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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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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.

1 posted on 02/25/2013 1:45:38 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s like the Mob - you can never leave.

Ever.


2 posted on 02/25/2013 1:47:17 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Facebook is cool because it lets me be a butthole with a whole new set of rules and variables.

This fact may not be of value to everyone.


3 posted on 02/25/2013 1:49:49 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: Responsibility2nd

I bet this CNN guy got pawned on Facebook by conservatives


4 posted on 02/25/2013 1:52:43 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: humblegunner

Ahhhh, but to us FReepers... You’ll always be our Number One butthole.

Now THAT adds value.


5 posted on 02/25/2013 1:52:50 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

And to supply raw data to be digested by Identity Thieves.


6 posted on 02/25/2013 1:53:56 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: humblegunner

You would love twitter.

Instant butthole


7 posted on 02/25/2013 1:55:02 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

to the writer of this filth....You won’t be missed. Never knew you to begin with. Glad to rid of you. I enjoy Facebook enough to keep with it. Talk about a quiter. I guess that motto, “When the going gets tough....”


8 posted on 02/25/2013 1:55:09 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: GeronL

I like how this article shills his new upcoming book.

And if he quits FB, how will he ever use that media to shill said new upcoming book??

Exploitation works both ways, ya know.


9 posted on 02/25/2013 1:55:18 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: cripplecreek

I just got a tweet from #Instantbutthole.

Humble, is that you?


10 posted on 02/25/2013 1:57:31 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I hope Mr. Rushkoff realizes that you can give up your FB account, but FB owns all your stuff forever.

Facebook: Face of Evil.


11 posted on 02/25/2013 1:58:22 PM PST by upchuck (nobama fact #69: For each job created by the nobama administration, 75 people went on food stamps.)
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To: GeronL

I would say you are correct.
He did not get the pandering and boot licking he thought he deserved.......so whaaa whaaa whaaa he is going home.


12 posted on 02/25/2013 2:00:52 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: editor-surveyor

What raw data?


13 posted on 02/25/2013 2:03:43 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

Guess some people just can’t be bothered to find out how to disallow certain unwanted actions by turning off/opting-out various functions; or to read instructions & learn to use their technology properly.

Kind of like the idiot blocking a single-lane road that my brother had to help in the snow. Idjit had 4WD, snow tires & chains on all four, but digging holes in the rear while the fronts did nothing: “What do you mean by ‘I have to engage the front differential for the 4WD to work?’”


14 posted on 02/25/2013 2:06:04 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Responsibility2nd

reminds me of disgruntled former Freepers that write a long whiny posting why they are quitting.


15 posted on 02/25/2013 2:14:09 PM PST by MNDude (Guns don't kill people, Democrats kill people)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Not sure what this guy is talking about. You can control your image on facebook by deciding what you do or do not decide to post. Just dont post to blogs using your facebook identity. Some like CBS marketplace require an identity like facebook and do not allow anonymous posting. Just ignore those.


16 posted on 02/25/2013 2:15:22 PM PST by plain talk
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To: humblegunner
"Facebook is cool because it lets me be a butthole with a whole new set of rules and variables.

This fact may not be of value to everyone."

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Like the heckling at https://www.facebook.com/barackobama ?!!

It was hilarious last night -- "Yeah, I tried to buy an ar-15 at the gunshow but they wouldn't sell to me, I was gonna show the teabaggers how easy it is, what gives with this, man?" and people going back and forth on that.

It was funnier last night before I came across this obamanation.

17 posted on 02/25/2013 2:16:14 PM PST by cyn (Benghazi...the travesty continues.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Not sure what this guy is talking about. You can control your image on facebook by deciding what you do or do not decide to post. Just dont post to blogs using your facebook identity. Some like CBS marketplace require an identity like facebook and do not allow anonymous posting. Just ignore those.


18 posted on 02/25/2013 2:17:37 PM PST by plain talk
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To: svcw

The data obviously vary from sucker to sucker, but basically family relationships, and locations that provide answers to security questions asked by financial institutions.

That is what facebook is made for.


19 posted on 02/25/2013 2:22:44 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Responsibility2nd

FaceBook is inhabited by liberals who accuse you of being a hateful person if you politely disagree with them. GET OFF OF IT!


20 posted on 02/25/2013 2:24:02 PM PST by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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