Thursday 21 September 2017

Facebook is sending Jewish New Year messages to people who aren't Jewish

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As much as Facebook ostensibly wants to be your friend, it mostly just wants to be a growing, massive data cache of your life, filled with loads of information about you—some true, some false. 

The latest comic evidence: some Facebook users were greeted with a "Happy New Year" message on the top of their News Feeds Wednesday and Thursday in celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish holiday celebrating the New Year. 

It wasn't available to everyone, though, and some of the users saw it shared on Twitter that, nope, they weren't Jewish. Others said, at the very least, they never self-identified to Facebook that they were Jewish (which they would've done by listing it as their chosen religion on their Facebook profiles).  Read more...

More about Facebook, Media, Holidays, Social Media, and Rosh Hashanah


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