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Its about the only way I see family pics of the nieces and nephews.
Even late-adopter Bearing has a FaceBook account. A friend of mine from LONG AGO (from small-town South Carolina) found me via FB.
But, I mostly use to it plug my blog...
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I haven't seen the commercial (We haven't had a TV for about 12 years), but that is exactly the problem.I have real, flesh-and-blood freinds. I love that car commercial where the girl is sitting at a computer, talking about how her parents only have 16 freinds. While this loser is looking at puppy pictures on FB, her parents are out mountain-biking.
....ahh, you poor things, how can you live like that :rotflmbo: Just joking, have been w/o TV myself for about 5 years and was quite happy for that, but you must have heard it a lot from The Joneses, no?(We haven't had a TV for about 12 years), but that is exactly the problem.
Frankly, I believe the Joneses think we're weird as well, so they don't talk to us much. ;-)....ahh, you poor things, how can you live like that :rotflmbo: Just joking, have been w/o TV myself for about 5 years and was quite happy for that, but you must have heard it a lot from The Joneses, no?
Frankly, I believe the Joneses think we're weird as well, so they don't talk to us much. ;-)
My solution to facebook is to have an account and add your friends and family but I keep my page empty of any information besides my name. You are in touch with your social contacts but hopefully, give up very little information.
(We haven't had a TV for about 12 years), but that is exactly the problem.
Our family did not have a TV when I was growing up. And I have never owned a TV in my life.
..I know, my man, I was only joking! You need to get used to the twisted European sense of humor here!BTW - by putting up just the last clause of my sentence it appears that not having a TV is a problem. Not so. It was a blessing.
August 23 said:In an unexpected ruling handed down today by Circuit Court Judge Allan Sharrett, the judge dismissed the government’s case against Brandon Raub, the Marine who was arrested by local police and FBI agents, detained in a psychiatric ward and forced to undergo psychological evaluations based solely on the controversial nature of lines from song lyrics, political messages and virtual card games which he posted to his private Facebook page. Judge Sharrett dismissed the petition for involuntary commitment on the grounds that the petition “is so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy.” Raub is expected to be released immediately.
“This is a great victory for the First Amendment and the rule of law,” said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. “Brandon Raub was arrested with no warning, targeted for doing nothing more than speaking out against the government, detained against his will, and isolated from his family, friends and attorneys. These are the kinds of things that take place in totalitarian societies. Today, at least, Judge Allan Sharrett proved that justice can still prevail in America.”
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As India's financial capital shut down for the weekend funeral of a powerful politician linked to waves of mob violence, a woman posted on Facebook that the closures in Mumbai were "due to fear, not due to respect." A friend of hers hit the "like" button.
For that, both women were arrested.
Analysts and the media are slamming the Maharashtra state government for what they said was a flagrant misuse of the law and an attempt to curb freedom of expression. The arrests were seen as a move by police to prevent any outbreak of violence by supporters of Bal Thackeray, a powerful Hindu fundamentalist politician who died Saturday.
"We are living in a democracy, not a fascist dictatorship," Markandey Katju, a former Supreme Court justice who now heads the Press Council of India, wrote in a protest letter to the chief minister of Maharashtra.
Katju demanded that the state government suspend the police officers who had ordered the arrests and prosecute them.
The women withdrew the comment and apologized, but angry Thackeray supporters ransacked an orthopedic clinic run by the uncle of one woman.
A lawyer representing the women, Sudheer Gupta, said police arrested them Sunday, the day of the funeral, on charges of creating enmity and hatred. They were released on bail Monday.
Shaheen Dhada, the 21-year-old who posted the comment appeared on television Tuesday, her face covered by a scarf so that only her eyes were visible.
Clearly terrified by her arrest and the attack on her uncle's clinic, Dhada told NDTV television she would never again make comments on a social networking site. Both women said they have deactivated their Facebook accounts.
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this is pretty much what i do
only one friend though, cant think why :rotflmbo:
allows me to search for anyone and view their public stuff
and it astonishes me how much some people post
especially young kids / teenagers
they really have no idea how vulnerable they become or how their dumb posting will effect future employment prospects
Fuck facecrook.
This site exists to sell advertising and your personal info. There simply is NO other reason for them to exist. How the hell do you think they make any money>
FFFFFuck Mark Zuckerberg!
Yesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being harvested and resold by large consumer data companies.
Responding to a congressional query, nine data companies provided answers to a detailed set of questions about what kinds of information they collect about individual Americans, and where they get that data.
Their responses, released Thursday [1], show that some companies record — and then resell — your screen names, web site addresses, interests, hometown and professional history, and how many friends or followers you have.
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