Facebook taking it down!

[Winemaker]

Facebook must monetize something in order to operate as a viable, profitable company. Whether it be data mining, face recognition data, location data or whatever, this information is collected and sold. I'm sure this forum data mines, just to pay the bills of operating a website. There is an ad right now for Met Life for auto insurance. Is it because I mentioned I own 3 vehicles on this site? Or do they assume I own a car, and hope I will change insurance on my home and 3 rental buildings, my umbrellas or consider an annuity(gasp!)? For the most part, I'd say there are a lot of folks with a lot of discretionary income. Why wouldn't we not be targets?

 

[NW-Bound]

Just now, I saw a headline on Bloomberg site: "Facebook Is Trying to Protect Bikini Photos, But It's Not Easy".

What bikinis? Whose bikinis? Maybe this is something I need to know.

Of course, I had to click on that to watch the video. Just some talking heads saying some boring stuff about user data privacy. Darn click bait!

The morale is: never post photos of your wife in a bikini.

And that goes double for photos of yourself in a bikini.

 

[Christine]

Only created an account to get updates about family members. Never posted anything. Now I'm pottering about Spain in my motorhome and had not checked my feed for over a month. No new posts when checked just now. Might as well log out from this mess permanently.

I personally find FB terrifying.

Imagine Europe about 75 years ago: "We know where you live, where you work, what religion you are, who your friends are, what organizations you belong to, what political party you belong, when you meet....and please, show us pictures of your little children."

So true! And if a twitler in chief dislike you and come after you they know all your friends - nowhere to hide.

Just now, I saw a headline on Bloomberg site: "Facebook Is Trying to Protect Bikini Photos, But It's Not Easy".

Personally I don't find pics of Zuckerberg in a bikni interesting.

 

[easysurfer]

I keep hearing a few people say they wish FB would go broke and vanish. Even though I don't use I see the implications if that would happen. Things would cascade in the tech world not good for anyone even if a person isn't a player in the stock market world.

The problems need fixing not destroying the social media world. It is here and we need it to operate these days.

I wouldn't want FB to bust and go belly up. If they just give better filtering controls to the uses, I think that would help a lot instead of the Mickey Mousing they do, adding an "improvement" and leaving folks to figure out if they is something really beneficial or not.

Should FB take a big hit and then other social media and tech companies follow. That sounds a lot like this generation's dot.com bubble.

 

[NW-Bound]

Personally I don't find pics of Zuckerberg in a bikni interesting.

If that's what it was about, I am glad I missed it.

 

[Souschef]

My wife just lost her niece, so we went on FB and there she was with 45 "friends". I just hit another person with 741 "friends" Really?
I have 3 friends, no personal information, and no picture of myself..
My fun nowadays is to go to "Find Friends" and delete ALL of them

 

[Chuckanut]

Steve Jobs on privacy way back in 2010:

Note the reference to some guy named Mark who is in the audience.

 

[Dash man]

I deactivated my FB account in 2016. Haven’t missed it a bit. Sometimes I want to scream when DW starts talking about something she found on her feed.

 

[kcowan]

I think a FB flaw is the assumption that certain acquaintances will be friends for life. There is a good reason why I have left certain friends behind as I moved through life. If I didn't leave them behind, I don't need FB to find them.

 

[dixonge]

In the process of deleting all posts over 90 days old. Just because. Downloaded an archive first. Evidently back when I used FB on an Android phone, FB scooped up all of my SMS and phone call data. WTF?

 

[Chuckanut]

I will probably do some travel later this year in the USA. The more I think about it, I will ask my friends "Who is interested in getting a few photos each day of my adventures?" After I recover from the shock that most of them don't give a hoot, I will probably just send the remaining person or two a few photos via Apple iMsg each day.

Much more secure and less chance of some 3rd party scraping a social media site for information on me and mine.

 

[aja8888]

I will probably do some travel later this year in the USA. The more I think about it, I will ask my friends "Who is interested in getting a few photos each day of my adventures?" After I recover from the shock that most of them don't give a hoot, I will probably just send the remaining person or two a few photos via Apple iMsg each day.

Much more secure and less chance of some 3rd party scraping a social media site for information on me and mine.

Two of my friends and I are driving a 25 year old RV from Texas to the Michigan UP to a workshop the first two weeks in June (no wives) where we will be building a Noereastern Dory (17') boat from a kit. We are also towing a trailer with a motorcycle on it. We will camp each night on the way up and have a spot in an RV park in Cedarville, MI one mile from where the class will be held. None of us three 70+ year old dudes have a FB account so any trip or "distress" photos will be sent via IM or e-mail.

(our DW's have FB accounts though......)

 

[Chuckanut]

I noticed that Elon Musk has pulled the plug both Spacex's and Tesla's Facebook sites

 

[kcowan]

In the process of deleting all posts over 90 days old. Just because. Downloaded an archive first. Evidently back when I used FB on an Android phone, FB scooped up all of my SMS and phone call data. WTF?

65gb of zipped data from the FB archive, and I am not a heavy user. All photos/videos sent to/from me by messenger. All friends contact info. No SMS even though I have accessed it from iPhone.

 

[easysurfer]

I've always thought that FB and privacy are a misnomer.

Unlike Equifax where you don't voluntarily give up your info but have no choice, I thought just by joining, you voluntarily say "use me" .

 

[Meadbh]

65gb of zipped data from the FB archive, and I am not a heavy user. All photos/videos sent to/from me by messenger. All friends contact info. No SMS even though I have accessed it from iPhone.

Made me look! You have far more data than I do. Mine is about 120 MB. It includes all the books I have documented on Goodreads.

 

[MRG]

Made me look! You have far more data than I do. Mine is about 120 MB. It includes all the books I have documented on Goodreads.

kcowan's post suggests, at least how I'm reading it, that his data is heavier
weight. Photos and videos are far more storage hungry than text. Text compresses very well also.

65gb of zipped data from the FB archive, and I am not a heavy user. All photos/videos sent to/from me by messenger. All friends contact info. No SMS even though I have accessed it from iPhone.

 

[audreyh1]

I noticed that Elon Musk has pulled the plug both Spacex's and Tesla's Facebook sites

Wow!

 

[kcowan]

kcowan's post suggests, at least how I'm reading it, that his data is heavier weight. Photos and videos are far more storage hungry than text. Text compresses very well also.

Yes lots of pictures and videos, and a surprise: The videos are ones that were sent to me on FB messenger! Some of them I had not even viewed.

 

[street]

Another hit again today mostly due to tech (Facebook) problems. We are really in great times economy wise then issues like this just takes stocks down. Wow

 

[NW-Bound]

I've always thought that FB and privacy are a misnomer.

Unlike Equifax where you don't voluntarily give up your info but have no choice, I thought just by joining, you voluntarily say "use me" .

Sweet dreams for Facebook certainly.

How could I miss a chance to post some music?

Sweet Dreams by Eurhythmics

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world
And the seven seas,
Everybody's looking for something.

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused.​

 

[NW-Bound]

I noticed that Elon Musk has pulled the plug both Spacex's and Tesla's Facebook sites

Musk and Zuckerberg had traded some barbs on AI (Artificial Intelligence).

Musk had repeatedly expressed concerns that AI will doom mankind. He said publicly “I keep sounding the alarm bell, but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react.”

When asked about what Musk said, Zuckerberg said "AI is going to make our lives better in the future, and doomsday scenarios are pretty irresponsible".

Musk retorted via Twitter “I’ve talked to Mark about this. His understanding of the subject is limited.”

Ironically, it's Musk's AI in the Tesla Autopilot that has killed people. Hah!

 

[sanfanciscotreat]

Nothing on FB but my name.
No home town.
No high school
No College
No employer.
I might look through it every couple of weeks, definitely not every day.

 

[GrayHare]

Another hit again today mostly due to tech (Facebook) problems. We are really in great times economy wise then issues like this just takes stocks down. Wow

There are many sites other than Facebook that are gathering huge amounts of personal data too, yet there's not nearly as much nervous chatter about those. Someday those people will be surprised by how much Google knows about them too, that after they've been using gmail and Google phone and cloud services for years.

 

[mpeirce]

Nothing on FB but my name.
No home town.
No high school
No College
No employer.
I might look through it every couple of weeks, definitely not every day.

You'd be surprised how clever it is in figuring our who you are.

A few years back I was working on a project that involved allowing people to post an image to Facebook as a feature. To test it I had to set up a Facebook account. I had never had one and the one I set up was completely fabricated. Yet after using it for testing a bit, it started asking me if I knew certain people - who I did know. So it was being quite clever in piecing together I don't know what (ip addresses? ad views? I'm not really sure...)

Facebook knows...