If it’s true, it’s not just the right wing that will be angry. People already feel Facebook is manipulative and unethical; this is just more fuel for the fire.

Kudos to Gizmodo for giving this issue a serious examination. I admit that I would have predicted a Gawker site to participate in the very same hide-newsworthy-conservative-subjects editorializing that apparently Facebook did. Thanks for proving me wrong.

Hopefully folks get their news from multiple sources. Not just Facebook, or Gawker for that matter. But I suspect not.

There's always one guy who takes The Onion seriously.

I bet you say ‘just be grateful’ a lot...

Yeah I’ve been doing it for about 5 years now and I haven’t missed anything. It feels great too!

I wonder if I’d be happier living with my 1 friend in the city where I live, with no hopes of meeting anyone else & never doing anything - or at least being able to keep in touch and share bits of life with people I care about & love, who don’t happen to live in the same crapholeburg place I live?

There’s a difference between being treated like just another worker and not being treated well. There’s also a difference between having a different opinion about something and being an asshole.

wow holy shit thank you for that link

I resisted it (and it wasn’t hard at all) for YEARS until a few years ago when I was completing a research trip to the UK, some coworkers (I took a part time job when I was there) insisted that I get it so that we could “keep in touch” after I went back home. So very reluctantly I signed up. about a year later I…

I’ve been suckered into clicking on some of those trending stories. What’s truly horrible about them is that they show you what the Facebook population thinks. Literally, you get a feed of all the posts people have made about the story, which are usually a few lines of commentary with the actual content embedded…

Going on 2 years Facebook free. I’ve missed a handful of events, but compared against the time suck and productivity leach it had become I’m FAR happier without it. It doesn’t need to be important to your life if you don’t want it to be.

Do we know the bias we get from Gawker?