CA's Facebook on track to have 1 Billion users by August (Montclair: live, corporate)

[18Montclair]

That's 1 in every 7 human beings.

Technolog - Prediction: 1 billion Facebook users by August

[jaijai]

totally disturbing and creepy ... imo.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by jaijai

totally disturbing and creepy ... imo.

People give FB way too much information and power. Oooops, did we just set everything to "public" again? Oh well.

[jaijai]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

People give FB way too much information and power. Oooops, did we just set everything to "public" again? Oh well.

That and it's just so lame and it's dumbing people down even further.
I question the time that i spend on c-d-f but at least there are opportunities to be helpful, to be helped, and / or to have interesting "conversations".
But what are people doing on Facebook? and why? Do they even know themselves?
Constantly sharing stupid minutia about their lives (does anyone know how to be alone and just be quiet?) and posting pictures of their "friends" and other dubious s*** that potentially impacts their lives negatively not to mention the fact that by August 1 billion people will be feeding and strengthening another corporate parasite and getting nothing essential in return.
People are being duped.
Follow me on Twitter follow me on Facebook ... duh.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by jaijai

That and it's just so lame and it's dumbing people down even further.
I question the time that i spend on c-d-f but at least there are opportunities to be helpful, to be helped, and / or to have interesting "conversations".
But what are people doing on Facebook? and why? Do they even know themselves?
Constantly sharing stupid minutia about their lives (does anyone know how to be alone and just be quiet?) and posting pictures of their "friends" and other dubious s*** that potentially impacts their lives negatively not to mention the fact that by August 1 billion people will be feeding and strengthening another corporate parasite and getting nothing essential in return.
People are being duped.
Follow me on Twitter follow me on Facebook ... duh.

And I really dislike the way every ad/commercial for everything has become an ad for FB and Twitter. Then there's web sites with FB icons that basically turns FB into a supercookie whether you have a FB account or not. The OC Register recently ditched their commenting system in favor of FB. Now you can't comment on a story without using a FB account which of course lets them track everything you've ever said by your real identity.

[Ceece]

I deactivated mine recently even though I didn't really use it.

My daughter just got a jolt recently when she realized all the security and privacy settings she had on there still didn't stop one of her "FB friends" from passing on info about her to someone else. Nothing major, but annoying all the same. Hopefully this thing has peaked and will settle down soon.

[evergraystate]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

CA's Facebook on track to have 1 Billion users by August

And I'll never be one of them.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by Ceece

I deactivated mine recently even though I didn't really use it.

My daughter just got a jolt recently when she realized all the security and privacy settings she had on there still didn't stop one of her "FB friends" from passing on info about her to someone else. Nothing major, but annoying all the same. Hopefully this thing has peaked and will settle down soon.

Ahh, the "friend" backdoor. Remember when they introduced groups and any friend of yours could add you to the group? To prove a point, some tech journalist created a nambla group and added a friend to it. Zuck's response was something like "Well you should only friend people you trust." Yeah, because every "friend" is equally close and trustworthy.

[Ceece]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Ahh, the "friend" backdoor. Remember when they introduced groups and any friend of yours could add you to the group? To prove a point, some tech journalist created a nambla group and added a friend to it. Zuck's response was something like "Well you should only friend people you trust." Yeah, because every "friend" is equally close and trustworthy.

Funny Zuck would say that since the darn thing is CONSTANTLY pushing you to add "people you might know" and trying to get you to let it search all your email contacts.

[jaijai]

"You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

But Hugh reminds us that it's not futile ... it's imperative.
Or not ... it just depends on how free one wants to be.