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Posted March 28, 2018
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Well there's one feature I'll never use....
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Tauto: Ignore the comedy relief.Facebook is NO danger if you don't ever intend using it but some will complain anyway.Keep up the good work.
Only reason why I got a facebook account was to escalate internet abuse complaints.

Quite often, sending emails and logs to abuse addresses of ISPs and hosts get you no where.
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Lemon_Curry: They're moving the forums to Facebook!
In case you haven't seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlNr-Vf9L2c

Wish he had done a better job with it but.....
Post edited March 28, 2018 by drmike
Posted March 28, 2018
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I had Facebook once, many years ago. You know, "all my firends use it" and such.
I think I lasted a year, then after reading the nth change of policy, delving a bit in their data exchange programs and seeing the sheer stupidity of some posts coming from people I previously kept in high regard I decided that no, I didn't need a vampire site to feed on my preferences and my affections. So, I unsibscribed and I hope by now all the data is gone.
Posted March 28, 2018
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drmike: In case you haven't seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlNr-Vf9L2c
I have seen it before, but thanks anyway. :)
Posted March 28, 2018
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Lemon_Curry: They're moving the forums to Facebook!
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drmike: In case you haven't seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlNr-Vf9L2c

Wish he had done a better job with it but.....
All right. Thank you. I almost broke down crying in laughter.
Posted March 28, 2018
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Enebias: I had Facebook once, many years ago.
Immediately made me think of this.
Posted March 28, 2018
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Breja: We can log in with Cambridge Anal... I mean with Facebook now? Was that always an option and I just didn't notice? Will there be a new GOG Connect feature for Facebook? Will Galaxy feed our data directly to Skynet?
I feel like this "scandal" is made out to be a lot bigger than it really is to the vast majority of people. I don't see anything wrong with GOG offering an optional way to connect and login. Pretty much all gaming clients / sites, etc use it as a way to find out which real life friends also use the service you do. And I say this as someone who hates Facebook and has posted probably twice on it in the last year or two.

This is probably just the beginning, GOG will probably add other features that allows one to connect their accounts. Things like twitch integration, etc. I really don't see an issue with it, you can simply not use it if you don't want too. But I guess today some people aren't happy unless they are complaining.
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Posted March 28, 2018
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USERNAME:Breja#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4We can log in with Cambridge Anal... I mean with Facebook now? Was that always an option and I just didn't notice? Will there be a new GOG Connect feature for Facebook? Will Galaxy feed our data directly to Skynet?
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I hate all social media and have long before the recent scandal. As someone already said, people shocked by Facebook's use of their data are the same people who make it necessary to put "may contain nuts" warnings on bags of nuts.

I'm not even complaining, I'm more amused by the timing than angry about anything. Although I do find it annoying how that wretched thing is more and more integrated into everything.
Posted March 28, 2018
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USERNAME:Breja#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4We can log in with Cambridge Anal... I mean with Facebook now? Was that always an option and I just didn't notice? Will there be a new GOG Connect feature for Facebook? Will Galaxy feed our data directly to Skynet?
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It sounds like you're missing the point of this issue atm but if you're a FOX news consumer, and that does sound likely given your political inclinations in the President thread you may not have heard of this news. Cambridge Analytica/Facebook is currently in a huge scandal worldwide and is basically getting exposed as the massive surveillance program it is and how it has (apparently) been using and selling that data for ages to do things up to and including misusing that data to affect election results.

If anything people should be deleting their facebook accounts, not be encouraged to use them even more.
Post edited March 28, 2018 by Pheace
Posted March 28, 2018
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Asbeau: He's saying that if you create a Facebook account and use it to log into sites but don't actually use it for anything else it's perfectly safe.
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Tauto: No.What I am saying is that if you don't use Facebook then they can't catch anything.
Wrong. Have you ever heard of shadow profiles?

The article I linked to might be considered a bit too alarmist in its writing, but the more we know about facebook's creepy algorithms and collection practices the more we see that there is reason to be paranoid.
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Pheace: It sounds like you're missing the point of this issue atm but if you're a FOX news consumer, and that does sound likely given your political inclinations in the President thread you may not have heard of this news. Cambridge Analytica/Facebook is currently in a huge scandal worldwide and is basically getting exposed as the massive surveillance program it is and how it has (apparently) been using and selling that data for ages to do things up to and including misusing that data to affect election results.

If anything people should be deleting their facebook accounts, not be encouraged to use them even more.
I love how you say if I'm a "FOX news consumer", not trying to sound condescending but you really are.. I actually get my news from a lot of places both right and left leaning because I don't want to "be in a box or bubble" when I get my information.

What I mean is the media likes to drum this up that "a lot" of people are pissed by this but I don't know anyone in my own life or circle who is deleting facebook because of this or even follow the news enough to care, regardless of political beliefs. All companies collect and sell our data. It's really standard practice and most people don't care enough to get out of their own way. Not saying it's right but it is what it is.

Vast majority of people do not follow the news, a very minority of people (on both sides) actually do... and they do so in a very hardcore way. And unless we have numbers that show a steep decline of users after this report got out this is all hot air.

I also don't know anyone who votes by what they see on facebook, but sure if people need to believe that it has had any impact on this election (I mean what # are we up to now on reasons why Hillary lost... I really can't keep count?), then more power to them I guess.
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Pheace: including misusing that data to affect election results.
Also the Obama camp did nearly the same thing, only difference was direct people knew what it was for... but they all do it. But because it's Trump and because the media is who they are. It's a scandal only now.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar/22/meghan-mccain/comparing-facebook-data-use-obama-cambridge-analyt/
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Posted March 28, 2018
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I do agree with this, but just because people are not aware enough to react to it doesn't mean it's right. It's still wrong, and like was said above, for people who do know what's going on it certainly doesn't feel right to see a update almost exclusive centered around introducing facebook integration.

I also don't know anyone who votes by what they see on facebook, but sure if people need to believe that it has had any impact on this election (I mean what # are we up to now on reasons why Hillary lost... I really can't keep count?), then more power to them I guess.
It honestly baffles me when people make this argument and it just shows how little people realize what effect the internet has on them. Facebook and other media are vulnerable to creating safe spaces of like minded poeople. All these kind of safe spaces need to guide opinion is misguided stories/fake news to be introduced and have these stories get linked/reposted by friends to give added validity. Sometimes some particularly biased newsmedia picks these stories up as well. (Alex Jones for instance) It's easy for people to get influenced like this. And it's not just one thing, or two, it's a continuous reinforcement by your peers and the media that those stories are correct, because they end up sharing the same ones over time.

It's things like this that had people harass and threaten workers at a pizzeria and one eventually even shooting it up with an AR-15 at it because they had become convinced that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of it.

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USERNAME:Pheace#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:24#Q&_^Q&Q#including misusing that data to affect election results.#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:24#Q&_^Q&Q#
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I was thinking about Brexit actually but yeah the recent US elections do appear to be involved to some extent as well. Doesn't matter which side did it. The fact that it is possible *and* is being done needs to be changed. Rules need to be laid down for this to make sure that it can't happen in the future, by anyone.
Post edited March 28, 2018 by Pheace
Posted March 28, 2018
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Pheace: It honestly baffles me when people make this argument and it just shows how little people realize what effect the internet has on them. Facebook and other media are vulnerable to creating safe spaces of like minded poeople. All these kind of safe spaces need to guide opinion is misguided stories/fake news to be introduced and have these stories get linked/reposted by friends to give added validity. Sometimes some particularly biased newsmedia picks these stories up as well. (Alex Jones for instance) It's easy for people to get influenced like this. And it's not just one thing, or two, it's a continuous reinforcement by your peers and the media that those stories are correct, because they end up sharing the same ones over time.

It's things like this that had people harass and threaten workers at a pizzeria and one eventually even shooting it up with an AR-15 at it because they had become convinced that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of it.
Sure but you act like this isn't also true of the left? Both sides have their "safe spaces" if you will... that's life. What are we to do? Control what people think and post like some kind of police state? Because I can tell what views will be suppressed and which ones won't in that scenario. It's already happening now with very liberal companies like Google and Facebook.

If you want to be fair look at both sides of the coin... and just because something may be out there doesn't mean it not true or that is doesn't have some truth to it, it simply hasn't been proven.

Take the who pizzeria thing, I always thought the story was pretty crazy and didn't have any real facts but it did have a lot of weirdness to it if you really delved deep into the actual verified so called "evidence". I take issue with both sides on this one, the right for sharing this crap with no actual hard proof and the other side for dismissing it (not exactly as it relates to Hillary but the concept in general as it relates to our government) without any type of investigation or actual in-depth reporting. Have we really as a society learned nothing from the Catholic Church scandal?

And as far as Facebook data, as I said above... both sides do it.
Post edited March 28, 2018 by user deleted
Posted March 28, 2018
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Enebias: I had Facebook once, many years ago.
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Breja: Immediately made me think of this.
I would have went with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vncIBREXCwU
Posted March 28, 2018
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Breja: Immediately made me think of this.
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drmike: I would have went with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vncIBREXCwU
I meant more how Enebias made it sound like Facebook is some disease he used to suffer from. Which is actualy pretty apt comparison in my opinion :D
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