The Clueless Rebellion

[don]

and/or the revolt of the illiterates ... and would it matter?

Teabonics Gallery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/...7623594187379/

[bcassill]

Re: The Clueless Rebellion

And to think that their vote counts the same as ares...:rolleyes::p

[thriftyandboringinohio]

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Don, sometimes you just like to start trouble, like a moran.

[ViC78]

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To be fair, the signboard says "Speak English", writing is optional.

[bobola]

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These tea party folks are not very friendly.

On Monday I became a Facebook fan of Sara Palin. In her comments section, which is infested with tea partiers, I added a few comments and questions. On Wednesday Facebook disabled my account.

All I did was ask her who writes her stuff as there were no 'hopey changey, gee, gosh & golly' words in her text. I figured she would write the way she talks. I guess they didn't like that question.

[don]

Re: The Clueless Rebellion

These tea party folks are not very friendly.

On Monday I became a Facebook fan of Sara Palin. In her her comments section, which is infested with tea partiers, I added a few comments and questions. On Wednesday Facebook disabled my account.

All I did was ask her who writes her stuff as there were no 'hopey changey, gee, gosh & golly' words in her text. I figured she would write the way she talks. I guess they didn't like that question.

I am, and plan to remain, clueless to facebook but you pricked my curiosity. Is being a member of someone's facebook a revocable privilege?

[ThePythonicCow]

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Is being a member of someone's facebook a revocable privilege?

Yes - having someone on your Facebook "friends" list is revocable, by either party.

[lsa420]

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I urge everyone to avoid Facebook at all costs.

[ThePythonicCow]

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I urge everyone to avoid Facebook at all costs.

Why ?

[dcarrigg]

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[I]and/or the revolt of the illiterates ... and would it matter?

who you callin litterates?!?:confused:

[btattoo]

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Why ?

Why avoid Facebook? I can't speak for Isa, but I hope you can visit this link: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/02/0082805 -- I'm a subscriber so I'm not sure if it's free or not.

Basically, Jaron Lanier's idea is that Facebook and the rest are collecting ridiculous amounts of info about you, your friends, what trips you take, your habits, etc. and for now it's pretty innocuous. But at some point, the info will be sold to uber-marketers who might use it for mind-control / nefarious purposes.

Lanier's actually not as tin-foil-ly as I'm perhaps making him sound.

His book "You are Not a Gadget" is pretty good.

[jtabeb]

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and/or the revolt of the illiterates ... and would it matter?

Teabonics Gallery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/...7623594187379/

Did anyone ELSE happen to notice that MOST of these are "PhotoChops"?

[bpr]

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Why avoid Facebook? I can't speak for Isa, but I hope you can visit this link: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/02/0082805 -- I'm a subscriber so I'm not sure if it's free or not.

Basically, Jaron Lanier's idea is that Facebook and the rest are collecting ridiculous amounts of info about you, your friends, what trips you take, your habits, etc. and for now it's pretty innocuous. But at some point, the info will be sold to uber-marketers who might use it for mind-control / nefarious purposes.

Lanier's actually not as tin-foil-ly as I'm perhaps making him sound.

His book "You are Not a Gadget" is pretty good.

I was looking at rings online, and one evening my girlfriend (now fiancee) was using my computer and I noticed that her Facebook page had ads for engagement rings on it. At that point, I had to join just to see if all of her friends were seeing the same ads when they visited her page.

[Master Shake]

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Did anyone ELSE happen to notice that MOST of these are "PhotoChops"?

I doubt it. Why let a little thing like that stop liberal snobs for expressing their disdain for non-left wing populism.

When are the people going to rise up agains the oligarchs and FIRE elites?!! Oh, wait a minute, those are the wrong kind of people. They can't spell and probably can't tell the difference between arugula and swiss chard.

[ThePythonicCow]

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Basically, Jaron Lanier's idea is that Facebook and the rest are collecting ridiculous amounts of info about you, your friends, what trips you take, your habits, etc. and for now it's pretty innocuous. But at some point, the info will be sold to uber-marketers who might use it for mind-control / nefarious purposes.

In my view, this problem is sometimes overstated.

People can adjust to various levels of privacy. People have less privacy in small rural towns or military basic training than they do on the streets of Manhattan or Las Vegas. People share different things with their dentist, their shrink, their butcher, their parents or their spouse. The Internet is just another "space" with its own dynamics. A healthy and whole functioning human mind can adapt to it well enough.

The Internet does have the problem however of being less obvious than traditional face-to-face interaction. Some people (perhaps 90% of those who grew up before using the Internet and perhaps 50% of the younger who have known the Internet most of their lives) really don't understand how the Internet is structured sufficiently well enough to successfully and safely form a more complicated functional Internet "persona". Mostly those people stick to a few more limited uses, but not always.

Yeah, stuff happens.

Humans haven't stopped driving cars, flying planes, climbing mountains, consuming recreational drugs or a million other not always safe activities. They sure as heck aren't going to stop using a wide variety of Internet mechanisms, including Facebook, just because stuff can happen.