Here’s a real Facebook post. Someone gets fired for bitching about their job. Well the firing could have been avoided had he not add his boss to his Facebook friends. Lesson learmt here?
- Don’t add a friend unless they are really considered as a friend.
- In general, don’t spend your energy badmouthing anyone.
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Yes I read about this. Even worse is the fact the Facebook discussions , chat session and other matter are held to be legal under the Australian Law. This is taking social networking too far or big brotther is watching.
I read a very interesting article, and it was an authentic source, that Google keeps each and every one of its users history for a period of one year. Apparently the reason stated is they could profile each users likes and dislikes and occassionally, some marketing campaign or mailer would come to the users based on the profile.
However there is a flip side of this. I am personally reminde of George Orwells 1984 and the famous one liner "Big Brother is watching you". With larger number of computer base and lesser number of folks who really understand technology, I am getting less secure about our personal life. With full body scanners, speed sensors, holograms and biometric, I probably that in a decade it would be possible to monitor each persons activity, at least in the developed countris. We tend to isolate China, Iran and the likes for its totalatirian regimes but under the guise of freedom of speech, Facebook, Google and all other major players are collecting a huge amount of data which could be used against you or would be embaraasssing to put it in a mild form.
As I am writingt his I get a mail from deviant arts stating thal its members mail personal data whichwere being held and managed on a third party servers has been stolen.
Quote, "Silverpop Systems, Inc., a leading marketing company that sends email messages for its clients, told us that information was taken from its servers. This was probably part of a sweep by spammers. As a result, email addresses belonging to deviantART members were copied. Corresponding usernames and birth date may also have been removed.
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Policing or monitoring is not going to help in any way unless there is a self discipline. The mushrooming number of social networking sites is rising at an alarming rate and we are forced to give our personal information, just for the sake of publishing the same post, article or story, or whatever.. Any community you join, you need to sign up, or even to get access to some innocent information like weather dat we need to sign up.
I wonder into the future we are going to be governed by a monopoly of social networking sites.. It may sound foolish now but was consider foolish cenuries back have come out true. An example, the earth was viewed as flat centuries back and the earth being spherical in shape was laughed at. Uktimately the scientists had the last laugh.
Additonally, many facebook usersand there are several millions who use these apps are making themselves vulnerable. Most of these apps contain virus of some form. BBC did a study and found that facebooks security is so weak that they could get write an app in 3 hours and could access data of severl facebook users.
I am not really very sure whether under the name of social networking, we are exposing ourselfes to a nameless organization.
Just as in the case of swine flu. The pharma giants had a big stake in it. And hence the forcible vaccination etcetera.
There is a sense of uneasiness... It seems like a plot from one of Robert Ludlums fiction.
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