Facebook can get fucked. Srsly.
Thats it, I've had one invite too many. Now I'm being proactive.
IF you are on Facebook, I recommend reading following passage below carefully and following the link as well as links from the linked article. It's what I will send to anyone who attempts to add me from this day onward, also. Borrowed virtually verbatim from Bruce.
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Hi XXXX,
I saw you tried to add me as a friend on Facebook. I'm not going to be adding any more data to facebook, since I have had a talk with some knowledgeable people from San Francisco who say it is being used as a data mining and recruiting operation by the american CIA.
The NZ herald just had a good article on this... be sure to read both pages.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10456534&ref=watchafternoon
Bet you won't see this in an American paper!
IMPORTANT: when facebook asks you for your email address and password so that they can contact everyone in your address book, DON'T DO IT! Their terms of service allow them to read all of your email, as well as collect your addresses.
If you have already done this, change your email password so that they can't read future email.
In addition, if your facebook password is the same as your email password (or any other password you care about) then you better go do some changing.
But you say, so what if the CIA knows I like Pearl Jam? Well, if you never break any laws, and don't know anyone who breaks any laws, and don't mind if your emails to/from friends who are on facebook are read by the CIA because they haven't changed their email pw, and don't mind that all info obtainable by the CIA anywhere traced to you and your friends is being correlated, and don't mind if your efforts are helping the CIA with a clandestine source of profit so they can engage in (more) off-budget activities, then go for it! Though if all of the above is true I wonder why you would want to add me as a friend anyway? Because as you can see I am a troublemaker!!! Not the kind of person you would want the CIA to consider an associate of yours.
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IF you are on Facebook, I recommend reading following passage below carefully and following the link as well as links from the linked article. It's what I will send to anyone who attempts to add me from this day onward, also. Borrowed virtually verbatim from Bruce.
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Hi XXXX,
I saw you tried to add me as a friend on Facebook. I'm not going to be adding any more data to facebook, since I have had a talk with some knowledgeable people from San Francisco who say it is being used as a data mining and recruiting operation by the american CIA.
The NZ herald just had a good article on this... be sure to read both pages.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10456534&ref=watchafternoon
Bet you won't see this in an American paper!
IMPORTANT: when facebook asks you for your email address and password so that they can contact everyone in your address book, DON'T DO IT! Their terms of service allow them to read all of your email, as well as collect your addresses.
If you have already done this, change your email password so that they can't read future email.
In addition, if your facebook password is the same as your email password (or any other password you care about) then you better go do some changing.
But you say, so what if the CIA knows I like Pearl Jam? Well, if you never break any laws, and don't know anyone who breaks any laws, and don't mind if your emails to/from friends who are on facebook are read by the CIA because they haven't changed their email pw, and don't mind that all info obtainable by the CIA anywhere traced to you and your friends is being correlated, and don't mind if your efforts are helping the CIA with a clandestine source of profit so they can engage in (more) off-budget activities, then go for it! Though if all of the above is true I wonder why you would want to add me as a friend anyway? Because as you can see I am a troublemaker!!! Not the kind of person you would want the CIA to consider an associate of yours.
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