if you're still on facebook, you're a fool

george oscar bluth wrote:

Funny guy. Read again, you will see that I did not say I was laid indirectly, I said that Facebook indirectly caused said lay. That's more than Letsrun has ever done for me :(

What?

You haven't tried the "So, what's your screen name on Letsrun" line on the ladies?

Works every time.

Maybe I'm trying it in the wrong places (libraries, young professionals networking events, Hardee's) - where do you use it with success?

Star wrote:

george oscar bluth wrote:

Funny guy. Read again, you will see that I did not say I was laid indirectly, I said that Facebook indirectly caused said lay. That's more than Letsrun has ever done for me :(

What?

You haven't tried the "So, what's your screen name on Letsrun" line on the ladies?

Works every time.

Oh would you please shut up with your lies.

george oscar bluth wrote:

Maybe I'm trying it in the wrong places (libraries, young professionals networking events, Hardee's) - where do you use it with success?

You go to road races to pick up ladies with the Letsrun line.

Come on, man!

It also works at 1:30 in the morning at bars.

Especially if they are really, really drunk.

A Duck wrote:

I had wine with he and Thiel in 2005, along with some friends, listening to their plans.

I was invited in to fb, in 2004. Declined. Listening to their plans to "leverage and monetize" people's personal info and data... I said "no thanks, Big Brother."

You don't need the government, you have fb.

Classic A Duck post: starts with revealing some boring story about a saladtossing wine event, to show what an insider he is.

Then he makes the most obvious statement possible on the topic: companies sell intelligence on clients to other companies. STOP THE PRESS!

A Dork, do you have a credit card? Travel by air? Use Google?

Moron.

Nuytyt wrote:

george oscar bluth wrote:

Facebook indirectly got me laid on multiple occasions.

How does one get laid indirectly?

Tinder does magic.

Stop using google too. And Bing, and Yahoo. And don't buy from any company that runs online ads (good luck), because they're the ones using your private information. Everyone is using your information to sell you more stuff. Use the FB settings to see ads that bother you less.

But, keep going to the grocery store, watching tv, and keeping your eyes open while you drive. Ads are everywhere, get over it.

How long did you think a social network that supports 1 Billion users would be ad free?

John Clendon wrote:

Nuytyt wrote:

How does one get laid indirectly?

Tinder does magic.

^this, tinder = sex

A Duck wrote:

I had wine with he and Thiel in 2005, along with some friends, listening to their plans.

I was invited in to fb, in 2004. Declined. Listening to their plans to "leverage and monetize" people's personal info and data... I said "no thanks, Big Brother."

I love this passage -- almost a parody of social insecurity. My favorite is probably "I had wine with he [sic] and Thiel," illustrating what Paul Fussell, in "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System," referred to as the proles' "innocence of the objective case." Specifying wine, rather than just drinks, is a nice touch.

It must have felt great to dismissively tell Mark Zuckerberg, "No thanks, Big Brother." Personally, I probably would have chosen to go the billionaire route.

mark suckerberg wrote:

They're messing with your mind to sell ads to funeral parlors, they're using your personal information to sell you to 3rd parties, and they are also some of the most irritating, self-important people on the planet. Lean-in, you have no neck. Zuk, connecting people to the internet in sub-Saharan Africa is about trying to make you richer.

Please, delete your accounts if you have any shred of self-respect left. Even if you don't. This post will probably get deleted because LR is now on Facebook and wants to sell ads too, I guess.

OP, do you not use Google? They're the absolute worst as this. YouTube, Gmail, search, Android, etc. are ALL about gathering as much information about you as possible, to sell to third parties, for ads. Google doesn't sell Android to the OEMs, they give it for free, since the users information they get from tracking what you do on your phone is so valuable. With Google, you are not the customer, you're the product.

Zuckerberg knows my birthday and that I like Pink Floyd.

I am SO screwed.

Ole Timer wrote:

Zuckerberg knows my birthday and that I like Pink Floyd.

I am SO screwed.

All in all, it's just another brick in the wall.

Facebook was great when I got on in 2005. Only open to college students, no privacy controls to prevent people from viewing your profiles, no ads, that profile guy that looked like Steve Magness

When they opened up registration to everyone, that was the death knell for the coolness of the site.

All they care about know is user growth, ad revenue, and acquisition of other Internet startups for future growth of the company. The concerns of the users are secondary, unless the media gets ahold some controversial privacy violation.

With all that said, I still have my account. It's like an address book without having to update addresses.

No Shit Sherlock wrote:

mark suckerberg wrote:

they're using your personal information to sell you to 3rd parties,

No shit, that's what every market research agency ever has done

You really think I care that Facebook knows my birthday and favorite sports teams and all that other top-secret info that I voluntarily typed into my profile?

^ This. Don't put the stuff you actually want private on...public networks. And I don't care what FB or Google knows about my interests.

They can know virtually everything about you through tracing your Internet activity and other computer activity via cookies. Previous advertising models, prior to the 1980s, did not typically acquire virtually all of your personal information. Previous generations would not have tolerated this sort of wholesale theft of our personal information. One thing that you might object to, however, is that these networks make their profits off your personal information while often destroying thousands or millions of jobs (google's aspiration, certainly, with their self-driving cars and robots, among other things; amazon's effects already on book-selling and other retail and with the idea of the drone delivery eliminating all those delivery jobs; MOOCs for the purpose of destroying all those lower middle class academic jobs). Jaron Lanier suggests a law that would entitle us to share profits made from our personal information. Recall that these newly famous corporations employ very, very few people relative to capitalization and in comparison to older corporations.

Avocado's #, I read Paul Fussell's book Class a long time ago. That is an informative book about our society. However, "wine with he" is not an objective case issue but an issue with the indirect object or dative case. The arriviste with the pretensions to education usually overuses the exceptions or unusual grammatical forms.

jjjjjjjjj wrote:

They can know virtually everything about you through tracing your Internet activity and other computer activity via cookies.

Wrong. People who don't understand computers shouldn't be making comments like this.

The only way Facebook can track your browsing history is if the website you're browsing has directly embedded a Facebook button - which is admittedly a lot of News sites and blogs, but far from everything - AND if you're currently logged in, but this has nothing to do with cookies. They have no way of knowing you're on LetsRun, for example.

endurancesport.co wrote:

Stop using google too. And Bing, and Yahoo. And don't buy from any company that runs online ads (good luck), because they're the ones using your private information. Everyone is using your information to sell you more stuff. Use the FB settings to see ads that bother you less.

But, keep going to the grocery store, watching tv, and keeping your eyes open while you drive. Ads are everywhere, get over it.

How long did you think a social network that supports 1 Billion users would be ad free?

Amen

Actually don't buy from the grocery store either, everything you buy is tracked and buying trends are constantly analyzed to find more effective ways to sell you more stuff. And God forbid you use a credit card, because then they can track what you've bought on an individual basis.

To review: use cash only, don't use the Internet, buy everything from the farmer's market, use a secret alternative identity if you ever buy merchandise.

FB = commodified oversharing

jjjjjjjjj wrote:

Avocado's #, I read Paul Fussell's book Class a long time ago. That is an informative book about our society. However, "wine with he" is not an objective case issue but an issue with the indirect object or dative case. The arriviste with the pretensions to education usually overuses the exceptions or unusual grammatical forms.

In modern English, the objective case has generally subsumed a number of other cases, including the indirect object or dative case, so the objective case (or objective form, as I would probably call it) includes, among other things, the object of a preposition, not just the direct object of a verb. But in any event, I suspect that we agree on the basic observation: In non-standard English, the objective form of a pronoun, rather than the nominative form, is routinely used as a subject. ("Him and me are going to the store.") Having been taught that this is bad English, many people become terrified, as they ascend the social and educational ladder, that they will use the objective form in an improper context and sound like a rube, so they resolve all doubts in favor of the nominative form. (Fussell's example is "between he and I.") This, as you suggest, has the unfortunate effect of marking them as "the arriviste with the pretensions to education." I hasten to add that some of these people are very bright and highly educated; they're just uncertain about the grammatical rules that apply in certain social circles and terrified of committing a grammatical faux pas.

Of course, using the nominative rather than the objective form of a pronoun should not be a huge matter, but in the context of having wine with Zuck and Thiel and declining an offer to get in on the ground floor of facebook by saying, "No thanks, Big Brother," it's pretty funny.