Facebook - Do You Use It?

[Conspiracy Culture]

I just happened to stumble across this neat, little flash video about Facebook earlier this afternoon and thought that it needed to be shared with the masses.

http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/


The reason why I found the video so interesting, is because I reside in Toronto, Ontario Canada... THE FACEBOOK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD:
http://buzzcanuck.typepad.com/agentwildfir...ook_toront.html

It's funny.. I was just chatting with a graphic designer buddy the other day about Facebook and he was mentioning that we had the largest Facebook user group (Toronto) in the world.... that's when I did some searching and found the above stats/information.

Today, while searching for more stats... I found the flash video. Interesting how DARPA is even included in the mix.

anyhow, just wanted to share.

[maggot]

Yep I had a profile on facebox (not facebook) which changed its name to the snappy 'netlog'. Obviously I deleted my profile the same day - I also deleted my myspace account.

[Typhoid]

Jesus dude thats intense thanks a lot for that!!!

I am in highschool and almost all of my friends and enemies use it. I did not know anything that was listed in the video, and I am actually shocked. Out right shocked. Who would have thought we would be the ones to 'give' them the information.

- typhoid

[LuisCyphre]

always read the fine print.

[Henry]

Quote:I just happened to stumble across this neat, little flash video about Facebook earlier this afternoon and thought that it needed to be shared with the masses.

http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/


The reason why I found the video so interesting, is because I reside in Toronto, Ontario Canada... THE FACEBOOK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD:
http://buzzcanuck.typepad.com/agentwildfir...ook_toront.html

It's funny.. I was just chatting with a graphic designer buddy the other day about Facebook and he was mentioning that we had the largest Facebook user group (Toronto) in the world.... that's when I did some searching and found the above stats/information.

Today, while searching for more stats... I found the flash video. Interesting how DARPA is even included in the mix.

anyhow, just wanted to share.

That's one entirely badass post. Thanks for sharing. Without question similar NWO connections exist with myspace. How could they not?

Those terms of service are amazing


Google is plugged in as well. Talk about creating a profile on YOU, consider your search history and how that would likely describe your inner most thoughts. Combine that with your gmail account if you have one (like me). I haven't, but many have google desktop, which indexes and organizes your shit. When it's all taken together you're Pwned, as the kids say.

[PSX]

I have a Facebook account as of recently (3 total), but apart from my e-mail, they're all spoof profiles for snooping around a bit, your instincts should kick in instantly while browsing that place, it's a massive database, no wonder it's used for recruitment

[PSX]

now that's funny.....

http://buzzcanuck.typepad.com/agentwildfir...ook_toront.html

Posted by: Dana H | April 25, 2007 at 08:59 PM

Facebook disabled my account 2 times last week. April 19, for inviting Cardinal Carter High School Students as Friends ( they are located across from the York Catholic District School Board in Aurora) and the second time on April 20th, because I sent out a message to students ( about 20 students) which was...
Click on the link below and watch today's news - the real news ...
http:/nk.brightcove.com/services/player...bctid=715977758.

tom@cyberclass.net managed to have my account enabled again after accusing them of being Gestapo Police.

I too accused them of spying on me and disconnecting me due to my Illuminati exposure forum. They didn't reconnect me until outsiders came to my rescue. Had I been sending out dumbed down messages, I believe that they would have not disconnected me.
Viva Revolution!!
Dana

[s0cks]

From the terms:

If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire.

Funny how they missed that bit.

From the privacy policy:

We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services and other users of Facebook, to supplement your profile. Where such information is used, we generally allow you to specify in your privacy settings that you do not want this to be done or to take other actions that limit the connection of this information to your profile (e.g., removing photo tag links).

I was unable to find the quote which says "regardless of whether you use the site". Looks like they made that up.

[maggot]

From:
http://msnukhomepage.spaces.live.com/

Quote:26 June
Why I'm opting out of the Facebook generation
Posted by Ian

One month ago Patrick, our Tech & Gadgets editor, made a confession: he had yet to sign up to Facebook, and, being MSN's in-house gizmo expert, thought he better do something about it. So he registered, and within 24 hours admitted to having become hooked. "I have," he disclosed, "been browsing through other people's friend lists in a vain attempt to find anyone I might possibly have ever met."

He's not alone in undergoing a rapid conversion from Facebook apathy to addiction. Both my homepage colleagues, Dom and Laura, spoke loud and long of how they were going to have nothing to do with it and thought the entire thing pitifully absurd...until they signed up, of course, and in a flash became fully paid-up rabblerousers for the social networking revolution.

Nicole, our boss, was the same, freely admitting she once thought it sad and a bit pathetic, but who's now happy to sing its praises and testify to its virtues.

It's a trend which has taken root throughout MSN Towers, one that seems unstoppable in its popularity - and one which I'm reluctant to have anything to do with.

It's not that I'm against the potency and potential of the internet as a means of communication, or friendship, or even gossip-mongering; it's the means, rather than the end, which I object to.

In other words, the way Facebook depends upon you being happy to lay bare all aspects of your life in order to become one of the crowd. The way you have to actively search and round-up every "friend" you've ever known, no matter how tenuously, in order to prove that you're popular. And the fact it is predicated on you wanting to boast and brag about your social circle in as public a way possible.

It's the primeval law of the school playground translated online, and it's profoundly unnerving.

There's an unspoken assumption that if you haven't got x number of "friends" to your name - at least a few dozen - you're a failure. Tied to this is the implication that if you've got to a certain age in your life, you should have x amount to show for yourself, be it wacky companions, photos of trips around the world or breathtaking career accomplishments.

Hence what, on one level, is merely an old-fashioned bulletin board or mailing list, becomes an arena for online showboating and no place for the mundane. Heaven forbid you are boring and have barely as many friends as you have fingers, or have done the same job all your life, or have never been abroad.


The way Facebook has become so successful so quickly - it was only last autumn that membership was extended from only those with a university email address to anyone at all - is testament to the innate appeal of its mix of tittle-tattle, grandstanding and voyeurism.

And it is undeniably a hit. "Its simplicity is its strength," argues Dom. "It marries an extremely useable format with that basic human nature to want to stay in touch with everyone you know." Megan, our photo editor, had a more down-to-earth reason for joining: "I wanted to find out who was fat and who was pregnant from my school."

Yet there's something about its promotion of noseyness as a leisure activity, its encouragement of social rivalry, and above all the way it encourages your past to return to haunt you, that leaves me cold. Indeed, Megan's other half, Jon, explains his dislike for Facebook three ways: "I'll call the people I want to get in touch with. I don't care who's fat and pregnant. Plus my wife spends all evening on it."

I know these arguments will, for most readers, count for little, and that I will pilloried variously as a Luddite, a loser or a loner. But for me, for the moment, Facebook remains a no-go area, an exercise in social engineering of which I don't want any part, an excuse for the people you know now to find out about the people you knew then, and yet another cultural trend that fashion orders you to be part of.

Also petty sheeple can use facebook to peddle gossip about other people, these people create profiles of others who aren't even USING facebook. Must be a wet dream for counter-intelligence. I wondered what the hassle i received going out to clubs originated from. Seems that my soulless brother or half-brother has been peddling MY life story in order to get friends/his leg over :sick::crazy:Of course he would never admit to it in intelligible english. What happened was everytime i went out maybe 5 guys in black, short-arses with their arms spread out would pose and pretend to be various people I've known. Every week it was seemingly a different bunch. Calling them a bunch of pathetic faggots didn't stop them, although they didn't like it when I kept on ordering them to kill my family. :biggrin: I gave up going out after I suspected the owner of the club to be involved as well. Will go out soon as the rest of my family has had their cowardly yellow shit rubbed all over their faces from what i hear by now, as a result of their general crapness. hehheh.
I'm just sharing this in case others have had similar problems.