Be Excellent To Each Other

And, you know, party on. Dude.

All times are UTC [ DST ]




Reply to topic  [ 55 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next
Author Message
 Post subject: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 13:25 
User avatar

Joined: 31st Mar, 2008
Posts: 1883
So, this article is doing the rounds, making a rather good case for why it is imperative to get off the Facebook train, right now.

I am a hair's breadth away away from deleting my Facebook account, but I thought I'd like to hear some of the more knowledgeable and coolheaded people on here first. Is it just hyperbole and panic mongering? Or is it all true? Are we doomed? Etc.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 13:31 

Joined: 15th Nov, 2008
Posts: 484
..........................................

_________________
Bye.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 13:40 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
As a counterpoint: meh.

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 13:47 
Filthy Junkie Bitch

Joined: 17th Dec, 2008
Posts: 8293
Also meh. Of course if proven that Insurance companies are using my Facebook (or indeed Gmail, Twitter, Linked in, any other online or non online account or information available) to rate my premiums then maybe I'll change my mind. Also, the general rule of 'Don't be a dick' should be better heeded.

That aside, I've at various points considered disabling my Facebook account for an undetermined for a break and a clearout. I don't doubt that I'd return after a period of time, albeit potentially through a different account. This nearly came to pass last year but Facebook suddenly became an invaluable communication tool. That moment has largely passed, so back to considering it.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 13:48 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
I see Facebook as a necessary evil. I tried quitting a number of years ago, but I missed out on a number of social functions and with some people it really is the only way to keep in contact, especially as I don't particularly enjoy phone calls.

Companies like Google do all the same creepy stuff, but luckily there are alternatives to their services that don't require all my friends and family to be using them as well.

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 13:51 
Filthy Junkie Bitch

Joined: 17th Dec, 2008
Posts: 8293
Also, cross-threading for a while, the reference to Facebook and the remember to vote button, and the upcoming election may actually make that decision more likely. It is frustrating enough when swathes of people are inadvertently liking Britain First, depressing when they start to talk like them.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 13:58 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Facebook is tracking me and invading my privacy! They shout,while they:

Pay with their credit card
Collect points on their storecard
Send their emails
Send their texts
Upload their photos to the cloud
Use their gps
Use their online banking
Access their voicemail
Pay their utility bills
Vote
Etc...


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:12 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
...Post on Beex ;)

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:14 
User avatar

Joined: 31st Mar, 2008
Posts: 1883
Trooper wrote:
Facebook is tracking me and invading my privacy! They shout,while they:

Pay with their credit card
Collect points on their storecard
Send their emails
Send their texts
Upload their photos to the cloud
Use their gps
Use their online banking
Access their voicemail
Pay their utility bills
Vote
Etc...

Those are all separate things. The problem is, through various means and deals, Facebook can just about track all of those these days, if some people are to be believed.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:17 
User avatar
Master of dodgy spelling....

Joined: 25th Sep, 2008
Posts: 22533
Location: shropshire, uk
I got bored half way though reading it

_________________
MetalAngel wrote:
Kovacs: From 'unresponsive' to 'kebab' in 3.5 seconds


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:18 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
Trooper wrote:
Facebook is tracking me and invading my privacy! They shout,while they:

Pay with their credit card
Collect points on their storecard
Send their emails
Send their texts
Upload their photos to the cloud
Use their gps
Use their online banking
Access their voicemail
Pay their utility bills
Vote
Etc...

Most of those are separate entities and have stringent privacy policies that only allow use of your personal information for the task they are designed for.

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:25 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Future Warrior wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Facebook is tracking me and invading my privacy! They shout,while they:

Pay with their credit card
Collect points on their storecard
Send their emails
Send their texts
Upload their photos to the cloud
Use their gps
Use their online banking
Access their voicemail
Pay their utility bills
Vote
Etc...

Most of those are separate entities and have stringent privacy policies that only allow use of your personal information for the task they are designed for.


That had no bearing on the information being taken via prism and the like.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:38 
User avatar
Excellent Member

Joined: 25th Jul, 2010
Posts: 11128
Trooper wrote:
Future Warrior wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Facebook is tracking me and invading my privacy! They shout,while they:

Pay with their credit card
Collect points on their storecard
Send their emails
Send their texts
Upload their photos to the cloud
Use their gps
Use their online banking
Access their voicemail
Pay their utility bills
Vote
Etc...

Most of those are separate entities and have stringent privacy policies that only allow use of your personal information for the task they are designed for.


That had no bearing on the information being taken via prism and the like.


Which is a separate issue entirely, you can't possibly be arguing that they're the same thing?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:44 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Bamba wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Future Warrior wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Facebook is tracking me and invading my privacy! They shout,while they:

Pay with their credit card
Collect points on their storecard
Send their emails
Send their texts
Upload their photos to the cloud
Use their gps
Use their online banking
Access their voicemail
Pay their utility bills
Vote
Etc...

Most of those are separate entities and have stringent privacy policies that only allow use of your personal information for the task they are designed for.


That had no bearing on the information being taken via prism and the like.


Which is a separate issue entirely, you can't possibly be arguing that they're the same thing?


How is it a separate issue? The issue is about being tracked online, dropping off Facebook will stop Facebook doing it, but you'll still be tracked. Either go off grid or accept it.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:49 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 16552
The issue is about being tracked online by anyone willing to pay for the data. Prism was about the security services. Of course it's a different issue.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:54 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
I'm more nervous of the security services putting two and two together from my online behaviour, getting five, and putting me on a terrorist watch list than I am of companies paying for the data, getting five, and trying to sell me half price bic ladyshaves.

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 14:59 
User avatar
Excellent Member

Joined: 25th Jul, 2010
Posts: 11128
Trooper wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Future Warrior wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Facebook is tracking me and invading my privacy! They shout,while they:

Pay with their credit card
Collect points on their storecard
Send their emails
Send their texts
Upload their photos to the cloud
Use their gps
Use their online banking
Access their voicemail
Pay their utility bills
Vote
Etc...

Most of those are separate entities and have stringent privacy policies that only allow use of your personal information for the task they are designed for.


That had no bearing on the information being taken via prism and the like.


Which is a separate issue entirely, you can't possibly be arguing that they're the same thing?


How is it a separate issue? The issue is about being tracked online, dropping off Facebook will stop Facebook doing it, but you'll still be tracked. Either go off grid or accept it.


So because the US government might compel online services to give up your information you should just accept whatever uses a private company want to put your data to? That just gibberish.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:00 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
I guess I don't get someone can be precious about their online privacy enough to be outraged at Facebook, yet ignore other ways their privacy is broken on a daily basis. :shrug:

Either you care about online privacy and go off grid, or you don't, so you might as well stay on Facebook as it will make bugger all difference to anything that matters. All the scaremongering in that article about laws changing etc... Will happen regardless of you being on Facebook or not, the only thing stopping Facebook will change, is targeted advertising.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:04 
SupaMod
User avatar
"Praisebot"

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 17013
Location: Parts unknown
I'm not on Facebook and I honestly don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:07 
User avatar
Gogmagog

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 48607
Location: Cheshire
TheVision wrote:
I'm not on Facebook and I honestly don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.


Heh. This is kinda like the "I don't own a TV" for the 21st century, isn't it? :)

_________________
Mr Chris wrote:
MaliA isn't just the best thing on the internet - he's the best thing ever.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:10 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Bamba wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Future Warrior wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Facebook is tracking me and invading my privacy! They shout,while they:

Pay with their credit card
Collect points on their storecard
Send their emails
Send their texts
Upload their photos to the cloud
Use their gps
Use their online banking
Access their voicemail
Pay their utility bills
Vote
Etc...

Most of those are separate entities and have stringent privacy policies that only allow use of your personal information for the task they are designed for.


That had no bearing on the information being taken via prism and the like.


Which is a separate issue entirely, you can't possibly be arguing that they're the same thing?


How is it a separate issue? The issue is about being tracked online, dropping off Facebook will stop Facebook doing it, but you'll still be tracked. Either go off grid or accept it.


So because the US government might compel online services to give up your information you should just accept whatever uses a private company want to put your data to? That just gibberish.


Accept was the wrong way to say it.

You can get off Facebook, you don't have to be on it, but the only thing that will make a difference t, is targeted advertising.
All the stuff in the article about government and law changing etc... All the scaremongering stuff. Being on Facebook will make no difference in the slightest.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:14 
User avatar
Excellent Member

Joined: 25th Jul, 2010
Posts: 11128
Trooper wrote:
I guess I don't get someone can be precious about their online privacy enough to be outraged at Facebook, yet ignore other ways their privacy is broken on a daily basis.


How do you know they're ignoring everything else? It's possible to be annoyed at two different but related things at the same time. The Prism thing is not only separate but it's largely outwith people's control whereas the Facebook thing they can do something about. So an article urging them to change is constructive no matter what else is happening in the world. Also, ironically, the stuff the Prism programme has been up to is now known due to the high profile coverage of the Snowden leaks whereas people might not actually be aware of what Facebook is doing with their data.

This whole idea you're presenting that there's no middle ground between going completely off the grid vs knowlingly bending over to take a shafting from every organisation in the world is just weird.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:20 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
Bamba wrote:
This whole idea you're presenting that there's no middle ground between going completely off the grid vs knowlingly bending over to take a shafting from every organisation in the world is just weird.

:this:

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:28 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Future Warrior wrote:
Bamba wrote:
This whole idea you're presenting that there's no middle ground between going completely off the grid vs knowlingly bending over to take a shafting from every organisation in the world is just weird.

:this:


I'm responding to the article, not what I think about Facebook, which considering this thread was about the article, isn't such a strange thing... The article is saying that you need to get off Facebook to protect yourself from giving details of your private conversations to governments and the like. I'm saying being on Facebook or not has no bearing on that.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:31 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 14130
Location: Shropshire, UK
Trooper wrote:
You can get off Facebook, you don't have to be on it, but the only thing that will make a difference t, is targeted advertising.

And, as you say, given how many other websites are tracking people these days, it probably won't make that much of a difference to that!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:36 
Excellent Member

Joined: 5th Dec, 2010
Posts: 3353
Does all this stuff apply to all Facebook usage scenarios?

I have an account and really just use it to see what other people do, we have a NCT private group (or maybe not!) that is the main way everyone arranges social stuff so sort of stuck on that really

I'm thinking the less activity the less stuff there is to track? So the people who post every time they go anywhere or have a coffee must generate more data then maybe I do??


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:41 
User avatar

Joined: 31st Mar, 2008
Posts: 1883
asfish wrote:
Does all this stuff apply to all Facebook usage scenarios?

I have an account and really just use it to see what other people do, we have a NCT private group (or maybe not!) that is the main way everyone arranges social stuff so sort of stuck on that really

I'm thinking the less activity the less stuff there is to track? So the people who post every time they go anywhere or have a coffee must generate more data then maybe I do??

Every webpage with a "like" button basically has a line of communication directly to Facebook. If you're logged into Facebook at the same time as visiting such a page, Facebook knows you were there. And that's just the simplest and most obvious example.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:44 
Excellent Member

Joined: 5th Dec, 2010
Posts: 3353
lasermink wrote:
asfish wrote:
Does all this stuff apply to all Facebook usage scenarios?

I have an account and really just use it to see what other people do, we have a NCT private group (or maybe not!) that is the main way everyone arranges social stuff so sort of stuck on that really

I'm thinking the less activity the less stuff there is to track? So the people who post every time they go anywhere or have a coffee must generate more data then maybe I do??

Every webpage with a "like" button basically has a line of communication directly to Facebook. If you're logged into Facebook at the same time as visiting such a page, Facebook knows you were there. And that's just the simplest and most obvious example.


The value of this information must be mixed though? Wasn't there something a few years ago about a big % of accounts of Facebook were fake to generate likes and other stuff?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:56 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
lasermink wrote:
asfish wrote:
Does all this stuff apply to all Facebook usage scenarios?

I have an account and really just use it to see what other people do, we have a NCT private group (or maybe not!) that is the main way everyone arranges social stuff so sort of stuck on that really

I'm thinking the less activity the less stuff there is to track? So the people who post every time they go anywhere or have a coffee must generate more data then maybe I do??

Every webpage with a "like" button basically has a line of communication directly to Facebook. If you're logged into Facebook at the same time as visiting such a page, Facebook knows you were there. And that's just the simplest and most obvious example.


That's what the article says, but if you read the source article it links to, to support that, it doesn't say anything of the sort.
As far as I can tell, just visiting a page with a like button on isn't enough to be tracked, you need to actually press the like button.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 15:58 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
The way the like API works it certainly could be aware of the site it was on without being pressed.

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 16:06 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Grim... wrote:
The way the like API works it certainly could be aware of the site it was on without being pressed.


It would be aware of the site it was on, but not the user who was on the site, until they actually interacted with it in some way. It's just static HTML isn't it? It doesn't make a call to the facebook cookie on page load as far as I can tell?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 16:08 
Filthy Junkie Bitch

Joined: 17th Dec, 2008
Posts: 8293
Some comments sections have you automatically logged into facebook with your profile photo and name there alongside a (ready to be completed) text box. So there may be a link.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 16:09 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
Trooper wrote:
Grim... wrote:
The way the like API works it certainly could be aware of the site it was on without being pressed.


It would be aware of the site it was on, but not the user who was on the site, until they actually interacted with it in some way.

No, it totally would know.

Quote:
It's just static HTML isn't it? It doesn't make a call to the facebook cookie on page load as far as I can tell?

It loads the Facebook API, which can do what it likes.

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 16:11 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
The code:
Code:
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#  =1&appId=157494137757393&version=v2.0";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>

<div class="fb-like" data-href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/" data-layout="standard" data-action="like" data-show-faces="true" data-share="true"></div>


So it loads and runs the JS from #xfbml=1&appId=157494137757393&version=v2.0">http://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.j ... rsion=v2.0 .

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 16:13 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
And because the JS is from the facebook domain, it can read your cookie happily without XSS problems.

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 16:24 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Ah, there are different versions of the button, this was the code I was looking at (and what I put on my website way back when)

Code:
<iframe src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers. .com%2Fdocs%2Fplugins%2F&amp; width&amp;layout=standard&amp;action=like&amp ;show_faces=true&amp;share =true&amp;height=80" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border :none; overflow:hidden; height:80px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 16:28 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
That can still load whatever it likes from that URL, though.

And getting access to the parent of an iframe is as easy as `top.document`.

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 16:44 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Learn something new everyday, and all that :)


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 17:17 
User avatar
sneering elitist

Joined: 25th May, 2014
Posts: 3991
Location: Broseley
Meh. Facebook is the least of my worries when it comes to privacy online.

If I were the a tinfoil hat wearing paranoid nut I'd be more worried about Google. Given that I send all my email through them, store my docs with them, use an android phone; not to mention the ubiquity of Google Analytics and the very intimate searches I've performed via the search engine itself.

_________________
i make websites


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 17:22 
Filthy Junkie Bitch

Joined: 17th Dec, 2008
Posts: 8293
You're saying that I was technically correct, right?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 20:50 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
Jem wrote:
Meh. Facebook is the least of my worries when it comes to privacy online.

If I were the a tinfoil hat wearing paranoid nut I'd be more worried about Google. Given that I send all my email through them, store my docs with them, use an android phone; not to mention the ubiquity of Google Analytics and the very intimate searches I've performed via the search engine itself.

It's only tinfoil hat paranoia if it's outlandish unproven conspiracy theories. Lawsuits have shown time and again that Google play fast and loose with your data - no matter how many useful services they have, their bread and butter is targeted advertising and selling of data, like Facebook. Their users are the product.

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 22:45 

Joined: 15th Nov, 2008
Posts: 484
..........................................

_________________
Bye.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 23:17 
Filthy Junkie Bitch

Joined: 17th Dec, 2008
Posts: 8293
Imagevia Imgflip Meme Maker


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 23:34 

Joined: 15th Nov, 2008
Posts: 484
..........................................

_________________
Bye.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 0:49 
User avatar
Sleepyhead

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 27343
Location: Kidbrooke
This entire thread is fucked for mobile users by the stupidly long links.

Sort it out you amateurs.

_________________
We are young despite the years
We are concern
We are hope, despite the times


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:33 
User avatar
Gogmagog

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 48607
Location: Cheshire
Cobracure wrote:

I know humanity is fucked, sort of hoping for a big flu virus now, its the only way to be sure.


Bullshit. People are living longer, are considerably less likely to meet a violent end, have a higher quality of life and more access to medicines than ever before. Bowling scores are up, mini golf scores are down.

_________________
Mr Chris wrote:
MaliA isn't just the best thing on the internet - he's the best thing ever.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:44 
User avatar
Unpossible!

Joined: 27th Jun, 2008
Posts: 38439
Excellent!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:09 
User avatar
Excellent Member

Joined: 30th Apr, 2011
Posts: 1458
Location: NL
MaliA wrote:
Bullshit. People are living longer, are considerably less likely to meet a violent end, have a higher quality of life and more access to medicines than ever before. Bowling scores are up, mini golf scores are down.

:this:


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:13 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Image

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 13:22 
User avatar
sneering elitist

Joined: 25th May, 2014
Posts: 3991
Location: Broseley
Future Warrior wrote:
Jem wrote:
Meh. Facebook is the least of my worries when it comes to privacy online.

If I were the a tinfoil hat wearing paranoid nut I'd be more worried about Google. Given that I send all my email through them, store my docs with them, use an android phone; not to mention the ubiquity of Google Analytics and the very intimate searches I've performed via the search engine itself.

It's only tinfoil hat paranoia if it's outlandish unproven conspiracy theories. Lawsuits have shown time and again that Google play fast and loose with your data - no matter how many useful services they have, their bread and butter is targeted advertising and selling of data, like Facebook. Their users are the product.


I'll be honest, my post was mostly just a set up so people could make a joke out of my intimate searches.

But OK :p

_________________
i make websites


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Reply to topic  [ 55 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next

All times are UTC [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Vogons and 0 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search within this thread:
You are using the 'Ted' forum. Bill doesn't really exist any more. Bogus!
Want to help out with the hosting / advertising costs? That's very nice of you.
Are you on a mobile phone? Try http://beex.co.uk/m/
RIP, Owen. RIP, MrC.

Powered by a very Grim... version of phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.