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This appeared in the "Letters To The Editor" in our local newspaper.
This is for those of my older generation who do not really comprehend why Facebook exists. Presently I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles. Therefore, every day I go down the street and tell the passers-by what I have eaten, how I feel, what I have done the night before, and what I will do tomorrow night.
Then I give them pictures of my family, my dog, and me gardening and spending time in my pool. I also listen to their conversations, and I tell them I love them.
And it works. I already have three people following me: two police officers and a psychiatrist.
Cheers,
Keith
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Facebook exists as voluntary spyware.
They get you to fill in your profile, they get you to give them more information when you play those silly games or take those quizzes, and they log every time you click 'like'. This creates a huge file on you that is for sale to anyone who has the money - legitimate advertisers, spammers, and even identity thieves and hackers (actually crackers).
ODE TO FACEBOOK
Oh Facebook how are you today?
I visit you most every day
And everything I do or say
you put into my dossier
Where was I born? what was my school?
Enter your job, be very cool
You even know my family
and everything that's dear to me
My information's gold to you
it sells to stores and spammers too
If I click "like" or I repost
your clients will dig me the most
I click an ad merely to look?
the ad man pulls to set the hook
It'll be in my e-mail today
and web page ads, day after day
And It'll waste, my precious time
and you'll receive another dime
I wouldn't mind the money you make
if a commission I could take
I'd like to get twenty percent
but you don't offer one red cent
So Facebook please let's make a deal
just cut me in, no need to steal
I'll finish my profile if you do
and we will profit, both me and you
© Bob Norton (as if anyone would
want to steal this <wink/grin>)
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You hit an internet nail right on the head, Notes. How many people whine and cry about "privacy" and "they track me" and then post pictures of their little baby kids all over the place? Advertising to child predators everywhere that you have kids is a wise idea? More than once have I read stories about people advertising that they are far away from home on vacation via Facebook photos and come home to find they have been robbed. If you have a first name and a last name and the smallest bit of internet skills and native intelligence, do you have any idea how much anybody sitting in their living room can find out about another person?
With a name, you can find their house if they own one on a county tax map. You can look at the county court records and find out about their past. You can deduce from their location where their kids go to school, where they likely shop for groceries, which local bar they might hang out in, etc.... Public record plus intuition can reveal a lot about anybody.
And this is all free information that can be found because that same person who complains about a web browser knowing where they browse to posts their life on Facebook. Or Twitter. Or Foursquare.
I once had someone jokingly challenge me about this. 2 days later I sent her a letter, to her home address, with all her information about the house she lived in, the court records showing that she was divorced and awarded the house, the address of the two nearest schools that her kids likely attended, and a question asking if she had ever paid off the fine from the court case she had been involved in due to a car accident.
When she tossed that gauntlet down I had never met her in person. In 2 hours I knew that much.
Refer back to my post on another such thread about handing your credit card to a waitress you don't know who takes it out of your sight for 10 minutes. Privacy? Security?
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
1. How much did you make in 2023?
2. Send it to us.
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That's it, keep it up buddy.
Pretty soon you'll have scared off all the old fogeys from the forum and what's left will be the kids.
Oh wait...
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If people would start calling Facebook voluntary spyware, it might change some of their posting habits.
And of course, they aren't the only voluntary spyware company out there, twitter, linkedin, and even google.
If it's free, you aren't the customer, you are the product.
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I recommend watching this then sharing it. It makes a great point. My kids were amazed. psychic
Last edited by HearToLearn; 08/19/15 03:34 PM.
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Thanx for sharing that!
I watched then I passed it on to everyone on my email address list.
Me, it's not about how many times you fail, it's about how many times you get back up.
Cop, that's not how field sobriety tests work.
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I recommend watching this then sharing it. It makes a great point. My kids were amazed. psychic Very cool, and scary Caaron. Regards, Bob
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