The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem

POSSE

For quite a while now, I’ve been publishing most of my content to my personal website first and syndicating copies of it to social media silos like Twitter, Instagram, Google+, and Facebook. Within the Indieweb community this process is known as POSSE an acronym for Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.

The Facebook Algorithm

Anecdotally most in social media have long known that doing this type of workflow causes your content to be treated like a second class citizen, particularly on Facebook which greatly prefers that users post to it manually or using one of its own apps rather than via API. [1][2][3][4] This means that the Facebook algorithm that decides how big an audience a piece of content receives, dings posts which aren’t posted manually within their system. Simply put, if you don’t post it manually within Facebook, not as many people are going to see it.

Generally I don’t care too much about this posting “tax” and happily use a plugin called Social Media Network Auto Poster (aka SNAP) to syndicate my content from my WordPress site to up to half a dozen social silos.

What I have been noticing over the past six or more months is an even more insidious tax being paid for posting to Facebook. I call it “The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem”.

Here’s what’s happening

I write my content on my own personal site. I automatically syndicate it to Facebook. My mom, who seems to be on Facebook 24/7, immediately clicks “like” on the post. The Facebook algorithm immediately thinks that because my mom liked it, it must be a family related piece of content–even if it’s obviously about theoretical math, a subject in which my mom has no interest or knowledge. (My mom has about 180 friends on Facebook; 45 of them overlap with mine and the vast majority of those are close family members).

The algorithm narrows the presentation of the content down to very close family. Then my mom’s sister sees it and clicks “like” moments later. Now Facebook’s algorithm has created a self-fulfilling prophesy and further narrows the audience of my post. As a result, my post gets no further exposure on Facebook other than perhaps five people–the circle of family that overlaps in all three of our social graphs. Naturally, none of these people love me enough to click “like” on random technical things I think are cool. I certainly couldn’t blame them for not liking these arcane topics, but shame on Facebook for torturing them for the exposure when I was originally targeting maybe 10 other colleagues to begin with.

This would all be okay if the actual content was what Facebook was predicting it was, but 99% of the time, it’s not the case. In general I tend to post about math, science, and other random technical subjects. I rarely post about closely personal things which are of great interest to my close family members. These kinds of things are ones which I would relay to them via phone or in person and not post about publicly.

Posts only a mother could love

I can post about arcane areas like Lie algebras or statistical thermodynamics, and my mom, because she’s my mom, will like all of it–whether or not she understands what I’m talking about or not. And isn’t this what moms do?! What they’re supposed to do? Of course it is!

mom-autolike (n.)–When a mother automatically clicks “like” on a piece of content posted to social media by one of their children, not because it has any inherent value, but simply because the content came from their child.

She’s my mom, she’s supposed to love me unconditionally this way!

The problem is: Facebook, despite the fact that they know she’s my mom, doesn’t take this fact into account in their algorithm.

What does this mean? It means either I quit posting to Facebook, or I game the system to prevent these mom-autolikes.

Preventing mom-autolikes

I’ve been experimenting. But how?

Facebook allows users to specifically target their audience in a highly granular fashion from the entire public to one’s circle of “friends” all the way down to even one or two specific people. Even better, they’ll let you target pre-defined circles of friends and even exclude specific people. So this is typically what I’ve been doing to end-around my Facebook Algorithm Mom problem. I have my site up set to post to either “Friends except mom” or “Public except mom”. (Sometimes I exclude my aunt just for good measure.) This means that my mom now can’t see my posts when I publish them!

Facebook will let you carefully and almost surgically define who can see your posts.

What a horrible son

Don’t jump the gun too quickly there Bubbe! I come back at the end of the day after the algorithm has run its course and my post has foreseeably reached all of the audience it’s likely to get. At that point, I change the audience of the post to completely “Public”.

You’ll never guess what happens next…

Yup. My mom “likes” it!

I love you mom. Thanks for all your unconditional love and support!!

Even better, I’m happy to report that generally the intended audience which I wanted to see the post actually sees it. Mom just gets to see it a bit later.

Dear Facebook Engineering

Could you fix this algorithm problem please? I’m sure I’m not the only son or daughter to suffer from it.

Have you noticed this problem yourself? I’d love to hear from others who’ve seen a similar effect and love their mothers (or other close loved ones) enough to not cut them out of their Facebook lives.

References

[1]
R. Tippens, “Drop the Autobot: Manual Posting to Facebook Outperforms Automated,” ReadWrite, 01-Aug-2011. [Online]. Available: https://readwrite.com/2011/08/01/manually_posting_to_facebook_significantly_outperf/. [Accessed: 11-Jul-2017]
[2]
“How to Increase Your Traffic from Facebook by 650% in 5 Seconds,” WPMUDEV, 02-Aug-2011. [Online]. Available: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-increase-your-traffic-from-facebook-by-650-in-5-seconds/. [Accessed: 11-Jul-2017]
[3]
J. D. Lasica, “Demystifying how Facebook’s news feeds work,” SocialMedia.biz, 11-Feb-2011. [Online]. Available: http://socialmedia.biz/2011/02/07/how-facebook-news-feeds-work/. [Accessed: 11-Jul-2017]
[4]
D. Hay, “Will auto-posting stunt the reach of your Facebook posts?,” SocialMedia.biz, 26-Jul-2011. [Online]. Available: http://socialmedia.biz/2011/07/26/will-auto-posting-stunt-the-reach-of-your-facebook-posts/. [Accessed: 11-Jul-2017]

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I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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  4. My article The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem hit #1 on Hacker News this morning (a first for me)!
    Sadly, due to some quirky bugs last week, I’d turned caching off for the first time in 3 years, so my server has tipped over. If you’re having problems reading it, here’s an archived version.
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  47. My article The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem hit #1 on Hacker News this morning (a first for me)!
    Sadly, due to some quirky bugs last week, I’d turned caching off for the first time in 3 years, so my server has tipped over. If you’re having problems reading it, here’s an archived version. http://web.archive.org/web/20170712042021/http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/

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  66. Since my post hit #1 on Hacker News and blew up the article in a whole different way, I thought I ought to change the audience setting on Facebook to public so mom could finally see it.

    Sure enough it only took about 10 minutes from the time of the change for my mom to not only “like” it but to “heart” it. This time she went over-and-above and also wrote a note too.

    I love my mom!

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  71. Great post! You’re not the only one.
    I remember once I posted a article about robots or something and my dad liked and commented: “Son, congratulations on your engagement!”

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  84. Your content is yours: this is a central tenet of IndieWeb. It’s a philosophy that promotes ownership of your online content and it’s been labelled POSSE, an acronym for “Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.” Some in the IndieWeb community take this to the extreme and save literally everything they do on the Web, from tweets to check-ins and much more. AltPlatform contributor Chris Aldrich is in this camp – he’s even come up with an elaborate workaround to post onto Facebook, via his own website, but without getting the familiar “mom-autolike” (when your mother likes everything you post, because…well, she’s your mom).
    I admire the POSSE philosophy, but I don’t fully agree with it. That’s because I have no desire to post everything I do online onto my website. This is partly due to my profession: I’m a professional writer, so I see my website as kind of an aggregator for all the types of writing I do. I list and promote my books there, I do the same for columns I write for media organisations and posts I write for AltPlatform, I showcase my career archive, I even write the occasional personal blog post. But…I don’t wish to tweet from my website, nor do I want to use it as a social network (that’s what Facebook is for). My website is the central place for anything related to my career, but it’s not a place for me to post a family photo or tweet about the NBA.
    That’s just my personal viewpoint, so I’m not saying my way is the best way. Just as what feed reader you use is a personal choice, what you do with your own website is up to you.
    The POSSE philosophy did, however, make me think harder about my career archive. Before a few weeks ago, I’d never thought much about archiving all the content I’ve published online – dating back to 2002. Most of that content, and virtually all of it from before 2013, lives on external sites. ReadWriteWeb was the main repository, since that was the professional blog I founded and ran from 2003 to 2012. When I looked into it, I discovered I’d written nearly 3,000 posts in nearly a decade. That’s a lot of blood, sweat and tears. Yet there was no record of most of those posts on my personal website. So I set out to rectify that and create a career archive.
    This week I completed that archiving project. I ended up archiving not just all my ReadWriteWeb posts, but all the articles I’d written for ZDNet and a few other sites. I’d like to tell you this was an easy project, but actually it was very time-consuming. Mainly because most of the original sources (ReadWriteWeb in particular) have changed significantly over the years. So not only was my old RWW content difficult to find on the current site, ReadWrite.com, but almost all of it was buggy (e.g. missing or corrupted images) and looked out of place in the site’s current, rather bland, design. To make matters worse, ReadWrite had deleted some of my old content entirely. Long story short, I used the wonderful Internet Archive to do almost all of my archiving. But that in itself was a painstaking journey – e.g. re-formatting lists of my posts, finding missing months through various hacks, correcting broken links, etc.
    You can read more about how I constructed my career archive in a post I did for my personal site.
    My point here is that although I don’t wish to post everything I do online on my personal website, I do wish to have a record of all my professional writing work. To me, IndieWeb (a.k.a. Open Web) is about taking care of the content that is important to me from a career perspective. Of course there is content I post on Facebook that is important to me too – such as when I post family photos or post about a show I went to see with my wife. But IMHO that content is native to a social network, not my website. All those likes and comments which may accumulate on a Facebook post belong on that platform. Sure the content may disappear in time, if Facebook ever goes under or (more likely) turns into a massive Virtual Reality social network. But I’m willing to live with that, because I simply don’t want that content on my personal website. It doesn’t belong there.
    Of course this is just one person’s perspective, so I’m curious how you view the POSSE philosophy – and how you want to take care of your online content over time.

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  116. If you care about user engagement, you should probably disable pingbacks in the comment section. (1) You’re not going to impress anyone for getting lots of pingbacks — we all know the web is large. (2) This makes any kind of discussion of your thoughts impossible.

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    1. I wish that pingbacks or trackbacks looked this good or worked from social silos like Facebook and Twitter!!!

      What you’re seeing are mostly webmentions. Apologies that I still haven’t finished the UX/UI on them to facepile the likes and simple mentions from other areas of social media to make the actual conversation more readable/usable. What I’m ultimately trying to do is collect as much of the conversation about and interaction with my posts across the web here in one central location on my own site as I can instead of allowing it to be sadly fragmented in various silos where it’s harder to pay attention to everything and respond appropriately. There’s also the strong likelihood that these social sites won’t last forever and I’d like to keep a record of what was said in one location that I control. This particular post is more egregious than most because it was #1 on Hacker News for most of the day yesterday, so it drove vastly larger amounts of traffic than my poor little blog typically sees.

      Thanks for your thoughts! Hopefully the UI will improve in the near future as I have time to build/implement it.

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  117. Nice post.

    I solve the problem by having 2 FB accounts. One (max private) for personal friends/family who don’t care about my niche SQL Server DevOps content and the other (max public) for my professional networks who I’d prefer did not have access to all those embarrassing uni pics.

    Seems to work quite well.

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  138. YES!! You’re definitely not the only one. My mom’s too busy for Facebook but my mother in law, who btw works like crazy!, seems to be on Facebook 24/7 as well. I don’t know how she does it, she’s like a magician or something, the second I hit “post”, she likes it lol Most of the stuff is in English which she can’t read but she shows her love anyway. I’m totally gonna start using your tactics. Thanks for the informative post.

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  174. “In general I tend to post about math, science, and other random technical subjects…” On Facebook?? You might have expertise in engineering, but clearly you have a thing or two to learn about marketing. People in Facebook-land generally don’t care about the things you’re posting and that’s why you’re not getting Likes or Shares. Don’t blame it on Facebook’s algorithm, or your improper assumptions about how it works.

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  249. Curious if you were posting on your personal page or a business page. My mom knows I am the social media person for the company I work for and I created the page. I know she is not into Fantasy Football so dear old mom is doing this to support me. Now that our audience has grown we are testing posts without boosting but now I am worried she is messing up the reach? She is on the list of followers for the page but does FB still consider her my mom through the business page? Any insight would be appreciated.

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  257. There’s a better way to own and control your online identity
    Why IndieWeb?
    Whether you’re starting a blog, building your personal brand, posting a resume, promoting a hobby, writing a personal journal, creating an online commonplace book, sharing photos or content with friends, family, or colleagues, writing reviews, sharing recipes, podcasting, or any one of the thousand other things people do online it all starts with having a presence and an identity online.
    The seemingly difficult task these days is deciding where that should be. There’s Twitter for sharing short updates and bookmarks to articles; Instagram, Snapchat, Flickr, and YouTube for photos and videos; Facebook for communicating with family and friends; LinkedIn for work and career related posts; Swarm for sharing your location; and literally thousands of others for nearly every micro-slice of content one could think of.
    Can you possibly be on them all? Should you? Would you want to be? Could you keep up with it? Which one really and truly represents the real you? Could any of them?
    And what about your friends, family, and potential audience for all of these things? Some will be on Twitter while others only use Facebook. Grandma is worried about privacy and is only on Instagram to see photos of the grandchildren. Mom is on Facebook because she thinks that’s what the internet is, and wants to like everything her children post. Teenagers don’t want to be on any platforms their parents have heard of. It’s obvious that everyone has their own preferences and favorites.
    In short, the web and using it for easy communication has become fraught with fragmentation and walls that often make communicating online far more difficult than it should be. Wouldn’t it be better if you had a single website that represented you online and through which you could easily communicate with everyone?
    By analogy consider the telephone system which, just like the internet, consists of wires and hardware to access the network. Every user on the network has their own phone and phone number. What would it be like if AT&T users could only speak to other AT&T users and needed another separate phone, account, and phone number to speak to friends and family on Verizon and yet another to talk to friends on Sprint? To a great extent, this is what the internet has evolved to become with monopolistic, for-profit, corporate services like Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all the rest.
    Is there a better and more robust solution than these multitudes of social media sites which all come with their own onerous terms of service, limitations on your creativity, reach, ownership, and control of your online identity?
    A growing number of people on the web are sure there is and they’re working together in an open yet coordinated way to improve the democratized nature of the decentralized internet. This movement is known as the IndieWeb.
    Purpose of IndieWeb
    The purpose of the IndieWeb movement is to help put you in control of your web presence, allow you a more true sense of ownership of your content, and to allow you to be better connected to your friends, family, colleagues, and communities. By first owning your own domain name and having your own personal website, the IndieWeb aims to help facilitate the following:
    You are in Control

    You can post anything you want, in any format you want, with no one monitoring you. In addition, you share simple readable links such as http://www.example.com/ideas. These links are permanent and will always work.

    Control and Freedom
    You should be able to exercise your freedom of speech and publish anything you want whenever you want. You should be able to set your own rules and own limits. You should be able to post content as long or short as you like with no pre-imposed limits or types whether it be text, photos, audio, or video. You should be able to have control over comments and protection against potential harassment, bullying, and online trolls.
    Identity & Identity loss
    Almost every social media site has a multi-page statement of their terms of service written in complicated legalese. More often that not, these terms are to protect them and not you. As a result people have found their accounts frozen, they’ve been shut out with no notice or warning, their identities have been reassigned, or their content simply disappears with liitle or even no notice. Often there is either no method of recourse, or it is difficult to communicate with these corporations and may take weeks or worse to recover one’s account and data, if at all.
    Without care, one can become branded with the identity of the social media network of which they’re a part. If trolls overrun your social service then suddenly by association, you’ve become one too.
    User Interface/User EXperience
    You should have the ability to control how your site looks and works. Do you want a piece of functionality that one of your social network sites doesn’t have? Add it the way you want it. Create better navigation, better interactivity, better design to reflect your own identity instead of a corporation’s cookie-cutter idea of your identity. Since your data is yours you can add new and interesting pieces of functionality using that data instead of waiting on a social site to think about it and implement it for you. Chances are that unless millions will find it valuable or a company doesn’t think it will scale, most won’t build it, so don’t hold your breath.
    Your content is yours

    When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control.

    Greater reliability and protection against content loss
    Social media is only about 11 years old, and one thing is certainly true: sites will go out of business, they will get acquired, they can and will disappear. When this happens, your data can disappear overnight without the ability to back it up or export it. A new corporation can take over and change the terms of service and do things with your data that you never intended. Content can accidentally or even willfully disappear without notice to you. In addition to the data, you can also lose contact with family, friends, and community members that also disappear without the service that connected you to them.
    You can have greater control of site downtimes, server outages, maintenance, scalability issues, and database failures of silos attempting to solve massive scaling/engineering problems.
    A better sense of ownership
    Many in the IndieWeb community have found that they post more interesting and thoughtful pieces of content when they’re doing it on their own site rather than the “throw away” content they used to post to sites like Twitter. They feel a greater sense of responsibility and ownership in what they’re posting about and this can have a profound effect on the future of the internet and its level of civility.
    Author centric
    When you own your own website, other web sites see that it’s you personally sending traffic to their sites instead of a generic social site. You have the ability to edit content at any time or delete it if you like.
    You also have:

    greater choice of public vs. private posts and control of who your audience is;
    the ability to fix URL links when they break or disappear;
    no outside advertising on your site without your explicit permission;
    no one monetizing you;
    no censorship of your content;
    no terms of service which can often co-op your work without notice for advertising or other use;
    ownership and control of affiliate links to monetize your work if you choose.

     You are better connected

    Your articles and status messages can go to all services, not just one, allowing you to engage with everyone regardless of their choice of platform. Even replies and likes on other services can come back to your site so they’re all in one place.

    Since your content isn’t hidden behind the robots.txt of a silo service, you have much better search engine rankings and are more likely to be found, read, or have people interact with your content. If you choose, you can still syndicate your content to one or more social silos while still owning your content in the case that something happens to those silos. This allows you to continue to reach your friends, family, colleagues, and community who may have different ideas about where they prefer to interact online. Comments to and interactions with your content can come back to your original post to create a comprehensive conversation rather than have your conversation disjointed and spread over dozens of sites throughout the web.
    How to be a part of the IndieWeb
    Now that you’ve got a bit of an idea about what the IndieWeb movement is attempting to help people accomplish, how can you become a part of it and enjoy the benefits for yourself?
    Own and use your own domain name
    Fifteen or more years ago having your own domain wasn’t as easy or as inexpensive as it is now. There are hundreds and hundreds of domain registrars around the world that can register almost any domain name you can come up with for as little as 99 cents a year with the average closer to the $10-20 range depending on the name and the top level domain (.com, .org, .net, and .edu are examples of top level domains.)
    For an extra $0-10 a month you can quickly purchase domain hosting so that when someone visits your fancy URL, it actually connects to a page on the internet. Whether that page is a single page of simple HTML with a line of text and a photo; a plug and play site like Wix or SquareSpace; a full blown professional open source content management system like WordPress or Drupal; a web site you build by hand using your own code; or it points to your Facebook or Twitter account page, you’ve just made a huge step toward better cementing your identity on the internet.
    Once you own your own domain name, everything you post to the web will have a permalink URL which you can control. If you wish to change platforms or service providers you can relatively easily move all of your content and the permalinks along with it–much the same way you can move your cell phone number from one provider to another. People who visit your URLs will always be able to find you and your content.

    Twitter account profile asking for your name, bio, location, and your personal domain name/URL online.

    If nothing else, owning your own domain name will give you something useful to put into the ubiquitous field labeled “your website” that exists on literally every social media website out there. (Even they are subtly telling you that you should have your own domain name.)
    Added bonus: even most inexpensive domain registrars and hosting services will give you free email for your domain so you can create a custom branded personal email address like susan@yourname.com. Even if you rely on G-mail or some other third party service for your email, it’s pretty easy to connect your own personal email address to your pre-existing account. It’ll make you look a lot more professional and will be far easier for your friends, family, and business colleagues to remember.
    So you own your domain now?! Congratulations, you are officially a full-fledged member of the IndieWeb!
    Own your data
    Wait, it can’t be that simple can it? It is! But now that you’ve got your own website, it’s time to start using it to own your online identity and own your own content.
    Next you may want to choose a content management system (CMS) in which to store and present your data. The IndieWeb has lists of projects which range from common services as simple as Tumblr and WordPress.com (both managed services with free hosting) to help in building your own site from the ground up in your programming language of choice. Which project you choose depends on your needs, desires for the future, and your abilities. There is something available for people of nearly every level of ability. Most domain registrars and internet host providers provide one or more means to quickly get up and running–just ask their customer service departments or see what they’ve got available online.
    Most of these CMS solutions will give people a far bigger range of flexibility in terms of what they can write, record, and broadcast online. You don’t need to be limited to 140 characters if you choose not to be. Want to post more multi-media-based content with text, video, audio, and photos all at once? The online world can be your oyster and your social media platform no longer limits what is possible.
    Further Steps
    Ideally, what a lot of the IndieWeb developer community is rapidly building and iterating upon is an open and broadly distributeable way to make it easier for the everyday person to more easily own and operate all the functionality offered by the hundreds of social media websites without a lot of heavy and difficult-to-maintain overhead. A decade ago allowing Facebook to do everything for you may have been a simple “way out”, but now there are far more robust, diverse, and flexible solutions that aren’t as onerous. There are also newer open and easily supportable web protocols that make publishing and sharing your content far easier than before.
    The first big piece most people enjoy implementing is writing their own content on their own site and syndicating it out to other services on the internet if they choose. Continuing to participate in your old siloed networks can help you stay connected to your pre-existing social networks, so you’re not leaving all your friends and family behind. Next, having all your replies/comments, likes, and other interactions come back from social silos to your own site as comments along with notifications is incredibly valuable. (These two processes are commonly known as Post On your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) and backfeed, and they can typically be done most easily with a free service like Brid.gy.)
    Being able to write replies to articles or status updates on your own website and either @mentioning others as a means of notifying them is also very useful. The IndieWeb calls this universal implementation of @mentions that work across website boundaries Webmention and it’s built on an open and straightforward standard so that it can work with any website on the internet. (Remember the telephone analogy above? Now, thanks to Webmentions, everyone can be communicating on the same network.) As an example, imagine for a moment if you could @mention someone on Facebook from Twitter or vice-versa?! What if you could post a reply to a tweet on Twitter with your Facebook account?Using the Webmention spec, independent websites can easily do this now, though it may be quite a while before for-profit corporations support this simple protocol that is now a W3C recommendation.
    With some of the basic building blocks out of the way, people tend to spread out a bit in the types of functionalities they’re looking for.  It may range from posting status updates, pictures, or video to hosting your own podcast or  or having different user interfaces to post to your own site–Micropub is great for this–to being able to put events on your site and allowing people to RSVP to them easily. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could post an event on your own website and people could use Facebook to RSVP to it? My site allows this possibility. Yours could too.
    Everyone’s desires and needs will be different. Work on what you find most interesting and useful first (the IndieWeb calls these itches). Make a list of what you use most often on your old social media silos or wish they had and work on that first. Check out the IndieWeb wiki to see how others have implemented it–there’s no need to reinvent the wheel in darkness. Hop into the IndieWeb chat (there are multiple ways of doing this and interacting) and ask questions. Document what you’ve done in the wiki to make it easier for those who come after you.
    Personally, I’ve always just thought about what functions do I use most on social sites and then ask myself how I might be able to do that on my own site. There’s little out there that hasn’t been explored by the bigger community, so searching the wiki for those types of functionality and seeing how others managed it usually makes it far easier. Chatting with folks in the community while I’m working always helps to sharpen my thinking and make me aware of ideas and methods I may have never considered much less come up with on my own.
    If you never RSVP for things online or host events, then obviously don’t start there. Do you post photos regularly? Maybe you “like” everything you see online. In my case, I was a heavy user of Goodreads, so I spent parts of the last year working on more easily bookmarking things I’d like to read, posting reading status updates, and keeping notes on what I read, as well as highlights, marginalia, and book reviews after I’d finished reading.
    Guiding Philosophy
    The IndieWeb effort is different in several ways from previous efforts and communities. In particular it values principles over project-centrism. Other efforts have assumed a monoculture of one project as the ultimate solution for everyone. IndieWeb prefers developing a plurality of projects–why not have the same diversity on the web as we do in real life?
    The community prefers chat in combination with a wiki to communicate and document its process. Some may prefer email distribution lists, but why? Who likes to read and respond to long email threads where information is typically locked away from the group, ignored, and simply unread? Instead, we utilize a chat (which has multiple methods of access–plurality, remember?) to host searchable conversations after which the best portions are documented on the wiki to be easily searchable and discoverable to all.
    In the early days of social media, many talked, emailed and chatted about what they’d like to see. Sadly not much was done about expanding on these ideas, particularly by companies that all had their own profit-driven motives. As a result, the IndieWeb movement values showing before telling. They prioritize development by encouraging people to scratch their own itches, creating what they want to have and use on their own sites, and then iterating on those pieces to improve and refine them. If you won’t use a feature on your own site, why bother to have it?
    IndieWeb puts design first and foremost. Protocols & formats come second. They’d prefer to focus on good user experience and user interaction. Users selfdogfood prototypes on their own sites to create minimum necessary formats & protocols.
    Perhaps most importantly, the IndieWeb is people-focused instead of project-focused. The community is rich and diverse and has regular in-person meetups as well as camps across the world where everyone is welcome. The IndieWeb community is inclusive and has a code-of-conduct.
    Join the IndieWeb Community
    Where do I go from here? You said community in there. Where can I find it? How can I interact, get help, or even contribute back?
    Regardless of your level of expertise, there are a huge number of resources, events, and even people available to you in a variety of formats. Whether you choose to meet with friends in person at IndieWebCamps or at regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meetups or interact online at a nearly continuous worldwide chat (using either web chat, Slack, Matrix, or IRC) there are many means of getting help and interacting to suit your schedule and needs to help build the personal website you’ve always wanted.
    Building the indie web is a continuous process. While attending an IndieWebCamp can be an incredibly inspiring and encouraging event, we need to carry on doing so for more than just a few days a year when we can meet up in real life. We can not only support one another; we can share the best way to do things online. As we discover new ways of doing things, we can document them and share them easily with each other and the growing community.
    If you’ve made it this far, I invite you to join us, and get started building the internet you’ve always wanted by building your home on the web first.

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  259. Why IndieWeb?
    Whether you’re starting a blog, building your personal brand, posting a resume, promoting a hobby, writing a personal journal, creating an online commonplace book, sharing photos or content with friends, family, or colleagues, writing reviews, sharing recipes, podcasting, or any one of the thousand other things people do online it all starts with having a presence and an identity online.
    The seemingly difficult task these days is deciding where that should be. There’s Twitter for sharing short updates and bookmarks to articles; Instagram, Snapchat, Flickr, and YouTube for photos and videos; Facebook for communicating with family and friends; LinkedIn for work and career related posts; Swarm for sharing your location; and literally thousands of others for nearly every micro-slice of content one could think of.
    Can you possibly be on them all? Should you? Would you want to be? Could you keep up with it? Which one really and truly represents the real you? Could any of them?
    And what about your friends, family, and potential audience for all of these things? Some will be on Twitter while others only use Facebook. Grandma is worried about privacy and is only on Instagram to see photos of the grandchildren. Mom is on Facebook because she thinks that’s what the internet is, and wants to like everything her children post. Teenagers don’t want to be on any platforms their parents have heard of. It’s obvious that everyone has their own preferences and favorites.
    In short, the web and using it for easy communication has become fraught with fragmentation and walls that often make communicating online far more difficult than it should be. Wouldn’t it be better if you had a single website that represented you online and through which you could easily communicate with everyone?
    By analogy consider the telephone system which, just like the internet, consists of wires and hardware to access the network. Every user on the network has their own phone and phone number. What would it be like if AT&T users could only speak to other AT&T users and needed another separate phone, account, and phone number to speak to friends and family on Verizon and yet another to talk to friends on Sprint? To a great extent, this is what the internet has evolved to become with monopolistic, for-profit, corporate services like Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all the rest.
    Is there a better and more robust solution than these multitudes of social media sites which all come with their own onerous terms of service, limitations on your creativity, reach, ownership, and control of your online identity?
    A growing number of people on the web are sure there is and they’re working together in an open yet coordinated way to improve the democratized nature of the decentralized internet. This movement is known as the IndieWeb.
    Purpose of IndieWeb
    The purpose of the IndieWeb movement is to help put you in control of your web presence, allow you a more true sense of ownership of your content, and to allow you to be better connected to your friends, family, colleagues, and communities. By first owning your own domain name and having your own personal website, the IndieWeb aims to help facilitate the following:
    You are in Control

    You can post anything you want, in any format you want, with no one monitoring you. In addition, you share simple readable links such as http://www.example.com/ideas. These links are permanent and will always work.

    Control and Freedom
    You should be able to exercise your freedom of speech and publish anything you want whenever you want. You should be able to set your own rules and own limits. You should be able to post content as long or short as you like with no pre-imposed limits or types whether it be text, photos, audio, or video. You should be able to have control over comments and protection against potential harassment, bullying, and online trolls.
    Identity & Identity loss
    Almost every social media site has a multi-page statement of their terms of service written in complicated legalese. More often that not, these terms are to protect them and not you. As a result people have found their accounts frozen, they’ve been shut out with no notice or warning, their identities have been reassigned, or their content simply disappears with little or even no notice. Often there is either no method of recourse, or it is difficult to communicate with these corporations and may take weeks or worse to recover one’s account and data, if at all.
    Without care, one can become branded with the identity of the social media network of which they’re a part. If trolls overrun your social service then suddenly by association, you’ve become one too.
    User Interface/User EXperience
    You should have the ability to control how your site looks and works. Do you want a piece of functionality that one of your social network sites doesn’t have? Add it the way you want it. Create better navigation, better interactivity, better design to reflect your own identity instead of a corporation’s cookie-cutter idea of your identity. Since your data is yours you can add new and interesting pieces of functionality using that data instead of waiting on a social site to think about it and implement it for you. Chances are that unless millions will find it valuable or a company doesn’t think it will scale, most won’t build it, so don’t hold your breath.
    Your content is yours

    When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control.

    Greater reliability and protection against content loss
    Social media is only about 11 years old, and one thing is certainly true: sites will go out of business, they will get acquired, they can and will disappear. When this happens, your data can disappear overnight without the ability to back it up or export it. A new corporation can take over and change the terms of service and do things with your data that you never intended. Content can accidentally or even willfully disappear without notice to you. In addition to the data, you can also lose contact with family, friends, and community members that also disappear without the service that connected you to them.
    You can have greater control of site downtimes, server outages, maintenance, scalability issues, and database failures of silos attempting to solve massive scaling/engineering problems.
    A better sense of ownership
    Many in the IndieWeb community have found that they post more interesting and thoughtful pieces of content when they’re doing it on their own site rather than the “throw away” content they used to post to sites like Twitter. They feel a greater sense of responsibility and ownership in what they’re posting about and this can have a profound effect on the future of the internet and its level of civility.
    Author centric
    When you own your own website, other web sites see that it’s you personally sending traffic to their sites instead of a generic social site. You have the ability to edit content at any time or delete it if you like.
    You also have:

    greater choice of public vs. private posts and control of who your audience is;
    the ability to fix URL links when they break or disappear;
    no outside advertising on your site without your explicit permission;
    no one monetizing you;
    no censorship of your content;
    no terms of service which can often co-op your work without notice for advertising or other use;
    ownership and control of affiliate links to monetize your work if you choose.

     You are better connected

    Your articles and status messages can go to all services, not just one, allowing you to engage with everyone regardless of their choice of platform. Even replies and likes on other services can come back to your site so they’re all in one place.

    Since your content isn’t hidden behind the robots.txt of a silo service, you have much better search engine rankings and are more likely to be found, read, or have people interact with your content. If you choose, you can still syndicate your content to one or more social silos while still owning your content in the case that something happens to those silos. This allows you to continue to reach your friends, family, colleagues, and community who may have different ideas about where they prefer to interact online. Comments to and interactions with your content can come back to your original post to create a comprehensive conversation rather than have your conversation disjointed and spread over dozens of sites throughout the web.
    How to be a part of the IndieWeb
    Now that you’ve got a bit of an idea about what the IndieWeb movement is attempting to help people accomplish, how can you become a part of it and enjoy the benefits for yourself?
    Own and use your own domain name
    Fifteen or more years ago having your own domain wasn’t as easy or as inexpensive as it is now. There are hundreds and hundreds of domain registrars around the world that can register almost any domain name you can come up with for as little as 99 cents a year with the average closer to the $10-20 range depending on the name and the top level domain (.com, .org, .net, and .edu are examples of top level domains.)
    For an extra $0-10 a month you can quickly purchase domain hosting so that when someone visits your fancy URL, it actually connects to a page on the internet. Whether that page is a single page of simple HTML with a line of text and a photo; a plug and play site like Wix or SquareSpace; a full blown professional open source content management system like WordPress or Drupal; a web site you build by hand using your own code; or it points to your Facebook or Twitter account page, you’ve just made a huge step toward better cementing your identity on the internet.
    Once you own your own domain name, everything you post to the web will have a permalink URL which you can control. If you wish to change platforms or service providers you can relatively easily move all of your content and the permalinks along with it–much the same way you can move your cell phone number from one provider to another. People who visit your URLs will always be able to find you and your content.
    Twitter account profile asking for your name, bio, location, and your personal domain name/URL online.
    If nothing else, owning your own domain name will give you something useful to put into the ubiquitous field labeled “your website” that exists on literally every social media website out there. (Even they are subtly telling you that you should have your own domain name.)
    Added bonus: even most inexpensive domain registrars and hosting services will give you free email for your domain so you can create a custom branded personal email address like susan@yourname.com. Even if you rely on G-mail or some other third party service for your email, it’s pretty easy to connect your own personal email address to your pre-existing account. It’ll make you look a lot more professional and will be far easier for your friends, family, and business colleagues to remember.
    So you own your domain now?! Congratulations, you are officially a full-fledged member of the IndieWeb!
    Own your data
    Wait, it can’t be that simple can it? It is! But now that you’ve got your own website, it’s time to start using it to own your online identity and own your own content.
    Next you may want to choose a content management system (CMS) in which to store and present your data. The IndieWeb has lists of projects which range from common services as simple as Tumblr and WordPress.com (both managed services with free hosting) to help in building your own site from the ground up in your programming language of choice. Which project you choose depends on your needs, desires for the future, and your abilities. There is something available for people of nearly every level of ability. Most domain registrars and internet host providers provide one or more means to quickly get up and running–just ask their customer service departments or see what they’ve got available online.
    Most of these CMS solutions will give people a far bigger range of flexibility in terms of what they can write, record, and broadcast online. You don’t need to be limited to 140 characters if you choose not to be. Want to post more multi-media-based content with text, video, audio, and photos all at once? The online world can be your oyster and your social media platform no longer limits what is possible.
    Further Steps
    Ideally, what a lot of the IndieWeb developer community is rapidly building and iterating upon is an open and broadly distributeable way to make it easier for the everyday person to more easily own and operate all the functionality offered by the hundreds of social media websites without a lot of heavy and difficult-to-maintain overhead. A decade ago allowing Facebook to do everything for you may have been a simple “way out”, but now there are far more robust, diverse, and flexible solutions that aren’t as onerous. There are also newer open and easily supportable web protocols that make publishing and sharing your content far easier than before.
    The first big piece most people enjoy implementing is writing their own content on their own site and syndicating it out to other services on the internet if they choose. Continuing to participate in your old siloed networks can help you stay connected to your pre-existing social networks, so you’re not leaving all your friends and family behind. Next, having all your replies/comments, likes, and other interactions come back from social silos to your own site as comments along with notifications is incredibly valuable. (These two processes are commonly known as Post On your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) and backfeed, and they can typically be done most easily with a free service like Brid.gy.)
    Being able to write replies to articles or status updates on your own website and either @mentioning others as a means of notifying them is also very useful. The IndieWeb calls this universal implementation of @mentions that work across website boundaries Webmention and it’s built on an open and straightforward standard so that it can work with any website on the internet. (Remember the telephone analogy above? Now, thanks to Webmentions, everyone can be communicating on the same network.) As an example, imagine for a moment if you could @mention someone on Facebook from Twitter or vice-versa?! What if you could post a reply to a tweet on Twitter with your Facebook account?Using the Webmention spec, independent websites can easily do this now, though it may be quite a while before for-profit corporations support this simple protocol that is now a W3C recommendation.
    With some of the basic building blocks out of the way, people tend to spread out a bit in the types of functionalities they’re looking for.  It may range from posting status updates, pictures, or video to hosting your own podcast or  or having different user interfaces to post to your own site–Micropub is great for this–to being able to put events on your site and allowing people to RSVP to them easily. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could post an event on your own website and people could use Facebook to RSVP to it? My site allows this possibility. Yours could too.
    Everyone’s desires and needs will be different. Work on what you find most interesting and useful first (the IndieWeb calls these itches). Make a list of what you use most often on your old social media silos or wish they had and work on that first. Check out the IndieWeb wiki to see how others have implemented it–there’s no need to reinvent the wheel in darkness. Hop into the IndieWeb chat (there are multiple ways of doing this and interacting) and ask questions. Document what you’ve done in the wiki to make it easier for those who come after you.
    Personally, I’ve always just thought about what functions do I use most on social sites and then ask myself how I might be able to do that on my own site. There’s little out there that hasn’t been explored by the bigger community, so searching the wiki for those types of functionality and seeing how others managed it usually makes it far easier. Chatting with folks in the community while I’m working always helps to sharpen my thinking and make me aware of ideas and methods I may have never considered much less come up with on my own.
    If you never RSVP for things online or host events, then obviously don’t start there. Do you post photos regularly? Maybe you “like” everything you see online. In my case, I was a heavy user of Goodreads, so I spent parts of the last year working on more easily bookmarking things I’d like to read, posting reading status updates, and keeping notes on what I read, as well as highlights, marginalia, and book reviews after I’d finished reading.
    Guiding Philosophy
    The IndieWeb effort is different in several ways from previous efforts and communities. In particular it values principles over project-centrism. Other efforts have assumed a monoculture of one project as the ultimate solution for everyone. IndieWeb prefers developing a plurality of projects–why not have the same diversity on the web as we do in real life?
    The community prefers chat in combination with a wiki to communicate and document its process. Some may prefer email distribution lists, but why? Who likes to read and respond to long email threads where information is typically locked away from the group, ignored, and simply unread? Instead, we utilize a chat (which has multiple methods of access–plurality, remember?) to host searchable conversations after which the best portions are documented on the wiki to be easily searchable and discoverable to all.
    In the early days of social media, many talked, emailed and chatted about what they’d like to see. Sadly not much was done about expanding on these ideas, particularly by companies that all had their own profit-driven motives. As a result, the IndieWeb movement values showing before telling. They prioritize development by encouraging people to scratch their own itches, creating what they want to have and use on their own sites, and then iterating on those pieces to improve and refine them. If you won’t use a feature on your own site, why bother to have it?
    IndieWeb puts design first and foremost. Protocols & formats come second. They’d prefer to focus on good user experience and user interaction. Users selfdogfood prototypes on their own sites to create minimum necessary formats & protocols.
    Perhaps most importantly, the IndieWeb is people-focused instead of project-focused. The community is rich and diverse and has regular in-person meetups as well as camps across the world where everyone is welcome. The IndieWeb community is inclusive and has a code-of-conduct.
    Join the IndieWeb Community
    Where do I go from here? You said community in there. Where can I find it? How can I interact, get help, or even contribute back?
    Regardless of your level of expertise, there are a huge number of resources, events, and even people available to you in a variety of formats. Whether you choose to meet with friends in person at IndieWebCamps or at regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meetups or interact online at a nearly continuous worldwide chat (using either web chat, Slack, Matrix, or IRC) there are many means of getting help and interacting to suit your schedule and needs to help build the personal website you’ve always wanted.
    Building the indie web is a continuous process. While attending an IndieWebCamp can be an incredibly inspiring and encouraging event, we need to carry on doing so for more than just a few days a year when we can meet up in real life. We can not only support one another; we can share the best way to do things online. As we discover new ways of doing things, we can document them and share them easily with each other and the growing community.
    If you’ve made it this far, I invite you to join us, and get started building the internet you’ve always wanted by building your home on the web first.

    Editor’s Note:
    As of December 2017, the AltPlatform.org site which originally published this article has shut down. I’ve smartly kept a private archived copy of the original of this post here on my personal site and manually syndicated a copy of it to AltPlatform for just such a possibility. (Hooray for PASTA (Publish Anywhere, Save to (Private) Archive)!) As a result of the shutdown, I’m making the original public here.
    If you wish, you can also read a copy of the original as it appeared on AltPlatform on the Internet Archive.

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  263. Hello and welcome to this new issue! Your monthly dose of all things about Facebook. Let’s get straight to the links this month.

    In the News

    Date
    Article

    2017-07-31
    Facebook fights to stop laws on facial recognition

    2017-07-28
    Study shows that Facebook dark ads could swing an election

    2017-07-27
    Study shows how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

    2017-07-24
    EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

    2017-07-24
    Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

    2017-07-21
    Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration. In first half of 2017, Facebook spent $5.48 million.

    2017-07-19
    Instagram tops cyber-bullying study

    2017-07-19
    European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook

    2017-07-14
    Facebook will start showing ads inside Marketplace, its Craigslist-style section for browsing used goods

    2017-07-11
    Facebook to Show Ads on Messenger to Bolster Revenue Growth

    2017-07-07
    I kinda hacked a few Facebook accounts using a vulnerability they won’t fix

    2017-07-07
    WhatsApp score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list by EFF

    2017-07-06
    Facebook community standards under scrutiny as out and proud ‘dykes’ banned

    2017-07-03
    Facebook investigated by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office over claims it ‘extorts’ personal data from users

    2017-07-03
    Facebook beats privacy lawsuit in U.S. over user tracking

    See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

    You can also read the past editions of our newsletter

    Great Articles (Editor Picks)

    10 reasons to think WhatsApp sucks
    Why I left Facebook – [HN discussion]
    The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem – [HN discussion]
    Why Facebook’s Authentication Model is Inadequate – [HN discussion]
    Facebook is dangerous for Democracy – here’s why
    Social Media Is The New Smoking – [HN discussion]

    Media

    “Deleting Facebook and Instagram” – Lunduke Hour (July 4, 2017)

    Guides & Tutorials

    Facebook Is Tracking You! Here’s How to Stop It

    On Reddit

    r/assholedesign – Facebook just served me an ad inside of a private chat based on info in that convo
    r/assholedesign – Asshole Facebook wont let you view messages on mobile without downloading their shitty, data-mining app.
    r/StallmanWasRight – So this happened today

    Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook and the recent documentaries:

    ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread)
    BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You (r/unitedkingdom thread)

    Don’t miss the excellent documentary Facebookistan available on Vimeo (password: facebookistan )

    Also a gentle reminder that if you still are on Facebook, please read the guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.

    If you need help, please ask! Don’t be afraid to ask a question, plenty of kind & knowledgeable folks are ready to help you.

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    See past editions here.
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    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/index).
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    https://np.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/68d6lj/facebook_cracking_the_code_2017_how_facebook/)
    https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/6ohysk/so_this_happened_today/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6o6jic/asshole_facebook_wont_let_you_view_messages_on/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6oi7n1/facebook_just_served_me_an_ad_inside_of_a_private/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/6a41ad/bbc_panorama_what_facebook_knows_about_you/)
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/facebook-messenger-display-ads/
    https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/
    https://vimeo.com/146388291
    https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-germany-cartel-office-personal-data-user-accounts-extorts-antitrust-eu-social-media-network-a7820331.html
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/facebook-ireland-fights-max-schrems-over-class-action-suit-1.3160137
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142072-first-proof-that-facebook-dark-ads-could-swing-an-election
    https://www.recode.net/2017/7/14/15969286/facebook-marketplace-ads-test-craigslist
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    https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/5lauzk/facebook_2016_year_in_review/
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    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/tech_giants_reveal_massive_lobbying_spend/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyvbgm_jBU

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  264. Hello and welcome to this new issue! Your monthly dose of all things about Facebook. Let’s get straight to the links this month.

    In the News

    Date
    Article

    2017-07-31
    Facebook fights to stop laws on facial recognition

    2017-07-28
    Study shows that Facebook dark ads could swing an election

    2017-07-27
    Study shows how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

    2017-07-24
    EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

    2017-07-24
    Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

    2017-07-21
    Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration. In first half of 2017, Facebook spent $5.48 million.

    2017-07-19
    Instagram tops cyber-bullying study

    2017-07-19
    European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook

    2017-07-14
    Facebook will start showing ads inside Marketplace, its Craigslist-style section for browsing used goods

    2017-07-11
    Facebook to Show Ads on Messenger to Bolster Revenue Growth

    2017-07-07
    I kinda hacked a few Facebook accounts using a vulnerability they won’t fix

    2017-07-07
    WhatsApp score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list by EFF

    2017-07-06
    Facebook community standards under scrutiny as out and proud ‘dykes’ banned

    2017-07-03
    Facebook investigated by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office over claims it ‘extorts’ personal data from users

    2017-07-03
    Facebook beats privacy lawsuit in U.S. over user tracking

    See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

    You can also read the past editions of our newsletter

    Great Articles (Editor Picks)

    10 reasons to think WhatsApp sucks
    Why I left Facebook – [HN discussion]
    The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem – [HN discussion]
    Why Facebook’s Authentication Model is Inadequate – [HN discussion]
    Facebook is dangerous for Democracy – here’s why
    Social Media Is The New Smoking – [HN discussion]

    Media

    “Deleting Facebook and Instagram” – Lunduke Hour (July 4, 2017)

    Guides & Tutorials

    Facebook Is Tracking You! Here’s How to Stop It

    On Reddit

    r/assholedesign – Facebook just served me an ad inside of a private chat based on info in that convo
    r/assholedesign – Asshole Facebook wont let you view messages on mobile without downloading their shitty, data-mining app.
    r/StallmanWasRight – So this happened today

    Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook and the recent documentaries:

    ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread)
    BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You (r/unitedkingdom thread)

    Don’t miss the excellent documentary Facebookistan available on Vimeo (password: facebookistan )

    Also a gentle reminder that if you still are on Facebook, please read the guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.

    If you need help, please ask! Don’t be afraid to ask a question, plenty of kind & knowledgeable folks are ready to help you.











    http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/
    http://mashable.com/2017/07/17/facebook-social-media-dangerous-for-democracy/
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716368
    http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-06/facebook-banning-algorithims-block-lesbians-from-using-dyke/8676284
    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40643904
    http://www.facebookistan.org/
    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-tracking-stop/
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-decision-idUSKBN19O1Q4
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-facebook-fights-to-stop-laws-on-facial-recognition
    https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/07/27/can-facebook-connect-the-next-billion/
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/comcast-att-whatsapp-all-score-low-on-new-who-has-your-back-list/
    https://fiss.me/2017/07/06/10-reasons-why-whatsapp-sucks
    https://medium.com/@jkmartindale/i-kinda-hacked-a-few-facebook-accounts-using-a-vulnerability-they-wont-fix-2f5669794f79
    https://nadim.computer/2017/05/27/facebook-authentication.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752392
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803434
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851057
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/guide
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/index).
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/videos
    https://np.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/68d6lj/facebook_cracking_the_code_2017_how_facebook/)
    https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/6ohysk/so_this_happened_today/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6o6jic/asshole_facebook_wont_let_you_view_messages_on/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6oi7n1/facebook_just_served_me_an_ad_inside_of_a_private/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/6a41ad/bbc_panorama_what_facebook_knows_about_you/)
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/facebook-messenger-display-ads/
    https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/
    https://vimeo.com/146388291
    https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-germany-cartel-office-personal-data-user-accounts-extorts-antitrust-eu-social-media-network-a7820331.html
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/facebook-ireland-fights-max-schrems-over-class-action-suit-1.3160137
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142072-first-proof-that-facebook-dark-ads-could-swing-an-election
    https://www.recode.net/2017/7/14/15969286/facebook-marketplace-ads-test-craigslist
    https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/5lauzk/facebook_2016_year_in_review/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/5lehx7/ufantastic_comment_compiles_a_list_of_horrible/
    https://www.reddit.com/search?q=subreddit%3Aantifacebook+flair_text%3Anewsletter&sort=new&restrict_sr=&t=all
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-socialmedia-eu-consumers-idUSKBN1A92D4
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/tech_giants_reveal_massive_lobbying_spend/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyvbgm_jBU

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  266. Hello and welcome to this new issue! Your monthly dose of all things about Facebook. Let’s get straight to the links this month.

    In the News

    Date
    Article

    2017-07-31
    Facebook fights to stop laws on facial recognition

    2017-07-28
    Study shows that Facebook dark ads could swing an election

    2017-07-27
    Study shows how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

    2017-07-24
    EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

    2017-07-24
    Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

    2017-07-21
    Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration. In first half of 2017, Facebook spent $5.48 million.

    2017-07-19
    Instagram tops cyber-bullying study

    2017-07-19
    European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook

    2017-07-14
    Facebook will start showing ads inside Marketplace, its Craigslist-style section for browsing used goods

    2017-07-11
    Facebook to Show Ads on Messenger to Bolster Revenue Growth

    2017-07-07
    I kinda hacked a few Facebook accounts using a vulnerability they won’t fix

    2017-07-07
    WhatsApp score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list by EFF

    2017-07-06
    Facebook community standards under scrutiny as out and proud ‘dykes’ banned

    2017-07-03
    Facebook investigated by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office over claims it ‘extorts’ personal data from users

    2017-07-03
    Facebook beats privacy lawsuit in U.S. over user tracking

    See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

    You can also read the past editions of our newsletter

    Great Articles (Editor Picks)

    10 reasons to think WhatsApp sucks
    Why I left Facebook – [HN discussion]
    The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem – [HN discussion]
    Why Facebook’s Authentication Model is Inadequate – [HN discussion]
    Facebook is dangerous for Democracy – here’s why
    Social Media Is The New Smoking – [HN discussion]

    Media

    “Deleting Facebook and Instagram” – Lunduke Hour (July 4, 2017)

    Guides & Tutorials

    Facebook Is Tracking You! Here’s How to Stop It

    On Reddit

    r/assholedesign – Facebook just served me an ad inside of a private chat based on info in that convo
    r/assholedesign – Asshole Facebook wont let you view messages on mobile without downloading their shitty, data-mining app.
    r/StallmanWasRight – So this happened today

    Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook and the recent documentaries:

    ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread)
    BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You (r/unitedkingdom thread)

    Don’t miss the excellent documentary Facebookistan available on Vimeo (password: facebookistan )

    Also a gentle reminder that if you still are on Facebook, please read the guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.

    If you need help, please ask! Don’t be afraid to ask a question, plenty of kind & knowledgeable folks are ready to help you.











    http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/
    http://mashable.com/2017/07/17/facebook-social-media-dangerous-for-democracy/
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716368
    http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-06/facebook-banning-algorithims-block-lesbians-from-using-dyke/8676284
    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40643904
    http://www.facebookistan.org/
    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-tracking-stop/
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-decision-idUSKBN19O1Q4
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-facebook-fights-to-stop-laws-on-facial-recognition
    https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/07/27/can-facebook-connect-the-next-billion/
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/comcast-att-whatsapp-all-score-low-on-new-who-has-your-back-list/
    https://fiss.me/2017/07/06/10-reasons-why-whatsapp-sucks
    https://medium.com/@jkmartindale/i-kinda-hacked-a-few-facebook-accounts-using-a-vulnerability-they-wont-fix-2f5669794f79
    https://nadim.computer/2017/05/27/facebook-authentication.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752392
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803434
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851057
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/guide
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/index).
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/videos
    https://np.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/68d6lj/facebook_cracking_the_code_2017_how_facebook/)
    https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/6ohysk/so_this_happened_today/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6o6jic/asshole_facebook_wont_let_you_view_messages_on/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6oi7n1/facebook_just_served_me_an_ad_inside_of_a_private/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/6a41ad/bbc_panorama_what_facebook_knows_about_you/)
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/facebook-messenger-display-ads/
    https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/
    https://vimeo.com/146388291
    https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-germany-cartel-office-personal-data-user-accounts-extorts-antitrust-eu-social-media-network-a7820331.html
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/facebook-ireland-fights-max-schrems-over-class-action-suit-1.3160137
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142072-first-proof-that-facebook-dark-ads-could-swing-an-election
    https://www.recode.net/2017/7/14/15969286/facebook-marketplace-ads-test-craigslist
    https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/5lauzk/facebook_2016_year_in_review/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/5lehx7/ufantastic_comment_compiles_a_list_of_horrible/
    https://www.reddit.com/search?q=subreddit%3Aantifacebook+flair_text%3Anewsletter&sort=new&restrict_sr=&t=all
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-socialmedia-eu-consumers-idUSKBN1A92D4
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/tech_giants_reveal_massive_lobbying_spend/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyvbgm_jBU

    Reply

  267. Hello and welcome to this new issue! Your monthly dose of all things about Facebook. Let’s get straight to the links this month.

    In the News

    Date
    Article

    2017-07-31
    Facebook fights to stop laws on facial recognition

    2017-07-28
    Study shows that Facebook dark ads could swing an election

    2017-07-27
    Study shows how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

    2017-07-24
    EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

    2017-07-24
    Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

    2017-07-21
    Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration. In first half of 2017, Facebook spent $5.48 million.

    2017-07-19
    Instagram tops cyber-bullying study

    2017-07-19
    European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook

    2017-07-14
    Facebook will start showing ads inside Marketplace, its Craigslist-style section for browsing used goods

    2017-07-11
    Facebook to Show Ads on Messenger to Bolster Revenue Growth

    2017-07-07
    I kinda hacked a few Facebook accounts using a vulnerability they won’t fix

    2017-07-07
    WhatsApp score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list by EFF

    2017-07-06
    Facebook community standards under scrutiny as out and proud ‘dykes’ banned

    2017-07-03
    Facebook investigated by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office over claims it ‘extorts’ personal data from users

    2017-07-03
    Facebook beats privacy lawsuit in U.S. over user tracking

    See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

    You can also read the past editions of our newsletter

    Great Articles (Editor Picks)

    10 reasons to think WhatsApp sucks
    Why I left Facebook – [HN discussion]
    The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem – [HN discussion]
    Why Facebook’s Authentication Model is Inadequate – [HN discussion]
    Facebook is dangerous for Democracy – here’s why
    Social Media Is The New Smoking – [HN discussion]

    Media

    “Deleting Facebook and Instagram” – Lunduke Hour (July 4, 2017)

    Guides & Tutorials

    Facebook Is Tracking You! Here’s How to Stop It

    On Reddit

    r/assholedesign – Facebook just served me an ad inside of a private chat based on info in that convo
    r/assholedesign – Asshole Facebook wont let you view messages on mobile without downloading their shitty, data-mining app.
    r/StallmanWasRight – So this happened today

    Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook and the recent documentaries:

    ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread)
    BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You (r/unitedkingdom thread)

    Don’t miss the excellent documentary Facebookistan available on Vimeo (password: facebookistan )

    Also a gentle reminder that if you still are on Facebook, please read the guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.

    If you need help, please ask! Don’t be afraid to ask a question, plenty of kind & knowledgeable folks are ready to help you.











    http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/
    http://mashable.com/2017/07/17/facebook-social-media-dangerous-for-democracy/
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716368
    http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-06/facebook-banning-algorithims-block-lesbians-from-using-dyke/8676284
    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40643904
    http://www.facebookistan.org/
    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-tracking-stop/
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-decision-idUSKBN19O1Q4
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-facebook-fights-to-stop-laws-on-facial-recognition
    https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/07/27/can-facebook-connect-the-next-billion/
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/comcast-att-whatsapp-all-score-low-on-new-who-has-your-back-list/
    https://fiss.me/2017/07/06/10-reasons-why-whatsapp-sucks
    https://medium.com/@jkmartindale/i-kinda-hacked-a-few-facebook-accounts-using-a-vulnerability-they-wont-fix-2f5669794f79
    https://nadim.computer/2017/05/27/facebook-authentication.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752392
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803434
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851057
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/guide
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/index).
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/videos
    https://np.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/68d6lj/facebook_cracking_the_code_2017_how_facebook/)
    https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/6ohysk/so_this_happened_today/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6o6jic/asshole_facebook_wont_let_you_view_messages_on/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6oi7n1/facebook_just_served_me_an_ad_inside_of_a_private/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/6a41ad/bbc_panorama_what_facebook_knows_about_you/)
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/facebook-messenger-display-ads/
    https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/
    https://vimeo.com/146388291
    https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-germany-cartel-office-personal-data-user-accounts-extorts-antitrust-eu-social-media-network-a7820331.html
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/facebook-ireland-fights-max-schrems-over-class-action-suit-1.3160137
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142072-first-proof-that-facebook-dark-ads-could-swing-an-election
    https://www.recode.net/2017/7/14/15969286/facebook-marketplace-ads-test-craigslist
    https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/5lauzk/facebook_2016_year_in_review/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/5lehx7/ufantastic_comment_compiles_a_list_of_horrible/
    https://www.reddit.com/search?q=subreddit%3Aantifacebook+flair_text%3Anewsletter&sort=new&restrict_sr=&t=all
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-socialmedia-eu-consumers-idUSKBN1A92D4
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/tech_giants_reveal_massive_lobbying_spend/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyvbgm_jBU

    Reply

  268. Hello and welcome to this new issue! Your monthly dose of all things about Facebook. Let’s get straight to the links this month.

    In the News

    Date
    Article

    2017-07-31
    Facebook fights to stop laws on facial recognition

    2017-07-28
    Study shows that Facebook dark ads could swing an election

    2017-07-27
    Study shows how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

    2017-07-24
    EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

    2017-07-24
    Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

    2017-07-21
    Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration. In first half of 2017, Facebook spent $5.48 million.

    2017-07-19
    Instagram tops cyber-bullying study

    2017-07-19
    European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook

    2017-07-14
    Facebook will start showing ads inside Marketplace, its Craigslist-style section for browsing used goods

    2017-07-11
    Facebook to Show Ads on Messenger to Bolster Revenue Growth

    2017-07-07
    I kinda hacked a few Facebook accounts using a vulnerability they won’t fix

    2017-07-07
    WhatsApp score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list by EFF

    2017-07-06
    Facebook community standards under scrutiny as out and proud ‘dykes’ banned

    2017-07-03
    Facebook investigated by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office over claims it ‘extorts’ personal data from users

    2017-07-03
    Facebook beats privacy lawsuit in U.S. over user tracking

    See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

    You can also read the past editions of our newsletter

    Great Articles (Editor Picks)

    10 reasons to think WhatsApp sucks
    Why I left Facebook – [HN discussion]
    The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem – [HN discussion]
    Why Facebook’s Authentication Model is Inadequate – [HN discussion]
    Facebook is dangerous for Democracy – here’s why
    Social Media Is The New Smoking – [HN discussion]

    Media

    “Deleting Facebook and Instagram” – Lunduke Hour (July 4, 2017)

    Guides & Tutorials

    Facebook Is Tracking You! Here’s How to Stop It

    On Reddit

    r/assholedesign – Facebook just served me an ad inside of a private chat based on info in that convo
    r/assholedesign – Asshole Facebook wont let you view messages on mobile without downloading their shitty, data-mining app.
    r/StallmanWasRight – So this happened today

    Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook and the recent documentaries:

    ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread)
    BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You (r/unitedkingdom thread)

    Don’t miss the excellent documentary Facebookistan available on Vimeo (password: facebookistan )

    Also a gentle reminder that if you still are on Facebook, please read the guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.

    If you need help, please ask! Don’t be afraid to ask a question, plenty of kind & knowledgeable folks are ready to help you.











    http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/
    http://mashable.com/2017/07/17/facebook-social-media-dangerous-for-democracy/
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716368
    http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-06/facebook-banning-algorithims-block-lesbians-from-using-dyke/8676284
    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40643904
    http://www.facebookistan.org/
    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-tracking-stop/
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-decision-idUSKBN19O1Q4
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-facebook-fights-to-stop-laws-on-facial-recognition
    https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/07/27/can-facebook-connect-the-next-billion/
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/comcast-att-whatsapp-all-score-low-on-new-who-has-your-back-list/
    https://fiss.me/2017/07/06/10-reasons-why-whatsapp-sucks
    https://medium.com/@jkmartindale/i-kinda-hacked-a-few-facebook-accounts-using-a-vulnerability-they-wont-fix-2f5669794f79
    https://nadim.computer/2017/05/27/facebook-authentication.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752392
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803434
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851057
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/guide
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/index).
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/videos
    https://np.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/68d6lj/facebook_cracking_the_code_2017_how_facebook/)
    https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/6ohysk/so_this_happened_today/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6o6jic/asshole_facebook_wont_let_you_view_messages_on/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6oi7n1/facebook_just_served_me_an_ad_inside_of_a_private/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/6a41ad/bbc_panorama_what_facebook_knows_about_you/)
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/facebook-messenger-display-ads/
    https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/
    https://vimeo.com/146388291
    https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-germany-cartel-office-personal-data-user-accounts-extorts-antitrust-eu-social-media-network-a7820331.html
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/facebook-ireland-fights-max-schrems-over-class-action-suit-1.3160137
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142072-first-proof-that-facebook-dark-ads-could-swing-an-election
    https://www.recode.net/2017/7/14/15969286/facebook-marketplace-ads-test-craigslist
    https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/5lauzk/facebook_2016_year_in_review/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/5lehx7/ufantastic_comment_compiles_a_list_of_horrible/
    https://www.reddit.com/search?q=subreddit%3Aantifacebook+flair_text%3Anewsletter&sort=new&restrict_sr=&t=all
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-socialmedia-eu-consumers-idUSKBN1A92D4
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/tech_giants_reveal_massive_lobbying_spend/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyvbgm_jBU

    Reply

  269. Hello and welcome to this new issue! Your monthly dose of all things about Facebook. Let’s get straight to the links this month.

    In the News

    Date
    Article

    2017-07-31
    Facebook fights to stop laws on facial recognition

    2017-07-28
    Study shows that Facebook dark ads could swing an election

    2017-07-27
    Study shows how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

    2017-07-24
    EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

    2017-07-24
    Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

    2017-07-21
    Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration. In first half of 2017, Facebook spent $5.48 million.

    2017-07-19
    Instagram tops cyber-bullying study

    2017-07-19
    European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook

    2017-07-14
    Facebook will start showing ads inside Marketplace, its Craigslist-style section for browsing used goods

    2017-07-11
    Facebook to Show Ads on Messenger to Bolster Revenue Growth

    2017-07-07
    I kinda hacked a few Facebook accounts using a vulnerability they won’t fix

    2017-07-07
    WhatsApp score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list by EFF

    2017-07-06
    Facebook community standards under scrutiny as out and proud ‘dykes’ banned

    2017-07-03
    Facebook investigated by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office over claims it ‘extorts’ personal data from users

    2017-07-03
    Facebook beats privacy lawsuit in U.S. over user tracking

    See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

    You can also read the past editions of our newsletter

    Great Articles (Editor Picks)

    10 reasons to think WhatsApp sucks
    Why I left Facebook – [HN discussion]
    The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem – [HN discussion]
    Why Facebook’s Authentication Model is Inadequate – [HN discussion]
    Facebook is dangerous for Democracy – here’s why
    Social Media Is The New Smoking – [HN discussion]

    Media

    “Deleting Facebook and Instagram” – Lunduke Hour (July 4, 2017)

    Guides & Tutorials

    Facebook Is Tracking You! Here’s How to Stop It

    On Reddit

    r/assholedesign – Facebook just served me an ad inside of a private chat based on info in that convo
    r/assholedesign – Asshole Facebook wont let you view messages on mobile without downloading their shitty, data-mining app.
    r/StallmanWasRight – So this happened today

    Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook and the recent documentaries:

    ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread)
    BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You (r/unitedkingdom thread)

    Don’t miss the excellent documentary Facebookistan available on Vimeo (password: facebookistan )

    Also a gentle reminder that if you still are on Facebook, please read the guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.

    If you need help, please ask! Don’t be afraid to ask a question, plenty of kind & knowledgeable folks are ready to help you.











    http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/
    http://mashable.com/2017/07/17/facebook-social-media-dangerous-for-democracy/
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716368
    http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-06/facebook-banning-algorithims-block-lesbians-from-using-dyke/8676284
    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40643904
    http://www.facebookistan.org/
    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-tracking-stop/
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-decision-idUSKBN19O1Q4
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-facebook-fights-to-stop-laws-on-facial-recognition
    https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/07/27/can-facebook-connect-the-next-billion/
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/comcast-att-whatsapp-all-score-low-on-new-who-has-your-back-list/
    https://fiss.me/2017/07/06/10-reasons-why-whatsapp-sucks
    https://medium.com/@jkmartindale/i-kinda-hacked-a-few-facebook-accounts-using-a-vulnerability-they-wont-fix-2f5669794f79
    https://nadim.computer/2017/05/27/facebook-authentication.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752392
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803434
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851057
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/guide
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/index).
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/videos
    https://np.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/68d6lj/facebook_cracking_the_code_2017_how_facebook/)
    https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/6ohysk/so_this_happened_today/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6o6jic/asshole_facebook_wont_let_you_view_messages_on/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6oi7n1/facebook_just_served_me_an_ad_inside_of_a_private/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/6a41ad/bbc_panorama_what_facebook_knows_about_you/)
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/facebook-messenger-display-ads/
    https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/
    https://vimeo.com/146388291
    https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-germany-cartel-office-personal-data-user-accounts-extorts-antitrust-eu-social-media-network-a7820331.html
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/facebook-ireland-fights-max-schrems-over-class-action-suit-1.3160137
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142072-first-proof-that-facebook-dark-ads-could-swing-an-election
    https://www.recode.net/2017/7/14/15969286/facebook-marketplace-ads-test-craigslist
    https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/5lauzk/facebook_2016_year_in_review/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/5lehx7/ufantastic_comment_compiles_a_list_of_horrible/
    https://www.reddit.com/search?q=subreddit%3Aantifacebook+flair_text%3Anewsletter&sort=new&restrict_sr=&t=all
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-socialmedia-eu-consumers-idUSKBN1A92D4
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/tech_giants_reveal_massive_lobbying_spend/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyvbgm_jBU

    Reply

  270. Hello and welcome to this new issue! Your monthly dose of all things about Facebook. Let’s get straight to the links this month.

    In the News

    Date
    Article

    2017-07-31
    Facebook fights to stop laws on facial recognition

    2017-07-28
    Study shows that Facebook dark ads could swing an election

    2017-07-27
    Study shows how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

    2017-07-24
    EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

    2017-07-24
    Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

    2017-07-21
    Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration. In first half of 2017, Facebook spent $5.48 million.

    2017-07-19
    Instagram tops cyber-bullying study

    2017-07-19
    European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook

    2017-07-14
    Facebook will start showing ads inside Marketplace, its Craigslist-style section for browsing used goods

    2017-07-11
    Facebook to Show Ads on Messenger to Bolster Revenue Growth

    2017-07-07
    I kinda hacked a few Facebook accounts using a vulnerability they won’t fix

    2017-07-07
    WhatsApp score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list by EFF

    2017-07-06
    Facebook community standards under scrutiny as out and proud ‘dykes’ banned

    2017-07-03
    Facebook investigated by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office over claims it ‘extorts’ personal data from users

    2017-07-03
    Facebook beats privacy lawsuit in U.S. over user tracking

    See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

    You can also read the past editions of our newsletter

    Great Articles (Editor Picks)

    10 reasons to think WhatsApp sucks
    Why I left Facebook – [HN discussion]
    The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem – [HN discussion]
    Why Facebook’s Authentication Model is Inadequate – [HN discussion]
    Facebook is dangerous for Democracy – here’s why
    Social Media Is The New Smoking – [HN discussion]

    Media

    “Deleting Facebook and Instagram” – Lunduke Hour (July 4, 2017)

    Guides & Tutorials

    Facebook Is Tracking You! Here’s How to Stop It

    On Reddit

    r/assholedesign – Facebook just served me an ad inside of a private chat based on info in that convo
    r/assholedesign – Asshole Facebook wont let you view messages on mobile without downloading their shitty, data-mining app.
    r/StallmanWasRight – So this happened today

    Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook and the recent documentaries:

    ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread)
    BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You (r/unitedkingdom thread)

    Don’t miss the excellent documentary Facebookistan available on Vimeo (password: facebookistan )

    Also a gentle reminder that if you still are on Facebook, please read the guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.

    If you need help, please ask! Don’t be afraid to ask a question, plenty of kind & knowledgeable folks are ready to help you.











    http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/
    http://mashable.com/2017/07/17/facebook-social-media-dangerous-for-democracy/
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716368
    http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-06/facebook-banning-algorithims-block-lesbians-from-using-dyke/8676284
    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40643904
    http://www.facebookistan.org/
    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-tracking-stop/
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-decision-idUSKBN19O1Q4
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-facebook-fights-to-stop-laws-on-facial-recognition
    https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/07/27/can-facebook-connect-the-next-billion/
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/comcast-att-whatsapp-all-score-low-on-new-who-has-your-back-list/
    https://fiss.me/2017/07/06/10-reasons-why-whatsapp-sucks
    https://medium.com/@jkmartindale/i-kinda-hacked-a-few-facebook-accounts-using-a-vulnerability-they-wont-fix-2f5669794f79
    https://nadim.computer/2017/05/27/facebook-authentication.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752392
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803434
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851057
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/guide
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/index).
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/videos
    https://np.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/68d6lj/facebook_cracking_the_code_2017_how_facebook/)
    https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/6ohysk/so_this_happened_today/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6o6jic/asshole_facebook_wont_let_you_view_messages_on/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6oi7n1/facebook_just_served_me_an_ad_inside_of_a_private/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/6a41ad/bbc_panorama_what_facebook_knows_about_you/)
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/facebook-messenger-display-ads/
    https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/
    https://vimeo.com/146388291
    https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-germany-cartel-office-personal-data-user-accounts-extorts-antitrust-eu-social-media-network-a7820331.html
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/facebook-ireland-fights-max-schrems-over-class-action-suit-1.3160137
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142072-first-proof-that-facebook-dark-ads-could-swing-an-election
    https://www.recode.net/2017/7/14/15969286/facebook-marketplace-ads-test-craigslist
    https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/5lauzk/facebook_2016_year_in_review/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/5lehx7/ufantastic_comment_compiles_a_list_of_horrible/
    https://www.reddit.com/search?q=subreddit%3Aantifacebook+flair_text%3Anewsletter&sort=new&restrict_sr=&t=all
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-socialmedia-eu-consumers-idUSKBN1A92D4
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/tech_giants_reveal_massive_lobbying_spend/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyvbgm_jBU

    Reply

  271. Hello and welcome to this new issue! Your monthly dose of all things about Facebook. Let’s get straight to the links this month.

    In the News

    Date
    Article

    2017-07-31
    Facebook fights to stop laws on facial recognition

    2017-07-28
    Study shows that Facebook dark ads could swing an election

    2017-07-27
    Study shows how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

    2017-07-24
    EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

    2017-07-24
    Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

    2017-07-21
    Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration. In first half of 2017, Facebook spent $5.48 million.

    2017-07-19
    Instagram tops cyber-bullying study

    2017-07-19
    European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook

    2017-07-14
    Facebook will start showing ads inside Marketplace, its Craigslist-style section for browsing used goods

    2017-07-11
    Facebook to Show Ads on Messenger to Bolster Revenue Growth

    2017-07-07
    I kinda hacked a few Facebook accounts using a vulnerability they won’t fix

    2017-07-07
    WhatsApp score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list by EFF

    2017-07-06
    Facebook community standards under scrutiny as out and proud ‘dykes’ banned

    2017-07-03
    Facebook investigated by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office over claims it ‘extorts’ personal data from users

    2017-07-03
    Facebook beats privacy lawsuit in U.S. over user tracking

    See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

    You can also read the past editions of our newsletter

    Great Articles (Editor Picks)

    10 reasons to think WhatsApp sucks
    Why I left Facebook – [HN discussion]
    The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem – [HN discussion]
    Why Facebook’s Authentication Model is Inadequate – [HN discussion]
    Facebook is dangerous for Democracy – here’s why
    Social Media Is The New Smoking – [HN discussion]

    Media

    “Deleting Facebook and Instagram” – Lunduke Hour (July 4, 2017)

    Guides & Tutorials

    Facebook Is Tracking You! Here’s How to Stop It

    On Reddit

    r/assholedesign – Facebook just served me an ad inside of a private chat based on info in that convo
    r/assholedesign – Asshole Facebook wont let you view messages on mobile without downloading their shitty, data-mining app.
    r/StallmanWasRight – So this happened today

    Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook and the recent documentaries:

    ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread)
    BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You (r/unitedkingdom thread)

    Don’t miss the excellent documentary Facebookistan available on Vimeo (password: facebookistan )

    Also a gentle reminder that if you still are on Facebook, please read the guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.

    If you need help, please ask! Don’t be afraid to ask a question, plenty of kind & knowledgeable folks are ready to help you.











    http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/
    http://mashable.com/2017/07/17/facebook-social-media-dangerous-for-democracy/
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716368
    http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-06/facebook-banning-algorithims-block-lesbians-from-using-dyke/8676284
    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40643904
    http://www.facebookistan.org/
    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-tracking-stop/
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-decision-idUSKBN19O1Q4
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-facebook-fights-to-stop-laws-on-facial-recognition
    https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/07/27/can-facebook-connect-the-next-billion/
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/comcast-att-whatsapp-all-score-low-on-new-who-has-your-back-list/
    https://fiss.me/2017/07/06/10-reasons-why-whatsapp-sucks
    https://medium.com/@jkmartindale/i-kinda-hacked-a-few-facebook-accounts-using-a-vulnerability-they-wont-fix-2f5669794f79
    https://nadim.computer/2017/05/27/facebook-authentication.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752392
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803434
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851057
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/guide
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/index).
    https://np.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/wiki/videos
    https://np.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/68d6lj/facebook_cracking_the_code_2017_how_facebook/)
    https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/6ohysk/so_this_happened_today/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6o6jic/asshole_facebook_wont_let_you_view_messages_on/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6oi7n1/facebook_just_served_me_an_ad_inside_of_a_private/
    https://np.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/6a41ad/bbc_panorama_what_facebook_knows_about_you/)
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/facebook-messenger-display-ads/
    https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/
    https://vimeo.com/146388291
    https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-germany-cartel-office-personal-data-user-accounts-extorts-antitrust-eu-social-media-network-a7820331.html
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/facebook-ireland-fights-max-schrems-over-class-action-suit-1.3160137
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142072-first-proof-that-facebook-dark-ads-could-swing-an-election
    https://www.recode.net/2017/7/14/15969286/facebook-marketplace-ads-test-craigslist
    https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/5lauzk/facebook_2016_year_in_review/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/5lehx7/ufantastic_comment_compiles_a_list_of_horrible/
    https://www.reddit.com/search?q=subreddit%3Aantifacebook+flair_text%3Anewsletter&sort=new&restrict_sr=&t=all
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-socialmedia-eu-consumers-idUSKBN1A92D4
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/tech_giants_reveal_massive_lobbying_spend/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyvbgm_jBU

    Reply

  272. Hello and welcome to this new issue! Your monthly dose of all things about Facebook. Let’s get straight to the links this month.

    In the News

    Date
    Article

    2017-07-31
    Facebook fights to stop laws on facial recognition

    2017-07-28
    Study shows that Facebook dark ads could swing an election

    2017-07-27
    Study shows how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

    2017-07-24
    EU increases pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter over user terms

    2017-07-24
    Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

    2017-07-21
    Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration. In first half of 2017, Facebook spent $5.48 million.

    2017-07-19
    Instagram tops cyber-bullying study

    2017-07-19
    European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook

    2017-07-14
    Facebook will start showing ads inside Marketplace, its Craigslist-style section for browsing used goods

    2017-07-11
    Facebook to Show Ads on Messenger to Bolster Revenue Growth

    2017-07-07
    I kinda hacked a few Facebook accounts using a vulnerability they won’t fix

    2017-07-07
    WhatsApp score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list by EFF

    2017-07-06
    Facebook community standards under scrutiny as out and proud ‘dykes’ banned

    2017-07-03
    Facebook investigated by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office over claims it ‘extorts’ personal data from users

    2017-07-03
    Facebook beats privacy lawsuit in U.S. over user tracking

    See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

    You can also read the past editions of our newsletter

    Great Articles (Editor Picks)

    10 reasons to think WhatsApp sucks
    Why I left Facebook – [HN discussion]
    The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem – [HN discussion]
    Why Facebook’s Authentication Model is Inadequate – [HN discussion]
    Facebook is dangerous for Democracy – here’s why
    Social Media Is The New Smoking – [HN discussion]

    Media

    “Deleting Facebook and Instagram” – Lunduke Hour (July 4, 2017)

    Guides & Tutorials

    Facebook Is Tracking You! Here’s How to Stop It

    On Reddit

    r/assholedesign – Facebook just served me an ad inside of a private chat based on info in that convo
    r/assholedesign – Asshole Facebook wont let you view messages on mobile without downloading their shitty, data-mining app.
    r/StallmanWasRight – So this happened today

    Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook and the recent documentaries:

    ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread)
    BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You (r/unitedkingdom thread)

    Don’t miss the excellent documentary Facebookistan available on Vimeo (password: facebookistan )

    Also a gentle reminder that if you still are on Facebook, please read the guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.

    If you need help, please ask! Don’t be afraid to ask a question, plenty of kind & knowledgeable folks are ready to help you.











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  289. The Facebook Algorithm’s Mom ProblemOr how “smart” algorithms can get your audience wrong. I suspect this is especially true on Facebook where people’s “Friends” tend to include people in very different social circles, from immediate family, to old school classmates, to professional colleagues. Here’s the problem:I write my content on my own personal site. I automatically syndicate it to Facebook. My mom, who seems to be on Facebook 24/7, immediately clicks “like” on the post. The Facebook algorithm immediately thinks that because my mom liked it, it must be a family related piece of content–even if it’s obviously about theoretical math, a subject in which my mom has no interest or knowledge.So the algorithm then is more likely to show it to other family members, rather than other “friends”. Those family members automatically “like” the post, reinforcing that they are the audience.The result? The folks who would actually be interested in the post aren’t actually likely to see it.The solution is posting to a more limited group (or everyone minus mom), and then later making it public.Now I do think that using an algorithm to provide “top posts” or otherwise rank posts is usually a good thing – if done well. I rarely have time to look at every post from the people I’m following here on Google+ (or on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube), so it is a good thing to see the posts I’m most likely to be interested in first.But algorithms have to be quite clever to figure out what I’m actually interested in. And they clearly need to be better.Read more from +Chris Aldrich http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/

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  296. The Facebook Algorithm Mom ProblemHow I temporarily cut my mom out of my social media life to reach a larger audience.POSSEFor quite a while now, I’ve been publishing most of my content to my personal website first and syndicating copies of it to social media silos like Twitter, Instagram, Google+, and Facebook. Within the Indieweb community this process is known as POSSE an acronym for Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.The Facebook AlgorithmAnecdotally most in social media have long known that doing this type of workflow causes your content to be treated like a second class citizen, particularly on Facebook which greatly prefers that users post to it manually or using one of its own apps rather than via API. [1][2][3][4] This means that the Facebook algorithm that decides how big an audience a piece of content receives, dings posts which aren’t posted manually within their system. Simply put, if you don’t post it manually within Facebook, not as many people are going to see it.Generally I don’t care too much about this posting “tax” and happily use a plugin called Social Media Network Auto Poster (aka SNAP) to syndicate my content from my WordPress site to up to half a dozen social silos.What I have been noticing over the past six or more months is an even more insidious tax being paid for posting to Facebook. I call it “The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem”.Here’s what’s happeningI write my content on my own personal site. I automatically syndicate it to Facebook. My mom, who seems to be on Facebook 24/7, immediately clicks “like” on the post. The Facebook algorithm immediately thinks that because my mom liked it, it must be a family related piece of content–even if it’s obviously about theoretical math, a subject in which my mom has no interest or knowledge. (My mom has about 180 friends on Facebook; 45 of them overlap with mine and the vast majority of those are close family members).The algorithm narrows the presentation of the content down to very close family. Then my mom’s sister sees it and clicks “like” moments later. Now Facebook’s algorithm has created a self-fulfilling prophesy and further narrows the audience of my post. As a result, my post gets no further exposure on Facebook other than perhaps five people–the circle of family that overlaps in all three of our social graphs. Naturally, none of these people love me enough to click “like” on random technical things I think are cool. I certainly couldn’t blame them for not liking these arcane topics, but shame on Facebook for torturing them for the exposure when I was originally targeting maybe 10 other colleagues to begin with.This would all be okay if the actual content was what Facebook was predicting it was, but 99% of the time, it’s not the case. In general I tend to post about math, science, and other random technical subjects. I rarely post about closely personal things which are of great interest to my close family members. These kinds of things are ones which I would relay to them via phone or in person and not post about publicly.Posts only a mother could loveI can post about arcane areas like Lie algebras or statistical thermodynamics, and my mom, because she’s my mom, will like all of it–whether or not she understands what I’m talking about or not. And isn’t this what moms do?! What they’re supposed to do? Of course it is!She’s my mom, she’s supposed to love me unconditionally this way!The problem is: Facebook, despite the fact that they know she’s my mom, doesn’t take this fact into account in their algorithm.What does this mean? It means either I quit posting to Facebook, or I game the system to prevent these mom-autolikes.mom-autolike (n.)–When a mother automatically clicks “like” on a piece of content posted to social media by one of their children, not because it has any inherent value, but simply because the content came from their child.Preventing mom-autolikesI’ve been experimenting. But how?Facebook allows users to specifically target their audience in a highly granular fashion from the entire public to one’s circle of “friends” all the way down to even one or two specific people. Even better, they’ll let you target pre-defined circles of friends and even exclude specific people. So this is typically what I’ve been doing to end-around my Facebook Algorithm Mom problem. I have my site up set to post to either “Friends except mom” or “Public except mom”. (Sometimes I exclude my aunt just for good measure.) This means that my mom now can’t see my posts when I publish them!What a horrible sonDon’t jump the gun too quickly there Bubbe! I come back at the end of the day after the algorithm has run its course and my post has foreseeably reached all of the audience it’s likely to get. At that point, I change the audience of the post to completely “Public”.You’ll never guess what happens next…Yup. My mom “likes” it!I love you mom. Thanks for all your unconditional love and support!!Even better, I’m happy to report that generally the intended audience which I wanted to see the post actually sees it. Mom just gets to see it a bit later.Dear Facebook EngineeringCould you fix this algorithm problem please? I’m sure I’m not the only son or daughter to suffer from it.Have you noticed this problem yourself? I’d love to hear from others who’ve seen a similar effect and love their mothers (or other close loved ones) enough to not cut them out of their Facebook lives.References[1] R. Tippens, “Drop the Autobot: Manual Posting to Facebook Outperforms Automated,” ReadWrite, 01-Aug-2011. [Online]. Available: https://readwrite.com/2011/08/01/manually_posting_to_facebook_significantly_outperf/. [Accessed: 11-Jul-2017][2] “How to Increase Your Traffic from Facebook by 650% in 5 Seconds,” WPMUDEV, 02-Aug-2011. [Online]. Available: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-increase-your-traffic-from-facebook-by-650-in-5-seconds/. [Accessed: 11-Jul-2017][3] J. D. Lasica, “Demystifying how Facebook’s news feeds work,” SocialMedia.biz, 11-Feb-2011. [Online]. Available: http://socialmedia.biz/2011/02/07/how-facebook-news-feeds-work/. [Accessed: 11-Jul-2017][4] D. Hay, “Will auto-posting stunt the reach of your Facebook posts?,” SocialMedia.biz, 26-Jul-2011. [Online]. Available: http://socialmedia.biz/2011/07/26/will-auto-posting-stunt-the-reach-of-your-facebook-posts/. [Accessed: 11-Jul-2017]http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/







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  328. How did you manage to post Public except mum – read the article but cannot figure out how you did it. Care to share?

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    1. I think it got covered a bit in the comments here: http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/#comment-35378

      In short, Facebook’s privacy settings aren’t solid enough to do a post that is “Public except X, Y, Z” so you’re forced to do “Friends except X, Y, Z” temporarily before switching to “Public” at a later time. I generally wouldn’t recommend trying to game the system like this however unless you’re experiencing this particular problem to an extreme like I was. Facebook’s shifting black box algorithm regularly changes and trying to game it is typically more time and effort than it’s worth.

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  337. In addition to the sparkline graphs I’ve got in the sidebar of my website, I’ve recently been looking at alternate ways to indicate the posting activity on my own website.

    “Monthly activity over 5 years” for both posting activity as well as commenting activity on my website.
    Calendar Heatmaps
    Yesterday I was contemplating calendar heatmaps which are probably best known from the user interface of GitHub which relatively shows how active someone is on the website. I’ve discovered that JetPack for WordPress provides a similar functionality on the back end (in blue instead of green), but sadly doesn’t make it available for display on the front end of websites. I’ve filed a feature request to see if it’s something they’d work on in the future, so if having something like this seems useful to you, please click through and give the post a +1.

    A screen capture of what my posting “velocity” looks like on the back end of my website. The darkest squares indicate 30+ posts in a day while the next darkest indicate between 15-30 posts. My “streak” is far longer than this chart indicates. I obviously post a LOT.
    Circular Widthmaps
    Today I saw a note that led me to the Internet Archive which I know has recently had a redesign. I’m not sure if the functionality I saw was part of this redesign, but it’s pretty awesome. I’m not sure quite what to call this sort of circular bar chart given what it does, but circular widthmap seems vaguely appropriate. Here’s a link to the archive.org page for my website that shows this cool UI, screencaptures of which also appear below: http://web.archive.org/web/sitemap/https://www.boffosocko.com/
    Instead of using color gradations to indicate a relative number of posts, the UI is measuring things via width in ever increasing concentric circles. The innermost circle indicates the root domain and successive levels out add additional paths from my site. Because I’m using dated archive paths, there’s a level of circle by year (2019, 2018, 2017, etc.) then another level outside that by months (April 2019, March 2019, etc.), and finally the outermost circle which indicates individual posts. As a result, the width of a particular year or month indicates relatively how active that time frame was on my website (or at least how active Archive.org thinks it was based on its robot crawler.)
    Of course the segments on the circles also measure things like categories and tags on my site as well along with the date based archives. Thus I can gauge how often I use particular categories for example.
    I’ll also note that in the 2018 portion of the circle for July 11th, I had a post that slashdotted my website when it took off on Hacker News. That individual day is represented as really wide on that circular ring because it has an additional concentric circle outside of it that represents the hundreds of comment URL fragments for that post. So one must keep in mind that things in some of the internal rings aren’t as relative because they may be heavily affected by portions of content further out on the ring.

    My website posting activity (and a little more) from 2018 and before according to the Internet Archive.
    My website posting activity (and a little more) from April 2019 and before according to the Internet Archive.
    How awesome would it be if this were embed-able and usable on my own website?

    Syndicated copies to: WordPress

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  339. Content CreationBy Bethany Johnson on February 1, 2018The purpose of your online presence is to attract and retain the best clients. As a freelancer, I know this can be tricky. Clients want to hire content creators that have established themselves as a voice in the industry, so freelancers often build a brand in their sector to prove their chops. The only problem, then, is that most freelance creatives have inadvertently started two businesses: one educating and entertaining their social media audiences as a niche content creator (much like a conventional blogger), and one that speaks to prospective clients (more like a consultant for hire).Since time is limited, it’s nearly impossible to juggle both. Sometimes it feels like we must choose between becoming a blogger or a freelancer. Muddy the water too much, and website visitors have no idea what you do for a living or, more importantly, what you can do for them.Image attribution: Kyle GlennLaunching and running a content brand is no small feat, especially for bootstrapping solopreneurs. So if a freelance travel writer, for example, spends all day creating sightseeing tips for his own personal brand, then he will have missed the opportunity to speak directly to the audience who will eventually sign his checks: prospects.The answer is not to niche down further. Even our exemplary travel writer, whose niche is clearly defined, must serve multiple audiences. The answer, I’ve found, is learning how to touch each group.Great news: Social media audiences congregate around different platforms for different reasons. Our audiences have already somewhat separated themselves for us.A good way to take advantage of this is to know general readers’ intent on each social platform. Facebook and Instagram users are often catching up with friends, checking out trending entertainment, or joining a lively debate. As a small-business owner, you can jump in with the goal of sharing something useful or fascinating. Rarely are ideal B2B clients hanging around Facebook, hoping to hire content creators, so instead of logging on with the purpose of connecting with prospects, use Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat to share and promote your published work.Twitter and LinkedIn are great for engaging potential clients. Readers here are already in a business mindset, surrounded by relevant industry headlines. I use this to my advantage by chiming in on commentaries, Twitter chats, and trending hashtags.A few years ago, I narrowed down my list of ideal clients from a few thousand to a few dozen, and began heavily engaging with those prospects on Twitter. Over time, they learned to trust and enjoy my contributions to their conversations. This tactic landed me my best clients to date.Image attribution: Davide CantelliRemember: When it comes to mere traffic, focus on reaching your clients’ client. But when developing deeper, one-on-one professional friendships, connect more intimately with your own prospects.I’ll never forget the day I realized my mom was hurting my ability to build an audience online. Like many moms, mine is the ultimate cheerleader. Her motto is “more cowbell.” If anything, I thought her support would help engage social media audiences.The revelation came a few months ago when biomedical and electrical engineer Chris Aldrich explained how when his familial fans “like” his Facebook posts, the site’s algorithm would steer the post into more family members’ news feeds. The program was smart enough to deduce that if Aldrich’s mom liked it, so would his auntie. And she did. The only problem is that the post’s actual material was often on theoretical mathematics or technology-stuff intended for Aldrich’s colleagues.Image attribution: Fabrizio VerrecchiaAdweek recommends small-business owners and freelancers get ahead of algorithm changes by:I would also advise freelancers to learn how algorithms work. Then set up a Google alert so you know when algorithms shift, how the changes affect you, and what you can do to adapt.Guest posting is one of the best ways to build your audience and attract the attention of potential clients. I think of it as a sort of native advertising for solopreneurs. The trick is to treat the host site as respectfully and thankfully as a paying client.Guest blogging has its own back story. It began as a great way for “host” bloggers to infuse a fresh voice into their content for hungry readers without burning themselves out. The guest writers would then generate traffic thanks to the established readership of their host. Everyone benefited.Image attribution: “My Life Through A Lens”However, guest contributors began expecting the benefits without putting the time and energy into high-quality storytelling. In fact, the shady business of guest posting for SEO alone was born, and along with it, a host of corrupt characters that gave the practice a bad name.Today, though, most publishers can spot the difference between a spammer and your genuine offer to collaborate. And they’re aware of the mutual benefits of guest blogging.My advice here is to guest post a couple of times on an industry-relevant, influential blog before pitching your services to the next most authoritative site. Slowly move up as you develop your portfolio, a strategy that builds your audience, your network, and your clout.Inevitably, you’ll mention other brands and content creators in your work. Whether you’re speaking to end users or prospective clients, writing on your own site or someone else’s, you’ll occasionally include colleagues or brands as examples to prove a point. When you do, and your work is published, don’t just share it online-tag your illustrative entities.Don’t let the illusion of being small dupe u into thinking you’re weak. As a #freelancer, your outreach efforts can dwarf even the biggest company’s one-day philanthropic “good deed.” https://t.co/kdNARLqil7 w/ @dodiejacobi@karineben@IKEAUSA #amwriting #writerslife #freelancing pic.twitter.com/KAQ1kHX9Ha– Bethany Johnson (@thanybethanybe) January 18, 2018They’ll get a little alert that tells them you mentioned them. They’ll check out your work and often share it with their own audiences. This can relieve some of the pressure clients apply to creatives to generate traffic.Carefully consider your strategy as a small business before creating or sharing another piece of content. Avoid the temptation to be everywhere at once, covering every topic. Michael E. Porter, one of the best business minds of all time, famously said, “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” For me, that means ditching Instagram. It also means limiting my email list to ensure those addressable followers are my target clients, not a just a massive hodgepodge of fellow writers, fashionistas, work-at-home moms, and foodies. It means promoting my client work more for my client, and less for my own audience-building benefit.Try not to confuse this with another overwhelming list of things to do to simply boost your own traffic. Instead, think about your business model. Are you a media company, profiting from affiliate links, banner ads, product sales, educational courses, and sponsorships? Or are you a service provider for hire, someone to craft a message on behalf of brands to ultimately achieve the former? If you are trying to do both, then you will own two businesses. It can be done, but not accidentally.This can be a confusing topic for freelance creatives bombarded with convoluted messages. I’ve long wanted to bring clarity and relief to content creators. If this raises more questions for you, leave them in the comments section, and I will answer. Together, we’ll sort through the strategies available to us as contract communicators.For more stories like this, subscribe to the Content Standard newsletter.Featured image attribution: Warren WongAuthorBethany Johnson is a multiple award-winning content marketing writer and speaker. Her work empowers marketers to ditch interrupt advertising in favor of original content that converts passive readers into active followers. Thriving brands like Tom’s of Maine, MasterCard, ADP, Fidelity and the Content Marketing Institute currently rely on Bethany’s fresh style to connect with audiences daily. As a consultant, she combines simple change management principles with her insider knowledge of freelancing to show traditional marketing teams how to flourish in today’s gig economy. For more, visit bethanyjohnson.com.Related ArticlesTuesday, June 18, 2019Thursday, December 6, 2018Friday, October 5, 2018source

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  341. Johannina objava o njenem razmišljanju o socialnih normah znotraj IndieWeb-a me je napeljala na razmišljanje, kako sama uporabljam različne načine interakcije na internetu – tako znotraj IndieWeb-a kot tudi na ostalih stvari.
    Na to razmišljanje me je napeljal njen naslednji komentar:

    Personally when I don’t expect someone to read my post mentioning them I send a like. I think this is a pretty good solution since people don’t expect likes to have content in them so they would not feel the need to reply to them.

    Ampak jo sama razmišljam o svojem delovanju – sama niti ne uporabljam všečkov (slovenski prevod Facebook terminologije, vendar uporabljam tukaj kot način komunikacije, ne glede na to, na kateri platformi poteka). Niti ne vem, kaj je razlog za to. Mislim, da neka mešanica tega, da sem prebrala preveč člankov na to, za kaj vse so ljudje uporabljali facebook všečke. Da, koliko sama poznam zgodovino te interakcije, je prišla ali kot posledica iskanja zanimive vsebine ali pa zmanjševanja števila komentarjev. Da se mi ta način interakcije nikoli ni zdel pretirano zanimiv. Vredu lahko všečkam nekaj, ampak to se mi zdi način komunikacije, ki mu manjka dodatnega konteksta.
    Zanimivo mi je, da ko sem gledala na IndieWeb wiki-ju, obstaja stran o nezaželenemu všečkanju. Glede na to, kar sem prebrala, jim je največji problem, kako potem imajo na svojih objavah in spletih straneh povezave to teh ljudi. Ali pa mogoče to, da marsikatera stran uporablja algoritem za to, komu pokažejo objave in pri tem uporabljajo všečke. In tako je potrebno potem preprečiti nekaterim ljudem, da ti všečkajo stvari. Ali pa, da je v nekaterih primerih bila implementacija všečkov pomankljiva. Mogoče pa je še kakšen drugi razlog…
    Ena od stvari ki privede do tega (poleg prevelika navajenost na družbena omrežja), da pri webmention-ih veliko večji poudarek na tem, kako lahko avtomatično prikažeš le te na spletni strani. Ne pa toliko na tem, za kaj naj bi se to sploh uporabljajo.
    Čeprav webmention.io ima notri načine, kako blokirati in moderirati, kaj se sploh sprejme in katere se takoj zavrže.
    Sama, ko gledam svojo uporabo tako ne uporablja všečkov. Namesto tega uporabljam povezave brez kakršne koli klasifikacije. Vse povezave v tem članku do sedaj so bile tega tipa. Torej je to nek način to, kar je Johanna predlagala v njenem članku. Večina povezav v mojih objavah je take vrste.
    Poleg tega uporabljam potem tudi povezave, ki jih IndieWeb uporablja in so definirane z mikroformati.

    Direktni odgovori na objavo u-in-reply-to

    Objavljeno tudi na drugih mestih u-in-reply-to

    Dobljeni webmention-i webmention or webmention manual (glede na to, dali sem dobila webmention, ali pa sem na drugačen način izvedela, da je nekdo imel povezavo na kakšno mojo objavo)

    Zaznamki so zame nekaj začasnega, in jih kot take ne uporabljam na tak način. So zame le način, kako začasno organiziram svoje informacije.
    Ampak ko gledam čez vse te kategorije, za nobenega od teh ne bi rekla, da pričakujem da bi ljudje to prebrali. Tudi direktne odgovore ne. Bi bila vesela, če bi jih? Ja. Ampak tega ne pričakujem. Vsak si lahko postavi svoje omejitve pri tem.
    Mogoče bi bil to koncept, ki manjka pri vsem temu. Da si vsak lahko pri tem postavi svoje omejitve. Ne samo pri tem, od koga so te interakcije, ampak tudi kakšne so.

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