Facebook - friend or foe?

Dingbat · #**191** (**permalink**) 25-02-2009, 13:30

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Originally Posted by Sandgrounder

If I look at the people who work for me, I think I would be relieved if I saw they liked to let their hair down and be a bit raucous in their free time. This is somehow reflected in their working week in that they are sociable, well settled into their jobs and work well together.

Scarily normal for people in their late twenties and early thirties.

If I saw pics of my CEO, however, dressed in women's clothing with his head down a toilet "shouting for ralph", that might change the way we interact a wee bit.

I know that won't happen because he doesn't subscribe to any networking sites so all his cross-dressing vomit pics are probably safely stored on his hard drive...

I once had dealings with the German subsidary of a British telecom company. The CEO was a protogee (sp?) of the British COO, i.e. was protcted by him, and gay. Not that this bothered me but he got himself photographed at the Berlin love parade in tight shorts and a vest dancing on one of the floats.

You cannot imagine the stream of invective from his colleagues on the board, with whom I was dealing. Despite the fact that I was busy getting them turfed out of their jobs, we had a slight disagreement over a trifling million CHF, every telephone conversation would begin on the lavel of "Dieser Schwule Sau ... " and continue from there.

peachy · #**192** (**permalink**) 27-02-2009, 09:16

I received 2 notifications via Facebook that said "official warning, you have been reported to Facebook" and immediately worried that somebody had accessed my account and posted something inappropriate.

Apparently it is this:
Facebook hit by two rogue apps in a week | 26 Feb 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com

Facebook is a single point of failure that could publicly embarrass me in front of everybody I know.

retto · #**193** (**permalink**) 27-02-2009, 09:19

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Originally Posted by peachy

Facebook is a single point of failure that could publicly embarrass me in front of everybody I know.

so peachy, if you were to leave FB, would that be possible w/o them just keeping all your data? (as in the other site we discussed about....)

peachy · #**194** (**permalink**) 27-02-2009, 09:22

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Originally Posted by retto

so peachy, if you were to leave FB, would that be possible w/o them just keeping all your data? (as in the other site we discussed about....)

I think so:
How to Permanently Delete a Facebook Account: 5 steps - wikiHow
it seems they use the email address as a unique identifier so you can overwrite your account

peachy · #**195** (**permalink**) 27-02-2009, 10:36

I have deactivated my account, it was so easy it makes me think Facebook is not evil.

Reastygraben · #**196** (**permalink**) 28-02-2009, 12:05

Facebook remark teenager is fired

A 16-year-old girl from Essex was fired after she described her office job as "boring" on her Facebook page.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Essex | Facebook remark teenager is fired

Mr Peachy, you might want to reconsider some of the comments you made about your job here, which your boss might come across. StC is bound to come under the same close scrutiny from employers after it has surpassed Facebook in popularity (a mere matter of days) so you would be well advised to post with a modicum of caution.

peachy · #**197** (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 08:53

The New York Times > Log In

So in the US a Facebook account has been used as evidence which his been upheld in court, and the defendant got off as a result.

I would say the world has gone mad, but this was a US court, it has yet to be tried in a proper court.

Smitty Jr. · #**198** (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 09:20

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Originally Posted by Reastygraben

Facebook remark teenager is fired

A 16-year-old girl from Essex was fired after she described her office job as "boring" on her Facebook page.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Essex | Facebook remark teenager is fired

Mr Peachy, you might want to reconsider some of the comments you made about your job here, which your boss might come across. StC is bound to come under the same close scrutiny from employers after it has surpassed Facebook in popularity (a mere matter of days) so you would be well advised to post with a modicum of caution.

I love the opening line in the video, "I was literally sitting at my desk. I had nothing to do anyway I was just sitting there kind of bored...."

Perhaps the company should have said that she was fired because they had nothing for her to do..... Ah well, who knows, maybe they'll enjoy the publicity.

peachy · #**199** (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 09:25

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Originally Posted by Smitty Jr.

I love the opening line in the video, "I was literally sitting at my desk. I had nothing to do anyway I was just sitting there kind of bored...."

It's nice to have a window back to the UK once in a while and see that Essex girls remain Essex girls.

Grum · #**200** (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 12:05

Tim Berners Lee warns against third-party internet snooping

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In its simplest form, a single website, such as the online retailer Amazon, will keep a record of which pages a user has visited and show them relevant advertisements the next time they visit.

But privacy concerns arise when records of web activity are shared or sold to other commerical third parties, particularly if they involve a popular search engine such as Google, which stores millions of users' searches.

I know I wasn't happy a year or so ago when Google suddenly started including Usenet postings in the standard search results (prior to that, you had to deliberately look in a specific news group).