Yes, you have a Facebook page, you Tweet, your pictures are on Flckr, you are LinkedIn, and all the many, many others, good thing your paying job is only eight or ten hours huh?. Yes, it is so much fun to share pictures and recipes and all that other junk that used to be done with paper, electronically, so much more efficient (as long as it works). Now all your friends can know instantly just what you are doing, and you can alert them to anything, you can even tell them that you are going to be “away” from Facebook for a couple of minuets (as long as it works), but NEVER fear Tweet is here! You can be tweeting while sitting on the pot, and telling all your friends at the instant that relief is yours! WHeeeew! Thanks for sharing. But you were not quit out of contact with your friends, and that was the important thing! It was a close thing however . . .
But what happens when (you notice I did not say IF) your account is hacked and all your friends, say for instance, your bible class, gets a bunch of Porn spam directly from the Churches (or your) Facebook page? Just how do you fix that? Well the truth of it is, you fix it if you are lucky. You go through all the steps Facebook requires and you to, then you HOPE against hope that it does what it is supposed to do, that is, FIX the problem. So what exactly happened, how did they get your information? Simply put, someone hacked your account, that is, made all your friends and your friends friends (his friends), and is now using your account and all the information on that account, just like it was his/her’s to start with. But how did this happen, how did u get hacked? Well you used social Media, and Social Media is not safe. Here is an Axiom for you, if you use social media then you will be hacked.
SO, OK, . . Well, Facebook will fix it, right? Fat Chance. And Good Luck with that. And good luck with the “Black Hole” that is Internet Corporation Services. Ask for help on the help page get an automated reply in your email inbox, sending you to the place that gave you the link that sent you to the place that you then sent the email to, and from. Got a tail? Chase it, it is just as effective.
Facebook actually should be called: Facelessbook. Because, like the rest of the corporate world it is becoming/became Faceless, contactless. A company put together to ostensibly help people stay in contact, cannot be truly contacted themselves. SO down this road we go. We, as individuals, are becoming part of a Faceless/Soulless Society in general (I am not referring to religion’s concept here), we no longer communicate directly, “Common Courtesy” is gone. When we want to ask a question of any company we have to go through 6 layers of computer questions to get someone Half a world away, who actually has Nothing to do with the company that we called, other than to read the “script” of common answers to question that are mirrored on the companies FAQ page already), or to answer questions that the company does not want to spend real money on a real employee to take the time to answer themselves.
Facebook is a perfect example of a corporation completely shut off, by their own choice, from the people for whom they provide a “service” and that is just perfect, and their choice BTW, for them.
What can the little innocent Facebook/Google be doing that could possibly harm anyone? You are aware, are you not, that every word you have ever spoken on your Cell phone, every word that you have ever texted is likely still siting on a sever some where? Sitting for what purpose? Who owns the words you typed or spoke? Are they yours? Do you own them, are they secure? Not Even a chance of that being true.
Once you have spoken or typed or sent a text, it has become what is called “Public Domain,” in short that means you don’t own it, at least as much as when you hadn’t sent it yet. It means anyone can use anything that you said or put on the web for any purpose at all, if they can get ahold of it. Now there are member sites like FB and all the other site, that have TOUs and ULAs (that no one reads) and other acronyms that generally are there solely to absolve the company of all GUILT associated, with the misuse of or the theft of any information of yours that they may have had on their servers. I.E your information has become public domain. But thanks to Your digital signature on the organizations “TOU” or “ULA” (do you know what these acronyms mean?), “they”, “the company,” “name here.com,” etc. are not responsible at all, in any way, for anything that might happen as a result of your personal information getting out there, into the WORLDS FREE INFORMATION MARKET wonder what you savings account Number is worth . . . . . Good luck, and
See you on FB . . . . . .