<story><title>Facebook Pages: Why I don’t like Nest thermostat or anything else anymore</title><url>http://ninjasandrobots.com/facebook-pages-nest-thermostat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmeredith</author><text>&amp;#62;&amp;#62; This has to stop. There has to be a setting to turn this shit off.&lt;p&gt;You can put a stop to all of this by deleting your Facebook account. It is the nuclear option, but it&apos;s one that more and more of my friends (tech geeks - so who cares, right?) are doing.&lt;p&gt;I think the real problem here is headlines like this. OP&apos;s blog post title says &quot;I don&apos;t like NEST&quot; this is a problem for their brand and all the other companies that support Facebook&apos;s business model. If they start leaving because Facebook&apos;s UX opacity hurts their brand more than it helps, then it&apos;s lights out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessedhillon</author><text>&lt;i&gt;tech geeks - so who cares, right?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I said you could mitigate the issue by selling your computer and getting a feature phone, I would be right. But you would probably protest that there are many useful things you need a computer for -- and some of them might not be strictly necessary to your life, or strictly require a computer to do, but the convenience and satisfaction it would bring make it worth having one.&lt;p&gt;In other words, don&apos;t throw out the baby with the bathwater, right? Same thing applies for most people and their Facebook account. So your only argument here is to convince people that they don&apos;t draw as much satisfaction from Facebook as they think they do, or that they don&apos;t need an account for the reasons they think they do.&lt;p&gt;Which might be true, but quite simply, people want not merely to survive but to thrive.&lt;p&gt;Edit: and also, you are in the unenviable position of arguing with people about what they feel, which means you are wrong.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook Pages: Why I don’t like Nest thermostat or anything else anymore</title><url>http://ninjasandrobots.com/facebook-pages-nest-thermostat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmeredith</author><text>&amp;#62;&amp;#62; This has to stop. There has to be a setting to turn this shit off.&lt;p&gt;You can put a stop to all of this by deleting your Facebook account. It is the nuclear option, but it&apos;s one that more and more of my friends (tech geeks - so who cares, right?) are doing.&lt;p&gt;I think the real problem here is headlines like this. OP&apos;s blog post title says &quot;I don&apos;t like NEST&quot; this is a problem for their brand and all the other companies that support Facebook&apos;s business model. If they start leaving because Facebook&apos;s UX opacity hurts their brand more than it helps, then it&apos;s lights out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>purephase</author><text>I&apos;m more than a little concerned that this is not the default answer to this question. While Nest certainly shared blame in choosing FB as their partner in advertising, I think the real problem is the FB only cares about advertising.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m amazed at the number of people that I hear complain about this stuff and yet keep using FB as if it is essential. For instance, add your cell # to your account to confirm developer status and then turn off notices. You will still receive texts from FB because they don&apos;t give a damn.&lt;p&gt;For the life of me, why people willingly give so much of their information to a company who clearly does not care about privacy is beyond me.</text></comment>