.
"Remember the mainstream media liberals going out of their minds because the Russians reached almost 150 million people with their $100,000 Facebook ad buy? In July of 2015, in just a week, the Right Wing News Facebook page reached 133 million people. Because conservatives were sharing content they were interested in, little ol’ Right Wing News (well, I guess nearly 3.6 million Facebook likes isn’t so little) was driving the same amount of web traffic as some of the biggest newspapers in America. Barack Obama’s Facebook page was 36 times bigger than our page; yet we had 7 times as many people talking about our content.
Ironically, that’s a big part of what killed the website.
You see, what Facebook giveth, Facebook can take away. So, why would Facebook want to kill extremely successful Facebook pages that its users enjoyed?
Read the rest of the article.
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2018/01/13/how-conservatives-are-being-destroyed-by-facebook-twitter-and-google-without-even-realizing-it-n2433962
Facebook, Twitter, Google, Youtube et al, censor and obfuscate when at all possible, conservative opinions in the same way, those loathsome parasites at the SPLC pretend that everything up to and including snow is racist.
There are, at this point, thousands of examples which prove the political bias of these organizations. That is no problem, until, media wealth and power is concentrated in exclusively in Progressive/Fascist companies who seek control over free speech by default.
Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post, puts a motto on the front of the building that says, "Democracy Dies In Darkness", then, uses his galactic wealth to turn out the fuckin lights.
Fuck these Fascist fucks.
The search-engine behemoth is not just the portal through which the vast majority of online information flows, it is also the arbiter of what is good, what is morally correct, and ultimately, of course, what is accessible; consult your spouse, your partner, your father, your mother, your best friend, and even your God if you must, but in the end, Google is the all-wise and powerful entity that will either bless or deny your online shopping fancy.
ReplyDeleteIf you think I’m exaggerating, then you probably didn’t engage with Google Shopping in the weeks after a deranged gunman slaughtered 17 innocents at a high school in Florida. If you had, then Google would have come between you and your red wine indulgence (no dice on the Burgundy), your desire for home improvement or car maintenance (popular high-powered degreaser, Gunk®, had been rendered nonexistent, as had glue guns and gunite), and even your taste in music (the entire “Guns ‘n Roses” catalogue – all 16 albums, spanning 33 years – had vanished).
And, what if you wanted to repaint your garage floor gun-metal gray, secure tee times at Eagle’s Nest Golf Course, located within Alabama’s beautiful Lake Guntersville State Park, or buy your eight-year-old nephew, Mikey, a powerful squirt gun with which to happily harass his older twin sisters? Well, Google would have denied you those pleasures too.
They are (Google) the most powerful company in American History.
They must, MUST be broken up.
"chuck said If Teddy Bull Moose R, can bust up Standard Oil"
ReplyDeleteNo He didn't---SCOTUS did.
If Twitter and Facebook and Google and YouTube want to prohibit political discussions, most people would agree that they have that right.
ReplyDeleteWhat they do not have the right to do is promote political discussions by the Leftists and not allow anyone to reply.
FREE SPEECH does not require anyone to agree.....NOR does it protect the speaker from reply. That last part seems to be the sticking point.
If the Leftists and Communists and Liberals and Anarchists and Hispanics and Negroes and Muslims are allowed to promote their own agenda and interests, I will reply....even if they do not approve or like it.....I have as much RIGHT as they do.
You want equality? What is good for the goose is good for the goose stepping gander. You don't get it both ways.
The finest analogy for the purposes of establishing precedent, remains the phone companies. Those businesses cannot deny you service based on what you may say over the phone. It doesn't seem very complicated.
ReplyDeleteIf Obama does it, it's ok.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-scandal-trump-election-obama-2012/
This is a boring topic for boring people to write and comment about.
ReplyDelete7:50 Especially if you want things to remain the same. The megaphone belonging ONLY to the Left.
ReplyDeleteTake a quick minute to listen to the guy on the article
ReplyDelete"Independent UK: The Cambridge" The dude is a queer and has orange hair.
I'm offended by him/her.
@8:01AM the fact that you use "only the left" renders everything you say partisan, therefore irrelevant. You have nothing of any consequence or depth to add.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that young people today spend their time acting as if they're stars in their own reality shows. Their life amounts to a show.
ReplyDeleteOne can assume that something is going to come along to wake them up, but in the meantime a large portion are zombie-like.
Prediction: Politicians use the FB situation to seek air time for the midterm elections.
ReplyDeletePrediction 2: When they realize people don't care because they're busy on social media or watching Netflix, nothing will happen.
NEVER did sign up for a STUPID Facebook account
ReplyDeleteknew from the beginning that Mark FAKE Zuckerbergs / Fake'Book was a FRAUD !!!!!!!
Heres another FAKE Internet web site that is going around scewwing up peoples web sites, including many news sites as well,,,,,
"OUTBRAIN" seen on many web sites, promoting all kinds of Fake click advertising !!
"Taboola and Outbrain and both of their problems with SPAM recommendations and nearly ALL their clients promoting "known scams" !!!!!!!
Both OUTBRAIN & TABOOLA secretly install into web sites what are known as KEYLOGGERS to track what users read and see and click on, so they can send you SPAM Advertising and SPAM EMails !
They’re almost a web fixture: Those spammy-looking links at the end of news articles, with photos of former TV stars and headlines like “What she looks like now will amaze you!”
But despite the fact that many readers—and news companies, for that matter—hate them, they’re probably not going away anytime soon.
The reason for that is fairly simple: Those links make media companies a significant amount of money. And many of those outlets are so desperate for revenue that they are willing to do just about anything.
LINK : http://fortune.com/2016/11/01/outbrain-taboola/
ALSO :
ReplyDeleteA report released last month by the nonprofit ChangeAdvertising.org found that 82 percent of the "TOP 50 news sites" “were using ‘content ads’/ CLICKBAIT ADs - from vendors including :
Taboola
Outbrain
Revcontent
Adblade
amongst others.” We wrote up some of the findings then:
Clickbait links are often bait-and-switch. This might not be a surprise to anyone who has ever clicked a recommended content link, but "recommended content headlines are often very different from those for the stories the link to".
Clicking “Horrifying Woodstock Photos That Were Classified” sends you to a story titled “Rare Photos From Woodstock,” to use one example of 20 that ChangeAdvertising.org cites.
Recommended content widgets still have a disclosure problem.
As with publishers, the recommended content companies can’t quite settle on the best way to disclose that their content is "paid for".
The preferred label, “Promoted Stories,” appeared on 16 percent of the links Change Advertising looked at.
At 11 percent, “From the Web” came second, followed by “From Around The Web” (9 percent) and “Recommended for You” (7 percent). The most clear labels (“Paid content,” “Ad content,” etc.) were the least used.
Finally. My opinion of a publisher plummets if I see this garbage recommended at the bottom of an article. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/business/media/publishers-rethink-outbrain-taboola-ads.html?_r=1 …
LINK : http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/10/slate-and-the-new-yorker-dump-outbrain-and-taboola-links-but-way-more-publishers-still-use-them/
ReplyDeleteJohn Connor
"Google = Skynet
If you are on Tony's blog, you ARE the resistance.
Free Speech Forever."
^^zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
ReplyDeleteSure chuck try pulling your free speech crap over at your buddy Heinies site with the other 5 people who read it.
ReplyDeleteFacebook and other social media contribute to the school shootings and many other social ills.
ReplyDeleteOh I forgot something chuck but everything I buy on Amazon I pay sales tax on so you're wrong there.
ReplyDeleteFacebook was developed on Mars by Martians. It is responsible for tsunami's and floods.
ReplyDeleteI believe you believe that
DeleteFacebook and social media sunk Noah's ark.
ReplyDeleteVK and GAB rock free speech 24/7.
ReplyDelete9:02 only on items that are bought in missouri
ReplyDelete^^^^^Ummmm you're wrong
ReplyDeleteAmazon has collected sales tax in Kansas since at least 2005
ReplyDeleteOn February 1, 2017, Amazon begin collecting sales tax rate in Missouri
Amazon does not collect sales taxes from Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon, since those states do not have state sales tax
Don't throw facts at chuck, they are as useless as he is. Don't you know there is a deep-state conspiracy going on?
ReplyDeleteStill waiting for an answer.... (crickets)...
ReplyDeleteHey, DeBergerac--
ReplyDeleteI don't know what Qui bono means...
Both political parties harvested data from Facebook.
Both bragged about it, on videos widely distributed.
I'm not like Chuck, I seldom play "go fetch" on links, but you're smart, you could find it easily.
Facebook actually GAVE wide access to profiles to the Obama team and gave them an articificial expiration date of the day after the election. duh, they saved it, and used it afterward as well, for Clinton.
Whereas the R's, thru Cambridge Analytics, knew the raging bias of Facebook mgmt. So they paid. they followed the stated rules. They ran stupid contests and quizzes, and buried within the fine print of the quizzes AS WELL AS THE FINE PRINT OF FACEBOOK, permissions were granted.
So they used the system. Period.
Now this was before the radical changes in algorhythmic sharing that Facebook has now rolled out. Too late, the bucking broncos are out of the barn.
I do have to laugh, Cyrano, at your call for us to rant even more than we all do already!
I recommend chamomile tea. Soothe yourself, kind sir. Here, and not on Facebook, etc.
Amazon is an internet sales tax outlier. It complies with state sales tax collection rules largely on a voluntary basis, but also because it has a physical presence in an increasing number of states. Many other internet sales sites do not collect and remit state sales taxes, including many of Amazon's third party vendors.
ReplyDelete"To the benefit of whom".
ReplyDeleteNow, if I'm understanding correctly, Cambridge did not pay Facebook, but instead paid some Mercer-financed "Researcher" who collected the data, certifying to Facebook it was "for research purposes only", but did nothing with it except pass it on to Cambridge.
If "They used the system", didn't Carlo Ponzi and Willie Sutton just "use the system" as well? Fraudulent actions and lying are the new "ethics"?
Damn close to "the end justifying the means", isn't it?
I would hope neither of our Political Parties has reached that level, but have to admit that "it looks like a Duck,..."
OK, DeBergerac, good points.
ReplyDeleteWas the Ponzi scheme illegal before Ponzi? I doubt it.
So two ducks walk into a bar.
The first duck says to the bartender, I'll have a double. I just got invited onto Fox and Friends.
The second duck says to the bartender, I, too will have a double. I just got invited to appear on Rachel Maddow.
They toasted one another and formed a new lobbying and marketing company for campaigns.
Past, Present and Future walk into a bar - it was tense!
ReplyDeleteA Blonde, a Bishop and a Horse walk into a bar - the bartender looks up and asks "Is this a Joke?"
Now we've lightened Tony's up a bit - our work is done!
Love it bigly, DeBergerac.
ReplyDeleteOne of the assumptions about Russian meddling in the US is their goal was to sow discord. One thinks about all the upcoming Easter dinners and Passover feasts with divided families, and everyone is just sitting, head bowed, lips zipped, staring at the sweet potatoes and praying the French silk pie will be served soon.
So I thank you for your wit and sense of humor.
Always a breath of fresh air when you come around, Tracy. :-)
ReplyDeleteP.S. Not to mention all the comments you generate! Tony should pay you! Oh, wait ...
ReplyDeleteAs DeBergerac wrote at 9:16p, "Is this a joke?"!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy the fuck are people so insecure and brain screwed that they have this virtual codependency with social media and their hand held devices? Fucking people are idiots.
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