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#3621900 - 08/07/12 11:51 AM
Re: If you don't use Facebook, you will be labeled suspicious...
[Re: Remon]
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Mass Murde...errr... non-Facebook user here. 
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#3621907 - 08/07/12 12:16 PM
Re: If you don't use Facebook, you will be labeled suspicious...
[Re: Jayhawk]
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Let me reiterate that "Slashdot" got the article they are quoting completely wrong.
They turned the tenor of the article completely on its head. It doesn't appear to be working. There is some irony here. 
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#3621909 - 08/07/12 12:18 PM
Re: If you don't use Facebook, you will be labeled suspicious...
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I'm on FB but I hardly use it. It's kind of insipid, or rather it encourages a kind of insipid, narcissistic over sharing of personal information. As if most anybody else cares about where you walked your dog, who you're voting for, etc. Plus it tends to be an echo chamber of default reinforcement, where people post opinions with the assumption that their like-minded friends will basically with "so true" "you go girl" etc.  exactly FB really caters to the type of people who over inform you of what they are doing and want/need that kind of reinforcement for how whatever they think or do is "so great"... These articles are typical FUD to get site visits... I see the media is picking up on it too.
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#3621964 - 08/07/12 02:13 PM
Re: If you don't use Facebook, you will be labeled suspicious...
[Re: Jayhawk]
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The article mentions though that in many companies, human resources managers want to see the applicant's footprint on the Internet.
Next time I'll add a link to SimHQ in my resume 
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#3622122 - 08/07/12 06:55 PM
Re: If you don't use Facebook, you will be labeled suspicious...
[Re: Remon]
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I would not be surprised if soon enough anyone who wants to have some privacy in their lives will be labeled as suspicious.
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#3622145 - 08/07/12 07:51 PM
Re: If you don't use Facebook, you will be labeled suspicious...
[Re: Remon]
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Wait, a news outlet that got a story wrong?!? No WAY!
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#3622150 - 08/07/12 08:13 PM
Re: If you don't use Facebook, you will be labeled suspicious...
[Re: Remon]
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I haven't been on social media (other than the occasional post on various forums) for several years now, and it's not so much that I'm an antisocial whackjob, it's because FB and its ilk have shown they can't be trusted with private information. Either they sell it to marketing agencies or they can't batten-down the hatches against hackers. The digital footprint of the average person these days is mindboggling, and I choose to limit my exposure. If I google my name, and it's a very unique name, I do not show up in the results. Ditto for FB and GIS. A 79 year-old Florida doctor with the same name does, though. 
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