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| Topic: So long, Facebook - Hello, PRIVACY ... | |
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This really IS an idea whose time has come ... Are you one of the people who were surprised to find out exactly HOW MUCH of YOUR privacy Facebook intended to surrender to other companies by releasing your personal information and making you OPT OUT rather than telling you first what they planned to do and then letting you OPT IN ... ?
These four kids are doing the right thing - they're returning privacy to the users - and letting them communicate socially on the net the way people communicate socially in real life ... and YOU retain control over HOW MUCH of your personal information you give away ... THAT's the way ya do it ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12about.html Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook By JIM DWYER | Published: May 11, 2010 They have called their project 'Diaspora' and intend to distribute the software free, and to make the code openly available so that other programmers can build on it. As they describe it, the 'Diaspora' software will let users set up their own personal servers, called seeds, create their own hubs and fully control the information they share. Mr. Sofaer says that centralized networks like Facebook are not necessary. “In our real lives, we talk to each other,” he said. “We don’t need to hand our messages to a hub. What Facebook gives you as a user isn’t all that hard to do. All the little games, the little walls, the little chat, aren’t really rare things. The technology already exists.” The terms of the bargain people make with social networks — you swap personal information for convenient access to their sites — have been shifting, with the companies that operate the networks collecting ever more information about their users. That information can be sold to marketers. Some younger people are becoming more cautious about what they post. “When you give up that data, you’re giving it up forever,” Mr. Salzberg said. “The value they give us is negligible in the scale of what they are doing, and what we are giving up is all of our privacy.” |
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Yup... exactly why I sent my deletion request in to facebook about a month ago. I feel kinda dumb for ever signing up. Damned need for social recognition...
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 Would you sign up for a telephone service which would own all your conversations? Part of your conversations? How about an email provider who owned all your email? Could read all your email? Part of your email? I believe that their is actually private and personal correspondence in your future! How about that?
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I couldn't care less if some stranger is reading my emails. I'll just refrain from giving Facebook my blood type, credit card numbers or social security number and still keep in touch with my friends.
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I'm a member of Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family that are out of state.
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but how will i abandon farmville?
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but how will i abandon farmville? Now that's the only annoying thing about Facebook- the constant invitations to play or get gifts from people playing Farmville or Yoville  
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but how will i abandon farmville? Now that's the only annoying thing about Facebook- the constant invitations to play or get gifts from people playing Farmville or Yoville that's what i thought too, til i started playing them! (you can block all application posts so they don't appear on your page) |
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but how will i abandon farmville? Now that's the only annoying thing about Facebook- the constant invitations to play or get gifts from people playing Farmville or Yoville that's what i thought too, til i started playing them! (you can block all application posts so they don't appear on your page) Yeah, but then I can't whine about it
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Facebook I joined I realized that I really dont want all those people knowing all that about me I only have imediate family on it now and even all that is on a per person basis.
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Edited by
ayah_ming
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Tue 05/25/10 05:11 PM
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It's all fine for me... they don't even understand my mother tongue :P
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Edited by
Kings_Knight
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Tue 05/25/10 05:22 PM
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Do away with your Facebook account and get your own DOMAIN NAME at someplace like GoDaddy.com - then you control everything about what's revealed about you ... and you control access, too ... simple, huh ... ? 'Course, it's not FREE, but what's your privacy worth ... ? Facebook's founder's already on record as saying your privacy means nothing to him and that he'd spill all your secrets if it was up to him ... it's a choice ...
Here's a link to Zuck's comments about privacy 'n stuff in an interview ... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_zuckerberg_says_the_age_of_privacy_is_ov.php |
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