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So you have FACEBOOK!? Damn'!
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Bunz
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Exactly.....................I use FB as "free advertising" for my other business venture. My sales have increased 150% during a recession and the only thing I've added or changed was FB.
To each his own...........some prefer sativas, other indicas.............
I'd be more worried about posting pics of grow rooms & plants on the internet, then I would be about having a facebook account.
JMO
Bunz
are you a ho ? ^^^^
I used to have Facebook. Then one day as I was sitting there logged in, a post appeared on the screen using my identity. The post was offensive to say the least...I did not type it.
Spam? Virus?, who knows, but it basically crashed the operating system forcing me to install a new one.
Suffice to say...I no longer do facebook. It is not secure...I DON"T TRUST IT.
Spam? Virus?, who knows, but it basically crashed the operating system forcing me to install a new one.
Suffice to say...I no longer do facebook. It is not secure...I DON"T TRUST IT.
maybe you got a split personality. you just might have a freaky side LOL truckers arew a strange lot
lil skunk baby
Member
I just noticed this week that all the facebook advertisements on MY page were about gardening.........I believe that validates op's comment 
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SeaMaiden
Mine are all about scuba diving.
FB isn't what anyone needs to be most concerned about. The federal government already has the key to the backdoor of your ISP, they really don't need FB.
FB isn't what anyone needs to be most concerned about. The federal government already has the key to the backdoor of your ISP, they really don't need FB.
1) Private companies aren’t motivated by your best interests
Facebook and Google exist to make money, by selling advertisers the means to target you with ever greater precision. That explains the endless series of “privacy” headlines, as these unregulated businesses push boundaries to make it easier for paying third parties to access your likes, interests, photos, social connections and purchasing intentions. That’s why Facebook has made it harder for users to understand exactly what they’re giving away — why, for instance, its privacy policy has grown from 1,004 words in 2005 to 5,830 words today (by comparison, as the New York Times has pointed out, the U.S. Constitution is 4,543). Founder Mark Zuckerberg once joked dismissively about the “dumb fucks” who “trust me”.
2) They make it harder to reinvent yourself
“When you’re young, you make mistakes and you do some stupid stuff,” President Obama warned high-school students in Virginia last September. “Be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age whatever you do will be pulled up later somewhere in your life.” He’s right: anything posted online might come to haunt you permanently, yet all of us need space to grow. As the writer Jaron Lanier said in a recent lecture, if Robert Zimmerman, of small-town Hibbing, Minnesota, had had a Facebook profile, could he really have re-created himself as the New York beatnik Bob Dylan
3) Information you supply for one purpose will invariably be used for another …
Phone up to buy a pizza, and the order-taker’s computer gives her access to your voting record, employment history, library loans — all “just wired into the system” for your convenience. She’ll suggest a tofu pizza as she knows about your 42-inch waist, she’ll add a delivery surcharge because a nearby robbery yesterday puts you in “an orange zone” — and she’ll be on her guard because you’ve checked out the library book Dealing With Depression. This is where the American Council for Civil Liberties sees consumerism going — watch its pizza video online — and it’s not to hard to believe. Already surveys suggest that 35 percent of firms are rejecting applicants because of information found on social networks. What makes you think you can control what happens to your personal data?
4) … and there’s a good chance it will be used against you
Mark Zuckerberg would like to suggest that, in an ever more transparent world, “you have one identity — the days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.” That suits his purpose — but in our multi-layered lives it’s just not true. A vindictive ex-partner, or a workplace rival, or a health insurer, or a political opponent, may selectively expose information to your detriment – powerfully re-framing your identity in a way you would consider dishonest.
5) People screw up, and give away more than they realise
To understand how much personal information Facebook users are inadvertently sharing, visit youropenbook.org and search for phrases such as “cheated on my wife” or “my new mobile number is” or “feeling horny“. I’ll bet that most of the people whose intimate details you’ll get to read are unaware that their updates are being shared quite so openly. Have they genuinely given Zuckerberg their informed consent?
6) And besides, why should we let businesses privatize our social discourse?
Some day you should take time to read those 5,830 words: it’s Facebook that owns the rights to do as it pleases with your data, and to sell access to it to whoever is willing to pay. Yes, it’s free to join — but with half a billion of us now using it to connect, it’s worth asking ourselves how far this “social utility” (its own term) is really acting in the best interests of society.
Facebook and Google exist to make money, by selling advertisers the means to target you with ever greater precision. That explains the endless series of “privacy” headlines, as these unregulated businesses push boundaries to make it easier for paying third parties to access your likes, interests, photos, social connections and purchasing intentions. That’s why Facebook has made it harder for users to understand exactly what they’re giving away — why, for instance, its privacy policy has grown from 1,004 words in 2005 to 5,830 words today (by comparison, as the New York Times has pointed out, the U.S. Constitution is 4,543). Founder Mark Zuckerberg once joked dismissively about the “dumb fucks” who “trust me”.
2) They make it harder to reinvent yourself
“When you’re young, you make mistakes and you do some stupid stuff,” President Obama warned high-school students in Virginia last September. “Be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age whatever you do will be pulled up later somewhere in your life.” He’s right: anything posted online might come to haunt you permanently, yet all of us need space to grow. As the writer Jaron Lanier said in a recent lecture, if Robert Zimmerman, of small-town Hibbing, Minnesota, had had a Facebook profile, could he really have re-created himself as the New York beatnik Bob Dylan
3) Information you supply for one purpose will invariably be used for another …
Phone up to buy a pizza, and the order-taker’s computer gives her access to your voting record, employment history, library loans — all “just wired into the system” for your convenience. She’ll suggest a tofu pizza as she knows about your 42-inch waist, she’ll add a delivery surcharge because a nearby robbery yesterday puts you in “an orange zone” — and she’ll be on her guard because you’ve checked out the library book Dealing With Depression. This is where the American Council for Civil Liberties sees consumerism going — watch its pizza video online — and it’s not to hard to believe. Already surveys suggest that 35 percent of firms are rejecting applicants because of information found on social networks. What makes you think you can control what happens to your personal data?
4) … and there’s a good chance it will be used against you
Mark Zuckerberg would like to suggest that, in an ever more transparent world, “you have one identity — the days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.” That suits his purpose — but in our multi-layered lives it’s just not true. A vindictive ex-partner, or a workplace rival, or a health insurer, or a political opponent, may selectively expose information to your detriment – powerfully re-framing your identity in a way you would consider dishonest.
5) People screw up, and give away more than they realise
To understand how much personal information Facebook users are inadvertently sharing, visit youropenbook.org and search for phrases such as “cheated on my wife” or “my new mobile number is” or “feeling horny“. I’ll bet that most of the people whose intimate details you’ll get to read are unaware that their updates are being shared quite so openly. Have they genuinely given Zuckerberg their informed consent?
6) And besides, why should we let businesses privatize our social discourse?
Some day you should take time to read those 5,830 words: it’s Facebook that owns the rights to do as it pleases with your data, and to sell access to it to whoever is willing to pay. Yes, it’s free to join — but with half a billion of us now using it to connect, it’s worth asking ourselves how far this “social utility” (its own term) is really acting in the best interests of society.
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It totally baffles me. There are constant and further inroads to invade privacy all the time. So what's the end game? I already feel like Tom Cruise in Minority Report with all those product displays yelling at me when I walk by. Am I gonna have to get a cornea transplant to retain my privacy? I also object to all the targeted advertizing. Why would anyone want that because it just limits your choice of choosing alternatives. I really don't understand this "Brave New World". But the trend is that it's just going to get more invasive.
I also think FB causes people to lie and effect personae that are really not them but who they think is better. It's a lot like lying on dating sites and fat girls posting fake pictures on the craigslist to attract men.
I personally think if you need FB to get laid, get a life. So impersonal, like robots fucking. But again, that's just me.
I also think FB causes people to lie and effect personae that are really not them but who they think is better. It's a lot like lying on dating sites and fat girls posting fake pictures on the craigslist to attract men.
I personally think if you need FB to get laid, get a life. So impersonal, like robots fucking. But again, that's just me.
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SeaMaiden
If you're really worried about it and you're using a Windows operating system..... ok, that's just even funnier to me. But that wasn't my point, if you're really worried about your browsing history being tracked, then Google Ubuntu LiveCD. Go burn yourself a copy of the Ubuntu OS (whatever the current flavor is) onto a CD, flash stick or whatever media you can use, and use that to do your browsing. Because it's not being run from your harddrive, it can't keep a cache. That being said, it won't remember your passwords, usernames, etcetera.
Oh yeah. You can change the advertising that's displayed on your page, but it takes time and PERSISTENCE (which, along with determination, is omnipotent). Simply close it out and keep telling fb that it's offensive. I find the weight loss advertising boorish and offensive, so I kept closing it, closing it, closing it. Now all I get are friend suggestions and stuff for scuba diving, permaculture and homesteading, because I 'fed' those likes into the system.
Oh yeah. You can change the advertising that's displayed on your page, but it takes time and PERSISTENCE (which, along with determination, is omnipotent). Simply close it out and keep telling fb that it's offensive. I find the weight loss advertising boorish and offensive, so I kept closing it, closing it, closing it. Now all I get are friend suggestions and stuff for scuba diving, permaculture and homesteading, because I 'fed' those likes into the system.
Zuckerberg...
Another fucker for the "list"
(My imaginary mental list of who I would personally like to put up against the wall "When the revloution comes"
LOL
Another fucker for the "list"
(My imaginary mental list of who I would personally like to put up against the wall "When the revloution comes"
LOL
