AndyRM
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They are absolutely the same, just different platforms.
Facebook is no more
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They are absolutely the same, just different platforms.
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Drago
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They bear virtually no comparison at any level. The only thing they have in common is that they share the rather specious title of social media - the letters page of The Times is social media.
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Ming the Merciless
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AndyRM
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Well, that's just like your opinion man.
Unlike FB which is designed to extract as much data from a user as possible, tracking every aspect of their lives in order to exploit it for monetary gain, CycleChat is a self-selecting group of cyclists - that's it.
Some like to chat about politics, some prefer to look at photos of bikes in pretty locales, some like to organise rides, some like to challenge each other to ride silly distances in January, and some like to talk about cotterless cranks (sickos).
Again unlike FB, there is no shady lucrative algorithm dictating what content someone will get to see or more importantly what they DON'T get to see; there's no filter bubble or echo chamber beyond a user seeing a thread that interests them and clicking on it.
If they then discover it's not for them they pick another thread - or in my case post screeds of inane waffle and end up accidentally derailing it.
Social media is not in itself universally bad. The same cannot be said about a certain other website, however.
Some like to chat about politics, some prefer to look at photos of bikes in pretty locales, some like to organise rides, some like to challenge each other to ride silly distances in January, and some like to talk about cotterless cranks (sickos).
Again unlike FB, there is no shady lucrative algorithm dictating what content someone will get to see or more importantly what they DON'T get to see; there's no filter bubble or echo chamber beyond a user seeing a thread that interests them and clicking on it.
If they then discover it's not for them they pick another thread - or in my case post screeds of inane waffle and end up accidentally derailing it.
Social media is not in itself universally bad. The same cannot be said about a certain other website, however.
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Vantage
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My great grandparents didn't even have internet back in the day. Or colour TV. Or even a land-line phone.
Technology happens. Deal with it. Or don't.
Boasting about staying in the past just seems stupid considering it's almost impossible to live without some form of it.
Kinda like shouting "I still live in a cave you modern mud hut dweller!"
edit: This post is made in response to previous posts in this and other threads regarding how evil smartphones are...apologies for any misunderstandings.
Technology happens. Deal with it. Or don't.
Boasting about staying in the past just seems stupid considering it's almost impossible to live without some form of it.
Kinda like shouting "I still live in a cave you modern mud hut dweller!"
edit: This post is made in response to previous posts in this and other threads regarding how evil smartphones are...apologies for any misunderstandings.
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subaqua
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sadly its still too easy to reinstate a deleted FB account. i just use will power to stop me doing something i really shouldnt .
nickyboy
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Welcome to CycleChat
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How old are you? I'm only 58 & remember those days
Grant Fondo
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Yeah like my great great great grandparents didn't even have fitbits or alexas an stuff.
slowmotion
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You were lucky.....
Wobblers
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Cyclechat does not demand your actual name, or your date of birth.
Cyclechat does not place tracking cookies on your browser or employ other devices (the FB Like buttons on other websites are one means) to track people wherever they go on the internet.
Cyclechat does not hoover up all contact details on any smart phone which has its app installed (go on, just check what permissions the FB app gives itself).
Cyclechat does not generate shadow profiles of people it discovered in the previous step, and populate it with data from its tracking activities.
Need I continue?
So, no, not at all the same.
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Wobblers
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And here we have what is the most pernicious conceit of all: that a rejection of FB is somehow the actions of a luddite. That is a false equivalence that criticism of FB means criticism of social media, or technology. It is not. It is merely a criticism of FB. Worse, it is a thoroughly odious ad hominem attack on those who hold different opinions to yours - opinions which, I might add, are backed with a good deal of evidence.
FB has amassed sufficient data about you, and billions of other people to be able to predict their behaviour with some accuracy. That will only improve as the quantity of data and algorithms are improved. Data which can be used, well from mundane things like determining that someone is more likely to buy product x if it's coloured red to how to influence them to put a cross next to candidate B rather than candidate A. This is all held by a company which has demonstrated that it lacks any form of ethics whatsoever. Do you think that this power in the hands of such a company is good for society?
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Take it easy dude
