HOoray for progress! I was reading some of the responses, and at first I was all like "Wha..? I totally need to correct these people who don't totally agree with me!" and then I said nah, I'll just add my input, and choose to not give a hoopty.
I dont see how you can hate on facebook...
I'm in school to be an anthropologist. Back in the day, native peoples would be forced to stand for pictures, to be studied against their will. Tuskegee experiments anyone?
The reason that I specifically hate on Facebook is that they have admitted to performing psychological experiments on hundreds of thousands of people WITHOUT CONSENT. If I were to do that as a professional anthropologist, I would go to prison. They do it, it's just a foot note.
http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...apologises-psychological-experiments-on-users
It's one thing having all of your personal information "monetized" (read: used to make you poorer from buying all the shit they advertise to you.), it's COMPLETELY FUCKING UNACCEPTABLE to have your information used to target you in a giant experiment that is designed to change your emotions, to mess with your physiologly, Un. be. knownst. To. you.
Oh fuck no. I deleted my account 5 minutes after I learned about it.
If you use the internet your informations is being bought or sold for someone elses financial gain. period. its not just facebook. does that mean im going to completely stop using the internet? No, because its a very useful tool. i think the key is to just be aware how it works and use with caution.
Period? Not a period. A comma maybe. Let's try
"If you use the internet your information is being bought or sold for someone else financial gain, (comma) BUT, there's a tremendous amount of things you can do to minimize the amount of that information, to obfuscate the valuable bits of that information, and to do this in a way that builds community and is easy to do."
There. Doesn't that sound better?
"If you live in the world as a human being, you're going to contribute to the consumption of non-renewable resources the the destruction of precious habitats, and the enslavement of others. Period." <---see? there's always a comma. Arguments are rarely, rarely ever adequately or honestly handled with a period.
"If you are in the middle of (some kind of exploitative thing), then you will contribute to the (furtherance of that exploitable thing.) , (<----comma) but if you feel (negative emotion) regarding (exploitative thing) then take comfort knowing that there are things you can do to mitigate your participation in (said exploitative thing),, and perhaps even find alternatives."