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News / Re: Facebook's Left-Leaning Bias
« Last post by simms3 on May 12, 2016, 06:11:22 PM »
In fact if you read the article, data is from 2011 (irrelevant at this point) and Ad Age starts to see a dip at age 30.
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News / Re: Facebook's Left-Leaning Bias
« Last post by simms3 on May 12, 2016, 06:06:44 PM »
Which is a whole generation less than all the major television news outlets, all of which have average viewer ages in the 60s.  40 is still surprising.  That's probably average age of user, which everyone is a basic user these days, including grandparents.  But daily and moderate to heavy users likely skews A LOT younger, probably somewhere between 23 and 32 if I had to guess.

This is the age group that actually uses an outlet like Facebook as a news source.  People 40+ and especially 50 or 60+ are definitely using Facebook more sparingly, mainly to post occasionally on a child or friend's wall, etc, and are still going to MSNBC,CNN, and Fox News for their news.  Translation, "clicks" are still driven by the younger set even if FB average age is 40.
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Cities / Re: Miami Comes of Age
« Last post by simms3 on May 12, 2016, 06:03:23 PM »
Also, your population of DDA Miami is > Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco.  Big load of bullshit that stat is.
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Cities / Re: Miami Comes of Age
« Last post by simms3 on May 12, 2016, 06:02:30 PM »
You're right, it's been about 3 years.  But in looking at this I see 2 Publixes.  What's your definition of downtown?  Clearly *much* larger than mine.  I see the Whole Foods.

Point still stands, that for the amount of residential development in the downtown area, amenities for permanent residents and jobs for residents in general, downtown or otherwise, are not keeping up with "perceived demand" because the demand is imbalanced with non-permanent residents and investors to a much greater extent than as seen with other cities with more robust and traditional new-age economies.
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News / Re: Facebook's Left-Leaning Bias
« Last post by JeffreyS on May 12, 2016, 05:46:03 PM »
Well the algorithm also features items that get more clicks. Overall liberal sources get more clicks because more people on fb tend to be liberal mainly due to age demographics. However, if you are a raging conservative you will be shown more similar right-leaning articles because it knows your preferences. If anything can be said about fb article selections it is that there is A TON of confirmation bias being perpetuated across the platform. Especially since people tend to only follow those friends with similar views on their feeds. I've been guilty of that myself but I only unfollow friends who never post anything but political opinions especially when they are "that crazy conservative uncle" type. Ultimately, if you don't like looking at liberal news sources of fb then get off fb. They are a private company. Maybe get on Fox's social media site?... oh wait, that's right.

I'm not saying you're wrong, these are honest questions:

1) Do you know that for a fact about the algorithm Facebook uses or are you assuming it?

2) Do you have statistics that show that Facebook users tend to be more liberal than conservative? In my experience (totally not based on anything other than that), I see lots of conservatives - though my friends tend to be more liberal. Facebook seems kind of universal/ubiquitous at this point, so I would assume its users would mimic the general population.

To an extent, #2 can be inferred (although granted that certainly doesn't mean it's proven) due to the fact that the majority of people who use Facebook are of millennial age, and the majority of millennials lean more toward liberal ideologies.

The average age of FB user in the US is 40 http://smallbusiness.chron.com/breakdown-facebook-users-age-63280.html
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News / Re: Facebook's Left-Leaning Bias
« Last post by TheCat on May 12, 2016, 05:39:43 PM »
You always have something to say that's very 'meaningful' MMR. You never fail to disappoint; keep up the good work...


Well, looks like the spork is calling the spoon a kettle.

Do you want to place a bet that Murdoch is about to rebrand myspace as the social media site for crazies who think they are conservative?  ::)
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News / Re: Facebook's Left-Leaning Bias
« Last post by CoastalJax on May 12, 2016, 05:34:41 PM »
Well the algorithm also features items that get more clicks. Overall liberal sources get more clicks because more people on fb tend to be liberal mainly due to age demographics. However, if you are a raging conservative you will be shown more similar right-leaning articles because it knows your preferences. If anything can be said about fb article selections it is that there is A TON of confirmation bias being perpetuated across the platform. Especially since people tend to only follow those friends with similar views on their feeds. I've been guilty of that myself but I only unfollow friends who never post anything but political opinions especially when they are "that crazy conservative uncle" type. Ultimately, if you don't like looking at liberal news sources of fb then get off fb. They are a private company. Maybe get on Fox's social media site?... oh wait, that's right.

I'm not saying you're wrong, these are honest questions:

1) Do you know that for a fact about the algorithm Facebook uses or are you assuming it?

2) Do you have statistics that show that Facebook users tend to be more liberal than conservative? In my experience (totally not based on anything other than that), I see lots of conservatives - though my friends tend to be more liberal. Facebook seems kind of universal/ubiquitous at this point, so I would assume its users would mimic the general population.

To an extent, #2 can be inferred (although granted that certainly doesn't mean it's proven) due to the fact that the majority of people who use Facebook are of millennial age, and the majority of millennials lean more toward liberal ideologies.
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Break Room / Re: MetroJacksonville Book "Club"?
« Last post by TheCat on May 12, 2016, 05:18:10 PM »
Four is good. I guess I'll try to come up with some sort of a structure over the weekend and see if it jives with everyone else...?
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Cities / Re: Miami Comes of Age
« Last post by tpot on May 12, 2016, 05:03:08 PM »
Simms3, obviously you haven't been to Maimi in quite awhile.......Publix in Mary Brickell opened in 2009, since then downtown has 3 more Publix stores and a Whole Foods all downtown....

Miami DDA Area: 1.7 Square Miles
2014 Population: 80,750
2014 Daytime Population: 222,000
2019 Projected Population: 92,519
22,785 Residential Units Built Since 2003
18.6 Million Sq. Ft. of Office Space
7,124 Hotel Rooms

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News / Re: Facebook's Left-Leaning Bias
« Last post by simms3 on May 12, 2016, 05:00:55 PM »
This is so stupid...I will see at least 3 friends who work at Facebook and another that works at Instagram tonight and I won't even start to ask them if this is true because it's so obviously not.  Just another example of a literally stupid Fox News viewer who happens to be in the Millennial demographic group (sadly, I do shed a tear for this) trying desperately to appeal to the stupidity of other Fox News viewers who eat this load of literal cocka up as if it were in the Bible.

On another note, it *SHOULD* be true.  If you are trying to find "conservative bias" that suits the answers you yourself want in trending science, entertainment, and political articles/events/findings, then you deserve to have "real/authentic" information disguised in your silly little mind as "liberal" exclusively thrown your way so that you can begin to grow a fucking brain and gain actual information.

OMG
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