Consider for a moment what is wrong with a system of government that allows a billionaire to telephone the president of the Untied States to complain, and having the sitting president actually answer the phone. Consider that this billionaire is Mark Zuckerbook. Mark Zuckerbook! I almost pissed my pants. This guy runs the biggest spy apparatus the world has ever known and now he is pissed off at the NSA. You gotta love it. Come on, step back from this picture and laugh with me at this. Trusting Facebook is like saying it's okay for your apartment manager to pass out keys to your apartment to everyone in your neighborhood. Or allowing the mailman to open your mail and share it with whomever. Or like asking a kleptomaniac to keep his hands in his pockets. This guy invented the privacy stomp. Now he's pissed because someone else is using the information he willingly profited off of. Boo-hoo, Mark. You were the one who sledge-hammered Pandora's box. You were the one who inferred everyone was stupid enough to trust you with their vital stats. You were the one who turned profiling your users into an insidious black art. This is a guy whose business card read, 'I am the CEO, Bitch.' Why did anyone ever trust this guy with personal information? He is a vampire bat sucking the blood out of all the free content you give him, forever encouraging his staff to invent new ways to spy on you as well as profit off you. And in return for the privacy you sacrifice, he gives you a timeline. Billions of dollars later, he calls Obama, complaining. Oh, people, you gotta love this. And come on, I am not pro-NSA, but you have to love the dilemma of Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Google, Facebook, Dropbox, etcetera, etcetera all trying desperately to spin the fact that they knew about NSA's Prism all along and actually cooperated with it, but now that they've been outed, are all looking around for someone to blame. It's like Goldman-Sachs blaming the SEC for not regulating them. Or like Putin blaming the Ukraine for provoking him. Or like Custer blaming the Sioux for taking advantage of his arrogance. The NSA—not to mention legions of unknown hackers, exploited what these massive InfoTech companies vacuumed up but were not able to adequately protect, so who's really to blame here? The hackers who find holes in the screen like mosquitoes? Demand better. Demand accountability. Take your business elsewhere. That will get their attention. Sacrifice a little of your convenience for your security. And stop rampantly spreading your likes around; they are only there so that Facebook can create a profile on you to sell to advertisers. And while I am on the subject, put down your Smartphone and actually talk to people. Turn off your map and wander about, unaided. Get lost. Take a day off and find things the old fashioned way, by trial and error. You lose out by having everything pre-programmed for you. Not to mention inducing scoliosis by always bending over your phones. This technology started out with a useful purpose but has devolved into a systematic abusive algorithm devised so that they can pimp you out all for the sake of selling you a product. You are only served so that you can be milked like a docile cow, and most end up actually thanking them for it. Greed and the extorionate ability to mine you have overcome what used to be called common decency. Your privacy has become a pig roast feeding legions of well-fed hyenas and vultures. Millions of dollars are wasted tracking law-abiding citizens. Why does the government not trust us? Has it made the world safer? Do you feel safer? Is your private information safer? Take back the net! Imagine Nathan Hale (an American Revolutionary War patriot) saying, “I only regret that I have but one life to give to Mark Zuckerbook.” I am in China where I can’t even access Facebook so I’d really love to hear your opinions. Tonight is Marvin Gaye’s birthday and I am listening to ‘What’s Going on.’ If you know it, play it! If you don’t, seek it out. It is ethereal, like the spirit of Gandhi wafting like smoke through an urban landscape. Meanwhile, the wind sings forgotten songs it knows you are ready to hear again . . . UPDATE 6.30.2014: Apparently Facebook thinks its users are the equivalent of Lab Rats and manipulated the feed results for over 700,000 individuals to determine how it affected their moods. Read all about the creepiness here: Facebook's Massive Psychology Experiment
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Mary
4/2/2014 07:30:09 am
So well said about Facebook and Mark. He is a snake and the movie showed it. Back stabbed his college friends. Happy Birthday Marvin -- “You see war is not the answer - For only love can conquer hate you know we’ve got to find a way to bring some lovin’ here today - (put smartphone down) Talk to me so we could see what’s oh what’s going on.” His song really fits in today. Thanks for reminding me about it. Love his voice!
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moonmadman
4/2/2014 11:53:44 pm
I get to skim/read 4 online newspapers every morning (time permitting), check the email and then finish off with a review of Facebook (FB) postings on my timeline.
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