1) Facebook has always been about soulless greed. Period. I've been around since it started. I'm not even the kind who runs his mouth off about soulless corporations or what have you, but Facebook itself is a perfect example.
2) When it was first becoming big, it was only for students and teachers. Anyone with a .edu email address. It was niche, and it was perfectly timed to suck in the people leaving myspace.
3) Their removing those limitations was the first sign of trouble. And hell, did they get a LOT of pushback from their customers. I got into a conversation with one of their developers who started answering questions in one of the groups that sprang up to protest the decision.
4) "The problem with myspace," I told him, "Was that eventually it was overrun with spam and fake accounts. Account hacking became a problem. Open facebook up to non-edu accounts, which are virtually guaranteed to be tied to real people, and you'll expose facebook to the same."
5) "Oh, don't worry," the developer replied. "We've been building up our internal processes to make sure that DOESN'T happen." Narrator: They did not, and Facebook became overrun with spam and fake accounts.
6) Facebook's goal was to increase its user base to profit from, plain and simple. Repercussions fell solely on customers. Facebook was also one a key platform that the insidious fucking money drain of micro-transaction games took hold on. Facebook allowed itself to be a conduit
7) Spreading these games via advertisements and allowing the platform to spread ads disguised as posts, all to draw yet another revenue stream from customers.
8) Facebook itself became a honey trap. People posting about their pointless fucking problems, saying or posting stupid shit that would get them fired from jobs, all the while strip-mining them for any information that could be gathered about them
9) Cambridge Analytics is just the latest of thousands of companies who Facebook has allowed to do what it did. You honestly think they were the only ones who abused Facebook's TOS? You think Obama's campaign was the only person who got sweetheart access?
10) Bullshit. Facebook's TOS is something it uses as a bludgeon against undesirables (which doesn't include terrorists, apparently). It is not something they enforce against themselves or anyone who pays them millions for user data. These are just the incidents others admit to.
11) Me? I hope it dies. Or gets hit with an antitrust lawsuit. Something. That shithole website has been a karma houdini for YEARS. 'Bout time they actually have to answer for their bullshit. /end
