Posted on 09/27/2011 12:51:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
I’m about ready to dump Facebook. Zuckerberg’s nose is way up Obama’s rear end and I don’t need fascist propaganda forced on me via social networking. Ticks me off.
Facebook is the new myspace.
In other news: It has been reported that the world will still go on without Facebook.
I found a great alternative to Facebook...
It makes Facebook literally look like Twitter.
www.Keepandshare.com
Not only a great social networking site, but phenomenal organizational / planning tools for groups.
Limbaugh’s site was changed up as well.
What do you think of that?
Facebook (or their computer) reads everything.
A few months ago I happen to mention I would be traveling to a different city. Soon there after I began getting ads feature hotels and events in that distance city. I did not think much about it at the time, but when at a later date I mentioned another city, out popped an ad for that city.
I then started play games with it. I would list a city and see how long it took for an ad to appear. Usually within seconds. At most a minute.
I then noticed when I was posting photos it was “helping” by tagging the photos for me. WTF!!!! I almost missed that one. How do they know who these people are? The answer, they are building a database of photos and peoples names. You then include all the personal information put on Facebook they soon know more about you then your own family.
I started playing games with them. I started posting old photos of strangers and tagging myself in them. They are going to play hell trying to figure out which is which.
I took it one step further and did a google search on my name and then images. I posted about 50 photos of people with my name and tagged them all. The funny thing is the name is correct but now they have to figure out which is the real me.
I do not post much anymore on Facebook, I do read what others are putting up but I am planning on closing my account after the holidays.
I have been rather amazed at FB’s attitude throughout; they seem to imagine that their user base will never migrate elsewhere no matter how much they alienate them.
They should ask Myspace about competition.
In case anyone else hasn’t noticed, any comments about obama on face book goes to his fb page.
He now knows that I know that he is an illegal president.
I put in the Facebook report abuse phone number as my own. I wonder how many calls I have gotten there.
LOL... that’s a good one.
That was just using cookies. They link their comment section to FB and shunt the data through the cookie, they don’t actually get any of your FB data. Kind of weird at first but it keeps you from having to have a separate logon with every site you might want to comment on.
It’s targeted advertising, the strength of the internet as far as advertisers are concerned. Key word searching to decide which ads hook up. A bit more dynamic than the old method (picking ads based on the content of the story you clicked on) but not really a big deal. I use Ad Block Plus, no idea what ads I’m triggering.
According to the article, English(UK) kills the scroller... it does not. English(Pirate) is amusing, however.
The facial recognition thing on FB creeped me out and I deleted all photos of myself and de-activated. When I tried to notify friends by posting an article about Google facial recognition on my FB wall, the post disappeared within seconds.
I notice that Google is also way too nosy. I’m shutting down gmail too. If you’re not careful to close gmail, they track everything you do on the web.
Oh, also, when I was on FB, I would sign out when done, then look at some other sites. I was on a news site, and given the opportunity to post a comment. My FB profile pic, name and comment box appeared under the article. This was AFTER I had signed out of FB.....
I meant to say “ about FB facial recognition” instead of “Google facial recognition.”
Photobucket and Flickr are still available for sharing photos, although email still works just fine for that also.
I don't know much about it. Can anyone here fill me in?
So, what is your point?
You might think this silly or perhaps even impossible, but it's easy once your in the habit of doing it. For example, use your initials as a first name, and your last name spelled backwards, or switch around the letters of your name to spell something else, use your pets name or just about anything you'll remember, and folks you know and want to have your info can easily identify with you, but no one else will.
As for photo's, that's easy too, always be the one to volunteer to take them, rather then be in them, if one happens to be posted, make sure the name tagged to it is your Internet name, or a first name only.
Guard your privacy as you would your life! You may think all of this is silly and a pain to do, but having been a victim of identity theft twice, trust me, I guard my information very carefully. These suggestions aren't perfect, and perhaps won't work 100% of the time, but they will work 60-80% of the time, and that is a whole lot better then nothing.
Until one’s privacy is invaded in a way that profoundly effects your own life or the lives of your loved ones, it's difficult to imagine how traumatic or even life altering it can be.
Protect yourselves, and teach your children to as well!
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