DELETE YOUR FACEBOOK

youtube ^ | 6-5-14 | Matthias

[cyberstoic]

And everything he said in the youtube video is true. And the creepiness of their spying on you is a good reason to delete facebook.

But another reason, and the most important reason to me, is that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of facebook, has put big money and political pressure on supporting illegal immigration/amnesty. Lots of the Silicon Valley ceo types want cheap workers. They want an increase in H1B visas to get cheap workers, programmers, etc. And they are willing to put enormous monies behind amnesty (err, path to citizenship) for the 30 million illegals in the country to get it.

That alone is reason enough that Zuckerberg, with his creepy personal information mining facebook, should be sent a message.

[upchuck]

Free Republic is social media.

Sorry, I don't consider FR to be social media:

• Folks don't post every minute of their lives here.
• Very few, post pics of their families.
• There is no "timeline."
• FR doesn't track you.
• FR doesn't try to sell you stuff based on what you post.
• FR doesn't sell your posted info to third parties.

If anything, FR is the anti-social media.

[LonePalm]

It is easiest to delete when you refuse to sign up in the first place.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[editor-surveyor]

I just deleted my account.

It wasn’t easy to find the link to do it either! (in Help)
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[Prospero]

The fact of the matter is, the "That's not the way you do it" television advertisement, the three senior ladies and the pictures on her "wall," etc., gets the knowing yucks from the kids, but that situation is not really far from the Facebook reality. The stream of boob bait ("Forward this to your friends if you love Jesus," etc.) has become another Internet firehose. Good luck getting a sip of water.

That medium is based on an illusion of intimacy, of fellowship and community. There's nothing there, there

Did a great deal of experimentation, real political paid work in '07 and '08 researching that medium, particularly Facebook and Twitter, and came to the conclusion, with notable exceptions, both companies are doomed to the same fate as the Chat Rooms on the old AOL. MySpace will soon no longer be gathering dust with the Commodore '64's

People don't need either medium to keep up with the maximum 100 or so people any single average human can keep tabs on. It takes a while for the dazzled to catch on. The young kids turned away as soon as Mom or Dad, or their grandparents, signed up.

There is a noise level and a law of resonance, a social wave function for some people, that collapsed three or four years ago. Facebook and Twitter are dead for people in love with reality.

[raccoonradio]

I like it. Just be smart and don’t tell people you’re having a great time on vacation and get home to find your place ransacked.

—Yeah there are some moooonbat political posts, but others by those on our side

—i like posting youtube vids of interesting songs—oldies,
oddities

—a great way for local (and otherwise) musicians to promote their music (in my case, blues/folk/New Orleans/rock etc).
Tell where you’re playing, post a video etc

—Share in some current events (example: Casey Kasem passing on). Just be careful—some people see hoax posts (”Tracy Morgan died!” No he didn’t...hoax) and believe it without checking it out...

[crazycatlady]

I agree. It’s also a great way to promote charitable causes, community events, etc., etc., Twitter, I mean. Some people use it for consumer complaints—if you aren’t getting any joy complaining about service at a business or something. You can also give kudos to businesses you like.
Women like Pinterest for sharing recipes, craft and sewing and decorating ideas, etc. Of course men can be on Pinterest too.
I’ve noticed mooonbat political posts on our side too.

[Objective Scrutator]

Why would you want to deal with a social network on the terms of a Harvard Values Goosestepper who wants to flood the country with illegals, when there is an alternative social network for you? Anyone who refuses to create a TPC account and insists on hanging around Facebook is probably not really your "friend", but the kind of person using you for favors or waiting for an opportunity to steal your property.

[crazycatlady]

I think FR predates social media. It started in the 90s, didnt it? But yes, there are some shared characteristics but I don’t consider it social media. No friending or following, for one thing.

Back in the nineties, the old user groups were the equivalent of social media. Of course people didnt post pictures, videos, etc. Most peoples’ computers were t very fast or sophisticated. And the groups were overrun with spam and other nuisance behavior.

[John Robinson]

Nah, social media is defined by person-to-person relationships, “friend lists”, with content that is compiled from and tailored to the aggregate of a personal network. FR is more like a corkboard, content originates from the whole of our membership and is made available in whole to the same—actually the superset, the unrestricted public, specifically not restricted to a personal network. Also to note, FR is not a blog— more formally a “web log” i.e. open diary (implies a single author or limited few authors), people often mislabel it as so. FR is conceptially a bulletin board system, loosely modelled after similar systems I enjoyed as a teen in the 80’s. Social media, the blogs, and the original bulletin boards (aka forums) all share similar features, the edges tend to blur at times.

[Nervous Tick]

Thanks for the thoughtful comment, John.

>> Social media, the blogs, and the original bulletin boards (aka forums) all share similar features, the edges tend to blur at times.

Yes.

[dmz]

I love the anti-social media threads on FreeRepublic.

Made by folks who seem not to know that FreeRepublic is, in fact, social media.

[dmz]

I have no idea why people use any of those sites where they share personal information. Hasn’t enough gone wrong yet?

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You mean stuff like, for instance, the fact that you are a retired math teacher?

[MrB]

Flipphones are so “Star Trek: The Original Series”...

[grania]

My personal information here is all generic and not associated with my name or my exact address.

[bmwcyle]

Or stand up like a man and keep professing Conservative values until they come for you. Cowards never win.

[nascarnation]

Believe me, if you’re on FR, there’s NOTHING additional you need to do to self-identify to the regime.

[TurboZamboni]

Or try Galt.io

[Albion Wilde]

There is a noise level and a law of resonance, a social wave function for some people, that collapsed three or four years ago. Facebook and Twitter are dead for people in love with reality.

Good to hear. I don't want to be on there myself, but from time to time I check out an open page.

One of my older friends who lives alone is getting abandoned by family members -- they used to call his land line, but since they all got FB and texting, they just stopped, "because he won't enter the 21st century" (which IMO is spill their business to the NSA and let burglars know when they'll be out of town). An elder geezer on a fixed income would have to pay for internet and smartphone to hear from them.

It's really hard for the older people to have everything go online. My elderly aunt was just gobsmacked by phone trees and having to press multiple buttons to deal with her bank, her dentist, the pharmacy the Sears store, just any kind of business. It made her vulnerable to "asset management" by her in-law.

[Albion Wilde]

If anything, FR is the anti-social media.

FR isn't "snoopy"!

;-)