This one’s for you Mr. Zuckerberg.

I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that the public’s opinion about Facebook is slowly shifting. It went from being the next best thing humanity has to offer to an absolute nuisance. Being on Facebook is a constant fight with an algorithm whose sole purpose is to sell you something. And that something is a product you would never buy unless you’re drunk or 14 years old and just stole your mum’s credit card.

LOSING CONTROL

Every second you spend on Facebook is data to be gathered in order to manipulate you to be persuaded into doing something. I used to feel completely in control of what appears on my screen when I’m on Facebook. Now it feels like a hodgepodge of ads, videos with ads in the middle, fake news and maybe, just maybe, some posts of friends. 

JUST PAY SHIPPING!

Do you like comic books or tv shows? Well good luck, because your feed will now be bombarded by cheaply made “official” merchandise of your favourite show or character with the words ‘FREE!!! JUST PAY SHIPPING’ plastered all over. Or how about those photoshopped pictures of your favourite stars holding up badly photoshopped t-shirts saying how special people born on a certain month are. Is that the point of Facebook nowadays? 

WHY AM I SEEING THIS?

Recently I’ve been getting the most bizarre notifications. Some friend liked some post of someone I didn’t know at all. They weren’t in any list of mine, I wasn’t following them or had any contact with them. Did I ever activate this feature? No. Was I ever asked if I wanted to see every random detail or event that Facebook considers valuable information I should absolutely have? Hell no. Of course, you could dig in the settings and find the dozens of things that constantly change in order to take back control of your notifications, but good luck with doing that. Facebook’s rules are ever-changing. 

THE TRUE FACE

Pardon my French, but Facebook has become a shitshow. Scandal after scandal after scandal, Zuckerberg’s empire is slowly crumbling. Facebook has lost its most valuable asset; the people’s trust. Every user in the back of their minds knows that Facebook treats them as data first and human beings second. They’ve been caught with their pants down abusing that data many times. Not only that, but the amount of micromanagement needed to get that “old” Facebook experience has increased tenfold.

NECESSARY, BUT NOT FOR LONG.

Whether it’s because of university pages, work groups or keeping in touch with grandma, we still keep Facebook installed on our phones or visit the website from our computers. We still have Messenger. We still make posts there. But we are slowly starting to hate every moment of it. And the moment you swipe that Facebook window off of your recent apps becomes a liberating event. So turn off notifications, take back control and remember, Mark Zuckerberg is a lizard with plans to sell you cheap merch with quotes of Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones.

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It hasn’t been long since Mark Zuckerberg had to appear before congress to answer a tone of questions revolving around data privacy. The now well known Cambridge Analytical scandal was the reason that has led to Mark’s questioning from the US congress.

The appearance of Facebook’s CEO in front of the congress was live-streamed. Many people watched as Mark answered successfully, most of the times, questions coming from people that clearly didn’t have a strong connection with modern technology and social media. At the end of the day, the questioning turned into an apology session where Mark “promised” that Facebook would do better in the future.

Just like that and when everyone thought Facebook’s troubles were over for now, Mark Zuckerberg has to apologize once again, this time to the European Parliament.

Facebook’s CEO has to convince the europeans, that his social media platform is going to respect all data privacy rules that were recently established with GDPR. If you’re interested in watching that again, you are in luck. The European Parliament is going to be live-streaming the meeting through its’ official website at from 6:15PM to 7:30PM CET.

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I have heard some crazy ambitious new year’s resolutions in my life but this one made it to the top of my list. Mark Zuckerberg has shared his new year’s resolution with the world with his latest post on his Facebook account.

Most people, including myself, would rightfully wonder: “what could a billionaire possibly want for a new year’s resolution that doesn’t already have?” Well, an AI for his home of course!!!

More or less Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a personal Artificial Intelligence Assistant for his home just like Iron Man’s Jarvis. What is he going to call it? I don’t know. Maybe Jarbook or Farvis? We’ll just have to wait and see. What’s sure though is that Mark Zuckerbergs AI is not going to be available to Facebook people anytime soon since as he notes this is a personal project.

If you haven’t watched Iron Man or you don’t quite know what an AI Assistant is take a look at this YouTube video.

Mark Zuckerbergs Post:

“My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work. You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man.
I’m going to start by exploring what technology is already out there. Then I’ll start teaching it to understand my voice to control everything in our home — music, lights, temperature and so on. I’ll teach it to let friends in by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell. I’ll teach it to let me know if anything is going on in Max’s room that I need to check on when I’m not with her. On the work side, it’ll help me visualize data in VR to help me build better services and lead my organizations more effectively.
Every challenge has a theme, and this year’s theme is invention.
At Facebook I spend a lot of time working with engineers to build new things. Some of the most rewarding work involves getting deep into the details of technical projects. I do this with Internet.org when we discuss the physics of building solar-powered planes and satellites to beam down internet access. I do this with Oculus when we get into the details of the controllers or the software we’re designing. I do this with Messenger when we discuss our AI to answer any question you have. But it’s a different kind of rewarding to build things yourself, so this year my personal challenge is to do that.
This should be a fun intellectual challenge to code this for myself. I’m looking forward to sharing what I learn over the course of the year.”

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