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[Jimmy... Dead.]

The only way it could be evil is if we were forced to use it. Yet that's whats worrying me, hm.

 

[Vimana]

Zuck's done some shady stuff, but he's the world's youngest billionaire. It probably took lots of badgering (by badgering, I mean incessant offers of money) from advertising corporations and the like before he finally caved to giving away information on Facebook's users. Besides, they submitted it willingly anyway.

 

[divine_torture]

I use facebook a lot for instant messaging, and i occasionally come across party invites or old friends through it, which is nice. I think people are generally more hostile toward it than they need to be, it's a pretty useful tool.

My main concern right now is getting a second account going so i can "keep my worlds apart" in terms of friends vs. family and professional contacts. I talk about smoking pot in private messages, which i probably shouldn't do, but i'd be really surprised if the authorities bothered to track me down for that.

I talk to people I used to steal cars with. Kick doors in with. Stab people with. Shoot up meth with. Sell pounds of meth with. The authorities really don't care about you smoking pot, bud.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

I talk to people I used to steal cars with. Kick doors in with. Stab people with. Shoot up meth with. Sell pounds of meth with. The authorities really don't care about you smoking pot, bud.

really dude? WTF for doing it and WTFX2 for even mentioning it.

 

[Vimana]

Is that the only sentence that Yoda says in normal English syntax?

 

[The Emptier]

I have almost all of my professors as friends on facebook and really have nothing to hide and don't post any obscenities or retardo partying pictures. Totally agree that it's only as evil as you let it be.

 

[skeptik]

I have almost all of my professors as friends on facebook and really have nothing to hide and don't post any obscenities or retardo partying pictures. Totally agree that it's only as evil as you let it be.

Fist bump, mother fucker.

 

[The Emptier]

YEEAAAAHHHHHH

 

[sevag00]

I don't know. I don't thing i will ever come across using facebook. I think it's a waste of time.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

d_t - you're crazy... but point taken

 

[SentinelSlain]

For me it's a way of setting up events and nights out without using credit. IM would suffice but you can't look at as many pics of hot girls you've recently met with that.

 

[Dak]

The only way it could be evil is if we were forced to use it. Yet that's whats worrying me, hm.

If the users were given a sense and/or promise of privacy and then find out, after the fact, that FB is keeping all info they posted and distributing it wherever FB wants to, this is a problem. That is the problem.

 

[Vimana]

I don't think they explicitly promised privacy, but they didn't have any kind of disclaimer or openly say "we can and probably will sell the information you give us to advertisers."

Or at least they didn't when I signed up for about five or six years ago.

 

[Dak]

I don't think they explicitly promised privacy, but they didn't have any kind of disclaimer or openly say "we can and probably will sell the information you give us to advertisers."

Or at least they didn't when I signed up for about five or six years ago.

I was referring more to the position they took a while back that even if you delete stuff off your profile, they still have it. They backed off and said they would only keep it for 2 weeks further, but why believe them? Who's checking up on what happens to the data after you deactivate your account?

Zuckerberg has voiced open disdain for privacy concerns, so why should I believe FB took the concerns seriously?

 

[cookiecutter]

Facebook is like just about everything else; you get what you put into it. It's not evil.

This is a good point. Use it for you want and if you don't want that kind of social network, then don't use it. I think it's a bit disingenuous of people to complain about it and all the stupid ways people use it. That sounds to me like wanting to feel better than other people for petty reasons.

 

[Zephyrus]

This is a good point. Use it for you want and if you don't want that kind of social network, then don't use it. I think it's a bit disingenuous of people to complain about it and all the stupid ways people use it. That sounds to me like wanting to feel better than other people for petty reasons.

I revile it as a penitent sinner against his sins. I form bad habits very easily and it was taking its toll.

 

[Vimana]

I was referring more to the position they took a while back that even if you delete stuff off your profile, they still have it. They backed off and said they would only keep it for 2 weeks further, but why believe them? Who's checking up on what happens to the data after you deactivate your account?

Zuckerberg has voiced open disdain for privacy concerns, so why should I believe FB took the concerns seriously?

I think by law they're supposed to delete it and/or send it to us, if we make a request.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Anyone here ever had lyme disease and got really bloated as a result? I've been on meds for a week and my gut has gotton real distended so maybe is's a possible side effect from the pills?

 

[divine_torture]

really dude? WTF for doing it and WTFX2 for even mentioning it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrpBLDWyCI

There's a level of intentional sarcastic extremes I took it there. Obviously I would not go around boasting about stabbing people even if I ever actually did stab someone. The point was simply that talking about smoking pot on fb with a friend will very unlikely garner the laws attention.

EDIT: But Jimmy, don't question me. And don't you fucking fuck with me. I'll cut you. I'll cut you hard and deep.

 

[Vimana]

Anyone here ever had lyme disease and got really bloated as a result? I've been on meds for a week and my gut has gotton real distended so maybe is's a possible side effect from the pills?

That sounds like a side-effect. I had it a while back, and that didn't happen to me.