Egg on Facebook
Well, Mark Zuckerberg has told us for years that privacy is a thing of the past. In fact, he thinks we should embrace a completely public existence and just to help us out, Facebook opened up its vaults of your personal information to a political team called Cambridge Analytica working for Donald Trump. Cambridge Analytica harvested –I love that word — harvested data from 50 million Facebook users to use in the 2016 presidential campaign. Thanks, Mark!
Facebook attorneys point to the disclosure clauses all Facebook suckers agreed to in defense of their lack of security. You signed up, you gave up your rights, read the fine print, boys and girls. Somehow, though, I don’t think a legalistic defense is going to help these folks whose vision of the company apparently never included a premonition of what was coming. Russian bots, faux news stories, data mining, alt-right hoaxes, phony baloney trollers, political operatives and shady ‘friends’.
I have my own problem with the idea of Facebook as a public forum, but why air that opinion one more time? If folks want to sex-text, if the neighbors want to reveal to any and all what their favorite pizza topping is, if this is the way families and friends communicate in the 21st century, be my guest. Mark’s your guy. Me, I didn’t move lock stock and crackerbarrel down to the South End of a little known island so I could tell you my secrets. It’s why we call em secrets. And no, I don’t think it’s a crime against society to keep my privacy. Even if, as we all know, the security cameras, the GPS cellphone tracking, the Google algorithms, the entire tilt of the future is toward eliminating the individual and celebrating the public. Big Brother is definitely here, he just turned out to be a corporation, not the government, not the Deep State. And all he asked, in return for instant communication and information, was that you ‘friend’ him. Trust him. Serve him. Obey him. Read the fine print, it’s right there between the lines….
Tags: big brother, Cambridge Analytica, facebook, zuckerberg
As you know, I left Facebook nearly 18 months ago largely because I saw how irresponsibly Zuckerberg was stewarding the medium. I actually understood the disclosures about privacy — that I didn’t have much. And yet I am still blown away by the extent of the data mining and by whom. I am going to have to admit that my brother-in-law, who we teased for years about being paranoid, that he was right all along. Gulp.
I guess we vote morons to run the government and let the evil geniuses run the show. George Orwell was mostly right, just didn’t see the corporations taking over….
Remember when we thought sinister subliminal messages might secretly be hidden in screenings of ‘The Sound of Music?’ Or a James Bond flick?
…drink…more…coca…cola…
I wish. Instead, we have Facebook & their minions data mining keystrokes (or similar) then overtly feeding back messages custom designed to elicit the greatest fears of each user: CROOKED HILLARY’S EMAIL SERVER!!! VOTE TRUMP!!!
Full disclosure – I have never used Facebook.
Also, does anyone have a cold Coke?
I’m sure Mark Zuckerberg only wants [lock him up!] the very best for each of us Borg members and whatever monetary [lock him up!] gains he might receive from his college penpal club [lock him up!] are nothing compared to the joy [lock the man up!] he gets knowing he’s got so many friends [shut the Zuck up!] out here in the Collective Hive. What a genius visionary!! Trump/Zuck 2020!!
Elon Musk has pulled Tesla & SpaceX from Facebook, because his new company:
Neuralink… aims to use brain-computer interfaces to make devices which he says are only eight to 10 years away.”
So goodbye Facebook. Hello Brainbook?
Wasn’t Elon one of those yahoos who think Artificial Intelligence will be the demise of the human race? Considering who’s in the White House running America, maybe we should be in even more of a hurry.