i thinks its nice can talk to my family and close friends. i dont use it to get friends i dont even know to see if i can have to most lol, so i thought it was hip. that and i just started using it like 5 months ago lol
I was having lunch with 3 friends yesterday and all of them pulled out their phones and went onto facebook. I sat there quietly for like 5 minutes for them to finish before ordering. You won't ever see this girl do rude things like that.
I have a facebook page I'm on it everyday. I like posting pics and seeing pics and updates from other friends and family I don't get to see
Think about if the goverment sent you something in the mail requring you to share all the info you freely put on your facebook. People would have a fit, yet they have tricked you into voluntering it. People now think it's normal to let you know who they know and where they are at all times. It is well known police use it to monitor people of interest. Your privacy settings mean nothing, I promise you anyone with a basic knowledge of computers can bypass that. And of course people like that are paid well by governments and police. Now allot of people will say it does not matter they have nothing to hide, but they are missing the point. They are willing to wade through all the useless crap because in it there is useful information. All the people who are just sheep are of course no interest, they are looking for people who question the story. As an old Japanise expression goes "the nail that sticks out gets hammered". The whole idea is to ensure no one really has privavcy.
i'm pretty sure if you put a picture up on hipforums you would get loads of weird messages too. i would be annoyed that the government is wasting resources trying to find out my name and where i went to college. they really should already know.
you need a fakebook to make comments on many internet news sites. Its so you cant say anything derogatory ,, and if you do, they can come right to your house and arrest you.. And dont say anything about not caring about this and that .. aka child shootings. They will delete your fakebook account and probably arrest you as well..
That would be an example of useless crap. It doesn't cost them anything other then 5 minutes to look at your account.
i'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. yes that would be useless crap. that's what's on my facebook page. i don't post where i am or what i'm doing. the only thing that might go beyond useless crap would be the friends list, which is basically just people i've gone to school or worked with, which is also pretty much useless crap that they already know. i know it doesn't cost anything to look at an account. the waste of resources i was referring to was the mailing example that i had quoted from your post.
Well if you believe something like Facebook is normal and not a threat they have already won. It's a waste of resources to send mail to every American? The cost of stamps maybe. Think of the census, they have no problem devoting time and resources including paying people to find that out. But in general the "war on terror" will continue to be used as an excuse for why Americas need to give up their rights. Facebook is just an extension of that. The founder sold it to the CIA years ago. Police tape protests now for example. Why would they be interested in that? They want to know who is fighting the system. Like I said people like you who only discus their boring jobs with high school friends are no threat because you are buying the lie. The day will come when you will be labeled as a terrorist if your not willing to share every aspect of your life. They will say if you have nothing to hide what is the problem?
If you don't like FB, then don't use it. Problem solved. Let all the stupid people be duped by the govt. Just like all the stupid people being duped who use computers and cell phones. Or if you secretly like FB and are just a paranoid psycho, then post under an alias.
stamps, paper, and time. but the use of resources really wasn't the point anyway. so not using facebook to post personal shit that shouldn't be out there on facebook means i'm buying the lie? in order to protest something, you are absolutely required to post "i'm protesting such-and-such thing" on your facebook status? i'm no fan of facebook, and i'm well aware that it can be used for unsavory purposes. i have an account because it can come in handy at times, but i don't use it to post every aspect of my life on the internet. really, i rarely use it for anything. my whole issue with the anti-facebook people is that the entire argument generally consists of "some people use it irresponsibly, so therefore it's bad." same argument as the anti-gun people, even though i'd be willing to bet a lot of the anti-facebooks are not anti-gun.
I thought the CIA funded it's start up, or was it the CIA attached a sophisticated code to Facebook to pick out key words and dark faces - I can't remember. Seriously, the CIA don't own Facebook. I think that is as far as it goes. They do the same with Youtube. Tip offs, mostly. If some idiot is posting footage of them speeding through the city centre at 100 miles an hour - why should the police not use it as evidence if it is brought to their attention? According to Facebook I'm in South Africa right now.
I take it you don't know anything about writing code. What you are describing is possible. I could search for any keyword I want, and there is certainly facial recognition software that can ID a person. Look at the public streets in your UK. You think those cameras can't ID you? You live in the most monitored society in the world but the USA is not far behind. Owned by the CIA may not be the right word. But they have paid Mark whatever his name is allot of money for him to share his code for the site. They have access to all the servers and sensitive data just as if they were the designers. They could have figured it out on their own, but money is a big motivator and keeping him as a figure head is important. It maintains the illusion that the "American dream" worked and he is just a successful business man. To be honest the CIA has had plans for this sort of thing for years but he was the one to sell the public on the idea that this is normal. That is where the CIA feel short, no one would support a data mining effort by them. People do post things against the government on facebook, I don't know why people seem to think they do not. There are all sorts of anti-war groups or ones advocating something unpopular. It's really only the leaders of these that are of interest. By eliminating them, you eliminate the group.
I know both are possible. Facebook had face recognition - for a while - so you could tag multiple faces with out having to sift through your pictures yourself. They use cookies to target advertising your way - depending on your likes etc. OK *looks* - there are non on my street. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Fos...6&panoid=gteRueP1G3wLtiZ-N79PMw&cbp=12,0,,0,0 There is one monitoring a Bus only lane on the adjacent street. The more advanced cameras can recognise number plates - but they are road specific. I don't think that is true. What happened was that CCTV had to be registered when used - because of the Data protection act. So every public and private (shops etc) systems are registered (pretty much). So that was used to try and spin it as if we are the most watched. I can tell you, it isn't true. Most of the cameras are private and are used to monitor buildings - for security purposes. GCHQ are not watching me as we speak. To be fair, I have read that cameras monitoring Downing ST and other sensitive sites do have CCTV that might be linked into a much bigger system: http://www.trapwire.com/trapwire.html I think this is is as far as it goes: The second round of funding into Facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company’s key areas of expertise are in “data mining technologies”. I've read many of the walls of those types of groups. Still do. Imho, a lot of people have too high an opinion of their own importance.
An average ST in the UK - go find the CCTV cameras. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Had...oid=ye0CRV7PNQ2HZLXULFe93A&cbp=12,105.85,,0,0
