What is wrong with people? I have too much information on everyone.
For all you duds out there, 1984 was a cautionary book written by George Orwell, published in 1949, about giving up privacy and personal freedom for the 'collective good'. Orwell would be turning over in his grave if he saw red light cameras, and knew that people were freely supplying private details of their lives to a global database. Article from New York Times yesterday - Facebook is Using You...Another good article on 1984 + Facebook.
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What I see people doing with Facebook, etc. is not sharing their personal data as much as they are sharing insights, posting news they have come across, testing ideas, and speaking truth to power.
It's an evolution beyond the one-way TV. It's a soapbox. It's a personal Arab Spring.
A good Facebook page is like EOM. Don't be such a curmudgeon.
When I see young relatives post their CORRECT entire birth date, that they got drunk last night, their family is going on vacation (burglars come on in) and other personal information--it is too much information. Everyone is not using Facebook as you describe and you know it. A few others seek to do that sort of stuff on MY page and I block them. I don't want your politics tainting my page. I stand by my statement as someone who read 1984 and is now very afraid.
Facebook would not have been allowed in 1984. Overall, it's a force for liberation and free expression. It's the people's media.
I agree with GoD on this one. I have read melt-downs on Facebook, bragging about speeding, kind of new car purchased, drug rehab attendance, etc. it is worse on twitter.
The ads on my pages appear to coincide with my searches. There is something insidious going on and it is not just FB. They will tailor make ads targeting you for the Presidential election. They have enough PAC money now to do that.
Before hiring, we look at people's Facebook page to get a sense of who they really are.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html?_r=1&hp
NY TIMES
February 4, 2012
Facebook Is Using You
By LORI ANDREWS
To HRS:
How can you look at someone's Facebook page if you are not his or her Facebook friend? Only my friends can see my info and posts so you are wasting your time.
You would be very surprised to find that many many people allow you to look at their facebook pages. And there are areas that are available to friends of friends -- in the case of people with 2,000 plus friends, that is just about everyone in town.
I object to your putting red lights as an invasion of privacy. The only privacy they seek is people who break the law. As a result of red lights we are all safer.
Dream on--read the studies.
I heard a report that campaigns are now accessing facebook pages across the country for demographics with the intention of filling your mailboxes and phones with political messages.
I don't have a facebook page and could never see the sense of having one. Of course, I am very private and would rather my information to others be privately delivered on a need-to-know basis.
It frightens me that so many people like to tell the world everything about themselves. Isn't anything private anymore?
People are much more secretive than they used to be. Remember phone books? I used to have everyone's phone number and address in my county at my finger tips. And what is the big deal about the year you were born unless your some old bag?
The exact birthdate will open many doors. I research every day. Trust me, one piece of info leads to another. And birthdate is a biggie.
George Orwell's, "1984" - read it in college. Gave me the chills back then. The professor was a Russian immigrant (excellent teacher) who through literature allowed us to learn and compare freedom vs. oppression. His was one of the best English classes I took.
It isn't what you post - it is who you know and who they know and what pages you visit and what pages you "like" and the pages you share and the ads you click on and the free games you install and...
It mines personal information about you that you don't even know about yourself.
It would Make Big Brother blush with shame for having been so steel-fisted when he could have taken the information with trinkets and shiny lights.
George Orwell great comment.
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