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Why I'm quitting Facebook
CNN ^ | 02/25/2013 | Douglas Rushkoff, CNN

Posted on 02/25/2013 1:45:29 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

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To: humblegunner

I LOVE Facebook! I have a totally fake account I use as a convenient means to login to thousands of other sites, which I can then anonymously comment on. Most of those sites want permission to app or post or whatever on “my” fake “wall”, so I always give them permission to go for it! I’ve never even bothered to logon to the facebook account and see how trashed its wall is.

Oh yeah: I have a “legit” account too. I’ve never once posted a single personal thing on it, and never will. Even there, lots of my personal data is fake, including my birthday. The first time I got a happy birthday wish from a “friend” for my “January 1st” birthday I almost fell out of my chair laughing. I did use it prior to the last election to post political links gleaned from FR.

But, yeah, basically Facebook is evil.


21 posted on 02/25/2013 2:25:15 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: plain talk
Just dont post to blogs

Don't read 'em either.

Mostly they're full of Syphilis and AIDS.

22 posted on 02/25/2013 2:25:37 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

So you’re not dating those gals any more? (Gonorra and Sssphyllis)


23 posted on 02/25/2013 2:28:53 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I figured this out many months ago and got out. I still have a fb public page for my band, but I’m not identified by name, I go in under another band member’s email addy.

I have another page under a dummy name with no friends and no communications. I use it to store things I want to post later using the band page.

FB screws with me, I screw with fb.


24 posted on 02/25/2013 2:29:12 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn....)
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To: Responsibility2nd

DUH!!!!!!


25 posted on 02/25/2013 2:29:44 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (Let's not be so open-minded that our brains fall out.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I have always argued for engaging with technology as conscious human beings ..

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26 posted on 02/25/2013 2:30:55 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Responsibility2nd

Just like well trained Pavlovian dogs, and, of course, leftists, we hate success! We hate Google, we hate Apple, we hate Etc...


27 posted on 02/25/2013 2:34:31 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: editor-surveyor
So you’re not dating those gals any more?

Oh HELL no.

Gonorra's EBT card ran out and Sissy got locked up 20 -to- 25.

I got the Camaro and the trailer.

28 posted on 02/25/2013 2:54:12 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: catnipman

Would it be a good approximation to say that more than half of the accounts on Facebook and Twitter are fake?


29 posted on 02/25/2013 3:00:36 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: napscoordinator

I love Facebook as well. I’ve been on it since 2009 and it has a lot of positives for me. I have not experienced any of the problems that others have had. What bothers me is that those who have never tried it, or those who have and did not like it, want to spoil it for those of us who do. They sort of look down their noses at FB and its users. My philosophy is if you don’t want to partake in it, that’s fine, but leave us FBrs alone with what we enjoy. My own sister is a snob about it, saying with her nose in the air, “I don’t do FB.” And I say to her, “Well, la-de-dah for you.”


30 posted on 02/25/2013 3:38:18 PM PST by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: Jyotishi

Not the ones I deal with. I know each and every person I communicate with on FB. If someone I don’t know asks to be my Friend, I ignore it. My account is private, and not just anyone can access my account. If I’ve been hacked in the past 4 years I’ve been on FB, then I was totally unaware of it, and it hasn’t done me any harm.


31 posted on 02/25/2013 3:54:50 PM PST by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: Responsibility2nd
 photo FACEBOOK.jpg Come on.... You know I'm right...
32 posted on 02/25/2013 4:06:23 PM PST by baddog 219
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To: Responsibility2nd
Facebook does not exist to help us make friends, but to turn our network of connections, brand preferences and activities over time -- our "social graphs" -- into money for others.

I hear people say that a lot. What does one expect?? We wondered in the early years how this Internet monster would be "monetized." Would it be pay-per-site? View? Ads? Tracking-your-use is such a big deal? If you don't like it, there are tools and behavior that will stop it. Eh.

33 posted on 02/25/2013 4:07:46 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Responsibility2nd; napscoordinator; upchuck; catnipman

34 posted on 02/25/2013 4:10:38 PM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: editor-surveyor

“sucker to sucker”
“family relationships and locations”
I actually have know idea what that has to do with financial institutions or what you are talking about.


35 posted on 02/25/2013 4:14:58 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I ditched my Facebook account earlier this year.
I could no longer take giving aid to Obama cronies.


36 posted on 02/25/2013 4:17:46 PM PST by RginTN
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To: murron

You are lucky I have six sisters, three brothers and I wish some of them thought the same way as your sister.
:-)
I love FB, we are all over the country and it is a convenient way to keep in touch (without actually having to talk to all of them.) ;-)))


37 posted on 02/25/2013 4:27:05 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I like Facebook a lot more since I joined the prayer warriors to pray for children with cancer and other illnesses.


38 posted on 02/25/2013 4:31:04 PM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: svcw

I’m talking about all the tools an identity thief need to control your finances.

They can use that info to redirect all of your bank and credit card statements to a different address, and run up massive credit card debt, after draining your bank accounts.

That is the chief use of facebook.


39 posted on 02/25/2013 4:31:04 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: humblegunner

>> “I got the Camaro and the trailer.” <<

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Y’alls sittin pretty!


40 posted on 02/25/2013 4:36:17 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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