Reasons not to use Facebook

Post by Cthulhu_ » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:15 PM UTC

spinchange wrote: post #261

karmacondon wrote: post #227

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Facebook doesn't invade anyone's privacy. They aren't going into your house and rifling through your things. People post things on facebook because they want other people to see them. If you don't want to do that, then don't use facebook. You can't stop other people from talking about you, or from taking pictures of you or relating stories that involve you. That's always been a part of social life. If you consider th…

You don't use Facebook, yet lead with claim that it doesn't invade anyone's privacy... Regrettably there are numerous, well documented cases of Facebook doing exactly this. They've literally been taken to court over it several times (look into "Sponsored Stories," "Beacon," etc). Even if you don't use it, they have a shadow profile of you over there waiting, with relationships pre-graphed, simply by virtue of being i…

Post by strathmeyer » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:17 PM UTC

raphael_l wrote: post #266

pckspcks wrote: post #247

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There is no way to not use Facebook. Let me repeat that: THERE IS NO WAY TO NOT USE FACEBOOK. Everyone's photos: Mine, yours, Stallmans, get posted to Facebook, annotated with our names (which is increasingly becoming easy enough to do with ML -- the human component will increasingly decline). If at least one of your friends uses Facebook, Facebook has profile information on you. Stallman doesn't have a Facebook acco…

There is no way to not use life. Let me repeat that: THERE IS NO WAY TO NOT USE LIFE. Simply substituting one word for another shows you how you just can't hold Facebook responsible for this. People are and have been able to share information in myriads of ways. Facebook is just one of them. They could be telling information person to person, via a phone call, via e-mail or simply standing in the street and shouting…

Post by raphael_l » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:25 PM UTC

strathmeyer wrote: post #273

raphael_l wrote: post #266

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There is no way to not use life. Let me repeat that: THERE IS NO WAY TO NOT USE LIFE. Simply substituting one word for another shows you how you just can't hold Facebook responsible for this. People are and have been able to share information in myriads of ways. Facebook is just one of them. They could be telling information person to person, via a phone call, via e-mail or simply standing in the street and shouting…

hint: when I listen to your phone calls and use to to make money, that's illegal

Post by raphael_l » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:31 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #274

raphael_l wrote: post #266

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There is no way to not use life. Let me repeat that: THERE IS NO WAY TO NOT USE LIFE. Simply substituting one word for another shows you how you just can't hold Facebook responsible for this. People are and have been able to share information in myriads of ways. Facebook is just one of them. They could be telling information person to person, via a phone call, via e-mail or simply standing in the street and shouting…

> Simply substituting one word for another shows you how you just can't hold Facebook responsible for this. Single word substitutions of words that have no relationship with each other do not prove anything. Facebook and life are from entirely different categories in the taxonomy of useful (and not so useful) terms. The use of certain digital services should be voluntary, not implicit because your associates use it.

Post by GigabyteCoin » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 3:49 PM UTC

keithpeter wrote: post #199

GigabyteCoin wrote: post #18

A friend of mine was turned off of a potentially new employee the other day because the candidate exclaimed that they recognized a customer from their instagram profile and that they followed it, loved it, etc. The customer was obviously embarrased, exclaimed that he had not used instagram in over a year, and promptly left the store. This left an uneasy feeling in my friend (the store owner). Which confused me to be…

"The customer was obviously embarrased, exclaimed that he had not used instagram in over a year, and promptly left the store." Was there a significant age difference between the luckless candidate and the customer? Just guessing.