Comments on: Facebook Uses Your Likes to Promote Porn to Your Friends https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/facebook-uses-your-likes-to-promote-porn-to-your-friends/ A look at how trends in communication technology impact individuals and organizations. Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: PaulSteinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/facebook-uses-your-likes-to-promote-porn-to-your-friends/#comment-634845 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:36:51 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=23527#comment-634845 In reply to John Wilkerson.

Hey John, I definitely think going public has changed Facebook, but I don't think it has too. Southwest Airlines is a publicly traded company, and yet they aren't sticking it to their customers with change fees and bag fees. The ironic thing is I believe these underhanded means of increasing revenue are going to end up driving people away from FB and costing them revenue in the end.

I agree that it's time to at least consider an exit strategy from FB. I've thought about it. And while I've decided I'm not going to abandon it yet, I am putting more time and effort into G+. There may come a time when my interactions on G+ surpass FB and eventually make FB irrelevant just as happened when FB made MySpace irrelevant.

]]> By: John Wilkerson https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/facebook-uses-your-likes-to-promote-porn-to-your-friends/#comment-634759 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:20:19 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=23527#comment-634759 Facebook is now beholden to their stockholders. That means they need to generate revenue. Unfortunately, that also means they're going to use as many under-handed techniques as possible to increase profits. Despite its ubiquity, it might be time to consider abandoning the platform.

]]> By: PaulSteinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/facebook-uses-your-likes-to-promote-porn-to-your-friends/#comment-633859 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:39:47 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=23527#comment-633859 In reply to Andra Dunn.

Hey Andra, thanks for pointing out this option with respect to ads. However, I don't believe that setting applies to the "related posts" tactic described in this blog post. Forbes published an article about this and in it the author wrote:

"unlike Facebook Ads that you can opt out of sharing the liking of with friends, or the sponsored stories that you can’t opt out of but at least are mentioned in Facebook’s Help Center, Related Posts are a completely undocumented feature."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01…

]]> By: Andra Dunn https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/facebook-uses-your-likes-to-promote-porn-to-your-friends/#comment-633838 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:34:14 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=23527#comment-633838 You can opt out of being used in ads by going to the settings icon in the top right corner, select account settings. Then click on the "ads" option on the left and Edit "Ads and Friends". Scroll to bottom of the page and select "no one". You might also want to edit the setting for Third Party Sites while you're there.

]]> By: PaulSteinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/facebook-uses-your-likes-to-promote-porn-to-your-friends/#comment-633689 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:59:45 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=23527#comment-633689 In reply to Preston.

Thanks for spreading the word. If you've got any ideas for anything we could do to try to motivate Facebook to change this (other than leaving), let me know.

]]> By: Preston https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/facebook-uses-your-likes-to-promote-porn-to-your-friends/#comment-633651 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:52:16 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=23527#comment-633651 Posted on my FB wall- Thanks for the information Paul. That has to change.

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