[ale] facebook hacked?

[Charles Shapiro]

https://joindiaspora.com/

The day these guys send me an invite, I am outta FB.  Why should I let
some evil corporate strangers "monetize" my social network?

-- CHS


On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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> I refuse to use facebook. If someone wants _me_ to know something they can
> stop being a lazy narcissist and send me an email.
>>
>
> I used to say the same about texting and pagers before that.  "Why can't
> they just use the phone if there's an emergency" and then "why can't they
> just call me?  They have a phone in their hand."
> Thing is, like the PC before it and phones before that, we get left behind
> if we don't at least have presence on the "de-facto" standard communications
> methods of the day.  Sure, they're a pain, and sure they're not what we're
> used to, but you could make similar arguments about the adoption of the
> phone, email, pagers, online forums, TXTing, and now Facebook.
> Just because the culture we grew up in didn't include these things doesn't
> mean they're not what's up with communications today.
> Take our drum corps for instance:  http://corpsvets.org  We have all age
> groups from 13 - ***
> We used to do everything by mailing list (est. 1998).  That was fine for
> awhile until we noticed marked reduction in participation.  I took over the
> mailing list and set up the first forums with a gateway between the forums
> and the mailing list.  All of a sudden we were back to nearly 100%
> participation.  over a few years, this too started to fall off.  Then we
> added a CC: to a distribution mechanism that would TXT people who wanted it
> (the tech behind that...a manually aliased email address to
> XXXXXXXXXX at txt.att.net according to carrier's particular method).  We had a
> small bump and then a meteoric drop off.  No matter what we did by all of
> the communications methods we had, no one would answer/acknowledge
> announcements (especially teens/college).
> It wasn't until we set up our Facebook presence that communications shot
> back up to normal levels.
> When you meet someone today, they ask for your Facebook.  Not your phone#,
> not your IM or even email.  They ask for your Facebook.  I'm starting to see
> it even in businesses.  I keep LinkedIN for business and Facebook for
> casual, but I can see a world where LinkedIn ultimately declines and FB adds
> a business services portion.   I really don't know why they haven't done it
> yet.
> Point is, we can stick to our guns and hold out to our currently-held
> values.  That most certainly has its benefits for us, but in the world of
> today I can't imagine that being good for us in the long run.  Point is, by
> saying "lazy narcissist" at those with a FB presence, what is the difference
> between that and saying the same thing at the advent of the telephone?
> This is a new world and it's much younger than we are, and today's grads are
> tomorrow's employers.  As we age, they will ultimately be our employers.  If
> we want to play on the handball court where everyone is, we're going to have
> to acquire a racket, like it or not.
>
> #!/jerald
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