im with you...dont really understand why people get so upset about facebook or wound up about it.....if u dont like it, dont join it......there are lots of things i dont care for, so i just dont use them......if ur friends post too much mundane stuff, you can edit your settings so that it doesnt post to you.......i think thats the best thing about facebook, u can CONTROL everything on your page.....if u dont want people to be able to see stuff, u can block them....u can control who can post on your page, u can control what updates you get, what game alerts you get, all that stuff........
That's the problem nowadays. Nobody gets wound up over anything. Sure they bitch about it online(like zit started a hundred threads about stupid shit that he doesn't comprehend) but who actually does anything about it? The government is feeling the public out by putting more and more restrictions on freedoms in the name of security and invading privacy more and more and the people just take it.
I don't think the question is why people get so wound up, the question is why don't they get wound up and have some sense of pride and demands of their nation and government. That's one thing the west has lost compared to eastern countries. No pride or intensity.
I think the reason we just take it is because we are wealthy, comfortable, have all sorts of toys and nice rides and all sorts of goodies in North America so it's tough to get too overworked up about anything.
I'm not excluding myself either. I lead a very comfortable and luxurious life and aside from bitching online when I'm half wasted I don't do anything about it either. I'm just sayin..The government's taking an arm for every finger we give them or however the saying goes.
I'm not excluding myself either. I lead a very comfortable and luxurious life and aside from bitching online when I'm half wasted I don't do anything about it either. I'm just sayin..The government's taking an arm for every finger we give them or however the saying goes.
What, no comment on the Big Game and the thread that you started?:nohead::laughingb
http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=516776&page=1
Agreed with a few others. I could give a fuck less what the government sees of mine. I don't have anything to hide. It's not like I know the person that is supposedly reading my shit. Nobody forces me to be on facebook, so I don't feel like any civil liberties are being taken away from me.
I am sure it is used to track terrorist and possible terrorist. I highly doubt Cadbury Bigglesworth at the CIA is reading a message I sent to my wife at work years ago about how bad I wanted to fuck her brains out and how I liked when she groped my balls while giving me head. If he is, well I can just hope he didn't bust one to my wifes picture.
They don't have the man power to track everything that everybody says. Anyways, this is all purely speculation and conspiracy theories.
I am sure it is used to track terrorist and possible terrorist. I highly doubt Cadbury Bigglesworth at the CIA is reading a message I sent to my wife at work years ago about how bad I wanted to fuck her brains out and how I liked when she groped my balls while giving me head. If he is, well I can just hope he didn't bust one to my wifes picture.
They don't have the man power to track everything that everybody says. Anyways, this is all purely speculation and conspiracy theories.
Well that's the thing. They are desensitizing everybody slowly. It would be too much of an impact and shock to do it at once so they chip away at it as you said and go a little further each time so the public says oh well, it's just a little less privacy or freedom, it's just a little less, it's just a little less...and before you know it people down the line will look and say how the hell did we end up like this. What happened to the America we knew and loved?
What does the American government have to be so proud of? They killed Osama? Who cares? He not only pulled off the most terrorizing attack inside of the U.S in history but made good on his vow that nobody will feel safe in America ever again. So look around. All you see is people scared to death or suspicious of one another. Security measures going too far and privacy and freedom being taken away bit by bit. For those that say I'll gladly pay the price for security well then keep paying cause it will keep getting worse. It won't even be America anymore. What's the point of being the most powerful nation in the world if you have to change your whole system around because of some radicals?
Agreed with a few others. I could give a fuck less what the government sees of mine. I don't have anything to hide. It's not like I know the person that is supposedly reading my shit. Nobody forces me to be on facebook, so I don't feel like any civil liberties are being taken away from me.
Would you care if they hacked all your posts on here and used them to build a case against you for gambling activities?? Or what If they used your Facebook info to intimidate friends and family members to rat on you about illegal wire transactions?! Would you care then?
Would you care if they hacked all your posts on here and used them to build a case against you for gambling activities?? Or what If they used your Facebook info to intimidate friends and family members to rat on you about illegal wire transactions?! Would you care then?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...6d37f6-8a85-11e2-8d72-dc76641cb8d4_story.html
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Facebook study shows ‘likes’ reveal a lot
By Hayley Tsukayama, Published: March 11 | Updated: Wednesday, March 13, 4:12 PM
Do you like your fries straight or curly? The answer may reveal more about you than you think.
According to a Cambridge University study published Monday looking at how much what people “like” on Facebook can reveal about who they are, people who openly declare their affinity for curly fries on Facebook tend to have higher IQs.
Click by click, Facebook users are building a surprisingly nuanced picture of themselves, even without filling out their social networking profiles. Researchers published the article online at the Proceedings for the National Academy of the Sciences, showing off how they were able to figure out traits such as gender, personality type, political views and sexual orientation of individuals based on what 58,000 Facebook users decided to “like” on sites around the Web.
All of the information in the study, the report said, was in the public domain.
Researchers found that they could, for example, correctly distinguish between gay and straight men on the site 88 percent of the time by analyzing the kinds of TV shows and movies they liked. It also found that few gay men — less than 5 percent in the study — identify with groups that openly declare their sexual orientation, so a man’s preference for “Britney Spears” or “Desperate Housewives” was more useful in predictions.
Similarly, the researchers also found that they could differentiate between drug users and non-drug users with about 65 percent accuracy based on their expressed public preferences.
The study even included “like” predictors that could tell whether users’ parents had separated when they were young versus whether they had not.
Researchers told the British paper that they hope this study raises users’ awareness about the kind of information they may not realize they’re sharing with a wider audience.
In some cases, the study said, this data could be beneficial to help improve marketing recommendations or in psychology research. But the study also raised concerns that it’s too easy to gather telling data about users without obtaining their permission.
“One can imagine situations in which such predictions, even if incorrect, could pose a threat to an individual’s well-being, freedom or even life,” researchers said in the study’s conclusion.
Facebook users can change the privacy settings on what they’ve liked through the site’s settings to keep their fry — or any other kind of preference — out of the public's reach.
(Washington Post Co. chairman and chief executive Don Graham is a member of Facebook’s board of directors.)
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By Hayley Tsukayama, Published: March 11 | Updated: Wednesday, March 13, 4:12 PM
Do you like your fries straight or curly? The answer may reveal more about you than you think.
According to a Cambridge University study published Monday looking at how much what people “like” on Facebook can reveal about who they are, people who openly declare their affinity for curly fries on Facebook tend to have higher IQs.
Click by click, Facebook users are building a surprisingly nuanced picture of themselves, even without filling out their social networking profiles. Researchers published the article online at the Proceedings for the National Academy of the Sciences, showing off how they were able to figure out traits such as gender, personality type, political views and sexual orientation of individuals based on what 58,000 Facebook users decided to “like” on sites around the Web.
All of the information in the study, the report said, was in the public domain.
Researchers found that they could, for example, correctly distinguish between gay and straight men on the site 88 percent of the time by analyzing the kinds of TV shows and movies they liked. It also found that few gay men — less than 5 percent in the study — identify with groups that openly declare their sexual orientation, so a man’s preference for “Britney Spears” or “Desperate Housewives” was more useful in predictions.
Similarly, the researchers also found that they could differentiate between drug users and non-drug users with about 65 percent accuracy based on their expressed public preferences.
The study even included “like” predictors that could tell whether users’ parents had separated when they were young versus whether they had not.
Researchers told the British paper that they hope this study raises users’ awareness about the kind of information they may not realize they’re sharing with a wider audience.
In some cases, the study said, this data could be beneficial to help improve marketing recommendations or in psychology research. But the study also raised concerns that it’s too easy to gather telling data about users without obtaining their permission.
“One can imagine situations in which such predictions, even if incorrect, could pose a threat to an individual’s well-being, freedom or even life,” researchers said in the study’s conclusion.
Facebook users can change the privacy settings on what they’ve liked through the site’s settings to keep their fry — or any other kind of preference — out of the public's reach.
(Washington Post Co. chairman and chief executive Don Graham is a member of Facebook’s board of directors.)
Related stories: A look at Facebook’s new layout Facebook to change news feed to a ‘personalized newspaper’ Sign up today to receive #thecircuit, a daily roundup of the latest tech policy news from Washington and how it is shaping business, entertainment and science.
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