Come on.... You know I'm right...
Posted on 02/25/2013 1:45:29 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Editor's note: Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist and the author of the upcoming book "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
(CNN) -- I used to be able to justify using Facebook as a cost of doing business. As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.
I can no longer justify this arrangement.
Today, I am surrendering my Facebook account, because my participation on the site is simply too inconsistent with the values I espouse in my work. In my upcoming book "Present Shock," I chronicle some of what happens when we can no longer manage our many online presences. I have always argued for engaging with technology as conscious human beings and dispensing with technologies that take that agency away.
Facebook is just such a technology. It does things on our behalf when we're not even there. It actively misrepresents us to our friends, and worse misrepresents those who have befriended us to still others. To enable this dysfunctional situation -- I call it "digiphrenia" -- would be at the very least hypocritical. But to participate on Facebook as an author, in a way specifically intended to draw out the "likes" and resulting vulnerability of others, is untenable.
Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does.
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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.
Don't read 'em either.
Mostly they're full of Syphilis and AIDS.
So you’re not dating those gals any more? (Gonorra and Sssphyllis)
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.
DUH!!!!!!
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Just like well trained Pavlovian dogs, and, of course, leftists, we hate success! We hate Google, we hate Apple, we hate Etc...
Oh HELL no.
Gonorra's EBT card ran out and Sissy got locked up 20 -to- 25.
I got the Camaro and the trailer.
Would it be a good approximation to say that more than half of the accounts on Facebook and Twitter are fake?
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.”
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.
Come on.... You know I'm right...
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.
“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.
I ditched my Facebook account earlier this year.
I could no longer take giving aid to Obama cronies.
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.) ;-)))
I like Facebook a lot more since I joined the prayer warriors to pray for children with cancer and other illnesses.
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.
>> “I got the Camaro and the trailer.” <<
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Y’alls sittin pretty!
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