Godammit…
Ask anyone, that I team up with in their computer issues… I fight Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIN very hard. Primarily due to the viral haven that can be found there. I want to stress CAN. Not that if you only stay on the site that you will get one… but rather if you find a tinyurl or any of those obfuscated URL’s… That is how we viruses from social sites. There was a post on /. on which site to use if you don’t want to use the Big 3?
Here is a comment that really got to me!!! thank you Overzeetop!!!
Sure, Mark Zuckerberg’s a douche-bag, but most large corporations are run by douche-bags and yet I still buy Cheerios at Wal-Mart and drive a Chrysler.
Here’s the thing – and don’t tell anybody I told you this – if you don’t put anything private on Facebook, then your privacy won’t be compromised by it.
I use Facebook. I use it because most of my friends are on it. It’s a nice way to stay in touch with people who I know, but most of whom I couldn’t finish a single beer with and still have anything to talk about. I like these folks – they’re part of my past and present – bu some people I only have very small things in common with. I also know when things are happening (a friend’s play, or their kids league championship ball game), and where I have common interests with acquaintances whom I would either not interact with at all, or would take years to become closer.
But guess what – I don’t put anything on Facebook which is (a) embarrassing (b) particularly personal (c) not already available with an internet search. I never Facebook while drunk (well, I don’t get drunk – but you get the idea), and I don’t attack people or things. I don’t join “causes”. I’m not a marketing wasteland, though. I’ve filled out my “favorite” things sections. BFD. If knowing that I’m in my 40s, like Bowling for Soup and Amadeus, and am married gets Facebook a couple of dollars in ad revenue, go for it. Kroger already knows when I’m on a fucking Diet, and CVS probably informs their spies when the rest of my household has seasonal allergies.
So, that brings me back – unless you really need something else, and are willing and able to migrate your entire friend group to it – quit your whining, be smart with your data, and surf with due caution. You know you can’t trust Zuckerberg, and that’s 98% of the way to keeping your information safe.
Oh – and whatever you go to will be just as bad eventually. Google can’t always not be evil, and even open source projects can have a mole.
Well shit. He has a valid point. And worse I agree with him almost wholesale. Then there was this rebuttal… that I thought about at great length and provoked thought… but it still didn’t make me change my mind. Apologies Drooling-dog…
It’s not necessarily what personal info you put on Facebook that’s going to come back to bite you in the ass; it’s your social network itself. Back in the 1950s, during the McCarthy witch-hunt, you got into trouble not so much for what you did, but for who you associated with (or even were just seen talking to). At that point you had the choice of either denouncing that person or being blacklisted yourself. As an aspiring dictator, I drool profusely thinking about how easily I’ll be able to cleanse the social landscape of it’s undesirable elements. They’re falling all over themselves trying to give me lists of all their friends, no house calls or torture needed.
Of course, it can’t happen here, falling on deaf ears, etc…
So they both make sense. So what are we to do? I am going to share this with people but further more I am going to embrace them however I need to to join the ranks. I mean the “ranks” are where everyone is.
Dad: “If your friends jump off a bridge are you going to as well?”
me: “Dude, have you ever tried it… it is a blast…”
Referring of course to bungee jumping 
