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To: maggiesnotebook

I know exactly how it is happening.

Just after the inauguration, there was a RFP released by the Obama administration looking to contract a company to aggregate all comments from social networking sites.

Our company decided to be a no-bid.

So all social comments are databased somewhere by someone for some use that cannot be good.


13 posted on 01/06/2012 1:15:23 PM PST by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: wxgesr

I’ll link your comment in my original post. Thanks. Creepy.


17 posted on 01/06/2012 1:27:10 PM PST by maggiesnotebook
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To: wxgesr

My immediate response several years ago upon first hearing about ‘social networking’ sites was: “Sounds like a government monitored, if not government sponsored, personal information-mining operation to me. I want nothing to do with it.”

It appears my suspicions were 100% correct.


18 posted on 01/06/2012 1:30:14 PM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25% MORE sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: wxgesr

I assume this would take the cooperation of Facebook to allow it to work?


19 posted on 01/06/2012 1:31:15 PM PST by maggiesnotebook
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To: wxgesr

Question:

Could it have anything to do with websites like this?

http://whosin.com/pg/whois/383673/Trans+World+Travel

This Twitter account is mine but I never set up this “who is” page. I think it’s done automatically. Also hashtags can be used to search. I notice that Facebook can also be used in this way.


39 posted on 08/31/2012 6:30:52 PM PDT by tsowellfan (Voting for Obama/Biden is like purposely swallowing two tapeworms)
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