^^ My name isn't John, but I had to look
In the funny but true ... when I first started working on systems and networks in 1979 I quickly developed the belief that the day of total immersion into Big Brother was coming. And ... here we are a bona fide surveillance state. Big Brother has come home to roost, like it or not, and it ain't leaving.While I'm sure Facebook has it's place, it's just not the place for me .. the Human Race got along fine before Mr. Zuckerberg turned on a College Hook Up local site and wheeled home a boatload of dinero soon after .. (although, I have so say, I wish I had invented it .. who couldn't use those Benjamins .. ??)
I am also quite sure there are nice and friendly people that Populate FB .. along with the hatemongers, scammers, ........'s and those that generally have been provided what they feel is a voice for whatever "agenda" they want to push .. Facebook and others provide that platform with the only entrance fee being an ISP .. and, we have entered an age where these so called "Social Media" sites have generated a sub-population of data mining, out and out Privacy Invasion, sales of your info in order to tempt you into buying junk, and more ..
The Web in general, and I've said this since the days of USENET and BBS's .. men are women, women are men, gays are straight, straights are gay, kids are adults, adults are kids, and so on and so on and Scooby Dooby Doo ..
And while I'm at it, have you ever seen these "Mapping Vehicles" tooling around town .. ?? Where they have a high tech camera rig mounted on top of a vehicle as they drive around the various 'Hoods, capturing every detail and GPS coordinate .. ?? I mean, it's bad enough I can zoom in on my own Home from Google Maps .. or take a virtual drive up my street .. or, have my ISP address tracked to exactly where I am typing this, as we speak .. Brave New World, indeed ..
Lastly, it's probably my touch of dyslexia, but when I did try FB, I just found it very hard to coherently follow ....
Yep, that's why I would never respond to something that looks fishy or questionable. Once you feed them with a response they now know you as a potential target.That scam has been on FB for years. A lot of people fell for it, sadly.
Nice to meet you also, RogerPleased to meet your acquaintance. I'm Roger, but that name was already taken when I joined. Nermal is a cat.
Look at crime fighting today. What is one of the first things law enforcement goes for? Yep, social media presence. Good or bad what people freely put out there can and will be used against them. Will we ever see the day of the moral police? How about the day when citizens or new born kids are, by federal law, implanted with a chip which has your complete life history and is fully trackable? Don't think that's coming? The nefarious types in government would certainly love that.
In the funny but true ... when I first started working on systems and networks in 1979 I quickly developed the belief that the day of total immersion into Big Brother was coming. And ... here we are a bona fide surveillance state. Big Brother has come home to roost, like it or not, and it ain't leaving.
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I know. I was at Staples last week, looking for filler pages for my address book. The kid kept trying to pass off fillers for various planners. It finally dawned on me - he didn't know what an address book was. Quite reasonable, really. Why on earth would someone want to write something into a book when all you had to do was look into your phone.I heard a funny "story" the other day;;
Give a kid now days a car with a manual transmission, a rotary phone and instructions written in cursive and they will be lost forever.
Sad, but I fear it's true. I have watched several videos of kids trying to use rotary phones, hilarious but sad.
I leave the definition of "kid" open, fill in your own definition...
Pleased to meet your acquaintance. I'm Roger, but that name was already taken when I joined. Nermal is a cat.
Give a kid now days a car with a manual transmission, a rotary phone and instructions written in cursive and they will be lost forever.
I heard a funny "story" the other day;;
Give a kid now days a car with a manual transmission, a rotary phone and instructions written in cursive and they will be lost forever.
I heard a funny "story" the other day;;
Give a kid now days a car with a manual transmission, a rotary phone and instructions written in cursive and they will be lost forever.
Sad, but I fear it's true. I have watched several videos of kids trying to use rotary phones, hilarious but sad.
I leave the definition of "kid" open, fill in your own definition...
Aaamazing! A politician that gets it!OMG! A politician gets it ...
Rand Paul … “We’re not asking the most important question. How many lives are we saving with vaping?”
#25786-Deeming Thread <- short video w/ him speaking
Gracie I love this photo!Good morning, Loungers!
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This photo is amazing! Thank you for sharing it with us! I loved it enough to save itGood morning, Loungers!
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