Not only is this not really an appropriate response for the topic, but I'd imagine its presence will also make FB employees feel unwelcome and less like answering the OP's question.
I'm not the biggest fan of everything FB does, but you're basically wrecking someone else's sincere "Ask HN" post here.
The question isn't asked in good faith, so it doesn't deserve a good faith answer. The account was also created just to make that post. And yet it was upvoted by the community. And that speaks poorly of said community's ability to have a good faith conversation on the topic too.
For better or worse, this isn't a place that this conversation can happen productively, so it doesn't. There was a time that I and others would have happily had this conversation on HN but the community has changed quite a bit from then till now.
What is this mythical "appropriate conversation" you are alluding to?
That Facebook's primary incentive is to create as much detailed information about the individual as possible, in order to broker that information to advertisers and surveillance regimes?
I think you just don't want to have that conversation :-)
I am not a huge fan of Fb or other soc media, but I consider this data mining era as unavoidable and from other hand, some day all that info might even help humanity (or damage it, of course). So, we can consider this power as a Pandora's box and I am pretty happy that it is only there in FB (well, and Google, Microsoft, etc.) and i am pretty sure you, as well as many others would like to open that box and see inside. Good is that you, or me, or anyone else cant do that. Good is that if something will go very wrong, we will know who to blame. But nothing will go wrong as long as bad guys (who afraid surveillance) does not have a chance to touch that box.
Eh? No comprendo! Nothing is unavoidable. If you really are from Lithuania you should go and ask some older people what they think about personal data collection. Having lived under USSR I'm very sure that they don't like that, as they have seen it can suddenly be used against them.
Ah, you must be part of the Facebook 'Humanize' group managing my controversial post. Think about it, it's actually scary as hell a internal group like that exist. It's like something in Scientology. Thanks to the former employee telling about this in another post.
Yes, I created this account to post as I never had one before. One post has to be the first. How long should I wait before I'm allowed to ask critial questions related to Facebook? You attacking the HN community for upvoting my post and using this as a reason to close the whole conversation down is simply amazing.
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I'm not the biggest fan of everything FB does, but you're basically wrecking someone else's sincere "Ask HN" post here.