Author Topic: Facebook stupidity? Seems to have trouble "letting go" of user info... (Read 221 times)

Darren Dirt · « **on:** September 26, 2011, 03:19:52 PM »

Reason #71 why I feel no regret in not jumping onto this particular tech-bandwagon.

http://nikcub-cache.appspot.com/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-enough

Melbosa · « **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2011, 03:31:44 PM »

You really have 70 other reasons?

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2011, 03:49:08 PM »

Reasons 1 thru 70: Too cool to connect with people online.

Invisible to everyone but marketing bots

Darren Dirt · « **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2011, 04:40:49 PM »

Quote from: Melbosa on September 26, 2011, 03:31:44 PM

You really have 70 other reasons?

...no... but If I said "Reason #42" then imo you wouldn't take me seriously.

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #4 on:** September 26, 2011, 04:48:39 PM »

Melbosa · « **Reply #5 on:** September 26, 2011, 05:32:45 PM »

Quote from: Darren Dirt on September 26, 2011, 04:40:49 PM

Quote from: Melbosa on September 26, 2011, 03:31:44 PM
You really have 70 other reasons?

...no... but If I said "Reason #42" then imo you wouldn't take me seriously.

You really have 41 other reasons?

Darren Dirt · « **Reply #6 on:** September 26, 2011, 05:48:26 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Analog on September 26, 2011, 03:49:08 PM

Reasons 1 thru 70: Too cool to connect with people online.

I have 99 reasons, but coolness ain't one of 'em.

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #7 on:** September 26, 2011, 08:53:50 PM »

Well, I have 5 neat reasons!

Darren Dirt · « **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2011, 09:20:18 PM »

Well, this other "guy" has (or so I hear) 88 things to say...

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #9 on:** September 26, 2011, 09:26:41 PM »

I heard he's a bit of a Half Wit

Darren Dirt · « **Reply #10 on:** September 26, 2011, 09:32:01 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Analog on September 26, 2011, 09:26:41 PM

I heard he's a bit of a Half Wit

So is she.

btw DAMN YOU for linking to SCTV video -- related related related , and then I find this gem I completely forgot about -- EVEN AFTER I WATCHED "A Mighty Wind"!

Now to grab a "Bottle Of Wine"... and I don't even have a doorstep to sit on.

Guess I'm feeling kinda unHappy that "Six Gun Justice" has *still* not come out on DVD. (Sammy the Goose agrees.) (but Mike the Bartender doesn't really care one way or the other -- as long as a typical 80s workout show is on the TV)

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #11 on:** September 27, 2011, 05:31:10 AM »

Oh man, now I'm gonna end up watching all those episodes of Six Gun Justice again haha

Classic stuff!

Darren Dirt · « **Reply #12 on:** September 27, 2011, 08:03:37 AM »

Hard to believe the first season was so long ago -- they were such young punks back in '76:

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #13 on:** September 27, 2011, 08:06:48 AM »

And I thought Google turning 13 made me feel old LOL.

I remember watching SCTV when there were still new episodes...

Darren Dirt · « **Reply #14 on:** September 27, 2011, 11:38:47 AM »

To parphrase Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "sometimes you have to take a stand"
http://gizmodo.com/5844044/unlike-why-facebook-integration-is-actually-antisocial

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #15 on:** September 27, 2011, 11:51:39 AM »

Apparently the hacker who discovered the issue is now reporting that Facebook has "fixed" it: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-fixes-cookie-behavior-after-logging-out/4120

Also today; if you use Spotify it now wants you to have a FB account: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20111974-93/spotify-users-steamed-over-facebook-requirement/

Thorin · « **Reply #16 on:** September 27, 2011, 12:15:47 PM »

Here's good reason to keep using Chrome: Facebook Disconnect

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #17 on:** September 27, 2011, 12:18:15 PM »

Or you know, if privacy is a concern, stop using FB altogether. I mean really the purpose of the site is for you to share information about yourself so that others can track you...

Just a wild thought

Thorin · « **Reply #18 on:** September 27, 2011, 02:02:42 PM »

I think a lot of people want to use it to let _some individuals_ track them without _corporations and advertising agencies_ tracking them.

There's always that question, though - if a website provides free access, how do they get money to pay for bandwidth? By selling what they track about you, of course.

Darren Dirt · « **Reply #19 on:** October 07, 2011, 10:59:22 AM »

Joy Of Tech sees Zuck as a villain too...
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1542.html

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #20 on:** October 07, 2011, 11:52:07 AM »

Well, he is a bit of a douche after all...

Darren Dirt · « **Reply #21 on:** October 20, 2011, 10:53:52 AM »

Sean Parker lets a bit of FB truth slip...
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/10/19/facebook-makes-us-embrace-creepy/

(I for one am fine with Zuck et al calling me a Luddite...)

Mr. Analog · « **Reply #22 on:** October 20, 2011, 11:56:27 AM »

Well, here's the thing; right now Facebook, Google, Microsoft and a large number of Advertisers have a shadow profile for someone who very well might be you, if you provide information about yourself on Facebook or the like at least you get to set your own record rather than say having someone who doesn't like you tag your name onto a bunch of things that don't belong to you.

So, either you ensure that no one that ever knew you posts things about you online or you get on top of it and make sure your "public profile" is "correct".

In a way we've just started moving back into the small town/settlement mode where everyone knows everyone else and what's going on around "town".