Yukishiro1 posted:

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It just gives people a platform to broadcast their narcissism to the world. It's sorta like having to watch every time someone looks at themselves in the mirror.

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ZigmundZag posted:

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Yukishiro1 posted:

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It just gives people a platform to broadcast their narcissism to the world. It's sorta like having to watch every time someone looks at themselves in the mirror.

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The analogy I use to describe Facebook is like running into an old friend at the store, except after you go through that awkward silence and then say "Well, good to see you again!" and walk away, they tell you what they had for lunch, invite you to play an online game of Poker with them and show you all the pictures of their kids, pets and last vacation.

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tenkly posted:

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Facebook is great when you measure your social life by the number of people you know rather than the quality of the relationships.

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vn_nnanji posted:

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Yuki hates People!

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Yukishiro1 posted:

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vn_nnanji posted:

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Yuki hates People!

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Only shallow self-absorbed douches who genuinely don't realize you have no interest whatsover in what they are doing right now.

Which is admittedly most people.

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Aerlinthian posted:

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I have no friends.

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Never made an account and wouldn't dream of it.

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NuEM posted:

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Do they still own everything you put on their site?

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tenkly posted:

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eodoll posted:

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I hear facebook works well for dating - but that just seems stupid to me. If you're going to meet someone new, do you want them to see your pictures and other personal stuff?

Furthermore, If I date someone and we break up and even if it's my choice that we broke up - i dont want to go on facebook and see her with a new boyfriend doing fun things. It's stupid and the people who say they use it for dating are stupid.

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Thugoneous posted:

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tenkly posted:

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Elocism posted:

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NuEM posted:

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Do they still own everything you put on their site?

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they do, and they sell it

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Ha, you noobs don't know the precursors to crap like Facebook started well over a decade ago.


On a ironic note, the main one where I learned how entrapping and kleptomaniac these social media programs could be for commercial interests was an Israeli start up.

Lets see which of you dim bulbs can Google your way to the company first.

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Z-Elder posted:

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I always thought that it was a Mossad trick! How easy it made it for them to watch millions.

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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:

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The one issue I have is... Well, let me give you an example.


Vinny T (8:04) : I love New York; despite the gym being so crowded no one noticed that I dropped a bar on my chest while benching. That coulda been embarrassing!
Barbara T (8:05) : OMG honey, are you ok??






Mommmmmm!!

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Z-Elder posted:

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I always thought that it was a Mossad trick! How easy it made it for them to watch millions.

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But seriously this company was a very dirty little outfit. I'll explain what they did. In the original versions of the program it was a pretty slick interface (at the time) for setting up internet friendships but what this outfit did forever stuck in my memory. You could naturally make your own settings private but after the program reached about quarter million users, this company made it so that your friends contact list was exposed to them (the company).

So the trick was that you used the service and a friend entered all of your contact data (phone, address, email, etc), that contact data was exposed to the company for their purposes.

This was all long before Facebook, so way back then I made up my mind I would never again go anywhere near any of these programs and I don't even bother giving my email to most people because I know that most people are too ignorant to BBC their mail when they start up their stupid chain email fetishes.

There is not much that I hate more than being marketed to or having my personal info sold like I have no say in the matter or that it is not a valuable commodity to me. All of these companies suck donkey balls and many of them over the years lied many times about their privacy policies.

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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:

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Cause setting up a phony email address would be too difficult?

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Z-Elder posted:

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I always thought that it was a Mossad trick! How easy it made it for them to watch millions.

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But seriously this company was a very dirty little outfit. I'll explain what they did. In the original versions of the program it was a pretty slick interface (at the time) for setting up internet friendships but what this outfit did forever stuck in my memory. You could naturally make your own settings private but after the program reached about quarter million users, this company made it so that your friends contact list was exposed to them (the company).

So the trick was that you used the service and a friend entered all of your contact data (phone, address, email, etc), that contact data was exposed to the company for their purposes.

This was all long before Facebook, so way back then I made up my mind I would never again go anywhere near any of these programs and I don't even bother giving my email to most people because I know that most people are too ignorant to BBC their mail when they start up their stupid chain email fetishes.

There is not much that I hate more than being marketed to or having my personal info sold like I have no say in the matter or that it is not a valuable commodity to me. All of these companies suck donkey balls and many of them over the years lied many times about their privacy policies.

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Not everyone is an idiot that doesn't care about or who fails to understand how modern methods are used to cross correlate and compile information. If your data is valueless to you, that is your business. Your lack of attention to detail and stupid responses like "who cares" demonstrates your general ineptitude. If you want to live that way fine, it isn't fine for others who understand and resent their personal information being collected surreptitiously and sold without consent.

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Allstarslacker posted:

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I don't have a facebook account.

I see everyone I care about. If I don't see you I don't care about you, and I'll assume you don't care about me.

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tenkly posted:

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also, it's not without your consent. Just because you don't read the TOS doesn't mean they don't tell you what they're doing.

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Okay, you win. I can't fight the terminally stupid.


It's like arguing with a grocery checkout girl.

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Not everyone is an idiot that doesn't care about or who fails to understand how modern methods are used to cross correlate and compile information. If your data is valueless to you, that is your business. Your lack of attention to detail and stupid responses like "who cares" demonstrates your general ineptitude. If you want to live that way fine, it isn't fine for others who understand and resent their personal information being collected surreptitiously and sold without consent.

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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:

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As I said, the only information they can access is what you allow them to.

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:

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As I said, the only information they can access is what you allow them to.

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I swear you people really do have a reading comprehension problem. Maybe, just maybe if you go back and read my explanation, you'll finally figure out where the problem is and why it wasn't within your control.

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Aerlinthian posted:

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I like to feel like I'm important enough for people to steal mah infoz and spy on me!!

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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:

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What contact list are you referring to? I've already explained that facebook users cannot update, add, remove, or further manipulate your information. The exception to this is relationships, but again you need to give your consent for the update to go though.

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:

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What contact list are you referring to? I've already explained that facebook users cannot update, add, remove, or further manipulate your information. The exception to this is relationships, but again you need to give your consent for the update to go though.

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I wasn't specifically referring to FB in my explanation. I was referring to a historical case of a company that took information that you had no control over. This particular data collection model has actually been around for a very long time, long before computers were created.

You are free to put your faith in FB or others, I don't, based on history, no matter what they or others claim for how their model works.

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Ashmaele posted:

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It's a great place to back up digital photos without having to use my own hard drive space.

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tenkly posted:

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You can DL any pics you put up, or anyone puts up.

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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:

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Ah, you must have missed an edit of mine up there. Ok, you were burned once and don't want to be again. Understood.

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Ashmaele posted:

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My only complaint is that they seem bound and determined to completely rework the look and feel of the site approximately every six weeks or so. I log on so infrequently that I have to relearn to use the site every time I do because everything has been moved, changed, etc.

When I use it I use the iphone app and that has remained fairly constant as far as I can tell.

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tenkly posted:

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Again, I go out and meet people all the time. It's easier to keep in touch with everyone. for events also. It's not my fault you guys aren't social and you don't get it

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Ashmaele posted:

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tenkly posted:

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You can DL any pics you put up, or anyone puts up.

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I think he means you have to DL them one at a time, and I think he's right. You can upload them in bulk but not DL them. Which is fine and understandable...it's not really an FTP storage site even though that's what I'm using mine as

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Elocism posted:

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i think the takeaway here is that tenkly is like 1000 peoples token black friend

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Ashmaele posted:

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It's a great place to back up digital photos without having to use my own hard drive space.

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