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Post by graybeard on May 21, 2011 14:25:49 GMT -6
"Check out my photos on Facebook"
That was the title of an email from an old co-worker who I exchange emails with. I replied that I don't do Fackbook. He replied to me that he didn't send any invite, and Fackbook must have his address book.
Slimy bastards.
GB
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Post by waltc on May 21, 2011 18:21:33 GMT -6
So F**kbook is stealing people's info. That sadly isn't surprising. I've always suspected that FB has been selling users personal info to data miners.
Why people put serious amounts of personal info on a site that they would never give a stranger on the street is quite perplexing.
Still it's a veritable money machine for it's owners, people willingly give up oodles of personal info that marketers pay $$$$ for. Then FB lets the data miners have selected tid bits for a price.
Of course FB will never admit this arrangement anymore than the AV vendors will talk about their back door arrangements with underground virus writers sites, who sell them the latest viruses for $$$.
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Post by jeffolie on May 22, 2011 16:25:16 GMT -6
Be careful of maleware, viruses, phishing from emails that falsely claim to be from F*ckbook. I never open emails regarding F*ckbook unless I know the sender plus want to talk with the sender...so I almost never open any F*ckbook titled emails. I limit closely my F*ckbook contacts to immediate family and guard my privacy closely. Be very wary of F*ckbook.
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Post by jeffolie on May 24, 2011 13:41:33 GMT -6
Now that Facebook can and has decided to limit Facebook as a means to promote revolution...what will be the consequences to Facebook? to the revolts, protestors? Facebook allowed Tunsania protests (early protestors claimed they wanted lower priced sugar) to coordinate around a US government sponsored group coordinated on Facebook..."... This immolation and the subsequent heavy-handed response by the police to peaceful marchers caused riots the next day in Sidi Bouzid that went largely unnoticed, although social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube featured images of police dispersing youths who attacked shop windows and damaged cars....".. The protests and resultant political crisis have generally been called the Jasmine Revolution only in the foreign media.Tunisian philosopher Youssef Seddik deemed the term inappropriate because the violence that accompanied the event was "perhaps as deep as Bastille Day," and although the term was coined by the Tunisian journalist Zied El Hani, who first used it on his blog on 13 January and initially spread via social media such as Facebook (hence "Revolution Facebook" amongst the youth of Tunisia), it is not in widespread use in Tunisia itself...The use of communication technologies, and the Internet in particular, has been widely credited as contributor to the mobilisation of protests. A blog associated with Wired described the intricate efforts of the Tunisian authorities to control such online media as Twitter and Facebook. Other regional regimes were also on higher alert to contain spillover effects that may ensue.
On 11 March 2011, Reporters Without Borders gave its annual award for online media freedom to the Tunisian blogging group Nawaat.org. Founded in 2004, it played an important role rallying anti-government protesters by reporting on the protests which the national media ignored...."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_revolution ================================= Facebook upgrade spurs fears of political bias Facebook’s managers are deploying a new software upgrade that will dismantle myriad groups of like-minded political activists unless they get a special software-key from the company. But Facebook managers are providing very limited information about which groups are being favored with the new key, prompting some activists to complain about possible political favoritism among Facebook managers, and many other activists to experiment with techniques and tricks to get the needed upgrade-key. “Who is being given the upgrade?” asked Pamela Geller, the New York organizer of a 15,000-member group opposed to Islamist political groups. Without the special key, groups lose access to their members, she said. “I’ve seen people really freaking out.” Facebook’s software changes do not impact the individual pages that Facebook subscribers use to stay in contact with friends and to tout their relationships, statuses and accomplishments. The upgrade only effects the software that links Facebook’s “groups” of like-minded people, each of which is managed by one or more group administrators. Read more: dailycaller.com/2011/05/24/facebook-upgrade-spurs-fears-of-political-bias/#ixzz1NIhYMJKv
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Post by jeffolie on May 26, 2011 19:55:26 GMT -6
Old men hate Facebook, young men & women love it: ========================================== Schizophrenic or Generational? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently called the public "schizophrenic" about Facebook--admiring it for its social capabilities and at the same time fearing it for invading their privacy. This is no mental health problem. It is a generational problem. Take a look at the percentage of Americans who have a personal profile page on a social networking site, according to Arbitron research (The Infinite Dial 2011: Navigating Digital Platforms): 12-17: 76% 18-24: 80% 25-34: 68% 35-44: 63% 45-54: 45% 55-64: 31% 65 + : 15% Also note that the average age of the politicians grandstanding about Facebook for their aged constituents is 56.7 (Congress) and 62.2 (Senate). demomemo.blogspot.com/
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