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I completely share your opinion. All what you said is a …

Saturday, 20th April 2024

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I completely share your opinion.
All what you said is a fact.This weird attachment (or better to say addiction) after being exposed to social networks is a fact.
The expectation that somebody is gonna flatter you every moment is just a living hell.
With facebook and alike social networks one gets an “attention requiring zoombie”, you live to get attention
you contantly want to hear a good word on facebook, get a like of your picture or just feel appreciated by somebody! It’s like feeding the fish …
I wonder if you have experienced this as well. I hate my cellphone too. All this modern technology is like chaining us. One more terrible thing about social networks is that often you’re offered to become a friend of somebody from your past who you don’t want to have nothing with and quite often in order to be “politically correct” you just add him and pretend it’s okay.
Now everynow and then when you open facebook you see his pictures and get angry as it’s a trigger! I don’t know why but everytime I do open facebook I get angry! People are so fake there, all want to be funny and special and perfect looking. What’s so wrong with just being yourself and not pretending to be cool? Right?
I grieve seriously that you are addicted to facebook games, I’m thankful I’m not addicted thought I spend a couple of minutes opening it out of habit. The tendency is that I look at facebook more and more frequent, as it’s becoming one of the only ways to have contact with people. These days If you’re not into facebook you even don’t get information about latest events around you. I once deleted my facebook account, as a way to boycott this shit. But later on re-created it as I was feeling nostalgy for all those people I have as contacts that I can only keep in touch with through facebook.
In reality during I re-created my account I have used facebook for messaging or something meaningul not more than 20 times…
btw I wonder how old are you? It’s also interesting question how does different levels of society and different ages perceive social networks and to be online in general? I’m 27 right now and I speak from the position of that age.

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Why Open Social Networks like facebook and twitter are a big EVIL!
I’m really happy to see there are more people to think like me.
Most of the people are sucked into the hype and as you said they suck themselves into the net, forgetting of the simple good things in life that brings way more joy!

Hope to see you around here.

Wish you best,
Georgi

Why Open Social Networks like facebook and twitter are a big EVIL!
Another few things I found interesting concerning the topic are:

Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch. At the same time that they’re telling developers how to access your data with new APIs, they are relatively quiet about explaining the implications of that to members. What this amounts to is a bait-and-switch. Facebook gets you to share information that you might not otherwise share, and then they make it publicly available. Since they are in the business of monetizing information about you for advertising purposes, this amounts to tricking their users into giving advertisers information about themselves. This is why Facebook is so much worse than Twitter in this regard: Twitter has made only the simplest (and thus, more credible) privacy claims and their customers know up front that all their tweets are public. It’s also why the FTC is getting involved, and people are suing them (and winning).

Essentially, they see their customers as unpaid employees for crowd-sourcing ad-targeting data.

Facebook’s CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior. From the very beginning of Facebook’s existence, there are questions about Zuckerberg’s ethics. According to BusinessInsider.com, he used Facebook user data to guess email passwords and read personal email in order to discredit his rivals. These allegations, albeit unproven and somewhat dated, nonetheless raise troubling questions about the ethics of the CEO of the world’s largest social network. They’re particularly compelling given that Facebook chose to fork over $65M to settle a related lawsuit alleging that Zuckerberg had actually stolen the idea for Facebook.

Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to truly delete your account. It’s one thing to make data public or even mislead users about doing so; but where I really draw the line is that, once you decide you’ve had enough, it’s pretty tricky to really delete your account. They make no promises about deleting your data and every application you’ve used may keep it as well. On top of that, account deletion is incredibly (and intentionally) confusing. When you go to your account settings, you’re given an option to deactivate your account, which turns out not to be the same thing as deleting it. Deactivating means you can still be tagged in photos and be spammed by Facebook (you actually have to opt out of getting emails as part of the deactivation, an incredibly easy detail to overlook, since you think you’re deleting your account). Finally, the moment you log back in, you’re back like nothing ever happened! In fact, it’s really not much different from not logging in for awhile. To actually delete your account, you have to find a link buried in the on-line help (by “buried” I mean it takes five clicks to get there). Or you can just click here. Basically, Facebook is trying to trick their users into allowing them to keep their data even after they’ve “deleted” their account.