I was joking ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com
2009/7/1 stephen barncard <stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> > And what's your Facebook username? > > ------------------------- > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco > http://barncard.com > > > 2009/7/1 Randall Reetz <rand...@randallreetz.com> > > I still think it ironic that we are intolerant of governments and >> corporations when they engage in behaviors we excuse in our selves. How >> many people go to church or get their kids in a soccer league or enroll them >> in a private school specifically to gain access to the "right" group of >> potential customers? FaceBook et al are just providing to that same demand. >> Yes it is creepy... how humans act towards their "friends". Everyone >> wants the "networking" advantages afforded by a company that mines personal >> data. Nobody likes to know how that data is aquired when it comes to their >> own identity. Really creepy is the vailed astonishment expressed as the >> nessisary "wizard of oz" is revealed to be just what our greed demands of >> him. The perfect reflection of us! I live in Palo Alto, and have listened >> in on hundreds of facebook employee cafe conversations. Souls not required. >> It is one thing to be a slimy insurance salesman... quite another to >> institutionalize and automate this most tragic of human tendancies... and to >> make a killing doing so. The edifice that is socil networking software >> tends to depersonalize and infrastructurealize sleezyness. "Hey, everyone >> is driving drunk!", becomes, "If we arent supposed to drive drunk, why is >> there a beer tap right here on the dash board?" >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Lynn Fredricks" <lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> >> To: "'How to use Revolution'" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> >> Sent: 7/1/2009 3:14 PM >> Subject: Creepy 2020 >> >> > We seem to be assuming that Facebook is automagically digging >> > into your address book, when it could just be finding you in >> > reverse from people that have already shared. This would >> > actually seem more efficient, since while you may not share >> > your address book, somebody else that knows you probably has... >> >> This creepy privacy invasion thread makes me think of the various ways >> Google snaps up information - by car and of course by satelite. Maybe in a >> few years we will see robot wars between the Google Car, Yahoo Refuse >> Digger >> and Facebook Roto Rooter - all fighting each other to get the last bit of >> our private information :-) >> >> Best regards, >> >> Lynn Fredricks >> President >> Paradigma Software >> http://www.paradigmasoft.com >> >> Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution