Which gives rise to a simple statement:
ONLY IDIOTS HAVE A FACEBOOK AND/OR MYSPACE PAGE IN HIS/HER R/L NAME!!!!
Anyone who needs or wants to contact me already knows how to do so. I have no interest in figments of years gone by.
“Anyone who needs or wants to contact me already knows how to do so. I have no interest in figments of years gone by.”
I’ve thought about joining Facebook but then my years in IT overrode my nostalgia and said NO!
More from the article:
“Google’s Ads Preferences believes I’m a guy interested in politics, Asian food, perfume, celebrity gossip, animated movies and crime but who doesn’t care about “books & literature” or “people & society.” (So not true.)
“Yahoo! has me down as a 36-to-45-year-old male who uses a Mac computer and likes hockey, rap, rock, parenting, recipes, clothes and beauty products; it also thinks I live in New York, even though I moved to Los Angeles more than six years ago.
“Alliance Data, an enormous data-marketing firm in Texas, knows that I’m a 39-year-old college-educated Jewish male who takes in at least $125,000 a year, makes most of his purchases online and spends an average of only $25 per item.
“Specifically, it knows that on Jan. 24, 2004, I spent $46 on “low-ticket gifts and merchandise” and that on Oct. 10, 2010, I spent $180 on intimate apparel. It knows about more than 100 purchases in between. Alliance also knows I owe $854,000 on a house built in 1939...”
Interestingly, I do have a FaceBook account in my real name.
On occasion, I do Google searches on myself. I have never found my FaceBook listed there. However, there is a woman with my name in another state who has a fairly active MySpace account.
I also find, via Google, that I have donated to various honor societies and scholarship funds. I can also find where I currently live, and the towns I have lived in for the past 20 years. That kind of information concerns me far more than what may be on FaceBook. Unlike FaceBook, which knows little about me beyond my name, I have no control over the rest of the information being published on the internet.
For years and years any suggestion of using computerized data for physician’s offices was met with a quick, vocal and winning protest about privacy issues. I have been amazed at the ease and lack of protest that has accompanied this current extortion( physicians will pay a penalty if medical records are not kept digitally). I am not a conspiracy freak or a black helicopter believer but be aware that the ultimate goal is to have real time oversight of your medical care and you can not do that without a central data bank. Data security on that massive level is and will be a joke.