Facebook owns you

[GunMaster357]

I still don't have a FaceBook/Twitter account. I am unable to see anything useful in this system. I hate giving away any personnal information on the web.

I only maintain a Viadeo account for professional purpose.

And usually, if asked for an email, I provide one that is hosted by google/hotmail/whatever.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by GunMaster357

I am unable to see anything useful in this system.

Facebook is an easy way to stay in touch with friends. I hate the corporation known as Facebook, but I like the substantive updates I get from friends, and I like to be able to easily update them as well.

[GunMaster357]

Originally Posted by glatt

Facebook is an easy way to stay in touch with friends.

Well, I don't have that many friends. And we all have e-mails and mobile phones.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by GunMaster357

I only maintain a Viadeo account for professional purpose.

I knew it, you're a pornographer.

Originally Posted by glatt

Facebook is an easy way to stay in touch with friends. I hate the corporation known as Facebook, but I like the substantive updates I get from friends, and I like to be able to easily update them as well.

Yeah, otherwise you would have to actually interact with friends, instead of leaving notes.

[Lamplighter]

A mega-step down the F@cebook road... and maybe a shark-jump
(bold is mine)


Facebook's "profound" changes previewed
*
"This is your life"-style timeline will detail everything about you and yours
*
By Hendrik Pape, Reader review September 24, 2011 1:02 PM

For the past few weeks we’ve been hearing about these changes Facebook had been rolling out;
Some people had them, others didn’t.
But on Wednesday that all changed as Facebook finally shared a major overhaul
of its news feed to all of its subscribers.
The majority of users reacted quickly and strongly against the overhaul
which saw a real-time ticker appear at the top right of the profile.
This ticker contains all of the likes and comments, de-cluttering the news feed.
<snip>

Your timeline profile starts with a cover photo that identifies you.
Much like before you can chose your photo out of your existing photos or you can upload a new one.
Next in line is your profile photo along with the information that used to be under your info tab,
with the addition of a map to show your check-ins to give people an idea of places you’ve visited,
putting a new emphasis on Facebook places.

The status line now adds a few extra options.
First up is a work button, this lets you add a job, a graduation, military service or other life event
Next in line are matters of the heart, represented by a heart, of course.
Here you add engagements, marriages, children, pets, and the loss of a loved one or other life events.
The list goes on with Home life and even has the option to add broken bones, surgeries, new languages and so on.

In short if it’s something that you’ve done, or experienced you will have the opportunity to share it on Facebook.
<snip>

Timeline wasn’t the only thing that Facebook unveiled at the F8,
if anything it was simply the dressing for Open Graph.
Open Graph will change everything about Facebook and how we share our information.
“Today we’re making it possible to create a whole new class of apps and change industries at the same time,” Zuckerberg stated.
Open Graph will allow developers to create apps that allow users what they are doing.
There are three parts to Open Grap:
- First apps will no longer ask for permission to post to Facebook.
Rather a permissions screen will appear explaining exactly what information will be shared,
once permission has been granted the user will not be prompted again.
- Next, updates through Open Graph will automatically appear in the ticker but only important events appear in the newsfeed.
- Finally users will have the ability to share experiences,
such as listening to music, through the new Facebook Open Graph and the ticker.

Open Graph apps will be split into four categories: Communication, Games, Media and Lifestyle.

The bottom line is that by the time Facebook’s evolution is complete
it will be much more than a social network.
It will be a portal that will profoundly change the way we work and play online.

My hope is that Wikileaks will publish an expose of what is happening to all this personal information and real-time snooping.
I expect to close my FB account if I can't keep everything limited to my "closest friends"

[Lamplighter]

With 'real-time' apps, Facebook is always watching
September 23, 2011|By John D. Sutter, CNN



Survery Shows People Upset Over Facebook Changes
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | September 24, 2011 3:52 PM EDT

In a survey of over 1,000 people conducted by Sodahead, a social-voting based site,
around 86 percent of the Facebook audience said they strongly disliked the changes that*the site*recently underwent.
<snip>

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the F8 technology conference Thursday
that the changes will help build "a completely new class of social apps"
allowing users to share every facet of their lives on the site, according to CNET.
<snip>
"[b]All those activities people perform with these apps
--listening to a Bjork tune, reading about same-sex marriage laws,
cooking Arroz con Pollo, running four miles, donating to Amnesty International--[/B
will be stored permanently and made accessible (if the user allows it)
on a greatly enhanced profile page that will essentially become a remote-control autobiography,"
wrote Wired's Steven Levy on the new updates.

[footfootfoot]

It seems suicide machine is too busy. Luckily, I have not been a facebook fiend for long so I manually deleted all my comments and everyone's comments to me and all my photos, etc. THEN I deleted my account. I guess if you deleted your account w/o deleting your content, your shit is still up there.

Let me know if you can see any of my shit up there. I'm curious.

I do feel a lot better, I'm not totally sold on the need for the internet.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Let me know if you can see any of my shit up there. I'm curious.

I'm pretty sure I saw it up there in the last day or two. Maybe on the cellar group page? Just your name and mug shot.

But when I look for you there, you don't show up for me.

When did you take it down?

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by glatt

I'm pretty sure I saw it up there in the last day or two. Maybe on the cellar group page? Just your name and mug shot.

But when I look for you there, you don't show up for me.

When did you take it down?

About an hour ago

[glatt]

Facebook just let me know that it's my dead cousin's birthday. So I went to his wall. Lots of nice messages there. Most people are saying "Happy Birthday, RIP," and share fond memories, but some don't seem to realize he died. It was a month ago.

Kinda weird.

[TheMercenary]

Ouch. Sorry to hear that. RIP cous.

[Cloud]

I plan to leave a folder in my files "in case of death" which has instructions to close out all my net stuff. How else would you do it if your heirs or family don't know?

Although I vigorously backpedal whenever I see something that wants to share my FB info, I am kinda liking the various commercial and organization pages. Lots of discounts, news and stuff.

That, and family photo sharing, are pretty good reasons imo to stick around. Carefully.

[BrianR]

there exists such a program, a failsafe for such things

If you don't log in personally, it will delete history, bookmarks and such potentially embarrassing things. Use with caution however. If you go on vacation and forget it, you will come home to a sterilized computer.

[Happy Monkey]

recently, on several sites, when I hit "back", nothing happens. I look at the site list, and Facebook has snuck in between the two sites on the forward/back list, even on computers on which I have never looked at facebook. I've seen this happen with other list-sneakers as well; before Facebook, it was often Google. It must be some stat-gathering redirect thing.

It's annoying.

[BrianR]

I finally broke down and got a Facebook account. I put fake data in every field and used a spamcatcher email address, where I made a rule about anything coming from facebook is spam. Same with Domino's and a few other sites.

I do not game there, I only use it to browse my friend's accounts. I never accept friend requests, so don't ask. That leads to the dark side!

So I am relatively safe from Facebook bad things. My antivirus is up to date and the same goes for my malware killer(s). Added to the fact that I rarely go there and I ought to be okay.