I’ve blogged several times about the bot problem that Facebook has, and this is an issue that runs alongside the click farms that operate on the website. One of my groups has over 12,000 members, and it’s a magnet for click farm participants, who target these bigger ones. And when you look through the […]
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Can Facebook please explain why these obvious bot accounts, all of which have been reported, are allowed to remain on their website? (I have asked Facebook this directly already on Twitter and Facebook.) Some were reported in 2013. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007203668633&fref=pb_other https://www.facebook.com/sluchevskiya?fref=pb_other https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003332425523&fref=nf_fr https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001139762163 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007774961452&fref=tl_fr_box https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003723657320 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007526100670&fref=tl_fr_box https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007575222133&fref=tl_fr_box https://www.facebook.com/kyoko.fukada.902266?fref=tl_fr_box https://www.facebook.com/cindy.weaver.7311?fref=tl_fr_box https://www.facebook.com/patricia.lima.393950/ https://www.facebook.com/thomas.lawler.756?fref=tl_fr_box https://www.facebook.com/kolthoff.danuta?fref=tl_fr_box https://www.facebook.com/kaj.werner.50?fref=tl_fr_box https://www.facebook.com/qkquddy?fref=tl_fr_box https://www.facebook.com/iwssr?fref=tl_fr_box […]
Many people will remember this video, which exposed Facebook using click farms to inflate customers’ likes (I would have used Veritasium’s original, but YouTube won’t show embedding codes at the moment): Facebook Fraud Exposed: Does Facebook Advertising Lead to Fake Likes? from Reputation911 on Vimeo I won’t repeat what they exposed, as […]
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Originally posted to the Vox Neighbourhood on Facebook, without links Key to the 2009 calendar. Yellow: days when Vox worked normally. Pink: days when the compose screen took minutes or hours to load. Red: days when Vox would not allow me to compose at all. I gave up on December 13, 2009, and consolidated all […]
Be careful what you say on social media in Britain. English law permits mass surveillance of the big social media platforms, according to Charles Farr, the director-general of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, in a statement published last week responding to a case brought by Privacy International, Liberty, Amnesty International, the American Civil […]
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Mea culpa: OK, I was wrong. Facebook got things back up in about 20 minutes for some users, who are Tweeting about it. However, as of 8.37 a.m. GMT, I am still seeing Tweeters whose Facebooks remain down. Looks like some people do work there after hours. What a surprise! However, I reckon […]
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In an age of social media, you would think it was the most stupid thing to try to shut down the biggest online community you have. Ikea has done just that, on IP grounds, against Ikea Hackers, by getting their legal department to send Jules Yap, its founder, a cease-and-desist letter after her site […]
My forced Facebook sabbatical came to an end in the late morning. So what did I think of it all? One of my Tweets last night was: ‘I hope [it is temporary], though I have found people out for 7–12 days now. Now it’s Monday I hope they have got over their hangovers!’ At […]
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Forty-nine hours and counting, which makes it the beginning of day three without Facebook. I didn’t really need it yesterday, so there’s something to be said about habits breaking after a couple of days. However, for work, I have needed to go on there: while Sopheak is covering for me as far as Lucire’s […]
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It’s been an interesting day with a forced Facebook sabbatical: I can no longer post, comment or like on the site, and it’s been that way since 3 a.m. GMT. I’d say I’m a fairly heavy Facebook user. There haven’t been that many days when I haven’t posted since I was sent an invitation […]