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hehehe clem.... taking it a step further.
I am not a techie at all.
Me and the wife do not have a cell phone, I have vowed to go through my entire life without one becaue it's just one more way for some corporation to get some of my money.

Don't need one, and won't "get with the program" on that score. I used to have one for work, but that was a necessity.
I rarely if ever stop and say "Geez, I wish I had a cellphone right now."

I don't go nutty with new gadgets. I didn't have my own CD player until around 2000, when I was 33 years old!!!
And I do believe CD players are somewhat passe now, like the DVD player we finally got four or five years ago.

Furthermore, I think Lisa and I are the only two people we know who don't even have call display on our phone!! Not kidding!

Why? Because we have never gotten around to it. Quite simply, I can't be bothered. We have an unlisted phone so we rarely get a telemarketer calling us (unless they are one of those who dial random numbers), and the only people who have our phone# are those we WANT to have it.
You know, it's kind of neat to not know who'll be on the other end when the phone rings. It's like a little surprise. I realize this sounds slightly ridiculous, but it is the truth.

500 heck I got 5,000

I quite Facebook for a few reasons:

1. Mark Zuckerburg (the guy who runs it) is an unethical and has had allegations of various hacking and using user information to hack the email accounts of the harvard crimson..not to mention the stealing of other peoples ideas to create facebook...do you trust such a man with you data? i sure don't.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3

2. If you look at the EFF(Electronic Frontier Foundation) Timeline below...you will see the eroding Facebook has done with your privacy over time...

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Facebook's Eroding Privacy:A Timeline

Since its incorporation just over five years ago, Facebook has undergone a remarkable transformation. When it started, it was a private space for communication with a group of your choice. Soon, it transformed into a platform where much of your information is public by default. Today, it has become a platform where you have no choice but to make certain information public, and this public information may be shared by Facebook with its partner websites and used to target ads.

To help illustrate Facebook's shift away from privacy, we have highlighted some excerpts from Facebook's privacy policies over the years. Watch closely as your privacy disappears, one small change at a time!

Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2005:

No personal information that you submit to Thefacebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings.

Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2006:

We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on Facebook; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your school, your specified local area, and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about.

Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2007:

Profile information you submit to Facebook will be available to users of Facebook who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Your name, school name, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the Facebook network unless you alter your privacy settings.

Facebook Privacy Policy circa November 2009:

Facebook is designed to make it easy for you to share your information with anyone you want. You decide how much information you feel comfortable sharing on Facebook and you control how it is distributed through your privacy settings. You should review the default privacy settings and change them if necessary to reflect your preferences. You should also consider your settings whenever you share information. ...

Information set to “everyone” is publicly available information, may be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Facebook), is subject to indexing by third party search engines, may be associated with you outside of Facebook (such as when you visit other sites on the internet), and may be imported and exported by us and others without privacy limitations. The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” You can review and change the default settings in your privacy settings.

Facebook Privacy Policy circa December 2009:

Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available to everyone, including Facebook-enhanced applications, and therefore do not have privacy settings. You can, however, limit the ability of others to find this information through search using your search privacy settings.

Current Facebook Privacy Policy, as of April 2010:

When you connect with an application or website it will have access to General Information about you. The term General Information includes your and your friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, user IDs, connections, and any content shared using the Everyone privacy setting. ... The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” ... Because it takes two to connect, your privacy settings only control who can see the connection on your profile page. If you are uncomfortable with the connection being publicly available, you should consider removing (or not making) the connection.

Viewed together, the successive policies tell a clear story. Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful controls over their personal information. As Facebook grew larger and became more important, it could have chosen to maintain or improve those controls. Instead, it's slowly but surely helped itself — and its advertising and business partners — to more and more of its users' information, while limiting the users' options to control their own information.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline

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so we have the EFF who are al lawyers telling us that:

1. everything you upload belongs to Facebook, they own it, store it indefinitly, and do with it whatever they wish.

2. they share everything about you with 3rd parties, all your so called "private" info and every other demographic known is shared..you have no say so.

3. Since 98% of all Facebook Profiles use a first adn last name both...the data becomes all the more worrying, and employers are mining Facebook for information.

finally

We have the CEO and boss of Google telling us that if this trend continues, it will pretty much be required to change your name in order to get a job after college

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Google boss Eric Schmidt warns on social use of media

oung people may one day have to change their names in order to escape their previous online activity, Google boss Eric Schmidt has warned.

Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal he feared they did not understand the consequences of having so much personal information about them online.

The firm has been busy bolstering its social networking presence recently.

Google has acquired Slide and Jambool, two firms specialising in providing services for social networks.

Slide is a gaming firm, whilst Jambool provides virtual currencies and payments. Google has also reportedly invested in another social network gaming firm called Zynga.

Many believe the acquisitions are a sign that the search giant is about to launch another social network. Some commentators have already given the rumoured product a name: Google.me.
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It already owns two other social networks; Google Buzz, launched in February 2010 and its first foray known as Orkut.

Buzz proved controversial when it linked up with people's Gmail accounts without asking their consent, meaning that their contacts were publicly visible.
Young folly

On his prediction that people may change their names, Mr Schmidt said: "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time... I mean we really have to think about these things as a society."
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As a society, we are just going have to become a bit more forgiving of the follies of youth”

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However, Mr Schmidt said that Google would likely store more personal information about its users in the future.

At the moment, he said, "we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are."

But, according to some experts, his concerns about the future are "overstated".

"The idea that everything is stored online is not true," social media consultant Suw Charman-Anderson told BBC News.

"It will be quite some time before that can become true because of the enormity of the internet."

Archives such as Google Cache, which store older versions of websites, are selective, she added.

"Google Cache is a snapshot taken periodically of some of the internet. It's very hit and miss at the moment."

While companies specialising in "cleaning up" internet profiles already exist, Ms Charman-Anderson argued that social attitudes towards personal content on the web needed to change instead.

"There's always a lag between the introduction of new technology and the development of a set of social norms around the behaviour that the technology encourages," she said.

"As a society, we are just going have to become a bit more forgiving of the follies of youth."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11009700

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Now I want you to think bout this quote:

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Because of the info Google has collected about you, "we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are." Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are.

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The Google CEO let his this one slip out...he admits that Google knows a ton about you...more then you ever thought they knew...

now imagine how much Facebook knows? real name + Location + everything else....wow is all i am going to say...wow......that sealed the deal for me...

each to their own however...there has to be a point to everything...Facebook is not as benign as they seem, and neither is Google or anyone else..its all about money..