When it comes to the actual user’s experience, though - is selling ads based on “data collected about their users” actually all that far from selling the actual user data?

I agree with you. Hit the “doubt” button here - if I had a conversation about wine on Facebook, I’d see an advertisement for wine not ten minutes later on YouTube.  They are selling access to backend messages in some way, shape or form - period. Zuckerberg also is the guy who called his early users “dumb fucks” for…

Do we file it under “trade wars are good and easy to win”?

Are you kidding?  The way this show is going, he’ll probably end up as next season’s guest host.

You know, maybe there *are* missed opportunities there. Snoop’s totally cooking now, but Martha hasn’t spit a guest verse or guest-starred in a terrible porno produced in the back room of a Compton swap meet yet.

I seriously want to invent a time machine, and take pictures of the Snoop Dogg/Martha Stewart alliance back to 1993, just so I could *blow everyone’s mind* and/or get called a fucking liar.

Yes, this thread is totally innocuous and in no way refers to acts of unspeakable horror.

“Nothing was taken from anyone.”

Gosh, how dare the Palestinians want to destroy Israel and take all their shit when all Israel ever did to them was destroy Palestine and take all the Palestinians’ shit in one of the most vicious acts of ethnic cleansing in modern history.

Um, Facebook was designed from *very* early on to be a spy network and a tool to manipulate the fuck out of people. Look up In-Q-Tel, Palantir, et cetera.  

I’m sure you won’t mind telling that to the survivors from Paradise, right?

I just want to head off the “It’s cold! Therefore global warming is a lie!” nonsense at the pass before it starts.

While I fully agree with you, I posted the quote anyway because, well...here’s another relevant quote:

Just as an FYI:

Pauling?  Linus Pauling is going to be in Mario Tennis?  I’ve waited so long!

This summer, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike player Kenji Kuroda was arrested for allegedly committing incident acts this February against a high school girl.

Sure, sure. You can’t sell your body and then expect to speak at a university in America!

“How does the knight move again?”

Since this is Deadspin and it seems to be story time - I also played Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player and an utterly brilliant and utterly amazing man, in a three round chess match once back when we were classmates in high school.

I played a full master once, and am proud to say that I apparently performed with distinction for thirteen moves and that he was considering making a risky gambit against me before I broke up my pawn line and was summarily demolished.