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Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

#11

Post by csmattryder »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #8

You really don't want to mess with the Facebook police. They'll delete your life. I wish I had something more substantive to say here, but the problem is that we give Facebook an extraordinarily huge power in our personal lives. It's not just some random web service.

20 years old. No Facebook account.

I 'deleted my life', and y'know what? Nothing changed. I still have the same friends I talked to before Facebook, still meet up for drinks on their birthdays, still arrange nights out, and still share what's going on in my life.

The best thing about no Facebook? I know what information is out there, and nothing personal that Advertising Inc. can buy.

Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

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Post by 1qaz2wsx3edc »

csmattryder wrote: post #11
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #8

You really don't want to mess with the Facebook police. They'll delete your life. I wish I had something more substantive to say here, but the problem is that we give Facebook an extraordinarily huge power in our personal lives. It's not just some random web service.

20 years old. No Facebook account. I 'deleted my life', and y'know what? Nothing changed. I still have the same friends I talked to before Facebook, still meet up for drinks on their birthdays, still arrange nights out, and still share what's going on in my life. The best thing about no Facebook? I know what information is out there, and nothing personal that Advertising Inc. can buy.

25, no facebook account for over 3 years. Life's better without!

Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

#14

Post by DanielBMarkham »

csmattryder wrote: post #11
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #8

You really don't want to mess with the Facebook police. They'll delete your life. I wish I had something more substantive to say here, but the problem is that we give Facebook an extraordinarily huge power in our personal lives. It's not just some random web service.

20 years old. No Facebook account. I 'deleted my life', and y'know what? Nothing changed. I still have the same friends I talked to before Facebook, still meet up for drinks on their birthdays, still arrange nights out, and still share what's going on in my life. The best thing about no Facebook? I know what information is out there, and nothing personal that Advertising Inc. can buy.

You have a much easier story.

I'm 47. Because of the network effect, using Facebook I've connected with people I knew and cared about that I haven't seen in 30 years. Dozens of them. I barely remembered person A and B, found them and became friends. Then they knew person C and D. E and F were close behind. Pretty soon I have 200 friends from places scattered all over the world.

Life sneaks up on you, and people stop having the same phone, email, or street address. You wake up one day wondering what happened to Bob, then slowly realize that you'll never see him again. It's a weird feeling.

Yes, if I were 20 and still had a cell phone with all my friends from 4 years ago, it'd be no big deal. But if I lost my FB data now? I'd never find these guys again.

Personal sidebar ahead: by the way, my wife and I are having a competition to see who can get the most friends. As long as you're not selling anything, and I promise not to sell you anything, send me an invite! Right now she has 600 friends and I have something like 250.

http://www.facebook.com/danielbmarkham

Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

#15

Post by loopdoend »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #14
csmattryder wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 years old. No Facebook account. I 'deleted my life', and y'know what? Nothing changed. I still have the same friends I talked to before Facebook, still meet up for drinks on their birthdays, still arrange nights out, and still share what's going on in my life. The best thing about no Facebook? I know what information is out there, and nothing personal that Advertising Inc. can buy.

You have a much easier story. I'm 47. Because of the network effect, using Facebook I've connected with people I knew and cared about that I haven't seen in 30 years. Dozens of them. I barely remembered person A and B, found them and became friends. Then they knew person C and D. E and F were close behind. Pretty soon I have 200 friends from places scattered all over the world. Life sneaks up on you, and people stop…

Either this is an attempt at irony, or you are what is wrong with Facebook.

Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

#16

Post by Swizec »

csmattryder wrote: post #11
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #8

You really don't want to mess with the Facebook police. They'll delete your life. I wish I had something more substantive to say here, but the problem is that we give Facebook an extraordinarily huge power in our personal lives. It's not just some random web service.

20 years old. No Facebook account. I 'deleted my life', and y'know what? Nothing changed. I still have the same friends I talked to before Facebook, still meet up for drinks on their birthdays, still arrange nights out, and still share what's going on in my life. The best thing about no Facebook? I know what information is out there, and nothing personal that Advertising Inc. can buy.

I'm 25. One of my friends uses Google+ instead of FB. It's really weird because the only way I can really get in contact with him is via the irc channel we all hang out on.

I never get to see any of the photos he shares.

Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

#17

Post by jamesbritt »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #8

You really don't want to mess with the Facebook police. They'll delete your life. I wish I had something more substantive to say here, but the problem is that we give Facebook an extraordinarily huge power in our personal lives. It's not just some random web service.

but the problem is that we ...

The problem is for those people who decide to give FB huge powering their personal lives. I'm not among those, so there's no "we" for me here.

_My_ problem is to try not sounding like a cranky old man when I often encourage people to move away from Facebook.

Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

#18

Post by tlrobinson »

csmattryder wrote: post #11
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #8

You really don't want to mess with the Facebook police. They'll delete your life. I wish I had something more substantive to say here, but the problem is that we give Facebook an extraordinarily huge power in our personal lives. It's not just some random web service.

20 years old. No Facebook account. I 'deleted my life', and y'know what? Nothing changed. I still have the same friends I talked to before Facebook, still meet up for drinks on their birthdays, still arrange nights out, and still share what's going on in my life. The best thing about no Facebook? I know what information is out there, and nothing personal that Advertising Inc. can buy.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

s/television/facebook/

Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

#19

Post by saturdayplace »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #8

You really don't want to mess with the Facebook police. They'll delete your life. I wish I had something more substantive to say here, but the problem is that we give Facebook an extraordinarily huge power in our personal lives. It's not just some random web service.

If they actually will "delete your life" instead of keeping and mining it I wonder if messing with the "Facebook police" might not become an acceptable roundabout way of effectively wiping the online record clean for people who'd care to.

Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

#20

Post by jamesbritt »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #14
csmattryder wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 years old. No Facebook account. I 'deleted my life', and y'know what? Nothing changed. I still have the same friends I talked to before Facebook, still meet up for drinks on their birthdays, still arrange nights out, and still share what's going on in my life. The best thing about no Facebook? I know what information is out there, and nothing personal that Advertising Inc. can buy.

You have a much easier story. I'm 47. Because of the network effect, using Facebook I've connected with people I knew and cared about that I haven't seen in 30 years. Dozens of them. I barely remembered person A and B, found them and became friends. Then they knew person C and D. E and F were close behind. Pretty soon I have 200 friends from places scattered all over the world. Life sneaks up on you, and people stop…

But if I lost my FB data now? I'd never find these guys again.

You haven't bothered to copy off important contact data to some personal file? That's crazy.

You wake up one day wondering what happened to Bob, then slowly realize that you'll never see him again. It's a weird feeling.

True. OTOH, when that has happened to me, I realize there's a reason for it.

At 54 I find that a) life is not only short, it's shorter than you think, and b) there's a whole lot going on right now that dwelling on acquaintances lost to the past is probably a waste of time.

[B]y the way, my wife and I are having a competition to see who can get the most friends.

Seems we're very different people, so my anecdotal reflection likely as alien to you as yours is to me.

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