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[521.00 --> 528.56] There's a thread on our forum posted by Aluminum Tech, also known as Aluminium Tech.
[529.52 --> 532.12] And this thread is about the Facebook Messenger app
[532.12 --> 537.82] and how Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, this week confirmed that Facebook does indeed
[537.82 --> 540.74] scan your messages, whether they're pictures or text or whatever,
[542.44 --> 545.38] make sure that they conform with community guidelines
[545.38 --> 549.60] before actually sending it to the recipient.
[549.60 --> 553.02] So if you send something that's against their guidelines,
[553.20 --> 555.82] like hate speech or inciting genocide or something like that,
[555.94 --> 558.98] they may not actually deliver that message to whoever you're talking to,
[559.28 --> 561.26] which definitely has some benefits.
[562.12 --> 570.24] But the thread on our forum kind of erroneously implies that we're not just talking about
[570.24 --> 574.92] Facebook Messenger's normal messaging when we're talking about this surveillance.
[575.20 --> 577.80] It implies that we're talking about Facebook's secret function,
[577.92 --> 582.00] which is more akin to apps like Signal or Telegram.
[582.40 --> 583.56] And that's actually not the case.
[583.68 --> 585.04] Facebook does have a function.
[585.04 --> 590.38] Facebook Messenger has a function where you can make your chats encrypted end-to-end.
[590.62 --> 593.00] And the interface turns black and there's a little lock.
[593.34 --> 596.18] And you can even make exploding messages like Snapchat style.
[597.20 --> 601.14] Facebook is not scanning those messages at all.
[601.64 --> 603.44] Or maybe they are and we have no evidence of it.
[603.48 --> 608.32] But the news or whatever Zuckerberg confirmed has nothing to do with the secret messages.
[608.44 --> 610.72] It has to do with the normal messages.
[610.72 --> 614.34] And so we really shouldn't be surprised that they're looking at those.
[614.86 --> 617.06] So tell me then.
[618.64 --> 620.40] Okay, do you use Facebook Messenger?
[620.72 --> 622.56] Yeah, actually, it's one of my primary messaging apps.
[622.76 --> 627.80] Okay, how do you feel about them scanning your messages with an automated system
[627.80 --> 633.34] for community guidelines standards adherence?
[633.34 --> 636.64] As opposed to like a human?
[636.88 --> 639.16] Well, I guess I'm asking two questions first.
[639.40 --> 642.56] So do you like or dislike it?
[643.84 --> 645.80] Okay, first of all, I think we should clarify.
[646.04 --> 648.44] I believe that they're scanned with an automated system.
[648.56 --> 652.04] And once they're flagged, it requires a human to then say,
[652.20 --> 653.68] this message is not getting sent through.
[653.82 --> 655.08] I believe that's how it works.
[655.18 --> 655.40] Sure.
[656.48 --> 658.76] I am fine with my messages being scanned.
[659.32 --> 659.72] Okay.
[660.42 --> 662.38] And are you surprised by this?
[662.66 --> 663.02] No.
[663.02 --> 663.50] No.
[663.86 --> 666.76] Should also mention that they do not use the data that they,
[667.00 --> 669.04] any of the information that they scan,
[669.50 --> 671.56] that information is not used to sell ads,
[671.76 --> 675.00] which is what Gmail used to do prior to last year.
[675.60 --> 676.16] Right.
[679.74 --> 683.94] So I got to tell you, I, so, okay.
[684.86 --> 685.92] Okay, story time.
[685.92 --> 692.58] So the only reason that I use Facebook is that Facebook does not
[692.58 --> 697.14] permit you to manage a Facebook page.
[697.14 --> 702.44] So the first page that I had to manage and the reason that I had to create a Facebook account
[702.44 --> 706.30] was the one for NCIX PC back when I worked there.
[706.30 --> 710.04] So we were trying to get into this whole new fangled social media thing.
[710.04 --> 718.00] And so I needed an account so that the page could invite me to manage it and make posts on it and stuff.
[718.00 --> 725.48] I have probably posted of my own volition a grand total of, I don't know, between five and ten things on Facebook ever.
[725.48 --> 738.32] I only use Facebook Messenger as sort of a digital phone book because the good thing about Facebook is that whether, you know,
[738.32 --> 746.46] whether you're happy about it or whether you kind of just do it because you have to, pretty much everyone has it.
[746.78 --> 754.34] And, yes, thank you, whoever's in the Twitch chat declaring that they do not have Facebook because they're taking some stand.
[755.22 --> 756.00] Good for you.
[756.10 --> 756.68] We're all jealous.
[756.84 --> 757.74] We all want to be in your shoes.
[757.98 --> 762.74] Yeah, but the truth of the matter is that Facebook is a great way to get in touch with people.
[762.74 --> 769.18] And aside from people changing their names, like, yeah.
[771.68 --> 772.08] Okay.
[772.50 --> 774.76] Like having your first name and middle name as your Facebook name?
[774.78 --> 775.30] No, no.
[775.40 --> 776.72] I mean people getting married.
[777.10 --> 777.44] Oh, okay.
[777.48 --> 784.28] So this is kind of embarrassing, but I was going through my friends on Facebook and I was like, who are these people?
[786.48 --> 788.44] And the people, shut up.
[788.44 --> 796.04] The people I was confused about were mostly women from my high school class that are now married.
[796.46 --> 801.34] And I was like, that kind of looks all, oh, okay.
[802.10 --> 804.00] That makes sense.
[804.68 --> 813.12] And then, like, a kid that I went to elementary school with, he changed his name from, like, his stepdad's name,
[813.12 --> 818.82] which was his last name for some reason, I'm not quite sure how that worked, to his birth father's name.
[819.22 --> 819.24] Oh.
[819.42 --> 823.32] So I was like, oh, you're, whatever your name is, Barry now.
[824.86 --> 825.54] That's cool.
[825.78 --> 827.18] Wouldn't have known that if I hadn't already had your platform.
[827.18 --> 827.78] From Barry to Barry?
[828.04 --> 828.88] V-E to B-A?
[829.92 --> 830.32] No.
[830.76 --> 831.54] That would be tough.
[831.64 --> 836.04] But anyway, so what's good about Facebook is that it's a digital phone book.
[836.24 --> 838.18] It's, because real phone books aren't a thing anymore.
[838.18 --> 843.46] But the bad thing about it, and the thing that has always made me both a little bit uncomfortable
[843.46 --> 848.08] and just feel like it's a little bit unnecessary, is that while I am technically a millennial,
[848.64 --> 854.48] I share sort of updates about my life as a job.
[854.84 --> 857.12] I have never done it for leisure, not once.
[857.70 --> 860.84] When I created a Facebook account, it was because I needed to for work.
[860.90 --> 863.52] When I created a Twitter account, it was because I had to for work.
[863.52 --> 867.34] And when I created a YouTube account, it was because I had to for work.
[867.34 --> 868.50] Same with Twitch, for that matter.
[870.54 --> 873.48] So I just straight up, like, don't really get it.
[873.88 --> 878.12] And I've never really felt, it's never been because I feel super comfortable with it
[878.12 --> 880.06] that I've shared a lot of detail about my life.
[880.50 --> 886.20] Like, some of you have probably noticed that I, now that, especially now that the Linus
[886.20 --> 892.68] Tech Twitter account is managed by the entire team, I post almost nothing really personal