And yes i have a SpaceBook account. Some kids set up my account for me at a cafe. Same goes for MyFace. Have logged in at most twenty times... trying to figure it all out and to figure out why it is so intoxicating to so many people. I guess if you arent social networking you are actually "working". That's one answer. I should start a quantum social network where you "tweet" but are limited to one bit! "0"
-----Original Message----- From: "stephen barncard" <stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> Sent: 7/1/2009 4:53 PM Subject: Re: Creepy 2020 And what's your Facebook username? ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/7/1 Randall Reetz <rand...@randallreetz.com> > I still think it ironic that we are intolerant of governments and > corporations when they engage in behaviors we excuse in our selves. How > many people go to church or get their kids in a soccer league or enroll them > in a private school specifically to gain access to the "right" group of > potential customers? FaceBook et al are just providing to that same demand. > Yes it is creepy... how humans act towards their "friends". Everyone > wants the "networking" advantages afforded by a company that mines personal > data. Nobody likes to know how that data is aquired when it comes to their > own identity. Really creepy is the vailed astonishment expressed as the > nessisary "wizard of oz" is revealed to be just what our greed demands of > him. The perfect reflection of us! I live in Palo Alto, and have listened > in on hundreds of facebook employee cafe conversations. Souls not required. > It is one thing to be a slimy insurance salesman... quite another to > institutionalize and automate this most tragic of human tendancies... and to > make a killing doing so. The edifice that is socil networking software > tends to depersonalize and infrastructurealize sleezyness. "Hey, everyone > is driving drunk!", becomes, "If we arent supposed to drive drunk, why is > there a beer tap right here on the dash board?" > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Lynn Fredricks" <lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> > To: "'How to use Revolution'" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> > Sent: 7/1/2009 3:14 PM > Subject: Creepy 2020 > > > We seem to be assuming that Facebook is automagically digging > > into your address book, when it could just be finding you in > > reverse from people that have already shared. This would > > actually seem more efficient, since while you may not share > > your address book, somebody else that knows you probably has... > > This creepy privacy invasion thread makes me think of the various ways > Google snaps up information - by car and of course by satelite. Maybe in a > few years we will see robot wars between the Google Car, Yahoo Refuse > Digger > and Facebook Roto Rooter - all fighting each other to get the last bit of > our private information :-) > > Best regards, > > Lynn Fredricks > President > Paradigma Software > http://www.paradigmasoft.com > > Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > [truncated by sender] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution