Khan Wrenth
Ore Oppression Prevention and Salvation
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Posted - 2017.01.15 14:13:11 -
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Neuntausend wrote:Facebook is very creepy, which is why I don't use it. A couple years back my friends almost managed to drag me into it, but I had a similar experience to OP: It immediately knew who my friends were, and even listed a couple of people from school who I had not been in contact with for 10 or so years, even through I told it pretty much nothing about me. I immediately closed the account, installed DoNotTrackMe and never touched anything that said "Facebook" on it ever again.
Almost my exact experience. Except I did not know of "DoNotTrackMe", otherwise this is my story verbatim.
Look, FaceBook as an entity violates the rules of common sense that were established back when the internet really started to become an everyday consumer product instead of a niche thing rich folks tinkered with - you never put your name out there. Never. Never. Of course there's services that require it (like online banking), but there's a difference between having your name publicly visible on some fad site and your private communications between yourself and your credit card company.
It's not just that Facebook wants your name (which I know is the LEAST of the concerns, but I'm going for a different point). It's that they absolutely demand it. Back when chat rooms were a thing, I had several accounts with different chat programs. Yahoo, AOL, ICQ, mIRC, etc. And I had different handles and passwords for all of them. None of them needed a "name", and if they did, any random splurge of letters sufficed for them. When I tried that with facebook, it refused; citing that what I typed "was not a real name". My thoughts were, "Well no s*** Sherlock, you're not getting my real name!". Some back and forth ensued with Facebook demanding a real name until I gave them a random real name.
Nobody on the internet, save for financial transactions, needs your real name. If they demand it, it's a scam. Facebook is insidious in how it manipulates people via positive reinforcement to divulge information on their friends, family, etc. I have a bunch of relatives that use Facebook and I guarantee you that there is s***tons of information about me that they share without my consent, because we don't live in a world anymore where people respect other people's privacy.
Let's discuss overhauling the way we get intel in EvE.
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