How many of those forgot to lock their computer?
A statistically insignificant amount.
More than six million Americans have come out on Facebook
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#12I "came out" on Facebook because I changed my gender to "gender nonconforming"... but the only reason I did that is because my friends already know me, and Facebook isn't my friend.
> Facebook isn't my friend
Why do you still use Facebook?
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#13How many of those forgot to lock their computer?
Yeah, it turned out 1 million of them was a dude that used the college computer lab without logging out.
I know hacker news is for serious conversation but the stats behind this link are so dumb I don't think they deserve it.
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#14I "came out" on Facebook because I changed my gender to "gender nonconforming"... but the only reason I did that is because my friends already know me, and Facebook isn't my friend.
> Facebook isn't my friend Why do you still use Facebook?
So he can point at his FB friends list and prove that Facebook isn't in it.
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#15Anyone else think the post title is disingenuous? Seems written to infer that Facebook was the tool that lead six million Americans to feel comfortable about their sexuality and opening come out. But they define coming out as simply setting your sexual preference as being the same sex as your own. Facebook isn't helpIng or causing this, people are just expressing it on a social network. Just bothersome personally, be…
As a general rule, I replace "on Facebook" with an empty string, and it usually improves the clarity of the original sentence.
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#16Anyone else think the post title is disingenuous? Seems written to infer that Facebook was the tool that lead six million Americans to feel comfortable about their sexuality and opening come out. But they define coming out as simply setting your sexual preference as being the same sex as your own. Facebook isn't helpIng or causing this, people are just expressing it on a social network. Just bothersome personally, be…
Facebook isn't always supportive of life circumstances: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/564493676910603
This is Facebook's inmate account report page.
For me, it was hidden if you're logged into Facebook, with a message that says:
"This form is for people who can't log into their accounts, but it looks like you're logged in."
This makes it essentially unsharable.
Facebook is garbage, I'm ashamed I'm actually still on there.
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#17I "came out" on Facebook because I changed my gender to "gender nonconforming"... but the only reason I did that is because my friends already know me, and Facebook isn't my friend.
> Facebook isn't my friend Why do you still use Facebook?
Are you suggesting Facebook is your friend?
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#18Anyone else think the post title is disingenuous? Seems written to infer that Facebook was the tool that lead six million Americans to feel comfortable about their sexuality and opening come out. But they define coming out as simply setting your sexual preference as being the same sex as your own. Facebook isn't helpIng or causing this, people are just expressing it on a social network. Just bothersome personally, be…
I don't see a contradiction here. Facebook's push to make people share more information about themselves [potentially] helps both ad revenue and in this case LGBT visibility. It's not a huge stretch to say Facebook helped a lot. Personally I think they have all the rights in this world to brag about it. In fact what's so great about technology/startups is you can generate great value for the world and make money for yourself.
And actually no you cannot target ads by non-binary genders it seems.
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#19Anyone else think the post title is disingenuous? Seems written to infer that Facebook was the tool that lead six million Americans to feel comfortable about their sexuality and opening come out. But they define coming out as simply setting your sexual preference as being the same sex as your own. Facebook isn't helpIng or causing this, people are just expressing it on a social network. Just bothersome personally, be…
I don't see a contradiction here. Facebook's push to make people share more information about themselves [potentially] helps both ad revenue and in this case LGBT visibility. It's not a huge stretch to say Facebook helped a lot. Personally I think they have all the rights in this world to brag about it. In fact what's so great about technology/startups is you can generate great value for the world and make money for…
Yep. As someone who had a very public coming-out a little over a year and a half ago, I can say that I wouldn't have been able to do it without Facebook.
All I had to do was post one little essay and change my gender to "Female" (and my name a week later), and suddenly I'm out to almost 200 people. It was so much easier than coming out to people one-on-one or in small groups, which I only did for a small handful of people.
A whole ton of people I don't really see much anymore like ex-coworkers and high school friends found out that way, and I probably wouldn't have been able to come out to them at all if not for Facebook.
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#20Anyone else think the post title is disingenuous? Seems written to infer that Facebook was the tool that lead six million Americans to feel comfortable about their sexuality and opening come out. But they define coming out as simply setting your sexual preference as being the same sex as your own. Facebook isn't helpIng or causing this, people are just expressing it on a social network. Just bothersome personally, be…
Facebook isn't always supportive of life circumstances: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/564493676910603
That form also includes a couple of very relevant fields whose presence should explain why this form is necessary:
> Link to applicable law or legal authority regarding inmate social media access
> If you're unable to provide this kind of legal context, please let us know if there are specific reasons why granting Facebook access to this particular inmate poses a serious safety risk.
It's not for shutting down the accounts of every inmate, just ones where it's illegal for them to access social media or if there's some kind of security risk associated with it.