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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:37 pm
by admin
[quote="wa2crk"]To Admin]
Yes. Thanks, I've corrected it now.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:37 pm
by dusty
JPG40504 wrote:How come you know so much about tweeting?:D
I don't know all that much about tweeting but what I do know comes from the fact that I have two grand kids moving into the age of tweet and six adult off spring or inlaws who live with their cell phones.
I can not escape it. I do not tweet or hashtag but I do have a Facebook account that is well used. If I want to know anything about the kids or grand kids my only chance is to check Facebook.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:45 pm
by JPG
How does one pull the plug on facebook, if one does not remember their nom de plume nor password?:(
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:16 pm
by beatnik
Should be able to using your email to get in.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:19 pm
by dusty
JPG40504 wrote:How does one pull the plug on facebook, if one does not remember their nom de plume nor password?:(
Facebook is not easy to disconnect from and I don't believe you can ever "permanently" pull the plug. FB has too long a memory. The closest ou can get to unplugging is to "deactivate" your account.
However, if one does not remember the alias that was assigned to their FB account, one does not have to worry. Just pretend that it doesn't exist.
Now, if one put a lot of personal, identifying information in the profile when the account was created - just be patient. It will all return to you one day when least expected.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:21 pm
by Ed in Tampa
dusty wrote:If you think the younger set is dumping FB, then I would like for you to explain how/why the number of FBers is growing so fast. It is certainly not the old folks. There isn't enough of left.
Facebook has not yet lost its appeal. Twitter is beginning to but they'll turn that around as soon as they get rid of the 140 character limit. They took a giant step in that direction when they made it possible for twitterers to string one tweet right after another.
Hey all I'm doing is reporting what was written in the Newspaper. They said Facebook is facing a crisis, that the young are abandoning it as more and more older folk are using it. I don't know the age categories nor the source of their info but that is what the paper said.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:23 pm
by dusty
Ed in Tampa wrote:Hey all I'm doing is reporting what was written in the Newspaper. They said Facebook is facing a crisis, that the young are abandoning it as more and more older folk are using it. I don't know the age categories nor the source of their info but that is what the paper said.
If you read the newspaper to get that sort of information.....well, I'll bet you watch the major media networks too.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 4:55 pm
by BuckeyeDennis
terrydowning wrote:Regarding the identification of an individual in a photo. Please understand that it was not Facebook (the corporate entity) that identified individuals in a photo, it was a Facebook user that "tagged" a section of the photo as an individual. This is why it is uncannily accurate. Someone that knew what your niece looked like at 6 yrs old tagged that section of the photo not Facebook or a computer system.
My kids are kind of funny and my SS (among other things) has been tagged as me in a photo or two.
The tags are collected as part of the photo and linked to it. If the individual being tagged is on Facebook, and have loose security settings, then anyone that knows them or is friends of a friend will get the notification that so and so was tagged in a photo. I keep my settings as tight as I can on Facebook and only allow direct friends to see things regarding me. Never friends of friends. or everyone.
The only reason I got a FB account was to monitor my teenage son. He is now 19 and in college and I no longer have the need or desire to monitor his activity. The only reason I keep it now is my daughter's postings of my Grandson. Other than that, I have no real use for it.
So we are clear. Most Major Companies, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, twitter, Walmart, Large grocery store chains with membership/discount cards(Safeway), etc all have a means for capturing, storing, analyzing, and SELLING metadata regarding usage. Most go way farther than just the "metadata" in terms of capture. Yes, Safeway, Costco, and Walmart collectively know almost the entire contents of my house (If someone with the right skills and access wanted to search hard enough, they could figure it out) . This is actually quite different from George Orwell's scenario in that the 1984 scenario involved the Gov't and thought police. The current intrusions do not attempt to control or make illegal my thoughts/preferences, they are just observing what I do and marketing to that preference/behavior. If it means lower prices and better deals for me, I'm OK with that. Google brings in billions of dollars from search and uses that to improve the technology. The use of Google's product offerings is mostly $0 and I'm good with that. I get much better search results when I am logged in because they know what I have clicked on in the past and where I typically spend my time when browsing this gets me the results that mean the most to me. Bing, Yahoo, and Ask all do it too, you are tracked and monitored. (I do Understand that I am willfully surrendering my privacy by logging in to a $0 search engine and using it).
I have taught all my children that there is absolutely 0 expectation of privacy on any form of electronic communication especially the Internet. Never post anything or click anything you don't want the whole world to know about. Including e-mails, texts and so called "private messages". If the communication uses the TCP/IP communication protocol it is suspect and subject to monitoring unless specific encryption algorithms have been applied to secure the communication.
The bottom line is we live in Modern America and the corporate world has a pretty good understanding of who you are and any proclivities or preferences you may have. Short of an "End of world" scenario, this genie is not going back in this particular bottle. Learn to live with it or move to Alaska or some other remote area and go "Off the grid" entirely.
I didn't make myself clear about the photos. These were his personal photos, never posted on Facebook or anywhere else online, that I had just helped him download onto his new iPad. It had to have been face-recognition software at work, using tagged images from Facebook for reference. The recognition just happed automatically, presumably per default settings. I suspect that the face-recognition software was actually Apple's, as iTunes took one whale of a long time "optimizing" the photos before transferring them to the iPad.
As for the rest of your post, I agree. I just wish that companies were required to respect your privacy by default, and then give you the option of choosing to share information should you desire to. Instead of the other way around.
The government is just as bad. I can go to my county auditors web site and access my own real-estate purchase price, appraised value, and tax history. Swell. But I can also access the same information for any other landowner in the county. I can go to the State of Ohio web site, and access the salary information for any state employee. Including that of several of my neighbors, who are local school teachers and administrators. I personally do not believe that such information should be made quite so public.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:55 pm
by rcplaneguy
I just want a link at the top of these forums to shopsmith.com. I don't do Facebook, Twitter.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 6:31 pm
by terrydowning
rcplaneguy wrote:I just want a link at the top of these forums to shopsmith.com. I don't do Facebook, Twitter.
The banner ad at the top used to do that. I never liked it or used it because it did not open a new tab or window.
Not working now though.
IMO it should open shopsmith.com in a new tab