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[Ajdin]

Hi,

I've come to the conclusion that Facebook is taking social media to a whole new level.

I travel a lot for work. To save money I use Whatsapp, Viber, etc for phone communications. Recently, a colleague that was in a different country wanted to contact me but his phone was out of battery. He used his wife's phone to get in touch with me through whatsapp.
We finish our texting sessions which consisted of 12 texts in total.

A day later I open up Facebook and see his wife in my 'People you may know' list.

Let's put a few things forward:

1. This person that contacted me was a colleague. I don't have him on Facebook nor have I ever contacted him before. This was my first engagement ever with him. We don't have a surprising amount of mutual friends, liked pages or anything like that either
2. Facebook acquired WhatsApp a while ago.
3. Facebook uses all the information they can to give you 'the best social media experience'.

Do I feel bad for using Facebook? Yes. Will I stop using it? No.

This doesn't really surprise me or anything but I thought it would be a interesting story to share.

Tl:dr Facebook uses whatsapp phone numbers and other data to find 'people you may know'.

 

[Devon]

ok

 

[JJDAHM]

Facebook went from one of the best social media sites to the worst. Facebook is an example of something that wasn't supposed to work as well as it did. Knowing a lot about the background of Facebook I can say it was formed in a very terrible way. Mark joined a group of people who wanted to build the site, and he would later go on to finish the project and launch it himself, without anyone in the group. The two brothers that he'd ditched sent Mark a lawsuit, surprisingly, Mark was able to keep facebook in the end. The background is terrible, but Mark did a pretty good job of not focusing on that and moving past, and that is why people end up using the site instead of hating it. I've had a facebook account for nearly seven years now, it's not a site that I'd wanted to stay on. The security is very poor and they've even been sued for reading personal messages.

 

[chucK_]

Facebook went from one of the best social media sites to the worst. Facebook is an example of something that wasn't supposed to work as well as it did. Knowing a lot about the background of Facebook I can say it was formed in a very terrible way. Mark joined a group of people who wanted to build the site, and he would later go on to finish the project and launch it himself, without anyone in the group. The two brothers that he'd ditched sent Mark a lawsuit, surprisingly, Mark was able to keep facebook in the end. The background is terrible, but Mark did a pretty good job of not focusing on that and moving past, and that is why people end up using the site instead of hating it. I've had a facebook account for nearly seven years now, it's not a site that I'd wanted to stay on. The security is very poor and they've even been sued for reading personal messages.

@TheSocialNetworkMovie

Facebook is intrusive as Communist Russia.

 

[Ajdin]

Facebook went from one of the best social media sites to the worst. Facebook is an example of something that wasn't supposed to work as well as it did. Knowing a lot about the background of Facebook I can say it was formed in a very terrible way. Mark joined a group of people who wanted to build the site, and he would later go on to finish the project and launch it himself, without anyone in the group. The two brothers that he'd ditched sent Mark a lawsuit, surprisingly, Mark was able to keep facebook in the end. The background is terrible, but Mark did a pretty good job of not focusing on that and moving past, and that is why people end up using the site instead of hating it. I've had a facebook account for nearly seven years now, it's not a site that I'd wanted to stay on. The security is very poor and they've even been sued for reading personal messages.

The movie was great to be honest.

Money and the NSA are great, aren't they?

 

[JJDAHM]

The movie was great to be honest.

Money and the NSA are great, aren't they?

I did enjoy the movie a lot. I also watched a few documentaries on it, and have read lots of articles.