I agree w/Libra . and I have one.. I just get on to contact ppl , because I dont have a cell phone or a house phone(anymore)
well you know what responses you're going to get here. no, it's not particularly hip. it's not the root of all evil like people here like to claim either. like any tool, it's inherently neutral and the quality of its use depends on the user. but yeah, i don't see what would qualify it as being "hip."
Facebook sucks. Never had one and never will. It's really nothing more than a government tool to keep tabs on what everyone is thinking. No, really, that is what it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGdWsxHJlM"]Facebook CIA connection - YouTube
Has it's perks... pretty much i post here and there different vibe altogether ... I have nothing to hide so its cool ... I am good with who I am and where I am at... not sure anyone really would wanna keep tabs on me, if they do they lead a dull existence! An old hippie got me on it, he said 'wouldn't you rather them have a real profile on you than one they tried to piece together?' Even here isnt free from people spying. If they have nothing better to do then fine, if it gives a geek a job and feeds the family so be it... I love global communication ... works for me ...
Facebook scans chats and posts for criminal activity July 12, 2012 - cnet.com Facebook's monitoring software focuses on conversations between members who have a loose relationship on the social network. Facebook has added sleuthing to its array of data-mining capabilities, scanning your posts and chats for criminal activity. If the social-networking giant detects suspicious behavior, it flags the content and determines if further steps, such as informing the police, are required. The new tidbit about the company's monitoring system comes from a Reuters interview with Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan. Here's the lead-in to the Reuters story: A man in his early 30s was chatting about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida girl and planned to meet her after middle-school classes the next day. Facebook's extensive but little-discussed technology for scanning postings and chats for criminal activity automatically flagged the conversation for employees, who read it and quickly called police. Officers took control of the teenager's computer and arrested the man the next day. Facebook's software focuses on conversations between members who have a loose relationship on the social network. For example, if two users aren't friends, only recently became friends, have no mutual friends, interact with each other very little, have a significant age difference, and/or are located far from each other, the tool pays particular attention. The scanning program looks for certain phrases found in previously obtained chat records from criminals, including sexual predators (because of the Reuters story, we know of at least one alleged child predator who is being brought before the courts as a direct result of Facebook's chat scanning). The relationship analysis and phrase material have to add up before a Facebook employee actually looks at communications and makes the final decision of whether to ping the authorities. "We've never wanted to set up an environment where we have employees looking at private communications, so it's really important that we use technology that has a very low false-positive rate," Sullivan told Reuters. While details of the tool are still scarce, it's a well-known fact that Facebook cooperates with the police, since, like any company, it has to abide by the law. In fact, just a few months ago, Facebook complied with a police subpoena by sending over 62 pages of photos, Wall posts, messages, contacts, and past activity on the site for a murder suspect. For more information about Facebook's stance on working with the police, I checked out these two pages: Law Enforcement and Third-Party Matters, as well as Information for Law Enforcement Authorities. It's worth noting that neither of these documents discusses the aforementioned tool (a quick search for the words "monitor" and "scan" bring up nothing).
i have a facebook , but I don't use it very much just to contact certain people. If I had to choose though I would pick facebook over twitter..lol. I don't like twitter at all
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This kind of screening based upon modeling is a sort of profiling done on what you've posted. It can come up with plenty of false positives, so it's good they have humans reviewing the results before reporting. However if you believe you have ANY privacy on Facebook, this should put that idea to rest.
I hate Facebook. The only reason why I still have one is to contact friends who I normally cant. I try to avoid my newsfeed as much as possible or I end up seeing a girl update her profile picture with two paragraphs of song lyrics in the caption and a shitty filter.
