# Facebook is run by fucking idiots **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 9, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421 "2016-09-09T11:40:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421/61 "2016-09-11T12:55:30Z")
Tempest in a teapot. It was a bad decision to begin with, but a mildly bad one. It was the right decision to override the initial bad decision. It’s very likely that the first decision was made by an algorithm assisted by a low-level content monitor who erred on the side of caution, and that the reversal was made by someone with a little more power to recognize that rules have exceptions. Why anyone would get worked up by this is totally not beyond me, because I know all about the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421/62 "2016-09-11T13:15:04Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > I found that fact-checking people’s claims on Facebook really does keep my “friends” list to a minimum … only the dogs seem to not care … although it does bother me sometimes that these dogs have more “friends” than I do … > > A recent post about the oil pipeline protests in South Dakota claimed that the major news outlets weren’t reporting on the story … so I happily provided links to the AP story, the CNN story, the ABCNews story, the Huffington Post story … and now I have one less “friend” … hahahahahaha Long the bastion of photo-shopped lies with Breitbart captions, Facebook is a necessary evil if you want contact with groups of friends from schools or prior jobs. Its like that ONE house in the neighborhood where really nice people live in the house, but they let their dogs crap all over their yard and never clean it up. You can wave to them from a distance, but you have to understand the smell… and you can ring their doorbell if you want to say ‘hi’ to them, but you have to step around the steaming piles of crap to do it (and its rude to bring it up to them in conversation). ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421/63 "2016-09-12T16:49:07Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > A recent post about the oil pipeline protests in South Dakota **North** Dakota. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421/64 "2016-09-12T20:29:23Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > No, it isn’t. The issue is whether the photo should have been blocked. Literally no one has argued that Facebook didn’t have the right to block it. No one was talking about taking Facebook to court or anything. They just objected to it being blocked and explained why. > > And Facebook actually listened to the argument, realizing it wasn’t actually child porn. > > I mean, what you said is like when some celebrity says something racist and then their fans come in and say he has the right to say what he wants. Yeah, he does. So what? I see what you’re saying, but anyone who goes to Facebook for news or history is not in a good place for either of those. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421/65 "2016-09-12T20:39:55Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > **North** Dakota. > [@control-z](#): > > I see what you’re saying, but anyone who goes to Facebook for news or history is not in a good place for either of those. How silly of me … ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421/66 "2016-09-13T16:21:19Z")
I mean, can you post that picture here on SMDB without a NSFW tag or something, and you have to click a link. On Facebook it just appears on your feed, you don’t have to click on anything. I wish they would take it down. I can just click a link and see it on another site if I want to. This is such a silly outrage. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421/67 "2016-09-13T16:38:55Z")
I won’t pick a dog in any of this thread’s sub-debates. If FB is the message board for idiots, then SDMB is the board for people _too_ erudite by half. What I _do_ want to point out is that it is the America-with-Facebook that may be the America that elects Donald Trump. Given FB’s ubiquity and that even FauxNews is less than enthusiastic in its support for the buffoon, this may be causation rather than mere correlation. > [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I really don’t understand how FaceBook became such a primary news and info feed when it’s basically an open-ended blog for people with nothing much to say. My sons’ friend recently had his FB account removed apparently because his schoolchums, as a prank, ganged up and clicked Spam on his posts. At least that doesn’t happen at SDMB. (The sci-fi story where robots rule the world may be nearer than we thought, but instead of the malevolent Collosus, it’s Zuckerberg’s algorithms trying to maximize clicks on deodorant ads.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421.md?page=3)