Waiting for a Safer, More Better, Useful, Friendlier Facebook

Waiting for a Safer, More Better, Useful, Friendlier Facebook

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Gary W. Morgan, The GabbyGary.

GARYWORDS – Facebook recently reminded me about a post I made 6 years ago (April 22, 2014) on my personal Facebook page. I had become dissatisfied with the way Facebook was handling my News Feed on that account. In the beginning, when I had signed up, reluctantly, a little worried about my possible loss of identity or usage of my identity that may occur if I would become a Facebook member, I was initially pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed keeping up with family, friends and past coworkers and classmates. However, Facebook went into a period of experimentation, I’m guessing, in their effort to make a good thing “better”.

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Facebook Trying To Police Campaign Manipulation

Facebook Trying To Police Campaign Manipulation

GARYTALK.COM – Facebook is ramping up it’s efforts to respond to the real threat to the United States democratic process this country’s intelligence agencies are warning about. The social media giant’s members were inundated with disinformation, misinformation and other campaigns meant to steer voters’ choices at the 2016 ballot box. There is fear that the persuasiveness of highly suspect untrue details being spread like wildfire by, sometimes, unsuspecting users via the Facebook Friends “sharing” posts to one another, may affect upcoming elections. Facebook has introduced at least one wrung in it’s plan to get voter truth back into the election system by turning off one possible avenue of misinformation. Let me explain.

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Innuendo, Untruths, Fantasies and Wishful Thinking

Innuendo, Untruths, Fantasies and Wishful Thinking

GARYTALK.COM (11/04/2016) – It seems, the closer we get to the day the Presidential Election takes place, the campaign messages from candidates, PACs, and candidate surrogates become even greater bags of wind, so to speak. The Innuendo, Untruths, Fantasies and Wishful Thinking become even less easier to take. It seems, sometimes, that the plan reflects the idea that the truth really is not important when it comes to convincing voters to place their mark after your name on ballots.

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GARYWORDS: Getting Wordy For The Wordiness Of It

GARYWORDS: Getting Wordy For The Wordiness Of It

GaryWords on Garytalk.com.GARYTALK.COM (11/29/2015) – From time to time I will likely include a variety of ideas and not necessarily related comments in my Garywords at Garytalk.com. Some of the combination of words will be sentences which are stimulated by my reactions to posts I see on Facebook or Twitter. Occasionally some of these posts by my friends, relatives and people who follow me, or whom I follow, compel me to add a comment or two. Here are just three occasions from one recent Sunday afternoon.

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