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12-19-2018, 08:59 AM
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crusty old guy
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Snarkytown USA
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Facebook is for suckers
I hear so many people say how great FB is. If you like to give up personal information then yes...yes it is. Zuckerberg has been shady for a long time, but his company's actions are criminal. We need a version of GDPR, a real privacy act and not some laws that have no bite.
NY Times article
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"Don't believe everything that you read on the Internet." -- Abraham Lincoln
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12-19-2018, 09:31 AM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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Forget MS, Amazon...think of all the info they gave to the US.GOV...CIA...lulz
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12-19-2018, 10:14 AM
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Bombardier
Join Date: Sep 2003
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I think you are both right, but not the LULZ on this one. It is an issue that everybody should care about, yet the only way to really stop it is to stay offline. Sure there are countermeasures people can take, but do they really fully stop tracking. The most recent Frontline tackles this very issue. I watched the first episode last night. Interesting, informative, and .... scary.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/f...ebook-dilemma/
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12-19-2018, 12:22 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
Posts: 112,888
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I watched both. Social media is a very real potential threat to everyone.
Smart and evil people can look at your FB page and gain enough details to steal your identity and never raise a sweat.
Most people should not be on the internet - they just have no clue what is going on, what can happen, and we have a government far too corrupt and sleazy to do a GD thing to protect anyone. Best government criminals can buy.
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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12-19-2018, 01:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 4,905
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Isn't there also a danger to providing online companies fluid samples to test your DNA for ancestry comparisons? Might as well get fingerprinted, while you're at it...maybe the government would love to have a complete personal database of all its citizens, at hand.
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12-19-2018, 01:54 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Seattle
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Investors aren't all that happy either. Everything is surging today and FB is getting slaughtered.
I've never liked Facebook. Right from the start the potential abuses were very obvious. It was always going to come down to the integrity of those running it.
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12-19-2018, 02:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 4,668
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Scoundrels can HAVE my identity. Just puleeeeeeeeze spare me the endless parade of cute animal videos and precious grand-kid pics in the wasteland called Facebook.
And if females from my past happen to meet in some Walmart, and commence sharing notes on my many, many evils, so be it. That's fate. But no WAY will I simply hand them a forum on which to congregate.
Last edited by mountainman; 12-19-2018 at 02:26 PM.
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12-19-2018, 02:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 28,569
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mountainman
And if females from my past happen to meet in some Walmart...
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The females of my past could probably meet quite comfortably in a minivan...and I prefer to assume that my gambling proclivities are to blame.
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12-19-2018, 02:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thaskalos
The females of my past could probably meet quite comfortably in a minivan....
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That's odd. You sexy devil.
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12-19-2018, 03:05 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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To me...Facebook is the strongest indicator out there for the general degeneration of society. How could all these people have deluded themselves into believing that their lives are exciting enough to be worth reporting upon to the minutest detail?
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12-19-2018, 03:07 PM
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crusty old guy
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Snarkytown USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thaskalos
How could all these people have deluded themselves into believing that their lives are exciting enough to be worth reporting upon to the minutest detail?
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Wait...what? You mean you don't want to know what I ate last night or which celebrity my poop looks like?
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"Don't believe everything that you read on the Internet." -- Abraham Lincoln
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12-19-2018, 03:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 28,569
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Quote:
Originally Posted by headhawg
Wait...what? You mean you don't want to know what I ate last night or which celebrity my poop looks like?
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I have a moron friend who has nothing better to do than to post photos of himself having lunch at exotic European cafes all over town. And then he has the balls to cry about his failing business...and his mounting personal debt. IMO...anyone on Facebook who is over the age of 15 should be beaten with sticks.
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"Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why."
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12-19-2018, 03:24 PM
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Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2016
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I have friend who “has” pareidolia, which is the “ability” to see faces in everyday objects...he post images on his Facebook page to share with everyone his “affliction”...  
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12-19-2018, 03:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 5,414
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Government is now suing Facebook over Cambridge analytical
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12-19-2018, 03:54 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: west view, pa. now Lancaster, Ca.
Posts: 3,382
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Quote:
Originally Posted by headhawg
I hear so many people say how great FB is. If you like to give up personal information then yes...yes it is. Zuckerberg has been shady for a long time, but his company's actions are criminal. We need a version of GDPR, a real privacy act and not some laws that have no bite.
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Google + is going away and a new one is out there called "MeWe" supposed to be more secure. it looks like FB but different. i log out after visiting fb always. i post in "post a music video often. check it out! a group. and i belong to the "homeless handicappers" group. use to b the old delmar forum. and i being to the group "for the love of Opera" cool!
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