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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Facebook...

Antony M said:
Maybe that's just you!!!

I have had NO use for Yahoo for years.
But I use Facebook as part of my business and for communications on a daily basis.
Facebook (for me and 900 million other people) is one of the best things to come out of the www.
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Well there is a simple explanation : we have different jobs...:beer:
 
M Most said:
Thinking that because you haven't explicitly typed in your name, address, and Social Security number that Facebook a) doesn't already have that information, and b) isn't collecting other valuable information about you, is very naive. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and a number of other entities probably know more about you than you might know about yourself. Your habits while online, what you click on, what you don't, how often you're there, where you log on from, what you log on from, what you type, what you don't, who you visit, who you don't, all produce reams and reams of information. Each of those things individually might seem rather innocuous, but taken together they can give a very accurate portrait of what and who you are. If you think it takes a Census to get information about you, think again. The only way to avoid yielding private information about yourself is to never go on line. The ONLY way. Because once you're there, everything you do is recorded somewhere. Its existence is fact. How it's used is what's either dangerous or not. But the notion of "online security" is just as much of an oxymoron as "jumbo shrimp" or "military intelligence." That's not pleasant or reassuring to think about, but it is absolutely true.
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I already know that Im not 100% safe on net, phone etc. Data are collected by NSA, Echelon, UAV Euro Hawk drones, bots etc, even your Word or Excel docs has some nice embeded info. Computer operation systems has backdoors. Burned CD/DVDs, papers printed from your printer or mp3 ripped on your PC has embedded unique informations. Googles Street View cars sucked not only all visible data but also GPS, Wifi and Celular data they can around the world.
Android and iPhone Apps are keeping collecting and collecting (good ones are Viber and WhatsApp :devil:), net and phone providers, goverments, companies. hackers etc. etc..
But just because I dont give my data directly out, only few are able to reach them. They are not istantly available to anybody and that can make huge difference. My picture is way more blurry then picture of 900 million of other users.

Even Sergey from Google is quite nervous from too closed FB and Apple systems. No more free data for him to digg more money ...:biggrin:
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news...ceo-worried-about-the-future-of-the-internet/
 
Petr Dvorak said:
Its also pretty sad how people are naive. I had to live several years in country with communist regime and I highly value my privacy and my freedom. I know their value.
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I grew up in the stepmotherly womb of the U.S.S.R., and my greatest ensuing value is in waking up unconcerned with the ways of screwing the system. Playing it straight is its own reward.
 
Michael Zeleny said:
I grew up in the stepmotherly womb of the U.S.S.R., and my greatest ensuing value is in waking up unconcerned with the ways of screwing the system. Playing it straight is its own reward.
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Previous one was less efficient.
 
Jannard said:
Mark Z brought 900 million people together… then took all their money and put it in his pocket. :-)

Jim
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Not a bad idea and 100K stupid people help him to make it work for him !:emote_22_yikes:
 
Will Keir said:
They have a FB page for pets too. Get your dogs online!
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I have dogs and cat as friends. Also one ape, she is a photographer, she used to take pictures which were directly send to her page. :001_smile:

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I also met God and Jesus Christ on Facebook. Just everybody is there.
 
Shares are down to $28!
 
Facebook has been good for RED. No facebook no Social Network.
 
M Most said:
Thinking that because you haven't explicitly typed in your name, address, and Social Security number that Facebook a) doesn't already have that information, and b) isn't collecting other valuable information about you, is very naive. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and a number of other entities probably know more about you than you might know about yourself.
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This is an important point to make. It doesn't matter if you willingly choose to join a social network, by IP address and cookies most people are being tracked and their personal profile built anyway. I *still* get ads for Las Vegas Hotels on most sites, weeks now after NAB. That was entirely determined by a third party who I never signed up with.

Honestly, I actually agree with Zuckerberg. I don't think privacy is important is terribly important. It's like the people who are afraid the government is tracking them with drones but buy everything with a credit card. "Umm, you realize they can just follow your CC purchases to know where you are right?" Privacy is dead. And in my opinion was a brief interlude in human civilization. 100 years ago everyone in town had all of the gossip on your comings and goings. This notion that we can disappear into the mass of humanity unnoticed and unjudged by our neighbors is a more recent expectation. Historically you had many multi-generational households. Grandma knew what you were up to whether you facebook posted it or not--she was there.
 
Sure Gavin, but moving to the neighbouring village/town/city/country would reset a lot of stuff for better and worse.

Privacy protection is not an isue until you need it...

G
(Counciously NOT protecting my tracks, but that doesn't mean I don't respect or do suspect those who want to/have to)
 
Frank Cueto said:
Shares are down to $28!
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Facebook is probably most similar to google. Since Google's net profit is 10 times that of facebook we can suggest that facebook's market cap should be 1/10 that of google or 19 billion. Since 19 billion is roughly 1/3 of the current market cap, facebook's stock price would land around 1/3 the current price, a little over $9.
 
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