I recently wrote a piece on Facebook, commenting on their delisting of bloggers who don’t use their real names. It now looks more insidious than first thought.I said that I was thinking of unsubscribing and Ian Grey said one can’t – only de-activate but can re-activate at any time. Let me put that again:
When you sign up to Facebook, they have you in and you can not unsubscribe! You can unsubscribe from applications, discussion groups etc., you can unsubscribe from e-mail notifications but you can’t unsubscribe from Facebook itself – there is no mechanism.This immediately gave me the shivers because it looks no different to those webpages where, the moment you enter, they lock you in and give you no navigation out until you’ve been through a series of other intrusive pages.
I want out and I want out now! I looked around to see what the web said:
Facebook, America’s number two social network behind MySpace, launched a redesign and two new features early this morning, allowing a user’s activities on the site to be tracked.And ...
My guess is that if they’d allowed Facebook users to turn this feature off, most of them would have done so.
What’s odd is that most of Facebook’s recent additions have been extremely smart.
Facebook is commonly referred to as Stalkerbook, due to its many features that allows you to track people in your network, especially when you are friends with those people.And finally, Ian Parker:
On September 5, 2006 Facebook altered the default logged-in screen to be the "News Feed," a new feature that lists every action that every Facebook friend of yours makes on Facebook.
Just remember who funded the building of Facebook and why it is there.Their site for those with concerns is here and when there, look down near the bottom of the page and see the group mentioned.
It was funded by DARPA's Information Awareness Office, and is there to collect information about you and build a profile on you.
Thats why they dont like pseudonyms.
I’m outta here … or I would be if there were a mechanism to do so, which there isn’t.
I've deactivated. It did after reading your first post and a bit of surfing about the dodgy stuff. This is when I realised I couldn't actually unsubscribe!
ReplyDeleteI'm Still in LinkedLn and MySpace though.
I have an anonymous Facebook account linked to a hotmail email account.. I guess I am just not important enough to bother about. OK what is DARPA??
ReplyDeleteI knew I didn't like Facebook, but my daughter's in. Been trying to get out of MySpace for a while, too - you can "cancel your account" as many times as you like, but they take no notice.
ReplyDeleteIts funny, we were talking about this last weekend, at a party. The subject came up, as several people there were on it. I was frank- I wasn't on it, because I wouldn't want my real name linked to my blog.
ReplyDeleteBut there wwere a lot of horror stories going round- people have lost their jobs as a result of Facebook and most people in the room admitted they were uncertain wherther it was a good idea.
Well, here's a first.
ReplyDeleteA place where I can post, on topic.
Our (soon to be) world famous landlord (congratulations) will be well pleased. :)
Womens Lib, taxes, false wars, terror, chipping the population
And all courtesy of Nick Rockefeller, member of the Council of Foreign Relations
He is also active in China, and just about everywhere else
My, My, all planned, and now Gordon is following "The Master Plan" - what's his 30 pieces of silver going to be?
And there I was, thinking Hallowe'en was creepy! I don't like the sound of this at all. I've never signed up to Facebook, mainly because I'm lazy and can't cope with any more usernames and passwords. I won't be doing so now!
ReplyDeleteI forget the details at this mo, but isn't the EU setting up its own version of Facebook? Thanks to this blog I know enough to be more suspicious about that than I was already.
ReplyDeleteNicholas Rockefeller company in China, "First for Wireless Shopping"
ReplyDeleteSo, there are two options upcoming in the UK.
A cashless society via the ID card, with no "opt-out".
Or a cashless society via a mobile phone and its network, with probably early day "opt-outs", but that door will certainly shut.
Both the ID card, and the mobile phone can be GPS tracked (phone NOW, - ID card planned)
So this points to a race between the large global Telcos, and the large global Banks for the franchise to control the entire soup kitchen.
Common Purpose we know, has graduate members at many senior levels, in all these companies
eg, Vodaphone, And all these companies have significant experience with large databases.
Looks like the spectrum released when TV moves to Digital Broadcasting will be hotly contested by all the mobile operators. Guess what the timeline is for that !!! Yup, you got it!!!!
And all the effort made by the Gov't to get us to go digital, - here's me thinking it was for our benefit. Like f*ck it is.
As mentioned on your other post, I have never signed up to this "service" - nor have I signed up to MySpace. Nor will I ever. It's easy enough, should one try, to find out my real identity, but I reserve the right to publish under a pseudonym. And, frankly, any organisation (remember Blogburst?) that claims rights to my material can take a walk. Any rights to my intellectual property come at a price. Offers can start at four figures... ;)
ReplyDeleteI've been on Facebook for quite a while. I've deactivated several times, too. Here's something interesting. If you leave your account deactivated long enough, you lose all your groups. After watching that flash video, I'm deactivating for good.
ReplyDeleteJust wrote a comment to all of you then lost it - damn!!!!! Sorry boys, can't do it again. Watch for the Blogfocus.
ReplyDeleteWelsh - boys night!
You had me worried there - calling me a boy!
ReplyDeleteMutleythedog,
ReplyDeleteYou asked about DARPA.
You may wish to read this
http://tinyurl.com/yptjtd
Followed by this
http://tinyurl.com/36efzh
Mutley - none of those pages will open. Same applies if I try to go to the index page of the site. 'Operation aborted'. Has it been taken off the air?
ReplyDeleteSorry - not Mutley - IanP.
ReplyDeleteProdicus,
ReplyDeleteThey open ok for me.
here the real urls
http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/4/6/2861289.html
and
http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/3/5/2780523.html
IanP - nope - still get 'operation aborted'. Weird. I have never seen this alert before with any other web page.
ReplyDeleteProdicus
ReplyDeleteFacebook details
I mentioned Galileo before. It now seems the EU want to resurrect it again as an EU (political/military) project, rather then a civil project that the European Space Agency would want
ReplyDeleteI sincerely hope they fail on the technology/programing.
Now you've got me really worried, although I am under another name in Facebook. I just started to try to remove some of my information but some of it I couldn't. I suppose in any event it's archived deep in some computer.
ReplyDeleteI got dragged onto by others but don't really use it unless they interact with me through it.
I'm getting as far out as I can, once someone tells me how to de-activate - didn't see any way to do it when I was in there.
ReplyDelete