Definitely taking a break for awhile

Anybody else pulling the plug?

Maybe we'll see more activity on the boards

I think FB is going to see a lot deactivations

What's the move when this spills over to other SM platforms

Individual webpages?

Group texts?

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Quizzes

popping up on data mining sites like intelius and spokeo.

i had restricted my fb privacy settings like i do on just about any site/service i join. and i never used/installed any 3rd party apps.
but somehow those other sites still got my info (including a google voice number i only used for fb and kept hidden from friends, friends of friends, etc).

Argh!

I still think FB is awesome for business.

I read my news feed, watch a video or 3, maybe post or share something interesting or funny from time to time.

I limit my info on FB for obvious reasons.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

After this inauguration I’ll be making my way off Facebook
I’ve been going back and forth with even writing this post and have ultimately sat down to put my fingers on the keyboard. There’s this clash between the embarrassment of how self-indulgent this feels, how wholly unimportant this is, but also being aware of the information I want to convey, and additionally being in a partnership in which a number of my Facebook friends are our friends.
And that’s the square that I landed on when I started typing, because if you knew me before (wife's name) came along, I deactivated my account constantly, with little or no reasoning. However, when she came along I chose to be a little more “grown up” (untagging from embarrassing pictures, filtering a number of posts for certain audiences, not randomly disappearing on site populated by her closest friends and family and then just as randomly popping back up, etc.) which ultimately lead to today and why I’d like to type something in completion before things just look weird.
So I’ll bring a conversation that I’ve been having offline to my digital world. In the past few weeks, months, year; I’ve been actively leaving less of a digital footprint. It started off with a conversation we were having in the house in which (wife's name) noted how she’d often speak about something aloud and then her Facebook or Google ads would reflect that conversation without having the data input. I forget the resolution from the conversation, it may have been to delete the app, but there was just something uncomfortable about it. In retrospect, I’m not even sure that our assumptions were validated, but the feeling of “what if” was there and that feeling of discomfort hasn’t gone away.
And over the months and years I’ve come to acknowledge that:
1. We all put out an enormous amount of publically available data. Whether it’s where we are, who we’re with, at what time, things we like, and who we communicate with; huge swaths of that are publically available.
2. We all put out an enormous amount of non-publically available data. Whether that’s CVS / Safeway / Kroger reward programs tracking our every purchase or advertisements watched / clicked; technology has only gotten better at developing targeted advertising profiles.
3. “Big data” in of itself isn’t evil. That the mechanisms that say that one person could be susceptible to buying more of Product A through mailers isn’t that big of a deal.
4. “Big data” used for means outside of sales has typically huge impacts on our lives.
5. “Big data” from our offline activities (the non-publically available) is being sold to interests with access to our digital footprints, even those with access to our non-public digital footprints (i.e. screen time, log in locations, site hours, messages).
6. The risks posed by this level of insight and access traditionally, historically, and currently lead to discriminatory practices; whether that’s making determinations of credit lending, setting interest rates, job offers, loan offerings, or housing decisions.
7. The risks are only curtailed and controlled by the government mechanisms and laws in place which additionally require willing enforcements.
8. The mechanisms that will be controlling government and tasked with enforcing laws will be
a. Advocates for industry over regulation
b. Advocates for selective enforcement of laws in a way that’s benefited them over society
c. Lacking the knowledge or experience necessary to serve the people.

I have had these conversations offline with a few friends and we’ve all agreed that we’re all surveilled by the government to a degree. We imagine that it’s been that way long before we were here and it’ll happen long after we’ll gone. I concede as much. But what I’m not wanting to do is contribute to a system that is building against “us”. So I’m treating this like I do with recycling, I may not be able to stem the tide of pollution or ill effects of a developing world individually, and even with my small actions there’s much more I can do, but I’m not willing to do nothing.

With all of those words here a few links
“Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Provided Data Access for a Surveillance Product Marketed to Target Activists of Color” -https://www.aclunc.org/blog/facebook-instagram-and-twitter-provided-data-access-surveillance-product-marketed-target – this one is about our social media accounts providing geo-data to monitor civil dissent. Peaceful protesting is a right that people died and die for.
” Facebook is quietly buying information from data brokers about its users' offline lives” -http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-data-brokers-2016-12 this one is essentially Facebook buying up your shopping habits with little to no way for you to know or opt out considering how frequently they change who they buy from
“How Facebook’s Ad Tool Fails to Protect Civil Rights” -http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/facebook-ad-discrimination/505703/ this one is about how despite being in violation of the Fair Housing Act, advertisers can determine who to target housing ads to, essentially digital red lining.

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

I left out any of the political shit so as to not cause too much noise and that was the most sanitized thoughts I could come up with, but yeah no shit. Giving foreign entities backdoor access to your most private data and updating in real time is some of the goofiest mess ever. And government is supposed to protect you from that and often yourself.

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

why not just log off.

its' like the goodbye post on here..

it's not needed.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

It's one thing when your Facebook is just you.
It's another thing when you got your wifes friends and family asking questions and looking funny.
I only had like 200 something Facebook contacts and like 92 of those were shared.

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

I've had folks disappear on me but I don't really care that much..

I just figured they moved on

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

But after we got together I quickly realized how much of things I didn't want her friends and family to think or know about me or her.
And people are nosey as fuck
Since the baby came my one Facebook rule is that nobody puts her picture or name on there.

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

I haven't missed it at all...

Not down with the Zuck.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

the first few days had me realizing what a trained monkey i was. Just going to certain sites out of habit.

I haven't deleted any of my accounts, cuz who knows. That being said, 10 days in and the stress level has diminished and i'm more engaged with people around me.

In a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king.
-Hunter S. Thompson

Wow, that term is so applicable. I know far too many people who's day starts and ends with FB. That's just ridiculous to me. I'm on maybe twice a month, while both of my brothers are almost daily posters.

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Nigga, if the shoe fits, then buy the matching purse!" Rass Kass

It's awful. I'll admit that. There's almost nothing of value to be found on there these days. Most posts turn to shit in minutes, every discussion gets run off the rails by some idiotic conspiracy, and there's way too much pity posting.


Having said all that, it's still a great way to communicate with my friends and family, and an awesome way to find things to do on a random night. (The Event calendar is a Godsend). Some of the groups I'm in a re really helpful too. I gave it up for a month or so in the days following the 2016 election, and I didn't really miss it, but yeah. I went back.

I *wanna* cut it off, but I rely on it for a LOT of things.

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Back again for the first time.

all that other stuff tho? politics and taking surveysa dn questionaires? nah..

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

>all that other stuff tho? politics and taking surveysa dn
>questionaires? nah..

People don't realize that all that stuff is, is a form of datamining.

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Back again for the first time.

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There are dozens of us! Dozens!

and pretty much all SM platforms are connected nowadays, right? You can't leave FB and stay on IG.

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Back again for the first time.

I was in the 'I'm not doing anything wrong, so I don't care if they're watching me' camp

...after this cambridge analytica story...

I now see the value in protecting my data

How do ensure I have completely cut the cord

Do I have to delete (not just deactivate) all SM accounts

FTR, I have an IG account that I never use

thanks ahead of time

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Cookies
Plugins that other sites (not Facebook) may be using.

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There are dozens of us! Dozens!

most websites run facebook code to leave comments or to like them on facebook

that code even if you don't click on it sends back lots of info about you to facebook via cookies...

so yeah, they still tracking you...

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Sometimes you have to look reality in the face and say 'No!'
-Ben (Reaper)

If you need any help, don't. Hesitate to ask.

Comments, Ads, logins, verification. If they are run through Facebook, they are tracking you, even if you don't login or even use facebook. Same with google.

Does Facebook receive cookie information when I visit a site with the Like button or another social plugin?


If you’ve previously received a cookie from Facebook because you either have an account or have visited facebook.com, your browser sends us information about this cookie when you visit a site with the “Like” button or another social plugin. We use this cookie information to help show you a personalized experience on that site as well as Facebook, to help maintain and improve our service, and to protect both you and Facebook from malicious activity. We delete or anonymize it within 90 days, and we do not sell it to advertisers or share it without your permission.

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

That's a big difference. All services track you to a degree. One of the big problems with FB tracking is that it's specific and you tailor made for you by you

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

I'll check my gmail social folder to see if anybody reached out to me on there, but thats about it. Don't miss it at all





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Fuck aliens

-Warriorpoet415




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-notification-spam-two-factor/

FACEBOOK HAS ALWAYS nudged truant users back to its platform though emails and notifications. But recently, those prods have evolved beyond comments related to activity on your own profile. Now Facebook will nag you when an acquaintance comments on someone else’s photo, or when a distant family member updates their status. The spamming has even extended to those who sign up for two-factor authentication—which is a great way to turn people off to that extra layer of security.

“The part of it that bugs me is that two-factor authentication is something should be encouraging people to use, but instead the way this is working here is that they’re driving people away from two-factor and making people less secure,” says Matt Green, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, who has done contracted security work for Facebook in the past. “It’s abusive, people’s attention is deliberately tweaked by what looks like a two-factor authentication message.”

Green says he’s received near-daily SMS messages from Facebook since January alerting him that one of his friends performed some action on the platform. Before he started receiving the messages, Green says he hadn’t logged into Facebook for a long time and had actually forgotten his password.

The weirdest part about the SMS notifications is what happens if you reply to them. If you respond, your message is posted to your own profile. If the notifications involve someone else’s content, users say the text replies inadvertently show up as comments on other people’s photos or statuses. I set up text two-factor authentication myself to try this out, and my text reply did end up on my own profile.


FACEBOOK
Facebook's response about what was happening with SMS messages didn't shed very much light on the issue. “We give people control over their notifications, including those that relate to security features like two-factor authentication. We’re looking into this situation to see if there’s more we can do to help people manage their communications,” a spokesperson said in a statement.

But in a blog post Friday, Facebook's security head Alex Stamos described the SMS spam as a bug. "It was not our intention to send non-security-related SMS notifications to these phone numbers, and I am sorry for any inconvenience these messages might have caused," Stamos wrote, adding that the company would soon do away with the ability to post to Facebook via SMS.1

If you don’t want to risk receiving annoying text messages but still want to enable two-factor authentication to protect your Facebook account, you can also sign up using a code generator, which doesn’t require forking over your phone number. You can also turn off Facebook notifications on iOS by going to Settings > Notifications > Facebook and switching the toggle off. On Android, go to Settings > Applications > Application Manager > Facebook > Notifications, and switch them off. Of course, that won't help with the emails.

Facebook Needs Your Love
The latest onslaught of engagement tactics come not even a month after Mark Zuckerberg said he wanted to “make sure the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent,” and warned that engagement might go down on the platform as a result of new efforts designed to emphasize “meaningful connections.” The messages appear designed help counter that slump.

A number of people say that they had also seen an uptick in emails from Facebook letting them know that everyday events had happened on the platform, like someone sharing a photo or posting a status. “I stopped checking Facebook and deleted the app for a while so they started emailing me nonsense notifications,” says Tucker Higgins, a Facebook user in New York, who says the first message he received notified him that an acquaintance had commented on that person's own status. He then began getting numerous emails from Facebook with similar messages—sometimes multiple times a day.


TUCKER HIGGINS
One email even asked Higgins if he was having trouble logging into his account (he wasn’t). Bloomberg noted last month that people were receiving similar emails about account access around the world. Facebook told Bloomberg that the messages weren’t a re-engagement tactic, but Higgins says the barrage began after he had deleted the app.


TUCKER HIGGINS
The spammy notifications also show up on the app itself, and are often pushed to the lockscreen of a user's phone. I've received one informing me that a friend who moved away years ago posted a status, and another that an old babysitter uploaded a photo. Other users say they’re receiving similar messages about distant acquaintances. “A person from high school I haven’t interacted with in literally years even on Facebook added a photo and I got a notification,” says Brett Williams, another Facebook user in New York.

Junk Mail
Despite the annoyance, Facebook likely uses these new tactics simply because they work.

“I think they very much count on the fact that it will produce an addictive response. Not for everybody, for a percentage of people getting it. If it works for 10 percent that’s a win for them. It’s still economically viable,” says David Greenfield, the founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction and assistant clinical professor for psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. “It might be somebody that you want to hear from, but you don’t know, the only way to know is to check it.”

'I think they very much count on the fact that it will produce an addictive response.'

DAVID GREENFIELD, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Greenfield also pointed out that Facebook isn’t the first platform to deploy these kinds of alerts. Twitter, for example, has been sending push notifications about activity occurring on the platform since last year, like when a number of people you follow all interact with the same tweet.

The new notifications appear to be part of a series of efforts to carry out what Zuckerberg says is Facebook's new mission: to “bring people closer together.” For example, Facebook is also prompting people to hangout with each other in real life. It’s encouraging users to celebrate the day they became friends with a specific acquaintance on Facebook as a kind of social media holiday. Facebook even tried to rebrand its own anniversary as “friends day” earlier this month.

Facebook’s new efforts often feel so annoying because it’s easy to forget that it's not just a social network, but a for-profit advertising business. The new notifications and features aren’t really that at all—they’re spam and marketing campaigns. It’s not unusual for other types of online businesses to send users texts or emails to promote their services. Facebook's service just happens to be connecting you with your friends in exchange for your attention. “You wouldn’t have a stock selling for $180 a share if it was about people talking and making nice,” says Greenfield.

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Sometimes you have to look reality in the face and say 'No!'
-Ben (Reaper)

If you need any help, don't. Hesitate to ask.

I think all of that is irrelevant when FB is caught selling user data to 3rd parties

...and recording user phone call and sms history...

The way FB regulates user activity isn't even on my radar

It's the realization of what they are doing with my data that I can't get around

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you can't understand it with an explanation

Of Facebook trying to get user to engage more by lying and sending people emails saying someone is hacking their account.

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Sometimes you have to look reality in the face and say 'No!'
-Ben (Reaper)

If you need any help, don't. Hesitate to ask.

Instagram and WhatsApp are both owned by facebook. i havent been on facebook for probably 7 years and im not too familiar how integrated these apps are with facebook, if at all.

even if these apps can't/don't collect the same type of data and are "independent" from facebook is there any reason to avoid them?

There were some articles about it with the last year

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Sometimes you have to look reality in the face and say 'No!'
-Ben (Reaper)

If you need any help, don't. Hesitate to ask.

I'm not going back to the days of having to subscribe to a million e-mail lists and getting spammed like that.

You can track concerts that way.

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Sometimes you have to look reality in the face and say 'No!'
-Ben (Reaper)

If you need any help, don't. Hesitate to ask.

Bandintown
Ticketmaster
etc.

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There are dozens of us! Dozens!

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

Is FB really that different nowadays?

Suggested posts
Adverts
etc...

you're getting plenty of spam on the book...fosho

...but, that's kinda what I'm asking...

FB is basically a centralized location for my notifications

...I think gmail can supplant its utility...by actually opening my emails...

If anybody has any other recs, I'm definitely interested

I mostly follow bands and venues for notifications on upcoming shows

I regularly check fusicology and oh my rockness...they usually have it covered

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edit: did a little digging and I see CA used an API to collect data from the friends of people who took the quiz's.. that's foul as shit. Then sold the info even tho they weren't supposed to.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

Like I said above, I never really cared too much because I wasn't doing anything nefarious or clandestine

...but now that we've learned that FB sells user data...

even friend's data of a user that signed up for an app

AND the call and SMS tracking

I feel like they are manipulating ERRYBODY

that's my issue

it's not about the election for me

we were all fed and eating fake news

no matter who you are

I also dont' want the point to get lost...FB knew about the analytica situation in 2015

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but a part of me is just in the matrix

like, I used to be on that mark of the beast, don't track me bro shit back in the day and I realized as long as I have this phone it's a wrap.

They got us.

AND I"m paying them to track me.

it's fucking nuts

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

...and, truth be told, I don't really do much on there.
I basically just network my arts, aside from that, all the other shenanigans on there is for da birds.

Dormant crushes be poppin up out da woodworks tho and
when I get them random friend-requests, I be lookin at mofoz like:

Where do I even KNOW dis muthafukka from?

Thank Ra for the mutual-friends indicator.

But yeah, if I had to log off, I prolly wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

https://chriswind.bandcamp.com/track/massage

"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African"
Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!

Dude has always been a sensitive mofo

First off he and his wife share a profile which is wack. So you have some post that just look mad weird for a dude to be posting but also show some his wife has him by the balls.

Then he is the type to stir shit up and get upset when folks don’t agree with him.

He’s one of those guys... so now he looks like more of a hoe by making this announcement like he is being forced off or wronged because he can’t cope with opinions that differ from his

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

>Dude has always been a sensitive mofo
>
>First off he and his wife share a profile which is wack. So
>you have some post that just look mad weird for a dude to be
>posting but also show some his wife has him by the balls.


Oh, he a simpvenger? Later for dat sucka shit. Few things in life sadder to see den a full-grown neutered domesticated man. Dem joint-account mofoz is doin the most.
Shit be funny tho, I got a married potna whos janky wife always come side-bustin into our convos 'n shit(It be an obvious man convo in terms of subject matter and she'll just
invite herself inna post half-cocked n loaded). And I be like "damn, dis ninja can't get NO breakz!"
Off the realest thing in life, my ninja posted footage of a pack of lions cold orgy'n da game up, dis ninja wife came inna post e-cryin on some #metoo shit type throwin Simba'nem under da BillCosby bus. Its like, "Damn Ma, lionesses got dreamz too! How YOU know she wasn't enjoyin dat shit?" Later for dat...

>Then he is the type to stir shit up and get upset when folks
>don’t agree with him.

Yeah, they a dime a dozen. I had ta block some messy jawns over ish like that. Type jawns that'll see your response in a post den smoov instant-message you on some, "So, why do you feel like________blah blah blah?" Den wanna screenprint ninjaz and bust'em out inna whole new post. Later for dat...


>He’s one of those guys... so now he looks like more of a hoe
>by making this announcement like he is being forced off or
>wronged because he can’t cope with opinions that differ from
>his
>


Yeah Bruh, I've never understood when people announce the dismount on some self-important shit. Shit is diva status...

https://chriswind.bandcamp.com/track/massage

"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African"
Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!

I couple "i'm done!" posts, followed by, "So I decided to stay after changing some settings", post but that that also included a rant about how fb is full of transparent fake people

Ninjaz like:

Gumpazzninja: Attention.....*ahem...ATTENTION errybody, I know yall on the way to work, got ya own shit ta deal wit, bills, babymommaz, sidechicks,....AWALLLAATT! But I'm here ta tell ya,......*dramatic pause for effect*.....I'm givin up sex yall. Yep..its about that time.





















*3 days later*














Gumpazzninja: Aight muthafukkaz, I'm slangin dick again. Lets get it! Where da weed 'n hoez at? Holla....




*Dj plays BussaBus "Pass The Corvahseeyaye"(my ninja I can't spell dat shit! Fuck dat!)

https://chriswind.bandcamp.com/track/massage

"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African"
Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!

that woulda smoove shut shit down.

because most of those folks are sensitive as hell.

Someone told my friend “dude, you always post about leaving but you never do”

He as a cryer when we were kids.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

I haven't seen them because I'm not on fb, but TheWife is and I think she said we're up to three. Not sure how long this departure will last. I guess she'll let me know if he gets back on Haha

the source is the problem not the symptom

<--- Big Baller World Order

but I guess if it makes you "feel" more secure then go ahead and do it.

as long as you have a cell phone and use the internet you are giving them info.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

You won't fix the damage done but you won't get worse (and it'll definitely get worse) from stopping.

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but you still doing snuff, got a patch and vape as well

cause as long as you are online and have a phone with apps you are still giving up info.

and don't have a smart TV or Google Alexa type joint at home.

Shit is prolly worse than FB.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

Have a google tv (I don't) or smart tv (I dont) you're marketed to but not targeted. Things go by your local (in house) network and you're marketed towards your trends. Those companies are invested in your money, bit giving your money or business to anyone else, so at worse you're vulnerable to hacking or a data leak.

With Facebook you're given a unique code for your user point. That unique code is you. And it can be specified to you by all of the other information you've given, email address, if it was a .edu, contact info, friends, likes, locations, apps ...more and more ways that's you.

That data is then merged with offline data purchased by Facebook ( giant card; cvs, Safeway rewards) they purchase information like that to create a better ad profile of you specifically. And then they sell that data to third parties while also allowing ads to target YOU. Not I want to get all people in your network that are over forty and listen to hip hop. Thats general, they target it to YOU. And then they didn't limit their data to onlly advertisers (which ad buys are relatively cheap) they also opened it up to analytics and testers and bad actors, allowing more and more people to find and TARGET YOU.

No other network can do that, no other network has such lax controls either.

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

but I'm a conspiracy type dude so if FB is doing it, I think everyone is as well

I have gmail and I swear these folks be selling me shit based on my emails and internet cookies

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

Your closest thing is Amazon

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

for a lot of these apps

I did a google search for a product and so many ads on sites are trying to get me to buy that product.

just feels impossible to escape it without really logging off the internet

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

<--- Big Baller World Order

but you can't tell me FB is the only one.

damn near every app asked for some type of permission. Even if you say no to all of them guess what? They prolly still doing it cause why not?

I just think its short sighted to walk around with a tracking device to make phone calls and use for surfing the internet and think you are somehow safer without FB.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

So stop it. There's multiple studies out there and have been for years.

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

https://twitter.com/iamdylancurran/status/977559925680467968?s=21

<--- Big Baller World Order

so there is absolutely no way to avoid this?

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you can't understand it with an explanation

if you've ever swiped a card anywhere or made an account somewhere. there's a profile for you. and your data is being sold.

<--- Big Baller World Order

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus

What API's can you personally write to get Google data from a user?
Once you have that google data how many points of contact can you reach fr that single individual

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Coolin...

...that is...if I eliminate the platform...?

I get it...we're being tracked...webpages, cookies, cellphone history, etc...

Let's say you have alladat...how are you going to use it against me?

My issue with FB is the manipulation

using that data to force stories (and yes...some it was fake news) into my TM

I don't doubt that big brother has a profile on all of us based on our internet traffic

outside of some legal action, how would that data be weaponized/used against me if I don't have a SM platform

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scroll past the bullshit?

I feel like America is trying to blame FB for Americans being pretty fucking stupid and voting for Trump. Like if they just didn't use FB they would've seen the light and thats that bullshit.

Amurikkka.. you still racist and Zuckerberg aint to blame for this election

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

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