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  • A adriancs

    I might not totally agreed with all the points, but overall, it's kind of fun information to read, so.. em... enjoy yourself with the article:

    Quote: http://socialmediatoday.com/node/1312321[^]

    Are you getting tired of Facebook or some of the behavior of your friends on the site? Facebook is the most popular social network with over 1 billion active users. And with great popularity comes some shameful characters looking to tap into Facebook's viral market to sell you their crappy products or scheme your money through affiliate links or worse. So if you happen to find yourself doing any of the 11 following things, you should look to stop doing so immediately before all of your friends look to jump ship!

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    Cristian Amarie
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    Yeah, right. And the article have a big Like button just under the title, plus others (I don't know what they are, twitter and some others). "Control yourself, general." (Starship Troopers) That's what you need to do on Facebook. Or anywhere else.

    Nuclear launch detected

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      harold aptroot wrote:

      Having Using an account.

      I have an account, to reserve my name and stop others pretending to be me. I never visit it though, no matter now many "friends" try to conect to me... :laugh:

      This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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      BillWoodruff
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      I don't have an account, OG, because I can't stop pretending to be me. From my pov (aged, weakening eyes): FaceBook, Twitter, Linked In, Google+, etc., are all to the quality of public discourse as the Black Death was to medieval Europe, but, unfortunately the so-called "social networking sites" only leave people in PVS (Persistent Vegetative State), "virtually dead," rather than physically dead. However, we are learning some very interesting things at this time, about what consciousness is by observing brain activity in people in PVS: [^]. What are we learning from the mass extinction of the quality of thought from FaceBook et. al. ? bill

      Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview

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        I don't have an account, OG, because I can't stop pretending to be me. From my pov (aged, weakening eyes): FaceBook, Twitter, Linked In, Google+, etc., are all to the quality of public discourse as the Black Death was to medieval Europe, but, unfortunately the so-called "social networking sites" only leave people in PVS (Persistent Vegetative State), "virtually dead," rather than physically dead. However, we are learning some very interesting things at this time, about what consciousness is by observing brain activity in people in PVS: [^]. What are we learning from the mass extinction of the quality of thought from FaceBook et. al. ? bill

        Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview

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        OriginalGriff
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        BillWoodruff wrote:

        are all to the quality of public discourse as the Black Death was to medieval Europe,

        As Lynne Truss says in her seminal work "Eats, Shoots and Leaves": "Thirty years ago we assumed that television was the ultimate enemy of literacy and that, under the onslaught from image and sound, the written word would rapidly die out. Such fears, at least, have been dissipated. With text messaging and emailing becoming such compulsive universal activities, reading and writing are now more a fact of everyday life than they have ever been. The text message may be a vehicle for some worrying verbal shorthand ("CU B4 8?"), yet every time a mobile goes "Beep-beep; beep-beep" annoyingly within earshot on the bus, we should be grateful for a technological miracle that stepped in unexpectedly to save us from a predicted future that couldn't read at all." And when talking about social media: "...by tragic historical coincidence a period of abysmal undereducating in literacy has coincided with this unexpected explosion of global self-publishing. Thus people who don't know their apostrophe from their elbow are positively invited to disseminate their writings to anyone on the planet stupid enough to double-click and scroll." Interestingly, Google chrome doesn't like that last quote: it insists it should be "under education" rather than "undereducating", and I'm afraid I have to agree with the Large Company rather than the grammatacologist... :sigh:

        This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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        • A adriancs

          I might not totally agreed with all the points, but overall, it's kind of fun information to read, so.. em... enjoy yourself with the article:

          Quote: http://socialmediatoday.com/node/1312321[^]

          Are you getting tired of Facebook or some of the behavior of your friends on the site? Facebook is the most popular social network with over 1 billion active users. And with great popularity comes some shameful characters looking to tap into Facebook's viral market to sell you their crappy products or scheme your money through affiliate links or worse. So if you happen to find yourself doing any of the 11 following things, you should look to stop doing so immediately before all of your friends look to jump ship!

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          Forogar
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          I have been on Facebook for years. I visit my Facebook account once a year in case I have missed something important. So far, nothing.

          - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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          • B BillWoodruff

            I don't have an account, OG, because I can't stop pretending to be me. From my pov (aged, weakening eyes): FaceBook, Twitter, Linked In, Google+, etc., are all to the quality of public discourse as the Black Death was to medieval Europe, but, unfortunately the so-called "social networking sites" only leave people in PVS (Persistent Vegetative State), "virtually dead," rather than physically dead. However, we are learning some very interesting things at this time, about what consciousness is by observing brain activity in people in PVS: [^]. What are we learning from the mass extinction of the quality of thought from FaceBook et. al. ? bill

            Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview

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            OriginalGriff
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            BTW: I share your pain regarding the "aged, weakening eyes" - I now have three pairs of glasses: "Walk about", "Reading", and "Computer" without which I am well and truly stuffed. :sigh:

            This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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            "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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            • A adriancs

              I might not totally agreed with all the points, but overall, it's kind of fun information to read, so.. em... enjoy yourself with the article:

              Quote: http://socialmediatoday.com/node/1312321[^]

              Are you getting tired of Facebook or some of the behavior of your friends on the site? Facebook is the most popular social network with over 1 billion active users. And with great popularity comes some shameful characters looking to tap into Facebook's viral market to sell you their crappy products or scheme your money through affiliate links or worse. So if you happen to find yourself doing any of the 11 following things, you should look to stop doing so immediately before all of your friends look to jump ship!

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              Mark_Wallace
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              Not a bad list of things not to do on FB, but he forgot thing-not-to-do 0: 0: Log in.

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              • L Lost User

                OriginalGriff wrote:

                I have an account, to reserve my name and stop others pretending to be me.

                That.. actually makes sense.

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                Simon ORiordan from UK
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                No it doesn't. There are dozens of accounts with the same name. It is even possible to have two accounts yourself with your name.

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                • S Simon ORiordan from UK

                  No it doesn't. There are dozens of accounts with the same name. It is even possible to have two accounts yourself with your name.

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                  Lost User
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                  But it is hard for a duplicate account to really pretend to be you. To be believable, they'd have to add enough of your friends - and some of your friends will be idiots and add him, but if even a couple of them don't, he won't be able to send out any more friend requests and Facebook will get suspicious of the account.

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                  • L Lost User

                    But it is hard for a duplicate account to really pretend to be you. To be believable, they'd have to add enough of your friends - and some of your friends will be idiots and add him, but if even a couple of them don't, he won't be able to send out any more friend requests and Facebook will get suspicious of the account.

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                    Simon ORiordan from UK
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                    Absolutely.

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                    • A adriancs

                      I might not totally agreed with all the points, but overall, it's kind of fun information to read, so.. em... enjoy yourself with the article:

                      Quote: http://socialmediatoday.com/node/1312321[^]

                      Are you getting tired of Facebook or some of the behavior of your friends on the site? Facebook is the most popular social network with over 1 billion active users. And with great popularity comes some shameful characters looking to tap into Facebook's viral market to sell you their crappy products or scheme your money through affiliate links or worse. So if you happen to find yourself doing any of the 11 following things, you should look to stop doing so immediately before all of your friends look to jump ship!

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                      BotReject
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                      Apart from maintaining a company page, I have no Facebook account. I have never had the slightest desire to have one either.

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                      • A adriancs

                        I might not totally agreed with all the points, but overall, it's kind of fun information to read, so.. em... enjoy yourself with the article:

                        Quote: http://socialmediatoday.com/node/1312321[^]

                        Are you getting tired of Facebook or some of the behavior of your friends on the site? Facebook is the most popular social network with over 1 billion active users. And with great popularity comes some shameful characters looking to tap into Facebook's viral market to sell you their crappy products or scheme your money through affiliate links or worse. So if you happen to find yourself doing any of the 11 following things, you should look to stop doing so immediately before all of your friends look to jump ship!

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                        Tomz_KV
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                        "App Requests" is a little tricky. You may not want to use that app but at the same time you do not want to hurt the feeling of your friend.

                        TOMZ_KV

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          harold aptroot wrote:

                          Having Using an account.

                          I have an account, to reserve my name and stop others pretending to be me. I never visit it though, no matter now many "friends" try to conect to me... :laugh:

                          This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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                          Gary Huck
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                          I like that

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                          • S Simon ORiordan from UK

                            No it doesn't. There are dozens of accounts with the same name. It is even possible to have two accounts yourself with your name.

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                            Gary Henning
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                            While it is true that the name can be duplicated, the "username" is unique (Try it out, go to https://www.facebook.com/zuck to go directly to Mark Zuckerberg's account), as is (are) the email account(s) associated with said account. I signed up for quite a few services for the same reason, to secure my username. My Facebook account went unused for years before I realized that I could reconnect with people I had lost touch with over the years. Also, I find it ironic that people are complaining about an online forum (Facebook) on an online forum. ;P

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                            • G Gary Henning

                              While it is true that the name can be duplicated, the "username" is unique (Try it out, go to https://www.facebook.com/zuck to go directly to Mark Zuckerberg's account), as is (are) the email account(s) associated with said account. I signed up for quite a few services for the same reason, to secure my username. My Facebook account went unused for years before I realized that I could reconnect with people I had lost touch with over the years. Also, I find it ironic that people are complaining about an online forum (Facebook) on an online forum. ;P

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                              Simon ORiordan from UK
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                              Have to agree. I use FB a lot. I even found old girlfriends on other continents. Getting in touch with them after years was nice. ;)

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                              • G Gary Henning

                                While it is true that the name can be duplicated, the "username" is unique (Try it out, go to https://www.facebook.com/zuck to go directly to Mark Zuckerberg's account), as is (are) the email account(s) associated with said account. I signed up for quite a few services for the same reason, to secure my username. My Facebook account went unused for years before I realized that I could reconnect with people I had lost touch with over the years. Also, I find it ironic that people are complaining about an online forum (Facebook) on an online forum. ;P

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                                Simon ORiordan from UK
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                                Also - my domain is secured, although I barely use it. [www.simonoriordan.com]

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                                • A adriancs

                                  I might not totally agreed with all the points, but overall, it's kind of fun information to read, so.. em... enjoy yourself with the article:

                                  Quote: http://socialmediatoday.com/node/1312321[^]

                                  Are you getting tired of Facebook or some of the behavior of your friends on the site? Facebook is the most popular social network with over 1 billion active users. And with great popularity comes some shameful characters looking to tap into Facebook's viral market to sell you their crappy products or scheme your money through affiliate links or worse. So if you happen to find yourself doing any of the 11 following things, you should look to stop doing so immediately before all of your friends look to jump ship!

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                                  loctrice
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                                  If I saw this I'd click the like button so hard the facebook servers would poop! :laugh: :laugh: Punched the wife on that one!

                                  If it moves, compile it

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