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Re: [OM] OT: New Wrinkle with Facebook

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: New Wrinkle with Facebook
From: Robert Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:08:00 -0800
I "deleted' my account yesterday after reading this NYT article:
https://nyti.ms/2DlsGPi

In addition to the NYT Editor's OpEd today:
https://nyti.ms/2zezviI

And Zuckerberg's response (lame IMO):
https://nyti.ms/2zdMW2v

As FB makes it's money through advertising, and the less people who use it
decrease advertising revenues, departing of many may have some impact...

Bob Adler
www.robertadlerphotography.com
*"Capturing Light One Frame At A Time"*


On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 9:00 AM Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>      This past weekend, Facebook when off the air for a while.  It seems,
> though, that there's more to this than just a simple outage.  You might not
> notice this if you have cable or DSL internet, but if you have dialup you
> will.  The amount of data being downloaded for just a simple Facebook page
> has risen sharply, and any Facebook page I try to look at takes more than
> an hour to download.  At a rate of about 8M/hr for dialup, this means that
> Facebook pages are now more than 8M, minumum.
>
>      Prior to this, it only took about 10 minutes to download simple,
> uncluttered pages such as mine.  But now, I can't even look at that one.
> Any neighbourhood information, such as police activity and broken water
> lines, can no longer be seen here at home.  Fortunately, I do get email
> notifications, but only the first half line of any text content comes
> through on those.  So, Facebook has put the dialup community into a
> societal dead zone.
>
>      Welcome to America.
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>      - Hunter S. Thompson
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