Facebook: What is your take? - Page 2

PlumberKhan · 03-13-2011, 05:29 PM

I use it occasionally. Good way to keep in contact w/ family in Alaska and Hawaii.

And it has these cool things called "privacy settings" that [I]actually[/I] work...if you read the instructions. The privacy settings are easier to set than a clock on a VCR. Used right, no one can search for you, see your info, see your pictures, etc. Your personal info is safer on FB than it is when you fill out a credit card application. Those f*ckers will sell your info to anyone....:yes:

TKasper01 · 03-13-2011, 05:35 PM

[QUOTE=Borgoguy;3979051]Don't belong. Never will.

My generation was about protecting privacy. The current one thinks nothing about posting images and information anyone could access and, potentially, exploit. Growing up in New York, you learned at an early age not to make yourself a mark. Folks now, not so much.[/QUOTE]

QFT

Borgoguy · 03-13-2011, 05:40 PM

[QUOTE=TKasper01;3979219]QFT[/QUOTE]

There has been this general lack of common sense the last few decades. I remember when cam corders came out and you would see people using them in the subway. On more than one occasion, I would walk up to these idiots and tell them to put the cameras away unless they wanted to "donate" them to the guys who were watching them without their knowledge.

Now, I think most Facebook users would give up their s.s. #'s if someone asked.

Celtic Bhoy · 03-13-2011, 05:51 PM

One of my friends from Philly set it up for me in like 2005 I think (I had to enter her high school as my own, so that should tell you how long ago that was) and I really only used it to keep in touch with her. I used it a lot more when it took off here, but after a while I got sick of the steady stream of ****e that people posted on it and to be honest I started to dislike some of my friends because of it. In the end, the annoyances outweighed the benefits of it so I deleted my account.

I also deleted it because I don't like the idea of a prospective employer doing a quick Google search on my name and being able to see my profile, photos and who my mates are, etc. I know you can change the privacy settings but that's besides the point.

I hate Facebook and honestly cannot wait to see the back of it.

PlumberKhan · 03-13-2011, 06:25 PM

[QUOTE=Celtic Bhoy;3979229]I know you can change the privacy settings but that's besides the point....[/QUOTE]

Yes. My car has brakes, I just don't use them. That's besides the point ;)

:P:D

Jetworks · 03-13-2011, 07:16 PM

[QUOTE=PlumberKhan;3979239]Yes. My car has brakes, I just don't use them. That's besides the point ;)

:P:D[/QUOTE]

This, +1.

Celtic Bhoy · 03-13-2011, 08:12 PM

[QUOTE=PlumberKhan;3979239]Yes. My car has brakes, I just don't use them. That's besides the point ;)

:P:D[/QUOTE]

Haha, well done.

Still, I don't like having that much information about myself available online. No matter if it is supposedly private.

FF2® · 03-13-2011, 08:23 PM

Anyone see the movie Catfish?

JStokes · 03-13-2011, 09:26 PM

I'm 51. I have 4 kids, a girlfriend and all the friends I'll ever need.

Everyone I know that I want them to know something about me already does.

_

JetsFan2012 · 03-13-2011, 10:12 PM

[QUOTE=SouthTown;3979095]Sophomore year at Villanova. Sheehan Hall. I still remember where I was when I first logged on and heard about it. The damn thing caught on like wildfire after that. I check it often. I don't check it often for anything in particular, only because it has become a bad habit. Kind of like crack. Check it mostly out of boredom and habit.

My privacy settings are through the roof, as well. Further, I also made sure to be one of the "name changers" where my Facebook name does not match that of my birth certificate. I decided on this name change when many of my co-workers (mostly 25-35 year old females, at the time) decided to start searching for me and adding me and with my Spring Break Acapulco pictures in mind, I quickly changed my name.

Facebook is a great thing if you ask me, if used and leveraged properly. I do think that the Facebook of today is far less amusing than the Facebook of the early years when people were simply on there to "bang"...you were either single or in a relationship...now, most people are in relationships for real, 'married' to their best girlfriends from 6th grade or they do not divulge any information on how willing they are to "bang"; that is when Facebook took a turn for the worse.[/QUOTE]

Yeah I was living on West when I first signed up on it. The name changers are confusing, but now a lot of my girl friends from college have been getting married, so named pop up on there and I'm like, "Wait... who?" I then I see the pic with their husband and figure it out.

JetsFan2012 · 03-13-2011, 10:13 PM

[QUOTE=JetsVault03;3979200]

Oh wait, that's right... my entire fraternity got shut down due to facebook :([/QUOTE]

Amateurs

OrangeJet · 03-13-2011, 10:23 PM

[QUOTE=Borgoguy;3979051]Don't belong. Never will.

[/QUOTE]

+1

32green · 03-13-2011, 10:34 PM

I'm not on it..and it seems to bring out the worst in mindless ninnies.

I have friends who dont return emails because I didnt contact them through Farg book.

Their whole social context has shifted to that godawful mind hijacker.

SouthTown · 03-13-2011, 10:45 PM

[QUOTE=pauliec;3979329]Yeah I was living on West when I first signed up on it. The name changers are confusing, but now a lot of my girl friends from college have been getting married, so named pop up on there and I'm like, "Wait... who?" I then I see the pic with their husband and figure it out.[/QUOTE]

Word. West Campus was a cool spot. Lotta chicks there with minimal to no pubic hair. :yes:

JetsFan2012 · 03-13-2011, 10:49 PM

[QUOTE=SouthTown;3979345]Word. West Campus was a cool spot. Lotta chicks there with minimal to no pubic hair. :yes:[/QUOTE]

Damn right

SouthTown · 03-13-2011, 10:51 PM

[QUOTE=pauliec;3979347]Damn right[/QUOTE]

One bushy beaver at Nova, and she was a west campus chick. Terrible terrible situation.:huh:

BushyTheBeaver · 03-13-2011, 10:52 PM

I can tell you with certainty (cuz my employer writes programs that do it) that Facebook is being used to build as complete an information dossier as possible on every Facebook member--your likes, dislikes, actions, friend, what you say, what games you play, pictures you post. etc. It's also being used to track your internet activity outside of Facebook. This data mining is THE hot thing in web research and marketing.

SouthTown · 03-13-2011, 10:53 PM

[QUOTE=BushyTheBeaver;3979350]I can tell you with certainty (cuz my employer writes programs that do it) that Facebook is being used to build as complete an information dossier as possible on every Facebook member--your likes, dislikes, actions, friend, what you say, what games you play, pictures you post. etc. It's also being used to track your internet activity outside of Facebook. This data mining is THE hot thing in web research and marketing.[/QUOTE]

Business.

Marketing.

Sell you on something.

NO surprises there.

As long as it isn't big brother, I am cool with people trying to sell me on things, I am excellent at saying NO.

JetsFan2012 · 03-13-2011, 11:00 PM

[QUOTE=SouthTown;3979349]One bushy beaver at Nova, and she was a west campus chick. Terrible terrible situation.:huh:[/QUOTE]

I figured she would have been a Rosemont or Bryn Mawr chick.

SouthTown · 03-13-2011, 11:02 PM

[QUOTE=pauliec;3979357]I figured she would have been a Rosemont or Bryn Mawr chick.[/QUOTE]

Nope...just a Chi OOOOOOOOOOOO my lordddddd that was a bad idea

03-13-2011, 05:29 PM	#21
PlumberKhan BRACE YOURSELVES FOR 12... Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Van down by the river Posts: 21,013	I use it occasionally. Good way to keep in contact w/ family in Alaska and Hawaii. And it has these cool things called "privacy settings" that [I]actually[/I] work...if you read the instructions. The privacy settings are easier to set than a clock on a VCR. Used right, no one can search for you, see your info, see your pictures, etc. Your personal info is safer on FB than it is when you fill out a credit card application. Those f*ckers will sell your info to anyone....:yes:

03-13-2011, 05:35 PM	#22
TKasper01 Jets Insider VIP Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,872	[QUOTE=Borgoguy;3979051]Don't belong. Never will. My generation was about protecting privacy. The current one thinks nothing about posting images and information anyone could access and, potentially, exploit. Growing up in New York, you learned at an early age not to make yourself a mark. Folks now, not so much.[/QUOTE] QFT

03-13-2011, 05:40 PM	#23
Borgoguy Not one image until my posts are restored. Veteran Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,337	[QUOTE=TKasper01;3979219]QFT[/QUOTE] There has been this general lack of common sense the last few decades. I remember when cam corders came out and you would see people using them in the subway. On more than one occasion, I would walk up to these idiots and tell them to put the cameras away unless they wanted to "donate" them to the guys who were watching them without their knowledge. Now, I think most Facebook users would give up their s.s. #'s if someone asked.

03-13-2011, 05:51 PM	#24
Celtic Bhoy Veteran Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Ireland Posts: 131	One of my friends from Philly set it up for me in like 2005 I think (I had to enter her high school as my own, so that should tell you how long ago that was) and I really only used it to keep in touch with her. I used it a lot more when it took off here, but after a while I got sick of the steady stream of ****e that people posted on it and to be honest I started to dislike some of my friends because of it. In the end, the annoyances outweighed the benefits of it so I deleted my account. I also deleted it because I don't like the idea of a prospective employer doing a quick Google search on my name and being able to see my profile, photos and who my mates are, etc. I know you can change the privacy settings but that's besides the point. I hate Facebook and honestly cannot wait to see the back of it.

03-13-2011, 06:25 PM	#25
PlumberKhan BRACE YOURSELVES FOR 12... Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Van down by the river Posts: 21,013	[QUOTE=Celtic Bhoy;3979229]I know you can change the privacy settings but that's besides the point....[/QUOTE] Yes. My car has brakes, I just don't use them. That's besides the point ;) :P:D

03-13-2011, 07:16 PM	#26
Jetworks murse in training Jets Insider VIP Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Staten Island Posts: 7,441	[QUOTE=PlumberKhan;3979239]Yes. My car has brakes, I just don't use them. That's besides the point ;) :P:D[/QUOTE] This, +1.

03-13-2011, 08:12 PM	#27
Celtic Bhoy Veteran Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Ireland Posts: 131	[QUOTE=PlumberKhan;3979239]Yes. My car has brakes, I just don't use them. That's besides the point ;) :P:D[/QUOTE] Haha, well done. Still, I don't like having that much information about myself available online. No matter if it is supposedly private.

03-13-2011, 08:23 PM	#28
FF2® Believes Sloppy Guy was involved JetsInsider.com Legend Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 46,091	Anyone see the movie Catfish?

03-13-2011, 09:26 PM	#29
JStokes Hall Of Fame Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bergen County, NJ Posts: 20,126	I'm 51. I have 4 kids, a girlfriend and all the friends I'll ever need. Everyone I know that I want them to know something about me already does. _

03-13-2011, 10:12 PM	#30
JetsFan2012 Waterboy Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 0	[QUOTE=SouthTown;3979095]Sophomore year at Villanova. Sheehan Hall. I still remember where I was when I first logged on and heard about it. The damn thing caught on like wildfire after that. I check it often. I don't check it often for anything in particular, only because it has become a bad habit. Kind of like crack. Check it mostly out of boredom and habit. My privacy settings are through the roof, as well. Further, I also made sure to be one of the "name changers" where my Facebook name does not match that of my birth certificate. I decided on this name change when many of my co-workers (mostly 25-35 year old females, at the time) decided to start searching for me and adding me and with my Spring Break Acapulco pictures in mind, I quickly changed my name. Facebook is a great thing if you ask me, if used and leveraged properly. I do think that the Facebook of today is far less amusing than the Facebook of the early years when people were simply on there to "bang"...you were either single or in a relationship...now, most people are in relationships for real, 'married' to their best girlfriends from 6th grade or they do not divulge any information on how willing they are to "bang"; that is when Facebook took a turn for the worse.[/QUOTE] Yeah I was living on West when I first signed up on it. The name changers are confusing, but now a lot of my girl friends from college have been getting married, so named pop up on there and I'm like, "Wait... who?" I then I see the pic with their husband and figure it out.

03-13-2011, 10:13 PM	#31
JetsFan2012 Waterboy Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 0	[QUOTE=JetsVault03;3979200] Oh wait, that's right... my entire fraternity got shut down due to facebook :([/QUOTE] Amateurs

03-13-2011, 10:23 PM	#32
OrangeJet All League Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,946	[QUOTE=Borgoguy;3979051]Don't belong. Never will. [/QUOTE] +1

03-13-2011, 10:34 PM	#33
32green The original road-kill pus slurper. MMMmmm pus. Board Moderator Jets Insider VIP JetsInsider.com Legend Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The depths of Despair. Posts: 37,672	I'm not on it..and it seems to bring out the worst in mindless ninnies. I have friends who dont return emails because I didnt contact them through Farg book. Their whole social context has shifted to that godawful mind hijacker.

03-13-2011, 10:45 PM	#34
SouthTown Veteran Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,073	[QUOTE=pauliec;3979329]Yeah I was living on West when I first signed up on it. The name changers are confusing, but now a lot of my girl friends from college have been getting married, so named pop up on there and I'm like, "Wait... who?" I then I see the pic with their husband and figure it out.[/QUOTE] Word. West Campus was a cool spot. Lotta chicks there with minimal to no pubic hair. :yes:

03-13-2011, 10:49 PM	#35
JetsFan2012 Waterboy Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 0	[QUOTE=SouthTown;3979345]Word. West Campus was a cool spot. Lotta chicks there with minimal to no pubic hair. :yes:[/QUOTE] Damn right

03-13-2011, 10:51 PM	#36
SouthTown Veteran Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,073	[QUOTE=pauliec;3979347]Damn right[/QUOTE] One bushy beaver at Nova, and she was a west campus chick. Terrible terrible situation.:huh:

03-13-2011, 10:52 PM	#37
BushyTheBeaver size matters All League Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,922	I can tell you with certainty (cuz my employer writes programs that do it) that Facebook is being used to build as complete an information dossier as possible on every Facebook member--your likes, dislikes, actions, friend, what you say, what games you play, pictures you post. etc. It's also being used to track your internet activity outside of Facebook. This data mining is THE hot thing in web research and marketing.

03-13-2011, 10:53 PM	#38
SouthTown Veteran Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,073	[QUOTE=BushyTheBeaver;3979350]I can tell you with certainty (cuz my employer writes programs that do it) that Facebook is being used to build as complete an information dossier as possible on every Facebook member--your likes, dislikes, actions, friend, what you say, what games you play, pictures you post. etc. It's also being used to track your internet activity outside of Facebook. This data mining is THE hot thing in web research and marketing.[/QUOTE] Business. Marketing. Sell you on something. NO surprises there. As long as it isn't big brother, I am cool with people trying to sell me on things, I am excellent at saying NO.

03-13-2011, 11:00 PM	#39
JetsFan2012 Waterboy Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 0	[QUOTE=SouthTown;3979349]One bushy beaver at Nova, and she was a west campus chick. Terrible terrible situation.:huh:[/QUOTE] I figured she would have been a Rosemont or Bryn Mawr chick.

03-13-2011, 11:02 PM	#40
SouthTown Veteran Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,073	[QUOTE=pauliec;3979357]I figured she would have been a Rosemont or Bryn Mawr chick.[/QUOTE] Nope...just a Chi OOOOOOOOOOOO my lordddddd that was a bad idea