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When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook
Wall Street Journal ^
| October 12, 2012
| Geoffrey A. Fowler
Posted on 10/13/2012 8:11:08 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites
ever hear of don’t do anything you don’t want printed in the paper?
why do people think they have a right to secrecy?
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:12:38 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: billorites
When you make a deal with the devil....
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:14:00 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: yldstrk
Exactly so. Don’t want your parents to know - don’t post it on facebook ffs. This isn’t exactly hard.
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:15:29 AM PDT
by
JCBreckenridge
(Texas, Texas, Whisky)
To: billorites
A benign and trivial example:
I'm a long-term, but infrequent, user of FaceBook. Last summer I bought a lightweight travel backpack on line.
Later, I see that purchase broadcast over FB. I must have OK'd sharing that, but don't remember doing so and normally wouldn't.
Must check my privacy settings to make sure I'm not sharing what's kept in the back of my sock drawer...
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:18:12 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
Sorry. I never think ‘outing’ is unintentional. There are a significant number of Gays/Lesbians who are angry that anyone is still in the closet. They do not care if they compromise those who wish for privacy. This generation is so naive. I have told my son ‘don't put anything on Facebook that you wouldn't want the whole world to know’.
To: billorites
What, she isn’t homosexual proud?
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:19:34 AM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: billorites
WELCOME TO FACEBOOK - it’s about social networking and sharing anything and everything about your life instantly!
This is why the US Intel Community strongly suggests that people delete their FB account and stop using such invasion of personal life events network platforms!
Facebook is such a HUGE waste of time and commitment!
Unlike F/R....
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:20:28 AM PDT
by
BCW
(http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
To: yldstrk
There’s secrecy and then there’s privacy.
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:21:14 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
Anyone that joins a group called “Queer” anything is not keeping it personal. That's exposing sexual activities to the public.
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:22:04 AM PDT
by
Varda
To: billorites
if you are living a life you are ashamed of, change it to one you aren’t ashamed of
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:23:11 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: billorites
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:24:14 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(The 0bummer Penguin: I played this country like a harp from hell.)
To: billorites
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:24:33 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(The 0bummer Penguin: I played this country like a harp from hell.)
To: billorites
I spent an entire day in a seminar devoted to stalking people on the Internet. We had a whole section on Facebook. If you have your privacy settings totally locked down but one of your friends “likes” or comments on a post you make, and their settings are not totally locked down, then it can be found with a simple search. I sort of have assumed this so don’t post private things on my page. I mainly use it to check up on my kids and my niece and nephews whom I dearly love. So far none of them have unfriended me but I’m pretty sure that they don’t allow all of my postings on their wall. I’m not sure how to do that but I’ve been assured by one of my sons that its possible.
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:26:22 AM PDT
by
Mercat
(He was playing Words with Friends.)
To: billorites
FaceBook did not out her, her own stupidity on how to set her privacy, notifications outed her.
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:30:16 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
To: billorites
Later, I see that purchase broadcast over FB. Facebook has entered ecommerce.
Call centers are now linking Facebook to customers when they call in to place an order or place the order on-line. The agent can have access to your Facebook account and see what your likes and dislikes are to help you with your purchase.
We are all living in glass houses now.
To: billorites
Ms. Duncan's father left vitriolic messages on her phone, demanding she renounce same-sex relationships, she says, and threatening to sever family ties.I have four children ... all straight ... but if any had turned out to be gay I certainly would not react in this way.
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:30:51 AM PDT
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: billorites
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:32:26 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: billorites
I despise Facebook. I got lured into making an account so I could share pics with my sister and the girls. Now I'm getting friend requests and email updates hourly from every Tom, Dick and Harry. Seriously, This morning I have a friend request from a High School girl that is dating my very distant cousin, that I met at a funeral for the first (and only) time 4 years ago. Also, because of Facebook a girl my husband dated 22 years ago (When we were 18) showed up at the Hospital during family visitation when my mother-in-law was in ICU. Apparently she's been “occasionally” checking in on our family via my sister-in-law’s Facebook page for years, and when she saw we were going through a really difficult time, she sped to the hospital... to show off her new boob job. Facebook stinks.
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:33:29 AM PDT
by
Casie
To: billorites
What’s really sad is that this young woman has gotten drawn into this lifestyle. I’m 64 and I remember when I was in college that culture was hitting on me and there was a concerted effort to bring me into it. I cannot imagine what it’s like now. Sad.
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posted on
10/13/2012 8:36:38 AM PDT
by
Mercat
(He was playing Words with Friends.)
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