Helping Facebook is antisocial.
That $10,000 Facebook bug: Photos shafted, addicts screwed by polls
A security researcher found a way to delete any picture on Facebook, irrespective of whether it's public or private, by cunning use of polls. Pouya Daribi was digging around in the software used by Facebook users to set up quick opinion polls on their profile pages. When creating these informal surveys, the social media …
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Tuesday 28th November 2017 12:28 GMT FuzzyWuzzys
Re: Simpler solution
Couldn't agree more but the words that define Facebook and how it makes money are "captive audience". Ask anyone running a business, no matter how small, if they'd like access to a potential captive audience of 1.5 billion and most will jump at it.
Facebook has nothing to do with people being social, it's all about having a captive audience for anyone with an axe to grind or a product to sell.
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Tuesday 28th November 2017 18:40 GMT Deltics
Re: Simpler solution
That sounds impressive, especially when wrapped up in the spiel that I'm sure the sales reps from Facebook's advertising division use.
But if you want access to a large, captive market all you have to do is incorporate on this little planet called Earth. A thoroughly captive potential market of 7.4 billion !! Read it and weep Zuckerberg!
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Tuesday 28th November 2017 12:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
They can keep
their 10k, as long as it means I don't have to interact with any of the fuck wits using it.
I HAD friends who I haven't spoken with for a couple of years now as they use facebook for ALL their communication. As they don't bother to contact me outside of FB, I can only conclude they were friends who were ultimately not worth bothering with.
Their loss.