The FACEBOOK Thread - Part 2

[KevanG]

I have maybe 20 people on my FB. I mostly use it to talk to two friends who live in the city and my sister who lives in Alberta. If you checked my posting history there I might have a dozen posts.

I refuse to add people I know are idiots (that I don't like) who are going to clog up my page with garbage.

 

[Kane52630]

If there are any "facebook horror stories" then they are not using Facebook right.

 

[Anita18]

This notion your personal life and/or the information of your life is unimportant in the scheme of things is a new one for me. I don't think I can get down with that.

Edit:

Seriously though, I really want to hear some FB horror stories. I know they're out there.

I do believe I can make a difference in society as an individual. You're talking to someone who switched to healthcare app design from cancer research because she wanted to help people faster. But I think people simply don't care much about what other people do in their personal lives, especially nowadays.

There was a study that went out recently - the majority of people still think gay sex is gross, but they agree with legalizing gay marriage because they simply don't believe other people's marriages should be their business.



As for Fb horror stories, there's the one where a closeted lesbian (out to her friends) was outed to her homophobic father because Facebook so helpfully linked her profile to LGBT groups due to some obscure change in privacy settings. That was seriously not cool.

If anything, the actual Fb horror stories mostly has to do with the privacy settings that they can change on a whim. The rest just means you have crap taste in friends.

 

[Alex_Spider]

Facebook is not just a means of communication, lol.

Facebook and it's associated cookies, along with Google, pretty much keep a record of everything you do online, and your shopping habits. Any website that is offering 'free' anything. Whether its free videos, free uploads, free 'communication' (WhatsApp, FooTalk, Snapchat, Viber, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.) , free downloads, free online shopping (ie. Paypal, Amazon, etc), and even I wouldn't be surprised free online banking, if your Bank or Credit Card company, is going to be analyzing your shopping, browsing, eating, and/or internet use.

Since Facebook and other forms of social media proves many people are narcissists and will easily give away their privacy for the chance at popularity and peer approval, we're making advertisers, stalkers, investigators, and big brother's life very easy. If you want to keep your personal life and activities private, good luck living in this modern age.

As long as you aware and accept that this is the new status quo, you can use Facebook for 'communication' purposes, lol.

That's pretty much what's wrong with the social media today. I'm so sick of seeing posts in my wall with selfie pictures from relatives and friends I regret accepting them in the first place.
The reason I use fb now is getting informed for scientific and social issues through links and groups, not for personal communication.

 

[Schlosser85]

This makes me feel like a slightly incompetent mod, but I'm honestly having trouble finding the other Facebook thread...

 

[Schlosser85]

And in my $.02, you get out of Facebook what you put into it.

Set your profile to private so only your friends can view your info, don't post stuff you'd be afraid of people seeing, etc.

Just use common sense and you shouldn't have any "horror stories".

 

[Snow Queen]

This makes me feel like a slightly incompetent mod, but I'm honestly having trouble finding the other Facebook thread...

Is this the one you're looking for?

 

[Schlosser85]

Is this the one you're looking for?

 

[KevanG]

Mods today. Jeez.

 

[Schlosser85]

Hey, I am responding to the will of the people....or JJ's Ulcer...

 

[charl_huntress]

Thanks for merging the threads!

 

[KevanG]

Hey, I am responding to the will of the people....or JJ's Ulcer...

Usually responding to the will of an ulcer means taking an antacid.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Everything you just described is self inflicted mixed with paranoia, as evidenced by the part I bolded.

The worst you might get is some damn ads in your timeline. I'm an absolute Facebook ****e that's probably an over sharer, and yet my bank account still hasn't been hacked, my identity hasn't been stolen, and the NSA hasn't come knocking on my door.

What you see and what happens in the background are two entirely different things. If that information became vital information, it can be accessed at anytime by authorities. Advertisers and such work in the background and you'll never see anything in your face, other than a few google ads in your websites and new suggestive ads that might peak your interest. The fact is, they have a log of your eating, shopping, travel habits, shopping preferences, even social and political affiliations, and that can be sold and traded without your consent. Hackers and the like can't get access to that unless you accidentally share it openly as you say.

There are algorithms used by authorities that check your bank account usage. The banks, creditors, themselves keep a close eye on weird transactions. If you are only buying and being credited a certain amount month after a month, and in one month there are bunch of strange transactions, the bank will be informed. And if it is suspicious (ie. money transactions), it will be checked by closer monitoring if you meet the authority's profile (single male, social activist, history of crime, family history of crime, foreign travel, muslim, etc) . If they think it is fraud, creditors might even call you if they fear you have been hacked.

Most of it is supposedly for your own security, but again, you can deem a lot of it as profiling, a breach of privacy, (ie. "What i spend my time and money on is none of your business") and maybe liberty.

 

[charl_huntress]

I do believe I can make a difference in society as an individual. You're talking to someone who switched to healthcare app design from cancer research because she wanted to help people faster. But I think people simply don't care much about what other people do in their personal lives, especially nowadays.

There was a study that went out recently - the majority of people still think gay sex is gross, but they agree with legalizing gay marriage because they simply don't believe other people's marriages should be their business.



As for Fb horror stories, there's the one where a closeted lesbian (out to her friends) was outed to her homophobic father because Facebook so helpfully linked her profile to LGBT groups due to some obscure change in privacy settings. That was seriously not cool.

If anything, the actual Fb horror stories mostly has to do with the privacy settings that they can change on a whim. The rest just means you have crap taste in friends.

Hmm... I think it's because I'm older. This ability/desire to "connect" with any and everyone I meet is really foreign to me. Most of the real life FB horror stories I have heard from my friends have to do with people being thrust back into their life that they lost touch with over the years. My philosophy is if we aren't in communication now there is probably a reason for that and I'm okay with that. Plus, like I said before, it seems sometimes you're at the whim of "voluntarily" offering up all your personal info unknowingly.

If there are any "facebook horror stories" then they are not using Facebook right.

One girl I knew briefly at work had a photo posted on FB when she was plastered. The pic was taken when she was passed out looking like a complete fool by her "friends" who also had FB. The pic was then sent in an email at work that got further passed around as an attachment when people CC'd each other.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

What you see and what happens in the background are two entirely different things. If that information became vital information, it can be accessed at anytime by authorities. Advertisers and such work in the background and you'll never see anything in your face, other than a few google ads in your websites and new suggestive ads that might peak your interest. The fact is, they have a log of your eating, shopping, travel habits, shopping preferences, even social and political affiliations, and that can be sold and traded without your consent. Hackers and the like can't get access to that unless you accidentally share it openly as you say.

There are algorithms used by authorities that check your bank account usage. The banks, creditors, themselves keep a close eye on weird transactions. If you are only buying and being credited a certain amount month after a month, and in one month there are bunch of strange transactions, the bank will be informed. And if it is suspicious (ie. money transactions), it will be checked by closer monitoring if you meet the authority's profile (single male, social activist, history of crime, family history of crime, foreign travel, muslim, etc) . If they think it is fraud, creditors might even call you if they fear you have been hacked.

Most of it is supposedly for your own security, but again, you can deem a lot of it as profiling, a breach of privacy, (ie. "What i spend my time and money on is none of your business") and maybe liberty.

*shrug*

I don't do anything that would get me incriminated, so whatever they have on me can't be used against me anyways.

They check my spending habits, they are gonna see a guy who buys video games, and went to see X-Men: Days Of Future Past a few too many times.

They check my eating habits, they are gonna see a guy that eats too much McDonald's and Chili's.

They check my political affiliations, they are gonna see that I'm just a typical left wing Californian.

Nothing that I would keep hidden from anyone who asked for it anyways.

 

[Kane52630]

One girl I knew briefly at work had a photo posted on FB when she was plastered. The pic was taken when she was passed out looking like a complete fool by her "friends" who also had FB. The pic was then sent in an email at work that got further passed around as an attachment when people CC'd each other.

Like I said, some people don't know how to Facebook.

 

[Anita18]

Like I said, some people don't know how to Facebook.

Right.

Even my friend who works at someplace where people get drunk and have affairs with each other, she doesn't post any of that on Facebook.

 

[charl_huntress]

She didn't post it. Someone else did.

 

[Charlie Boy]

Shouldn't there be a third, more apathetic option to vote for in the poll? Like "Meh...It doesn't really matter"

 

[Anubis]

Or "While it gives me wood, I don't like that it gives me wood...so...ambivalence?"

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Don't get **** face plastered and pics won't end up on Facebook.

 

[Anita18]

She didn't post it. Someone else did.

She wasn't friends with her coworkers on Facebook either. She kept that drama locked down tight. Except when talking with other friends at a girl's night in at someone's house with nobody recording.

If you have crappy friends or coworkers who will do that to you, you can mitigate the damage by untagging yourself from the photo. People can't see the photo on your news feed (ie, what the employers will see) if you simply untag yourself.

I do one better by requiring that Facebook notifies me to review a post or photo that someone else tags me in, before it goes up on my news feed.

But there's nothing you can do if you have crappy coworkers who will send that s*** in an email around the office. I don't think it's Facebook's fault for that one. If it involved two separate people, it's definitely an office culture thing. And if it was the same person, that email would have gone around the office with or without Facebook.

 

[Anubis]

Don't get **** face plastered and pics won't end up on Facebook.

Says the dude who should be s**t faced plastered all the time.

Crazy facebook story I heard about. These two chicks are fighting over their shared baby daddy. One posts a picture of said baby daddy going down on her. I mean this dude is up to his eyebrows. He doesn't even realize he's being photographed he's so in there. And she posts it. A site for all to see in all their shared friends and enemies newsfeeds. If theres one thing to love about Facebook it's FB Drama.

 

[Hellion]

Don't get **** face plastered and pics won't end up on Facebook.

t:

 

[Lencho01]

Like I said, some people don't know how to Facebook.

There is only one way.