Facebook - friend or foe?

BigD · #**321** (**permalink**) 21-09-2009, 13:48

It takes guilt-by-association to a whole new level, and ushers in a age of precrime analyis.

Quite simply if you associate with known people-that-those-in-authority-don't-like. Very soon some bright spark in need of a Phd will try and correlate online associations with evidence of behaviour as part of that group.

1) a member of a beer drinkers group or more than one person in your group openly blogs about heavy drinking does it make you more likely to be a drink driver ?

2) you work as a pro bono lawyer for asylum-seekers, does it make you more likely to commit a crime than another human-rights lawyer ?

3) you have a number of fat friends, does it make you look thinner ?

4) your friends are all good looking, do you get more partners by virtue of playing the ugly-mate-wingman ?

We should be told.*

BigD

* Anyone with answer to the fourth scenario please contact me privately...

BigD · #**322** (**permalink**) 21-09-2009, 13:54

Unfortunately I have little time for such people. While telling them to "harden the **** up" (as expounded in early volumes of Natasha) may seem harsh, such mawdling is generally really selfish. When your real friends have had enough, go online and find an audience that will validate and reinforce your misery.

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Originally Posted by La Lucy

I was trying to find an article I read not long ago about this. Apparently, these sort of personalities are such they need a constant audience to "feel their own feelings". ....Or, whether having a captive audience just made people need to broadcast at all times.

Dingbat · #**323** (**permalink**) 22-09-2009, 12:10

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Originally Posted by La Lucy

I was trying to find an article I read not long ago about this. Apparently, these sort of personalities are such they need a constant audience to "feel their own feelings". They cannot have an experience and feel, unless they can validate the feeling with an audience, and someone actually tells them how they should feel. For example, her penguin has passed away. Her first reaction is to post Mary's penguin has passed away , because she needs to broadcast before taking any emotional step. Once people starts to empathize with what she should feel awwwwww, poor you, you must feel so sad , the she starts feeling sad. If I remember well, the authors couldn't conclude if this was a cause or consequence. Meaning, if these persons were already like this, and having a captive audience just magnified this. Or, whether having a captive audience just made people need to broadcast at all times.

We had a very good example of this in that other forum we shall not name , that kept us amused for days and days.

This comes from having grown up on a diet of the Brady Bunch, Little House on the Prairie and other American "this is how you should behave" installments.

Grum · #**324** (**permalink**) 22-09-2009, 12:13

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Originally Posted by Dingbat

This comes from having grown up on a diet of the Brady Bunch, Little House on the Prairie and other American "this is how you should behave" installments.

Not to mention Oprah and all the ghastly shows of a similar ilk.

Grum · #**325** (**permalink**) 23-09-2009, 18:35

Here we go again - Facebook enables apps to peek at mail

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Facebook plans to open up members' inboxes and notifications to developers have drawn fire from security experts as an unacceptable privacy risk.

So not available yet, but could be.

sigh...

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"Some people are nervous enough of Google using computers to examine the content of email to display targeted adverts in Gmail, but the idea of handing over this information to third party external developers sounds like a privacy nightmare waiting to happen," Cluley told El Reg.

"An additional worry is that it appears Facebook is saying it may in the future integrate functionality which would allow application developers to send mails from their users' inboxes. It doesn't take a great imagination to picture how this could be abused by spammers and malware authors."

retto · #**326** (**permalink**) 20-11-2009, 14:36

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A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on facebook

link

facebook is evil right? why can't i give it up?

Reastygraben · #**327** (**permalink**) 24-11-2009, 11:02

CBC News - Montreal - Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos

"A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook."

Reastygraben · #**328** (**permalink**) 24-12-2009, 11:29

UK Lawyers: A Fifth of Divorce Cases are Facebook Related.

Facebook is being cited in almost one in five of online divorce petitions, lawyers have claimed.

Facebook fuelling divorce, research claims - Telegraph

'Emma Brady was distraught to read that her marriage was over when he updated his status on the site to read: "Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady."'

retto · #**329** (**permalink**) 08-01-2010, 10:22

Cyrus · #**330** (**permalink**) 08-01-2010, 16:05