BookFace To Expand, Like Any Malignant Growth

[Perknose]

BookFace turns the page and unveils yet another chapter in their tentacle-like reach into the personal lives of the multi-millions of Americans too lazy or stupid or clueless not to see BookFace for the goiter on the neck of online social interaction that it is.

At F8, the social network’s annual developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be developing a dating service inside its main app. Almost instantly, Match Group, which owns Match.com, OKCupid, Tinder, and other dating services, saw its stock price tank. It was down over 18%, around $9, to $38.44, at the time of publishing.

My takeaways?

Just when you think BookFace can't suck harder, it does, and . . .

The same company that owns Match.com owns Tinder? Lololololololololol!

Just yesterday I went to dinner with a friend at a local bar/restaurant. As we were leaving, we ran into a talented mutual acquaintance who was setting up to perform. I hadn't known she was "happening" and asked her how I would have known.

Her answer? "I posted it on BookFace."

For an alarming and dispiriting number of my female friends, BookFace is their main (and sometimes nearly exclusive) way of communicating on the web.

BookFace! Where earnest people post instagram-level pics of what they're eating and cute, "inspirational" memes almost indistinguishable from the forwarded, forwarded, forwarded drivel your aged relatives send you.

 

[nakedfrog]

You can do what I do and just follow people on FB and not participate. I'm also wearing a costume in my profile pic, so it can't really be used to identify me via analysis.

 

[Thebobo]

I like Facebook and use it daily.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The issue with bookface is even if you don't have an account they track your every move online. Same with Google. I DO have an account though, mostly to share stuff with family etc... I don't care what they do with the stuff I post, I'm the one that posted it there. What I hate is the fact that they spy on all my activities outside of the site, and you can't stop that even if you don't have an account. They build a shadow profile of you. I don't have the app installed on my phone though, but I do use it on the browser sometimes so they can probably still access the mic etc that way, but I imagine once I close Firefox they can't. Google/android itself spies on you though, and they sell the info to FB etc.

Really sometimes I consider just going to a flip phone. Raspberry Pi foundation should look at making a smart phone that's essentially just a RPI in a phone format. Would be Linux based and fully open and no built in spy stuff like in smart phone OSes.

 

[Thebobo]

Don't use it on your smartphone. I can't stand staring at tiny pictures and text anyway.

Also "BookFace" is an actual site. ~

 

[Nashemon]

Good lord! Your hatred is frothing from your mouth. Unable to even type its name. Did you spittle on her as you attempted to comprehend her words before blaming women? Somebody get this man a Snickers!

People use social media for different reasons and a user's experience can differ vastly from the next. Above all, it surprises you that an artist uses a free service to reach many members of her community?

 

[sandorski]

Bunch of MAGAs gonna end up with Russian Brides.

 

[Perknose]

Good lord! Your hatred is frothing from your mouth. Unable to even type its name. Did you spittle on her as you attempted to comprehend her words before blaming women? Somebody get this man a Snickers!

People use social media for different reasons and a user's experience can differ vastly from the next. Above all, it surprises you that an artist uses a free service to reach many members of her community?

Exclusively? Oh sweetie-pie, it doesn't so much surprise me as it does sadden me. One other thing, genius . . . "spittle" not only isn't a transitive verb, it's not a verb at all. Smarten up. Lecturing others with your linguistic pants down is a bad look.

And, hey, talk about "frothing from your mouth." Is that discount desert topping on your face or are you just glad to see me?

 

[crashtech]

I need to mark my calendar, since I am in unexpectedly in agreement with the OP.

 

[SKORPI0]

https://www.cnet.com/news/zuckerberg-ever-resolute-doubles-down-on-facebooks-mission/

 

[Perknose]

https://www.cnet.com/news/zuckerberg-ever-resolute-doubles-down-on-facebooks-mission/

He looks almost human!

 

[BudAshes]

 

[cbrunny]

hating on facebook is so last week.

 

[Perknose]

hating on facebook is so last week.

Saying anything is "so last week" is streets behind!

 

[Mayne]

anyone want to add me on Facebook? My feed is so boring, full of inspiration crap and bad selfies.

 

[lxskllr]

Pretty sure everyone here knows what I think about it. "Social networking" should be federated and decentralized. Giving one company all your data is just plain stupid. In some nightmare future where the only access to the internet was through idiotbook, I'd just unplug and do without. Not worth it.

 

[highland145]

Pretty sure everyone here knows what I think about it. "Social networking" should be federated and decentralized. Giving one company all your data is just plain stupid. In some nightmare future where the only access to the internet was through idiotbook, I'd just unplug and do without. Not worth it.

Zuckerberg and Bezos, 2 to rule them all....

 

[lxskllr]

Zuckerberg and Bezos, 2 to rule them all....

Yup, and when all the competition's gone, they'll start turning the screws. I buy from Amazon more than I should, but it's not all that much. Maybe a handful of orders per year, and most of that's for work.

 

[highland145]

Yup, and when all the competition's gone, they'll start turning the screws. I buy from Amazon more than I should, but it's not all that much. Maybe a handful of orders per year, and most of that's for work.

I'm Jeff's bitch. Not as bad as some here but still.

He keeps calling me Tonya.

 

[crashtech]

After being screwed over by several of Amazon's sellers, Amazon proved to be a habit that was easy to break. Mind-bogglingly, ebay takes better care of me than Amazon, by far. I wrote Amazon customer service about my experience and intentions and got silence, which is okay. It could be that my high volume and concierge service puts me at a slight advantage with ebay. Selling on ebay is a minefield though.