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  • Facebook’s Sending Employees to Puerto Rico to Get Internet Running

    Facebook’s Sending Employees to Puerto Rico to Get Internet Running

    Because of Hurricane Maria,  Puerto Rico has been mostly without power for about a week now.  Many are unhappy with the U.S. government’s response in terms of helping out or sending aid.  Some are calling it “lackluster”.  I’m not really surprised given the lack of resources the government has right now.  Which likely has to…

  • Facebook Now Let’s You “Snooze” Notifications From Annoying Friends

    Facebook Now Let’s You “Snooze” Notifications From Annoying Friends

    Facebook finally has a feature that I can get behind.  It is a snooze button that lets you temporarily unfollow friends, Pages or groups for 24 hours, 7 days or even 30 days.  Yes, please!  One of the reasons that I decided to leave Facebook, had a lot to do with what people were posting.…

  • Facebook Algorithms Use Hate Speech to Help Target Advertisements

    Facebook Algorithms Use Hate Speech to Help Target Advertisements

    One of Facebook’s selling features to advertisers has been that you can use the company’s vast amounts of data to target users.  Further to that, you can target users based on almost any personal characteristic.  So, for example, if you join a Facebook Group for the baseball team that you are on, in theory, this…