Just Deleted Facebook.....

[anadalia]

My personal opinion, doesn't have to be correct.

 

[BusterBloodvessel]

I have my own personal facebook account as well as one for my business. I rarely post on my personal one, but do scroll through regularly when sat on the bog (sorry!) or having a pint on my own in a hotel bar somewhere during one of my many travels. Whilst I would agree there are many things that are funny, or useful & interesting in some groups related to my hobbies...the vacuous, desperate attempt for validation by people who are more or less strangers in the form of "likes" I just find exasperating and at times pathetic.

My genuine belief and worry is that we are going to see a whole generation soon that are seriously affected with confidence and image issues as a result of the need to "look good" on social media. I have been on holiday to some beautiful, amazing places in the world and looked round to see everybody taking selfies. People seem more obsessed with proving to other people where they are/how much of a good time they're having, than actually ENJOYING IT FOR THEMSELVES!!! There's an element of projecting how good your life is, whether that be a picture of your meal at a posh restaurant, checking in at every stop of a night out etc. My business partners son has come up to us when we've been working "can you like the picture I just put on facebook, and can you like it from the business account too so it gets more likes". That's a pretty sad state of affairs if you ask me.

I could go on but I'm going to step off my soapbox!! As I say, it has some fantastic uses but I worry about how it's going and how it is going to affect peoples confidence and view on life.

 

[BusterBloodvessel]

My personal opinion, doesn't have to be correct.

I can't understand why anyone would want to continue to hold an opinion in the face of hard facts that prove that opinion wrong. But hey ho.

 

[Gordon - Commercial Finance]

I can't understand why anyone would want to continue to hold an opinion in the face of hard facts that prove that opinion wrong.

Perhaps those hard facts have never been presented. For all we know so far, your view is just an opinion too

 

[Caledonian TV]

LinkedIn is far better.

Better than Facebook certainly; but it still allows various frauds, snake-oil sellers, conspiracy nuts, fantasists and even paedophiles to ply their way - plus there is the utter drivel they force down your throat by way of content and advertising.

 

[Ian J]

plus there is the utter drivel they force down your throat by way of content and advertising.

I belong to LinkedIn but hardly even look at it as it seems to be 90% self promotion.

Factoring Broker - I've just signed another deal. Aren't I clever

 

[Nord20]

Perhaps those hard facts have never been presented. For all we know so far, your view is just an opinion too

The hard facts are all there for you to view, if you care to. Anyone using facebook for business advertising has a wealth of statistics to analyse their ROI, track conversions, etc, to a far, far greater degree than pretty much any other advertising medium I can think of.

I am no fan of facebook, but just saying 'it doesn't work' doesn't help the cause, as that is absolutely demonstrably wrong. Sure, it may be your opinion, but your opinion is 100% innacurate.

 

[Awinner2]

Listening to BBC4 you and Yours today and woman said that she had found that facebook had retrieved the phone numbers of all her contacts from her Mobile!!! Obviously she had FB app on her phone? How legitimate is that?

 

[BusterBloodvessel]

That is part of the signup now when you install the app. To "help make it easier to manage your contacts" or something like that. You can decline it but from what I remember they don't make it easy and if you just skip through set up with everything as "default settings" then it will automatically do it.

 

[Gordon - Commercial Finance]

Saw and interesting thing (on the internet of course) that had a picture of Edward Snowden saying something like "I shared information for free that I felt was for the good of the people to know and I was put in prison", next to a picture of Mark Zuckerberg saying "I sold your information for a pile of money to make myself and shareholders rich and I was voted man of the year"
Quotes nowhere near verbatim because I can't remember them.

Sensationalist, but effective.

 

[Caledonian TV]

The hard facts are all there for you to view, if you care to. Anyone using facebook for business advertising has a wealth of statistics to analyse their ROI, track conversions, etc, to a far, far greater degree than pretty much any other advertising medium I can think of.

So what? That's irrelevant to the point made which was...

Facebook for business is a bit unprofessional, I don't believe it even generates a lot of business.
LinkedIn is far better.

...Factually, Facebook - by design - is a grossly infantilised form of computer access designed specifically to make 'computing' (of a sort) available to people who would otherwise have no use for, nor the intelligence and computer literacy necessary, to operate any kind of personal computer. - Dumbed down to the lowest possible common denominator.

The platform is, consequently, overrun with nutjobs and halfwits... As I highlighted previously.

It's been known (for instance) to knowingly support illegally-posted videos of police interviews with minors who were the alleged victim of sexual assault; which encompasses several offences as well as endangering the said children - in fact they pretty-much two-fingered a specific court protection order! And it regularly facilitates a whole raft of - in some cases blatantly criminal individuals - who use the platform to interact.

Facebok themselves exhibit high levels of irresponsibility with regard to these things - they're perfectly happy to make money off the traffic.

If you're happy to promote your business on the same platform as paedophiles, drug addicts, prostitutes and general loonies; then yes, by all means, feel free to dive in and swim with le leci... Otherwise anadalia's point stands - actually unchallenged. Of course it's no place for legitimate, rational, professionals! - And could actually be quite toxic for your business!

Of course, there will be those who promote their wares to the general public - and who might find members of their target audience there; in which case buying-in to Facebook and its statistical systems could well be of some 'use'. - But that's by no means a universal given! And daily and within an ever-increasing sphere, Facebook becomes ever-more toxic.

It's just another social media platform... They've been coming in and going out with the tide for decades. And this one is very much on the ebb.

 

[The next Steve Jobs]

Data protection is going to be very difficult to enforce

It only takes 1% of the population to be 'leaky' then everyone's data is exposed

Data mining algorithms can reverse engineer the rest


The current Facebook data breach is making headlines across the world.

No one signed up for this, the world is becoming more transparent every day. This is going to make life very uncomfortable for future generations.

Fact: you can hold in your hand an SD card the size of your thumbnail that can contain the key data of every person and company on the planet....and in the space of 1 hour that information can be copied a 1000 times and sent to a 1000 different locations almost anywhere on earth

*one of our spin off products is a 4D database that allows you to trace the life history of every living thing on earth right back to genesis. It uses virtual data, but it does highlight the vast amount of 'information power' available to those who seek it.

With the exception of north Korea and a small island of uncontacted peoples off the coast of India everyone's data is all ready out there....sooner or later someone or something is going to join the dots and that's when the DATA WAR begins

 

[Alan]

I had breakfast with some friends this morning, one is a pretty hilarious 87 year old, she told me this joke pretty much verbatim, the really funny thing was she told it so straight that some of the group only exclaimed 'you are joking' half way through

- Hello! Gordon's pizza?
- No sir it's Google's pizza.

- So it's a wrong number? Sorry
- No sir, Google bought it.

- OK. Take my order please
- Well sir, you want the usual?

- The usual? You know me?
- According to our caller ID data sheet, in the last 12 times, you ordered pizzawith cheeses, sausage, thick crust.

- OK! This is it ...
- May I suggest to you this time ricotta, arugula with dry tomato.?

- What? I hate vegetables.
- Your cholesterol is not good, sir.

- How do you know?
- We crossed the number of your fixed line with your name, through the subscribers guide.
We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.

- Okay, but I do not want this pizza!,I already take medicine ...
-Excuse me, but you have not taken the medicine regularly, from our commercial database, 4 months ago, you only purchased a box with 30 cholesterol tablets at Drugsale Network.

- I bought more from another drugstore.
- It's not showing on your credit card statement

- I paid in cash
- But you did not withdraw that much cash according to your bank statement

- I have have other source of cash
- This is not showing as per you last Tax form unless you bought them from undeclared income source.

-WHAT THE HELL?
- I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the intention of helping you.

- Enough! I'm sick of google, facebook, twitter, WhatsApp. I'm going to an Island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cell phone line and no one to watch me or spy on me

- I understand sir but you need to renew your passport first as it has expired 5 weeks ago