Can you tell it's a quiet day?
Anyway, though I am not normally concerned by privacy issues, Facebook is increasingly irritating me.
The Adverts, Sponsored Posts, Things you might like, Groups that your friends have joined and all the rest of it is starting to get right up my nose. It has moved from being an ignorable necessary evil to being a grating annoyance.
To the point that I have installed Phoenix on my phone and "Ad Blocker for Facebook" on my PC. I shall continue to do whatever I can to frustrate them.
I use Facebook because I am part of a large and close family and we like to keep up on each others lives and children. I think we currently have around 200 in our family group. If it were not for that I would dump Facebook in a heartbeat.
Back in the days when I was involved in such things the principle was that the more relevant advertising became the more likely it was to be received as valuable information, not intrusive selling. Facebook appears to have enthusiastically overstepped the mark.
I think it is to be borne in mind that Facebook sees it's customers as the advertisers, it's users are simply a resource they use to satisfy their customers.
Whereas Apple sees it's app suppliers, advertisers, and other interested businesses as resources that they use to satisfy their customer - the hardware purchasers.
Facebook's own position tends to reveal how they feel wounded by Apple's current moves.
www.facebook.com/audiencenetwork/news-and-insights/preparing-audience-network-for-ios14/?locale=en_US&draft=306506763767413
I'd like to think that Google will join in and that the combination will wake up the world's Oompa Loompas as to how they're unknowingly being used.
And also because I'd like to not have to switch to an OS I don't like on handsets I don't want to pay for.
Anyway, no point, just a stress relieving rant.
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