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<p><span>I don't have a Facebook account and never have. Undoubtedly Facebook is keeping a digital dossier on me, and I cannot do much about it.<strong> Shadow profiles</strong> are one of the more intrusive methods that Facebook uses.</span></p>
<p><span>-- Mitch</span></p>
<p id="reply-intro">On 2021-09-01 16:05, Robert Primak wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Engulf and Devour sounds more like the Microsoft motto -- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish -- which described their predatory business practices.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Trickery to make you part with your personal information is widespread, and predates the Internet. It also happens in phone calls, emails and postal letters. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">The difference is that Facebook has built their business almost exclusively around this paradigm. </div>
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<div>On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 02:29:44 PM EDT, Michael Alexander <mna.ma@yahoo.com> wrote:</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span>In countless ways, the public is Zuckered, including many ways that Mitch didn't address. Do you remember the Mel Brooks movie that featured the corporation named Engulf and Devour? Facebook is much the same.</span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span>It isn't simply that they've bought out – paying billions! – smallish companies that might have threatened their businesses. It's also the way they've wormed their way into countless 'respectable' businesses. Many, like PBS Evening News, urge people to "Like Us on Facebook" (<u>why</u>?). If you want to write a Comment on articles in Politico, Times of Israel, and other communications, you must do so through a Facebook account. The NY Times and some others let (but do not force) you to log in through Facebook or Google accounts, feeding their data-hoovering maws.</span></div>
<div><br clear="none" />I'm certain I haven't scratched the surface of the ways in which Facebook has engulfed and devoured our digital worlds – even the worlds of those of us who try to avoid contact with Facebook.</div>
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<p class="v1yiv8759105428yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715ffa; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0;">On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 1:02 PM, Mitchell I. Wolfe <mwolfe@vinebrook.com> wrote:</p>
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<p>Have you been Zuckered?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><em>"To be Zuckered is to get tricked by Mark Zuckerberg–or more specifically, by his social media company, Facebook–for <strong>either financial gain or at the expense of your personal information</strong>."</em></p>
<p>There also a related term - Zucced:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><em>"What is up with it is this: "zucc" or "zucced" is slang that people—especially people in meme groups—use on your social network, Facebook, to describe <strong>the takedown of their content for alleged terms of service violations</strong>. Your meme got deleted or your page got suspended? You got zucced."</em></p>
<p><span>Social media is toxic. Lots of the Silicon Valley avoid it and forbid their children from going there as well.</span></p>
<p><span>-- Mitch</span></p>
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<div dir="ltr">And Zuckerberg's response:</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/983791899940130818" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">https://twitter.com/i/status/983791899940130818</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr">In words:</div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>Orrin Hatch: How Does Facebook Make Money? Mark Zuckerberg: 'We Run Ads'</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/orrin-hatch-how-does-facebook-make-money-mark-zuckerberg-we-run-ads/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">https://www.mediaite.com/tv/orrin-hatch-how-does-facebook-make-money-mark-zuckerberg-we-run-ads/</a> <span><br clear="none" /></span></div>
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