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Facebook Uncovers 'Security Issue' Affecting Nearly 50 Million Accounts

macduke said:
Is there any single good thing about FaceBook? Honest question.

They're helping to mess up elections and our democracy, they're taking everyone's private information and selling it, they're taking private information from your contacts and attaching it to you with no way of you knowing, they take your additional phone numbers when setting up two factor authentication to sell to advertisers, the platform is generally a cesspool of fake news and people arguing. And if you try using a competing service, there's a chance that if FaceBook doesn't already own them, they will soon.

The only good thing I can think of is that it's useful in disaster situations to get a hold of friends and family, but even in those situations FaceBook in some countries was popping off celebratory balloons during these events in people's conversations, and more than that, what is so wrong with texting, emailing, or calling to tell your family that you are safe?

I gave them a small amount of information about myself in 2004 when I didn't know any better and thought it was the next Xanga or MySpace. I've learned since then and haven't touched the platform in 8 or 9 years. They have continually shown that they don't respect either their customers or our system of government and law. Zuckerberg thinks he is some sort of god who can do whatever he wants. As he said at Techcruch in 2013: "Sometimes we move too fast and break a bunch of stuff and have to fix it, it's cool." That is NOT COOL. This is the man "safeguarding" your private information. Don't act surprised when these leaks happen, or foreign governments exploit them, or they capture your shadow data and sell it to the highest bidder. This is a bad man, and I'm ashamed that he is one of the most well known representatives of my generation. We were supposed to be better! Our parent's generation was all about greed and excess, consequences to future generations be damned. We were supposed to be better! I am really starting to hate my generation.
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People like entertainment and that is what they gave to the uneducated generation. Like in the all Roman Empire.
 
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andrewface said:
buy the dip, works every time.
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was it facebook or the apple product in your pocket that you hold so dear?
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All depends the use that you gave to those devices. Personally, I use this great technology 95% of the time for research...
 
WannaGoMac said:
Dont worry, facebook has a shadow profile on you thanks to your friends sharing their photos and contacts/address books with Facebook, and every company you've ever purchased anything with sharing with Facebook their customer lists.
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lol trust me, most of my friends don’t do FB either. In fact I truly can’t thikk of anyone in my life outside of co workers that use FB. And they have little to no info on me. Certainly not my phone #, which I know is already out in the open. I can just google my number.
 
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w5jck said:
If that were only possible, but you are naive to think that the average FB user will switch. We techie types would love to, but in this day and age convincing the majority of your family and friends to abandon FB is not going to happen, so we are stuck with FB or with little or no contact with family and friends. That is just the way it is, like it or not. Everyone is used to FB now, and expecting them all to agree to switch to another single platform is so naive as to be laughable. So if you are a loner, then switch if you want to. But if you have a lot of family and friends on FB, you are pretty much stuck with it for now, assuming you want to stay in contact with them.
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I shut down my FB and still hear from my friends and family. Especially when they have a birthday party or shower they know I can’t come to, but will send a gift card for. :p
 
iapplelove said:
lol trust me, most of my friends don’t do FB either. In fact I truly can’t thikk of anyone in my life outside of co workers that use FB. And they have little to no info on me. Certainly not my phone #, which I know is already out in the open. I can just google my number.
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Hve you ever shopped online? If so, there is a shadow profile of you on Facebook.

And to this news, I too was logged out. When I logged in, there *no* message telling me what happened.
 
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w5jck said:
If that were only possible, but you are naive to think that the average FB user will switch. We techie types would love to, but in this day and age convincing the majority of your family and friends to abandon FB is not going to happen, so we are stuck with FB or with little or no contact with family and friends. That is just the way it is, like it or not. Everyone is used to FB now, and expecting them all to agree to switch to another single platform is so naive as to be laughable. So if you are a loner, then switch if you want to. But if you have a lot of family and friends on FB, you are pretty much stuck with it for now, assuming you want to stay in contact with them.
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Who said anything about switching? It is called ditching. How did people communicate before facebook?
 
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unobtainium said:
They were always dumb. It just gave them a platform.
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Facebook and most other social media platforms are normalizing stupid thinking/behavior. People tend to be much more polite and think before they speak when in physical proximity - we're just hairless apes after all.
 
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FrenchRoasted said:
Facebook and most other social media platforms are normalizing stupid thinking/behavior. People tend to be much more polite and think before they speak when in physical proximity - we're just hairless apes after all.
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Some are not even so hairless :)
 
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w5jck said:
If that were only possible, but you are naive to think that the average FB user will switch. We techie types would love to, but in this day and age convincing the majority of your family and friends to abandon FB is not going to happen, so we are stuck with FB or with little or no contact with family and friends. That is just the way it is, like it or not. Everyone is used to FB now, and expecting them all to agree to switch to another single platform is so naive as to be laughable. So if you are a loner, then switch if you want to. But if you have a lot of family and friends on FB, you are pretty much stuck with it for now, assuming you want to stay in contact with them.
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If your contact was limited to FB, then the contact was meaningless.
 
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keysofanxiety said:
1) My work group is on FB chat. Gonna be a pain to suggest a different one.
2) Dank memes.
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keysofanxiety said:
But what of the dank memes, Jimmy? THE DANK MEMES?

And I swear down if you suggest Plebbit
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Jimmy Bubbles said:
LOL there are dank memes in Slack! There are so many plugins/add-ons there. Oh and Slack has a free tier, which the tech community here in TN uses.
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Slack is terrific, @keysofanxiety switch today if possible, do it, you'll be an hero.

Also, this beer:<photo_of_Dank_Meme>, I had it, and it was dark, dank and pretty outstanding, the one from TBBC. I also have a bottle of Dank Wood in the beer fridge, it's dankess is off the charts, though it has no meme ... just hops, a bourbon maltiness and a 12.8 ABV ...
 
nwcs said:
I deleted my facebook account five years ago. Every time I’m ever tempted to rejoin for fun another of these articles shows up to remind me why I left originally. Thanks MR!
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Seven years ago for me. Twitter three years ago.

Two of the best decisions I ever made apart from getting rid of my television fifteen years ago.
 
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gugy said:
I am only a FB lurker. Rarely post something. Better that way. Staying in stealth mode is the way to go, at least for me.
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Everyone watching television is “only a lurker”, but that doesn’t stop it from braninwashing them.
 
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~1 billion people are apparently very happy to share their most sensitive of data with Facebook. This should be the least of their worries. My number and other details have been "shared" with Facebook simply through the slurping they do of other peoples data simply .

Still baffles me how Google gets absolutely slated on here yet FB seems to get a free pass despite being far, far worse abusers and miners of personal data IMO. At least Google offer me services in return for my data, services that hugely improve my life each day.

And Zuckerberg, prancing about like he is the new messiah. Loathsome.
 
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