The trick of facebook to accept the conditions of use faster

With the arrival of the new European data protection law, we are constantly receiving emails and notifications about the new conditions of use and privacy terms. It is likely that you have also seen those that Facebook has introduced when you enter your account on the social network. In this case, the same thing has probably happened to many of you.

Facebook's trick to accept the terms of use faster

When entering, it appears on the screen that we must accept the new conditions. But when we are reading, we see that in the part of notifications two red circles appear, indicating that we have notifications. But in reality they are false. It is a trick of the social network so that users accept the conditions more quickly.

From a professional point of view I'm super impressed they're doing this - I mean it's really clever. Just maybe the designers and engineers who did it could look themselves in the mirror a bit, and quit and use those elite skills for something that actually benefits their users?

- Francis Irving (@frabcus) May 28, 2018

Facebook seeks to influence the user

Thanks to this simple trick, the user believes that there are notifications, so they will read the conditions of use much faster, or they will not read and accept them directly, in order to see these notifications. But they are actually false. In addition, the user cannot access Facebook until they accept these conditions of use, so they feel pressure to do it more quickly.

A very evil technique, which is known as Dark Pattern. It is a way of getting users to do things they really don't want to do. In this case, accept the conditions of use of the social network. It is also used to prevent you from closing your account.

It is not the first time that Facebook uses this type of technique, and in fact, in April it already had problems with the EU for making use of them. So it seems that it will not be the last time we see how the social network faces problems for that.

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