Reached my eff'ing limit!

[highdesertranger]

no effing face book for me either. they pissed me off. highdesertranger

 

[rvpopeye]

I don't see any use for FB.AKA FaceCrook!
Don't want everybody's personal info data mined and sold to the WORLD ?
If you want to keep in touch with friends and family email works so much better !!!
And even that isn't as private as you would think (hope)................

 

[GotSmart]

I use it to keep up with family mostly. Also people I went to school with.  I have some friends from all the boards over the years.  People from all sides of the opinion.     

People for some reason hate it when I disprove their posts.  

For some reason I get a kick out of making posts vanish when they are from "likes." (AKA SPAM) 

I removed myself from the FB "Vandwellers" site.  Too much spam and fighting.   :dodgy:

 

[ggwoman]

I had a fb in the early years. It was novel, and fun then and an interesting way to converse with people around the world.  Fb, imo has since snowballed into a strange place. It is a sociological study all right.   Most everyone is trying to impress each other with how wonderful their life is, how deep their thoughts are ( laughable when everything is reposted ad nauseum), no one seems willing to do their own research and just want to argue for argument sake, ( I want to learn something, but apparently it's more important to be loud adn rude and just plain stupid and boring) and then my son, who is in an interesting position with the service, told me a couple things, well I just deleted and pulled the plug years ago.  I would much rather write/receive a letter.  I'll put up with email a little bit.  Texting is a challenge and a bit dreary to read/write.  I'd so much rather connect in real time by phone or in person. I like voices and faces, but that said, Skype freaks me out too, knowing everything is being recorded.  We sure seem to live in a superficial and increasingly artificial world now. Unfortunate. It's not the age of mankind anymore I guess.

 

[gcal]

I had a fb in the early years. It was novel, and fun then and an interesting way to converse with people around the world.  Fb, imo has since snowballed into a strange place. It is a sociological study all right.   Most everyone is trying to impress each other with how wonderful their life is, how deep their thoughts are ( laughable when everything is reposted ad nauseum), no one seems willing to do their own research and just want to argue for argument sake, ( I want to learn something, but apparently it's more important to be loud adn rude and just plain stupid and boring) and then my son, who is in an interesting position with the service, told me a couple things, well I just deleted and pulled the plug years ago.  I would much rather write/receive a letter.  I'll put up with email a little bit.  Texting is a challenge and a bit dreary to read/write.  I'd so much rather connect in real time by phone or in person. I like voices and faces, but that said, Skype freaks me out too, knowing everything is being recorded.  We sure seem to live in a superficial and increasingly artificial world now. Unfortunate. It's not the age of mankind anymore I guess.

I never assume privacy on the net. In fact, I assume there is some guy out there getting hazard pay to compensate for being nearly bored to death by my online life.

 

[Queen]

I never assum privacy on the net. In fact, I assume there is some guy out there getting hazard pay to compensate for being nearly bored to death by my online life.

Baaahaaaa!!!!

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

I have a love/hate relationship with facebook.  Every so often, I'm surprised thinking I knew someone pretty good and their true self comes out in their posts and rants.  Some people post way too much personal information and then there's the people I genuinely like that i've met over the years and it's an easy platform to stay in touch with them.  I've learned to just hit the unfollow button on people that post a lot of negative stuff and if they are really bad offenders I unfriend them.  

Then there are a lot of for sale groups that are local to my area on there and I've bought and sold on them when craigslist doesn't do the job and have had great results with those groups. Best deal I ever got was from facebook.........Guy was moving to Ireland to work on a fishing boat and flight was leaving the very next day and he hadn't been able to sell it via craigslist.  I got his 2012 16' Lund with a 2012 60 HP Mercury 4 stroke (Tiller steer, love it) and 2012 trailer.  I got it when it was 14 months old for $4500! Still using it too, just uncovered it and dewinterized her this past weekend.   I also enjoy NPR's page and news articles as well as a bunch of outdoor and woodworking magazines posts.  

And last but not least, I've made some pretty good returns on Facebook stocks since they went public.  Had I not wimped out in the very beginning, I could have retired off them!, but none the less, their stocks paid my property taxes and homeowners insurance the last two years.

 

[myway_1]

If you don't want to see a person's posts but want to stay friends, you can unfollow them. That way their posts won't show up on your feed. You can start following them again whenever you want.

 

[Theadyn]

Have way too much family and a lot of friends spread out all over the U.S., so fb is helpful keeping in touch. But yeah, those annoying people, I just unfollow. Unfriending caused a wee stir a while back with a distant family member, so unfollowing works for me, I don't see their crap that I didn't care about in the first place, and just see stuff from people that I actually like.

I've deactivated my account in the past more than once, being so effin' fed up with it like others on here. Now I just unfollow most all, check in a few times a week, or just when I'm looking for local stuff for sale. Pretty much it. Can take it or leave it.

 

[RV-Hopeful]

I never assume privacy on the net. In fact, I assume there is some guy out there getting hazard pay to compensate for being nearly bored to death by my online life.

That is funny!  Great laugh - my online life is pretty nonexistent.  I have a friend who "tweets"   and she talks about it like it was real life.  I just listen and say mmm hu mmm oh hmmm ... I'm mystified by FB and all those other dealybops

 

[gcal]

For some people, it has replaced real life. They see nothing wrong in taking internet squabbles into the real life and trying to do savage real life damage to other people who have had the nerve to disagree with them in the cyber world. It's a weird and not always wonderful world out there.

 

[IanC]

My posts are probably blocked from all my friend's feeds anyway . How many pictures of my dog do people REALLY want to see . Hey, anyone want to see a picture of my dog ?

 

[GotSmart]

Funny how animals look like their people.  That s why my avatar is what it is.  So people recognise me. 

 

[ice_maiden]

I have 3 facebook accounts all with some varied degree of misinformation on them

1 ... I play games on this one and will add anyone to it... it has a variation of my real name at one time in my life but not any more and is linked to a defunct email account. I ignore most things on the wall.

2 ... This one helps the other one I play games on...if I need more of something. It also has a variation of my real name but not spelled correctly. Also a defunct email.

3 ... This one has a shortened version of my real name, the correct email and is for personal friend and family only, Otherwise it is completely private.

That being said .... I get on none of them often... every once in a while if I have nothing to do I will play a game. I check my personal one about once a month... just to get new pics of the grand-daughter

 

[Hippiechk]

My dog has her own page...she gets more likes!

 

[Mobilesport]

I never assume privacy on the net. In fact, I assume there is some guy out there getting hazard pay to compensate for being nearly bored to death by my online life.

I'm pretty sure theres a massive super computer somewhere set up to operate automatically to collect all kinds of information .
Like almost every human on the planet has a file folder that contains there info thats collected from the internet system , thats why I got off Facebook , its pretty creepy the way there always trying to get you to tag photos plus them facial reconition squares on everybodys faces.
I don't remember all the types of info they collect because so many different types but there's cameras everyhere and there collecting your face print through facial reconition technology , there also collecting eye retna prints, your voice prints  , body movement patterns ( everybody has there own little quirks and unique walks or struts ) 
There collecting info through the smart phones too , all the different technologys are connected to work together to collect info and bounce it all around from cameras and sensors to smart refridgerators and smart meters and such all the way back to the main data collection agency or agencys.
And here's something to think about ,, I use to have a 1988 Chevy G30  van and it had a computer the size of a VCR tape ,,,,,,, a 2008 vans computer is twice as big , we all know that computers keep getting smaller and smaller so why is the computer so much bigger?  
That computer is probably capable of alot more then just operating the vehicles systems.

 

[IanC]

I'm pretty sure theres a massive super computer somewhere set up to operate automatically to collect all kinds of information .

Yup, it's amazing how interconnected everything is. In learning to make bread I was on a recipe site. I got a pop up that said my niece (who has a different married name than mine), also used the site. How they connected that I don't know. I have never even met my niece - don't email her, she's not a FB friend. The only possible thing I can think of is that I mentioned her in an email - which means that emails are scanned for data too.

Have you ever wondered about Google ? Here is a (supposedly) private corporation that has access to every single part of your life, right down to sending camera equipped cars down every major street in the world to chart every residence. How useful THAT would be in the event of a global conflict. Add  that to all the other information they are capable of collecting. Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think it has a lot more behind it than just targeting consumers for ad placement.

 

[GotSmart]

If the government cant design a computer that could handle the Obamacare, I would not worry about them hunting me down for anything I have done.   :huh: .  

Big brother is only interested in advertising.  I get pop ups all the time, and perhaps 1 in 500 is someone I know.  Most are people that friends know.

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

And here's something to think about ,, I use to have a 1988 Chevy G30  van and it had a computer the size of a VCR tape ,,,,,,, a 2008 vans computer is twice as big , we all know that computers keep getting smaller and smaller so why is the computer so much bigger?  
That computer is probably capable of alot more then just operating the vehicles systems.

I know new vehicles have a "black box" in them just like airplanes.  They can download all the data before a crash to see exactly what was going on.....how fast you were going, if you hit the brakes, if a blinker was used, was the radio on, etc.  

It all comes down to money though.  All this information is being collected and used to make money.  In the case of the vehicles "black box" it  helps insurance companies deny claims which equals more money for them. Money Money Money, its ruined the world and continues to do so

 

[USExplorer]

I scrambled the password for my Facebook account when I left New Jersey and started my life on the road. Never used the website since. Sick of endless reposted memes and constant demands for birthdays and phone numbers. Other than a couple calls to old coworkers I have left behind all my old friends as well. I used to post regularly in the comment sections of political blogs but grew tired of that as well.