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So let your friends know this is a safe place where they can post on almost any subject without being tracked and targeted.

Remember as far as Facebook is concerned YOU are the product they sell!

 

I've never had an account there and only end up there if a specific search turns up a facebook page, and still I avoid it where possible.

No you don't! Many other ways to communicate, and now it's important to educate those on FB by insisting they contact you via alternative means. Such as email... or phone calls or even gosh, Hip Forums?

I never knew that Facebook was based upon an actual Harvard publication called "The Facebook", which was a hard cover book including pictures and descriptions of every freshman at the school. So all Zuckerberg, et al., "invented" was an online version of the same thing. That doesn't make him a "genius" at all, esp since he wasn't the only one involved in its creation.

 

yeah, I find that to be the scary part of certain social networks that allow anyone to contact you, and apparently anyone who pays can get a complete profile of everything you do and like and visit and think!

And the worse part is that info is out there all over the net!
You won't be able to escape, because what's done is done and the info can be used again and again. It's esp. bad because once a psychological profile is built, it really doesn't change much. And once you've been "labeled", that label will follow you from school days to work (if you can get hired!), to personal relationships. It's hard to remove it, once it's out there!

If you can remember the "Charlie Harper Sucks" website or whatever on Two and a Half Men. One of his ex-girlfriends started a site about him, and long story short, all his exes warned women never to date him. He got labeled... now everyone has been...

 

Oh and news flash!

It turns out Cambridge Analytica had many other surveys on Facebook collecting data on more people. So that 87 million number is b.s. it's probably in the hundreds of millions.

One was a sex survey, one was a music survey. Oh, yeah, just an innocent survey to see what ppl think...and to record it, add it to their hidden personal profiles along with psychological categorization.