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« Monday « February 18, 2008
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Facebook: What They Really Have On You
(5min Video)
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This is a kind of eye-opening, and creepy video clip, but you already know that we're living in The Matrix, right? Our's is a surveillance society, so smile for the security cam and get on with it. But let's, uh, face it, Facebook isn't the only one watching what you do. Your credit card company does it, your cable and phone companies do it, your bank does it, your supermarket does it if you use their loyalty card, ad infinitum. It's less about Big Brother and more about selling you sh*t you probably don't need...which might be worse.
But to live in this modern world, this cyberspace cage, you can either completely disconnect, and deal with lots of inconvenience in your daily life (see previous post) or you embrace the system, use it to your advantage, and flood it with lots of useless data to confuse mask the your digital footprints. You're not defined by the movies you watch, the music you listen to, or the cyber "friends" you have on Facebook or MySpace. Now, the political affiliation thing, well, if you're worried about that, then don't declare anything. My general approach is this: even though these are online services, I don't do anything online that I wouldn't do in meatspace. If I'm going to get profiled online, I'd probably get profiled on the street as well. Hell, I know I get profiled on the street every day, I'm a Black man.
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