You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
A mysterious Facebook study that examines customers like a peeping Tom in your bedroom.
Facebook’s study is creepy like eyes watching you through your partially open drapes.
Facebook is less than reputable the way it corporately conducts itself.
The corporation should instill confidence in its consumers, make us want to like them. Yet Facebook constantly angers users, by challenging their sense of security.
It’s happened again. Some people are pissed that Facebook conducted a secret study to see how Facebook users react to negative posts versus positive posts.
The Study was 2 years ago.
The social scientists who conducted the test say they are sorry and didn’t mean to upset anyone.
That’s what Nazi’s told liberating American forces when they pulled into Berlin.
Facebook should have public relations issues.
They don’t.
They are slimy like an eel, resistant to soiling like a teflon pan.
Facebook pissed off hundreds of thousands of users with phoney baloney facebook tom-foolery.
Why is Facebook conducting a secret study with its customers?
Will the data obtained help improve the web giant? Will the secret study drive up stock prices? or help Mark Zuckerberg buy one extra hoodie?
It makes me more certain that posting anything sensitive is a mistake.
Facebook is a mistake. It’s like telling the work place blabber mouth that you are having an affair and trusting that your bosses won’t find out.
Facebook secretly altered posts to misrepresent the truth.
According to published reports, Facebook purposely posted negative or postive posts to illicit responses.
That’s like Polo putting something other than Polo into their bottle to see if women or wolverines are more attracted to their mate.
Would you want a skunk to think you are sexy?
No.
Facebook tricked you. It’s a breach of corporate ettiquette.
The last person who broke my trust like this I divorced.
Will we divorce Facebook?
Unlikely.
They’ve cheated on us before.
“Facebook knows it can push its users’ limits, invade their privacy, use their information and get away with it,” said James Grimmelmann, a professor of technology and the law at the University of Maryland. “Facebook has done so many things over the years that scared and freaked out people.”
Facebook is the bully on the block. It punches us in the face. Then it picks us up off our asses and it buys us an ice cream cone to say sorry.
We should tell them to go F themselves. Instead we buy their excuse and continue to post as if they have administered truth syrum through the keyboard.
According to published reports, Facebook tampered with the number of positive and negative comments that users saw on their feeds. People shown fewer positive words posted more negatively. Those who were exposed to less negativity were less apt to post negatively.
I guess it’s the difference between staring at a picture of a puppy or a picture of a tiger eating a puppy.
Which one makes you sad?
Hmmmm.
I wonder.
Doesn’t this make you question what this company is doing?
It should.
We rush to put our selfies and baby pictures on this site without thought. We tell this web site our deepest secrets. Facebook knows where we are going on vacation and things we like.
Why? Why do we do it?
My sister calls Facebook the Devil.
She’s not far from wrong.
People stalk one another on facebook. People get fired for what they post on Facebook.
Does facebook give a crap about you?
If they did, would they fake comments to try and brain wash its users into responses that are categorized and studied?
To the Facebook executives, we are all in a great social experiment. Facebook is the scientist and we are the mice.
We get on the internet and pretend what we do, what we post is private.
In reality Facebook scientists stand over our computer screens like a global maze and watch our every key stroke.
Facebook demons sent by the hooded boy wonder sell our secrets to people in power, people needing information, agencies that can benefit from an enigmatic, and furtive study that is neither authorized or sanctioned by customers.
I am not sagacious enough to know how the 2012 experiment affected me or you.
I am not sure who would authorize such a study, and for what purpose.
All I know is it makes me uncomfortable.
I don’t know how nuclear fission works. But I know that if it lights up the night, we all pay the price.
Facebook is like a neutron bomb. It kills without actually destroying anything.
Teenagers are leaving Facebook because, as my 15 year old tells me, “Facebook is stupid.”
He’s right. Facebook is stupid. It’s also unethical and dangerous.
If Facebook was a food, you’d stop eating it.
If Facebook was a skin care product, you’d put it out of your house.
If Facebook was a kitty litter, you wouldn’t let your cat defecate in the sand for fear of burning your cat’s paws.
So why do we let the stench of Facebook continually sear our brain, steal our souls, take our information?
As my son would say; because we are as stupid as the mice we have become.
Life’s Crazy™