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[Vimana]

Twitter is something I will probably never join. It's like a website dedicated to what Facebook statuses already do: allow people to spit out information under the illusion that other people will read it even though few people will read theirs, and they will read only some of others'.

I remember reading a study that said that the majority of twitter users don't really read other people's tweets. I'll have to find it.

edit: Here's one. http://mashable.com/2011/03/28/twitter-study-consumed/

 

[King Richard]

I hear ya, and I think most "normal" people who use twitter are narcissists. But I actually do read the tweets from people who are interesting to me. That and the Facebook Nazis piss me off. They're trying to make the information you post on Facebook their legal property. Fuck a bunch of that.

Also, twitter is just easier to use.

 

[Vimana]

Yeah, Facebook is fucked up. I'm kinda sad anon didn't destroy it. I still use it, though. I know Google stores lots of information about people, but at least they don't pull the whole "give us more private information to protect yourself" crap that Facebook does as much. Sure, they get information from our searches and email accounts, but it would be kind of stupid not to cash in on that. Facebook just takes it to a worse level by making it damn near impossible to delete your account.

Also, Google doesn't seem to employ anything outside of the site to try and snag more information about you. I have evidence that Facebook does. So at a community college I went to there was a girl in my class from Germany. We never exchanged any contact info whatsoever with one another, and we had absolutely zero mutual friends (I would find out for sure later, but it wasn't a bad assumption since she was from Germany), but when I was about to add her, it only took me typing in the first three letters of her first name for her picture to pop up at the top of the results. The only thing this girl and I had in common was that we were in one class together. They must have somehow been able to link us that way. I can't think of any other possible way that she would pop up as the first result when we had no mutual friends and never even exchanged text messages or emails. Facebook doesn't have my mobile number anyway. Each time they asked, I skipped.

 

[Zephyrus]

My FB narcissism is bad enough, so no thanks, Twitter.

 

[-CC-]

Also, Google doesn't seem to employ anything outside of the site to try and snag more information about you. I have evidence that Facebook does. So at a community college I went to there was a girl in my class from Germany. We never exchanged any contact info whatsoever with one another, and we had absolutely zero mutual friends (I would find out for sure later, but it wasn't a bad assumption since she was from Germany), but when I was about to add her, it only took me typing in the first three letters of her first name for her picture to pop up at the top of the results. The only thing this girl and I had in common was that we were in one class together. They must have somehow been able to link us that way. I can't think of any other possible way that she would pop up as the first result when we had no mutual friends and never even exchanged text messages or emails. Facebook doesn't have my mobile number anyway. Each time they asked, I skipped.

You were probably just in the same college network.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

followed...

 

[Vimana]

You were probably just in the same college network.

Do you automatically get added to the network if you attend it? In my experience, you have to add it yourself.

 

[Dak]

 

[Vimana]

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Why run from big brother? I know this sounds like either embracing it or being completely aloof, but I don't mean either. Google knows who you are and where you live, so does Facebook, and before them, there were a nearly infinite number of ways to gather and distribute your personal data, not to mention the intrusive surveillance by the government alphabet soup agencies. Anonymity is impossible in our society, and has generally been that way since the beginning of the 20th century. I simply portray myself as precisely who I am and make no apologies for it. Sure, it pisses me off that I have no real privacy, but it does no good to hide under a "tin foil hat", as it were.

 

[Vimana]

I don't do any form of wearing a tin foil hat. I'm just not cool with a social network that makes it nearly impossible for people to delete their profiles.

 

[The Ozzman]

If you use the internet, you're not anonymous. Just get over it. IP addresses make you not anonymous.

 

[Vimana]

I'm not trying to be.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Facebook Home menu > Privacy settings > Security settings tab > click "deactivate your account"

They require a reason for leaving, but that's about it.

 

[Dak]

Why run from big brother? I know this sounds like either embracing it or being completely aloof, but I don't mean either. Google knows who you are and where you live, so does Facebook, and before them, there were a nearly infinite number of ways to gather and distribute your personal data, not to mention the intrusive surveillance by the government alphabet soup agencies. Anonymity is impossible in our society, and has generally been that way since the beginning of the 20th century. I simply portray myself as precisely who I am and make no apologies for it. Sure, it pisses me off that I have no real privacy, but it does no good to hide under a "tin foil hat", as it were.

I kind of fall somewhere in the middle on this. You are correct, but I don't believe in making it any easier than it has to be. I am aware that if I were specifically targetted, there is nothing you can do to fight that.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

At least there is no reliable way to read a person's inner thoughts.

 

[The Butt]

Yet. If my experiment goes as planned, that will all change.

If it doesn't, tell my wife and kids I love them.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

hahaha, just saw this during the football game. Badass!

 

[Tonka Time]

At least there is no reliable way to read a person's inner thoughts.

I was thinking recently about what might be possible if everyone could communicate directly from thier mind to others minds.
Not really "reading" minds but using the mind to directly engage in exchange of information with another mind at will.

In a way I feel if everyone "understood" (Not just recieving the words/text, but also every emotion and thought process that goes into creating/becoming a thought) everything about each other it could promote greater "knowledge" and a more peaceful world. (Not completely removing hatred,murder,evil,... as adversity plays a very important role in causing balance and imo an interesting life)
Though it's more likely people would use it to exploit others to enhance only thierself or to impose thier thoughts and ideas on everyone else.

(So instead of just reading this, you would know/feel exactly how I thought/felt about it. And then you would have the ability to communicate to me your exact opinion/feelings on it and I would be able to understand exactly what you meant/felt. Regardless of language/intelligence barriers)

Ultimately, the mind is still the only true "safe place" people have and shouldn't be fucked with by others. It's just amusing to wonder what if?

 

[Vimana]

That's basically the reason I have been working on a language that makes getting confused more difficult. The mechanics are designed to be complicated enough to communicate many things but simple enough not to be confusing or annoying. I don't have dreams of it getting implemented worldwide. It's basically for my own benefit.