Craigslist... a thing of the past?

[In The Ten Ring]

Facebook's founder paid a multi-million dollar legal settlement concerning how the idea for the website was obtained. That same founder had disparaging things to say about early female users. Facebook is losing some 200,000 users per year, was recently grilled on Capitol Hill for biased treatment of members, and for the first time ever, has begun advertising itself on TV. A recent interview of another FB founder exposed how the site was "created to exploit people." The website sells every bit of data collected, gives nothing to the user, and changes policy without notice or consent. There is no customer service number or email and no way to contact the site outside of being logged in.

Now if that sounds like a "good website to belong to," there you go.

CL took down the "hooker" pages ("personals") due to a new law passed in Congress. On the surface, such a law could end all dating sites. It was passed (I assume) to limit child exploitation online and seems to have been directed at backpage.com which did host a variety of escort services, many of which were investigated by law enforcement for teen trafficking and may have posted their own ads for sting operations. The owner of backpage has been arrested for sex trafficking and that was before the new law passed. No idea on a conviction though.

I posted an ad onto CL a few weeks ago to sell off some Isuzu parts I inherited. It was a bust. The "DO NOT TEXT" line was completely ignored and not a single person read the ad, they looked at the picture and used their apparently very active imagination. Ugh....

I called the same ad into the local trading paper, I hope for more there.