Ironically, I just whatsapped all my "non-IT" friends on how to "not agree" by finding the hidden data sharing checkbox.
“How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
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Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard that rather than deleting your FB account, it's better to turn it into a piece of obviously-fictitious performance art. Don't try to remove your data from the Internet (which is futile; you know Facebook still has it on some archive somewhere anyway). Instead, replace it with nonsense. Set your interests to your competitors so that you get notifications everytime they release a new feature, and full inform…
Sounds like you could achieve this easily by feeding your facebook account's updates from a markov chain bot set to train on the @realDonaldTrump twitter feed.
Then you get fired/don't-get-that job when someone takes offense at something "you" have written. Going random is risky.
See Microsoft's Tay: http://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-microsoft-twitter-bot-s-craz...
Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is email not sufficient to communicate with family, work associates, etc.?
I've thought about building something that gives a social network type experience that is built on top of email. Any status update would get sent out to an email list of your connections, and all the emails could be put in a specific mail folder using standard rules. A front end app would then scan that folder and give you a personalized page that represents the latest status based on what it sees in that folder. The…
I'm sure you are talking about mailing list :)
Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
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I think it's adorable how you just casually assume I have a Facebook account and I'm speaking in purely theoretical terms here. It's not that I don't want to see Facebook killed with an axe. I'm just not so foolish as to imagine that browbeating people will make that more likely. Don't confuse the two.
I'm really sorry, I generalized. I read your other comments, thanks for standing against facebook.
Honorably said, sir. I thank you.
Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
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Yeah, hey, thanks, that's all great advice except I never had a Facebook account in the first place. I mean, I'm sure whoever you imagine yourself to be talking to would find all that super useful, though.
Good. It was worth it anyway. I was replying to rationalisations of the situacion. That can be seen everywhere.
It was worthwhile, and well said. I'm sorry for snapping at you about it.
Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
#256This seems like a potentially stupid question, but the link only shows how to do it on an android device. The terms sprung up on me in the iOS app (I have yet to update it) and thankfully I found the hidden toggle button. There does not seem to be an equivalent way to turn off the sharing of data on my iOS device, so if anyone has found a way, please tell me about it.
Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
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You said a whole lot but never actually articulated your point. I'm assuming it's something about how it's not fair that you find Facebook to be useful. Could you clarify?
I find Facebook to be a boring site, with friends complaining about the same things day in and day out, with an occasional link about something interesting, but mostly filled with inspirational memes and images that I don't particularly find relevant. Sure, I could better curate my friends list and follow a wider range of pages and topics, but then aren't we back at something like MySpace, where the idea was to follo…
>it just appeared like we drifted apart.
And that's life. Perhaps you weren't that close enough anyway to find about the child. And that's life too.
The notion of "being connected" with all the people you knew is is similar then the "I need to be happy, if not something is wrong with me" and got introduced with modern social media (particularly Facebook).
Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you will try to actualy delete your fb account (at least when i did it some time ago). Its a minefield of dark patterns. First you need special link, because you can only deactivate from settings. Then you will have to go through pile of emotionaly draining photos of friends with claims that they will mis you and you wont be able to see what they are doing with their lives. Then few traps with agreeing about del…
I've heard that rather than deleting your FB account, it's better to turn it into a piece of obviously-fictitious performance art. Don't try to remove your data from the Internet (which is futile; you know Facebook still has it on some archive somewhere anyway). Instead, replace it with nonsense. Set your interests to your competitors so that you get notifications everytime they release a new feature, and full inform…
Here is an idea. Get a bunch of cute pictures of cats or babies from the internet. Add text with anti-FB messages and a link to these HN threads. Then write a script to upload the photos to your account, preferably on an endless loop.
If FB does not block/delete your account, it will be non-stop hilarity for your friends, who will probably share the pics too and maybe some of them will actually pause and think. If they do delete your account, you are now mostly free from their clutches without unnecessarily defacing your own profile.
Someone please write this script and put it on GitHub. :-)
Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find Facebook to be a boring site, with friends complaining about the same things day in and day out, with an occasional link about something interesting, but mostly filled with inspirational memes and images that I don't particularly find relevant. Sure, I could better curate my friends list and follow a wider range of pages and topics, but then aren't we back at something like MySpace, where the idea was to follo…
>it just appeared like we drifted apart. And that's life. Perhaps you weren't that close enough anyway to find about the child. And that's life too. The notion of "being connected" with all the people you knew is is similar then the "I need to be happy, if not something is wrong with me" and got introduced with modern social media (particularly Facebook).
But is it easier to 'drift apart' from people you know if you're the only one they need to remember specifically call or send email to, when they can in general assume that all their friends sort of follow their FB updates? But it's awkward if you're the only one who keeps contacting them.
If you have already hard time building very durable friendships and are sort of hang-around member of your social circles, the social media -- if you refuse to use it -- does not exactly make your life easier.
Re: “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
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GPLv3 is cool as open source goes, but is pretty restrictive. Basically you can't link to it and distribute your app without it being open source. A company like Google can probably not use it.
What I meant with GPLv3 is "and they are even willing to grant any patent rights to the general public". I don't know if they hold patents on it, but if they either don't, or are willing to license them freely, then you can implement the protocol from the public documentation of it.
That's not true. The patents grant in GPLv3 or other licenses (like APL) only holds if you're actually using that project in your work. So either you fork the GPLv3 project, and comply with a compatible license, or you don't have a patents grant.
This is basically why Google could be sued by Oracle, because Dalvik and their class library based on Apache Harmony were not a fork of OpenJDK.
Of course I cannot speak for Signal's protocol. Maybe it has no traps. I'm just commenting on that license. It's a strong license that makes some demands: good fit open source but bad for Google.