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Facebook updates Terms of Use; Internet freaks out

Which of the changes matter most to you? Well, how much is your identity worth?

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Be careful what you put out there!

There is nothing personal about the
‘Personal Computer’

Pay close attention to what you are looking at or putting out on the web, Facebook, and MySpace these days! Noting is sacred. Everything you do can be seen by another person. There is entirely too much information about too many things about you on the computer.

Advertising is overwhelming. I am tired of ‘pop ups’ and other scam messages I didn’t ask for. Being bombarded with offers of crap I don’t need can be very frustrating. Why does my computer have to save everything I do on the hard drive? For whom? I would like to have the choice of saving what I want to save and not what the technogeeks and the government thinks. This device can get you into very serious trouble. It can be confiscated by the authorities and viewed by others who can use this information against you in your job pursuit, a court of law or worse, steal your identity.

Anyone who believes a password protects you is living in a dream world. Any 13 year old kid can get into your computer in a flash, just ask them. Storing all your financial information and personal things on this ‘tattle tailer’ is at best dumb and dangerous. We are no longer insulated from making mistakes and being able to talk our way through them. Now the computer documents our humanistic foibles and we don’t even think about it. There are those who will spend hours on the net only to disown their families and isolate themselves from everyone. I know people who are on the computer all day, and for what reason? They need to get a life.

We spend thousands of dollars to purposely isolate ourselves from our families and even our work associates. Computers in the work place have taken on a new mantra as well. Recent studies showed that almost 80% of employees on the work site computer spend an hour or more a day on personal searches and generating personal E mails. Managers who used to walk around to see the progress being made by their staff are anchored to their desk all day in an effort to write ‘neat’ reports to the higher Directors who also spend their entire day on the computer doing the same thing as well. This is nuts.

We are lost in a sea of bologna and inefficiencies never before experienced. We spend a good portion of our day on the computer and our every keystroke can be monitored. We as humans have become somewhat stupid and naive in our pursuit of happiness. Remember, the computer is always a two way machine. Unfortunately the person on the other end may not be who you’d like them to be. Think about it!

It may be time to re evaluate your priorities and even consider destroying your one eyed tattler. We don’t need all this BS to survive. All we need is a computer that computes and an internet that doesn’t track our every move and usage or capture our personal information. “The faster we go the slower we get”.


The Microsoft Prayer
Bill Gates is my shepherd, I shall not rest. He leadith me down the path to the keyboard,
He restoreith my hard drive. With my flash drive and I pod he comforts me.
Yeah though I walk through the the valley of megabytes, I fear no evil, for Bill is with me. . .
Surely Gates and Dell will follow me for the rest of my life and I’ll be forced to dwell in the House of the geeks forever.
Amen
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rights grab by facebook

FB has been grabbing rights for a long time
see http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2008/02/27/facebooks-rights-grab-how-far-does-it-go/

Now it just got worse
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There is No Privacy Anymore

As a professional writer and photographer, I will no longer be posting any of my creative product, or even links to my creative product, on Facebook.

But there are a few things of greater concern to me. One is that if someone else links to my creative product on Facebbook, it appears Facebook is still claiming a right to it. How do I control someone else posting a link to my photographs on Flickr, my writing excerpts on my website, or my blog posts on MySpace? I can't.

Ditto on photographs posted of me. If I go to a private party in someone elses's home, and dance and drink like a crazy fool, what's to stop some Facebook member from posting up photos of me and tagging them with my full name? If I someday have a high-ranking position, is Facebook going to take those photos and use them to blackmail me? I'm not that much of a partier but now it feels like even in someone's home, I am no longer safe unless I sit politely on the couch and sip from a bottle clearly marked as water.

I learned recently at a convention that someone had followed me around all weekend with their video camera, without me knowing it, filming close-ups of my backside as I walked and as I danced at a party. What's to stop them from posting that to their Facebook page? Nothing. Nothing at all. Technically, they could e-mail that video to my employer and while I'm doing nothing wrong, it would still look bad.

I feel like becoming a cyber hermit.
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I think the main danger was included in the very initial version of Terms of Use. It was about the right to modify Terms of Use without any notice to users.
Here are main dangers of Facebook's Terms of Use summarized:

http://www.myhowtoos.com/en/red-hot/73-what-are-the-dangers-of-facebooks-terms-of-use
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