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WB7: Several items of interest surfaced over the Christmas Holiday with regard to Social Media Strip Mining and data cloud euphoria:
1. Facebook's privacy settings are evidently too complicated for Zuckerberg's sister to navigate. Not surporising, they are not designed for anyone to successfully navigate. If you succeed in mastering Facebook's privacy settings, you are in line for Krugman's Nobel.
2. Our Congress, which always has our best interests at heart do they not, managed to expunge the provision of the NDAA which would have required a warrant for government access to our email accounts. Surprised?
3. Instagram, shifted into hyper-back-pedaling mode. Of course they want to convert user images to advertisements. Isn't that what Facebook wants to do? Stripmining user privacy.
4. "Facebook's New Motto: If it's free, it's not the First Amendment."
I don't mind that so many others use these services for seemingly inane purposes. Photo sharing is actually more engaging than sitting around watching TV when you get right down to it. It is two way communication.
What concerns me is the way these giant social media players are displacing other traditional channels of content sharing and distribution, yet they obviously consider themselves exempt from well worn principles of free speech, privacy, open access and fair use.
They cannot just say if you don't like it go somewhere else. That's not good enough.
You can't deny access to so called "fringe groups" and allow mainstream political groups to remain ensconced.
That is not the level playing field of ideas envisioned by the First Amendment.
At some point, Facebook becomes a quasi-public space like Zucotti Park and they cannot just arbitrarily deny access to users without some form of due process.
Their perfect commercial world is a world bereft of unpopular ideas or political controversy.
A happy sheepful place.
5. It was revealed that plain old fashioned email marketing provides a higher retail ROI than social media advertising, which also came behind display ads and web search...
And I received this on Boxing Day...
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Yes, I thought about this. Schumer actually proposed a law prohibiting online aliases last year during the heat of OWS. Eventually they will clamp down on everything in the name of security.
It's already happening (the alias thing). If you have a GMail account and you sign in to Youtube, it will ask if you if you want to use your alias, or your full name. If you use an alias, it keeps reminding you that you can "start using your full name at any time". I hadn't noticed it until recently, but now I get promoted whenever I sign in to GMail and then use Youtube. Silly me.
the social media millionaires have been China-sized. in China the status quo is based on the philosophy of Confucius, and goes to the core of their culture. communism seems natural to them, and for their American counterparts, this generation embracing the technology, the problem rests with a generation which cannot remember when the peoples republic did not stock their shelves with goods and provide them all the gadgets they desired, and enabled them to be millionaires. they identify more with China than with the FF, capitalism, or the rights of the individual under the Constituion.
posted to facebook
"A happy sheepful place." full of un-questioning, uncaring drones being droned
to it, i will always say: NO.
another world is possible... think what we Could do and never be limited by the ugly Faceboob-esque monstrosities that elites trot out in front of us
cut them to shreds with a photon katana
$FB is a public commons, fuck their ToS - it now belongs to The People
put good men and women in office who will arrest the banksters and zuckerberg, lets socialize the wealth of the Elites and everyone else gets a debt jubilee worldwide, backed up by US Military.
send seal team six to get lloyd blankfein etc.
take back the republic, wake people up, create a real third party and break the back of the controlled paradigm
take back our congress
it all starts with political cartoons and Committees of Correspondence
and if we fail they will get their engineered civil war - may whatever god you believe in have mercy on you if the U.S. citizenry is ever disarmed
the clash of civilizations is the other route - nato missile shield, korea/jpn/chn
of course the faceboob algobots will automatically strip search your free speech if you mention any of this, so we will henceforth refer to the new world order as "large fries to go"
flee-dom fries!
Where's Randi?
here she is but I am not sure if she is the person on the left or on the right, and who is that nice man with the beard. More importantly what are they looking at on their smart phones with the new FB sexting app called POKE?
http://images.smh.com.au/2012/12/27/3915090/art_zuck-620x349.jpg
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/randi-zuckerberg-stung-...
Ha! i thought that was a screen shot from a bad Larry David sitcom!
I have a bookk contract that requires me to join Facebook! Yeahm, that's right. OK, so I did. Now I am a public product. Facebook sends me threatening emails ]from time to time, because I break rules I didn't know about because I didn't read the terms of service. If I had read them I wouldn't like them and I have to sign up anyway, so why bother?
I figure I have no vested interest in folowing Fcaebook's rules. If they want to "freeze" my account, or worse (i mean better) boot me off of Facebook altogether, I suppose my lawyer can argue that I fulfilled my contractual obligations with my publisher, and I'm off the hook- after all, Facebook would have gotten rid of me, not the other way around!
So I am trying as hard as I can to get tossed into the briar patch. Of course, irony being the dominant mood of the age, Facebook refuses to boot me; I suppose Facebook gets its self-aware jollies simply by threatening me, all the while keeping me within its enslaving matrix.
Oh, the fun!
mess non - just think of being in the jury duty pool in the Bronx. I think you will know which "responses" will get relieved of your "duties".
If you want to get Facebooted, espousing gun ownership, the Palestinian struggle, 9/11 truth as well as connections between Osama Bin Laden and the CIA seem to be proven methods.
Yeah, "Don't be evil" didn't last too long. So, much for deceptive marketing.
Do top colleges or employers think less of you these days if you don't have a Facebook page?
Should you even bother applying in the future if you don't have a substantial, auditable, online presence?
I don't know. But I'm sure being completely off the grid is a red flag.
Fbook is much more sinister than ya might believe. They choose your friends for you, slowly, so you don't notice. They choose what your opinion will be, slowly so you don't notice. They sell you the lie, slowly so you won't notice. They sell you an imaginary life. All too comfortable. So you will be a happier, more controlable and willing slave. Relax. Let go. Freedom and liberty are just a figment of your imagination. You don't need guns, the government will protect you and take care of your every need.
Fuck that bullshit, I'm buying more guns
Good (and useful) info as usual WB7.
I wonder if a large, coordinated enough, "disinformation" campaign could be mounted to gum up Facebook's (or any social media's) nefarious intentions?
Of course that would require that I join FB which I refuse to do.
Pete
I don't think Facebooks intentions are anything more than making money on user data and online habits.
However, that becomes nefarious because they are so willing to lean way over for the government in order to operate freely and as we have seen, they consider themselves some sort of arbiter of acceptable content. It goes way beyond hate speech etc.
... don't think Facebooks intentions are anything more than making money on user data and online habits...
zucks is a russian kosher mafia importee, spawned from the same volga swamplands of greater khazaria as the more illustrious members of the tribe...yacob frank, .........,[fill in your favorite members of bankster elite here]and a cast of thousands.
the smaller fry tend to congregrate in shallow pools like[richmond hill, ontario], whilst the bigger ones go directly to boardwalk. But they all have the same inbred genetic makeup - and mission. Get Whitey.
oops. I'm not supposed to say that!
cue blunderbog -brain police unit....
then bring in the much more suave falak bey for damage control...
haters...it's a one way mirror...just get used to it!
hmm, before I go, this just in from jimstonefreelance.com...
RED ALERT! TOTAL RED ALERT! They are shutting down truth sites on Facebook now, and shutting down truth sites in the past has been a precursor to false flag terror attacks (this happened before 911). And the accounts being shut down are prominent, and include Mike Rivero`s account (he runswhatreallyhappened.com)and since we are just 3.2.1 away from total shutdown of the formerlyfree internet thang...let me sneak this in here too...may be the last chance! http://youtu.be/_x6CW_p7xCc
That's all figurative of course, actually he grew up in a very boring and non-descript blue collar bedroom community called Dobbs Ferry.
He is, however, a Harvard-Soviet. A term I find very useful of late.
it's getting kind of late in the day to beat around the bush on matters of extreme importance to peoples' chances of survival, but if the protocol here calls for being figurative, ok, let's go with the flow...meet
It would be shabby to impute a lack of goodwill to the professor's program, so I'm going to imagine that what he is really proposing is to expand our options...or something to that effect - in the same way that surveilling every aspect of your life is the governments' way of protecting your freedoms...or something like that.
Hey! This figurative thing is kinda fun!
Alan Ginsberg, another spawn of the russian jewish diaspora, was born and raised near to Newark NJ, and singlehandedly did more to advance the culture war against America than any other figure since Lev Bronstein. Without even trying. It's bred in the bone. As a figure of speech, I mean!
Zucc's is sayan, and Harvard is the bell-weather center for the planned demise of America. But like the good professor's words, that's all just figuaratively speaking, and mentioned in the spirit of kidding around, good clean fun-like.
Go figurative ;-) and long live Harvard Sovetdom
George should be along here any minute with the dope on this latest skirmish between the controller class and the controllees.
Meanwhile, Mike Rivero checks in http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/209888 sites are back on. For now.
These guys work incrementally - and always build upon success -
last years Christmas Eve NDAA putsch was a major milestone. It's almost certain that they're looking to up the ante this time round. You just know that they're testing the waters here.
in soviet america you are the product
in Soviet USSA, ad plugs you!
Plug your ass into that Matrix.
It's free!
And so much fun
To tell the world your most intimate details, thoughts and wishes
(and some people really question whether there are programs for perceptions management, propaganda, mind control...)
There is an example of communication purely as an art.
Ham radio
In ham radio, you are prohibited from communicating political content, for the simple reason that there would otherwise be no worldwide ham radio. I remember communicating with Russians etc during the cold war. How's the weather in Siberia Ivan? What's your QTH?
But this model does not serve the Internet moguls well because it also prohibits commercial use.
Social Meds; can get enough anymore.
I tried to cancel a Facebook account two months ago that was inadvertently created when I commented on a MSM article. Facebook now says my account is locked for access because of a suspicious address location in Thailand. Meanwhile, I’m still getting daily messages asking, “Do you know Joe Buck, Mary Smith, Tom Jones, etc.?” I wonder if these people know what Facebook wants me to know? What a farce their operating system is, and what an abusive invasion of privacy too.
What if a software program signed up millions of fictitious users each day?
had a similar idea.
You open up an account and let a desktop application upload all kinds of gibbrish texts, haikus, fake daily routines, photocollages (the app is capable of mixing obamas face with zuckerbergs eyes etc.... trillions of combinations if you have good material to work with)...
If we could convince a lot of people to use such a software, many would actually reactivate their "deleted" facebook accounts just to create chaos.
I would do it...
now we need someone to create such an app...
What do you guys think? Will congress pass a law to make such an app illegal?
Or what do you say, will facebook insert captchas at every step to make a bot fail?
They put captchas on me for posting zerohedge links - especially those regarding the pre-IPO relationship of Goldman Sachs & Facebook. Then they shut off my ability to post anything since I passed all the captchas.
Then I de-activated my facebook account & never looked back many moons ago.
There was legislation put forward earlier in the year which proposed making it a felony to use fictitious information when creating a social media account. It was for the children of course...........
FB is now a quasi-public space? You mean like here?
Occupy ZeroHedge!
I want to know more about the zucchini in the shower...on second thought, maybe I don't.
It could have been worse... it could have been a casaba melon.
Can't trust those fuckers.
That began as an award winning condom advertisement. I subverted it with a hoodie, a logo and a dork.
Kinda funny how many dorks are really rich these days..
Not to nit-pick but that looks like a cucumber to me – um from what I hear.
a cucumber is american, while a zucchini is something foreign and therefore salacious?
In that case, it's perfectly normal.
Whatever you call it, it has to be numb-nutted.
That's a bingo as usual WB!! Thanks for the hotties. You know we love our Asian ladies!
If you’re getting it for free, you are not the customer; you’re the product being sold.
That is the cliche, but there is no need to accept it.
so advertising is a conduit for shameless self promotion (read consumerism and excessive cc debt in order to prove one's value) the advertisers have to keep finding their audience, (the ad men have found out that boomers are into buying experience - remember when you took LSD and went on a trip - now you spend a lot of money you tramp the world - and eat strange tribal dishes like anthony bourdain) i like your point
recently found the adobe flash toggle switch, so you can close off those annoying online ads.
for gen Y politics isn't important, so they voted for a guy who doesn't do politics (obama?) and whose all about cool things like electric cars ( i wonder how much money FB kicked back to the obama campaign in exchange for what? keeping the wall street glorification machine working - now that is so old school, all you gen Yer's, or gen wired.)
so i am ragging on these people who use facebook to document their consumer experiences, like a GPS for conspicious consumption barking directions at you. i am turning left at Starbucks, i have to drive another mile and stop for Apple-tinis and churros. (seriously has any of these users ever threaded their Walmart shopping experience?)
hey we're all celebrities, and celebrities never do rants about politicians unless they're alec baldwin, and he's a pot head, so old school. the kids are too cool for school, but they have to go somewhere to party.
rant over.
Happy Boxing Day back at you. How's the weather?
Mild with scattered hotties...
Better late than never...
This is a picture of an extraordinarily beautiful woman. The thing about it is that 90% of it is in her eyes and her smile.