I'm NOT a Fan of Facebook — Page 2

I am glad that after 10 years, we finally have a definitive opinion on Facebook.

Dumb straight! Ugh. Stupid auto-correct. DAMN straight!

You find out quick enough where other people come from. I still have among my 30 friends some strong gun huggers, learning acceptance.

Updated On: 4/12/15 at 02:40 PM

All you had to do was sell your soul and become one of the sheeple.

And Food Babe. "When I found out salt has added iodine, A POISON, it shook me to my core!"

Thanks, but I won't be doing anything so creepy that I need to go to extreme lengths. I was just wondering if, when I check out the hot guy who barely knows my name on facebook, and lust after all his beach pics, does he get any clues like "Do you know Jay Lerner-Z?" in his inbox or stuff like that.

Not that I ever do that, of course.

To answer your question at long last, it depends on the network or service.

On LinkedIn, if any logged-on user (or authenticated user as it's known in the industry) views my profile I'll either get a notification or can view a page that let's me see who has viewed my profile.

I personally limit my social media interactions to LinkedIn, this site, WebEx/Skype (for family & direct reports), WaPo, and now Facebook/HuffPost. I do pay 95 % of the bills online now a practice which took me some time to fully embrace.

Updated On: 4/12/15 at 11:12 PM

ok @Namo...I won't split hairs over it. But, I will suggest that there are no technical barriers to the US gov't banning Duck Duck Go akin to China. Law is another matter. Night everyone!

You do know that you don't have to make these awful people your fb friends, right? You can also make sure your profile and account are private. And, then, if you "only" signed up for it to bang a broad, you never need to open the site again.

Problem solved.

Holy cow. Girl. Why would you GIVE them any part of your identity they could steal. Did you actually fill in your address and phone number and everything else that's none of their business?

It feels like a cult more so than a means for folks to stay connected. I'm not part of the sheeple movement.

I think it feels like however you choose to use it, for whatever purpose, and to whatever extent. But maybe that's just what the Sheeple Cult have taught me to say.

@Namo,

I'm a guy and there's at least 3,000 pieces of information in the interwebs about each of us already available to online info brokers and the criminal element. I'm not here to promote paranoia but FB and countless other social media platforms as well as online vendors frequently use 3rd party fulfillment services whose operations are outside their purview.

And while I'm not going to go into specifics, I've performed forensics on a number of systems (including routers) for my clients that have led to employee dismissals and loss of security clearances for violations of company (or agency) computer use policies in sensitive settings. You should re-read some of the privacy and computer use policies of the your favorite online spots, especially if your employer offers BYOD and/or wifi as a courtesy.

The main reason why I don't want to ever see a Republican in the White House again is so that a version of the Patriot Act on steroids never materializes and innocent people aren't sent an invitation to appear before the FISA court due to some shaite that their minor kid inadvertently does online. Hard disks, back up tapes, consumer router logs, ISP server logs, cloud provider records, and other digital assets are subpoenaed by federal judges far more often than you'd suspect.

Carry on...have at it.