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OfflineYthanA
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Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... * 18
    #21699158 - 05/19/15 04:53 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

...out of nowhere they locked my account and require a scan of my government-issued ID to re-enable it. I don't even use the site for business purposes, I just like to instant message people and watch my ex-girlfriends get fat. Right now I consider myself mildly annoyed, but I know some people put a lot of their stuff on there: important photos of life events and that kind of thing, and for them this could be devastating. One day you may try to log in and all you'll see is this. I know it's been their published policy for a while but I always figured it was just some fine print to use against suspected criminals and malicious users. NOPE! Anyone can get popped. Facebook now wants more info about me than Paypal, which I use for actual financial transactions every week.

I'm using my small little platform here in the corner of the web to recommend that y'all go backup any important information from Facebook, and cancel your account. I'll be over on Google+ if you need me. https://plus.google.com/102728058429974797502/posts


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Ythan]
    #21699163 - 05/19/15 04:55 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I imagine it is just simply because you are high profile.  I have not heard of anyone else having this problem.  Sucks to hear man.


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Ythan]
    #21699175 - 05/19/15 04:58 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Never trusted Facebook.

It's the cia way of making us all spy on our selfs.

It's bland compared to MySpace. It took over instantly. Every company and politication has one immediately when it came out.  They make a propaganda film about it that was terrible with a terrible actor, and it won every academy award ever.

They manipulated the stock market to give the founder/agent mark zuckerburg $1.2 billion on his 31st birthday, earlier this week.


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Ythan]
    #21699182 - 05/19/15 05:00 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I've got one but I still don't really get how G+ works, does it matter what category you add someone as (following, acquaintance, friend)?


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: The Doobie Dude] * 1
    #21699188 - 05/19/15 05:02 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Thanks man! Like I said I'm not really that mad, after all I've been using their service for free and they don't owe me anything. It just came as a shock and I know some people would be truly upset if this happened to them. I hate feeling like I can't do anything about a perceived injustice, so I made this post.

I'm so glad I have First World Problems. :grin:


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Supachopped719]
    #21699193 - 05/19/15 05:04 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

What makes me paranoid of Facebook is facial recognition. It can recognize your face or friends in photos and ask if you want to tag them/yourself. That's pretty creepy for a big social site to have...


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Dorian Gray] * 1
    #21699200 - 05/19/15 05:06 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Dorian Gray said:
I've got one but I still don't really get how G+ works, does it matter what category you add someone as (following, acquaintance, friend)?




Nah the name of the "circles" doesn't really matter, they just let you control who gets to see different stuff you post. Like, I have a circle called "Shroomery" for people I know from the site but have never really met, and one called "Family" for people I'm legit related to. Also a "Friends" one for people I know in real life. As an example, if I was posting personal photos of a wedding or something, I'd probably only make them available to my "Family" circle and maybe my "Friends". If I'm posting about how hammered I got last night on illegal drugs, I'd probably make it visible just to "Shroomery".

Basically just permission controls under a different name. Hope to see you there!


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Ythan]
    #21699208 - 05/19/15 05:08 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Facebook is lame anyway. I erased my page a couple years ago, but I was thinking about starting a new one to keep in touch with people. Now I won't even bother if they are getting even creepier and even more Skynet.

I'm definitely not using Google+ as an alternative though, haha. I don't even like using Google as a search engine anymore, I just don't know any good alternatives that actually pull up good search results. Google doesn't need an ID because they already have your ass mapped out and have all your private gmail correspondence and the details about your life indexed already.


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Ythan]
    #21699211 - 05/19/15 05:08 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Ythan said:
[If I'm posting about how hammered I got last night on illegal drugs, I'd probably make it visible just to "Shroomery".

Basically just permission controls under a different name. Hope to see you there!




I'll follow you under the shroomery tag then because this is content I'd like to see :highfive:


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Kinshino]
    #21699213 - 05/19/15 05:09 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Kinshino said:
What makes me paranoid of Facebook is facial recognition. It can recognize your face or friends in photos and ask if you want to tag them/yourself. That's pretty creepy for a big social site to have...




The thing is, facial recognition is pretty well documented and there are even free and open-source ways that programmers can integrate it in their products. But with Facebook it's just the tip of the iceberg...


BTW I'm not saying Google is necessarily much better from a privacy perspective, I'm just recommending the best of the limited options available.


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: John Nada]
    #21699224 - 05/19/15 05:11 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Resistance is futile/useless


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Ythan]
    #21699225 - 05/19/15 05:12 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

We don't need to use any of these options though. All social media is just superfluous computer programs


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Supachopped719]
    #21699227 - 05/19/15 05:13 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

:strokebeard:

Very tempted to delete my facebook for the 2nd or 3rd time...

If I do and I make a G+ I will have to add some shroomerites for sure!


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Ythan] * 1
    #21699229 - 05/19/15 05:14 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

:thumbup: :thumbup: Thanks for the tip! Will definitely be backing up everything as soon as possible. Have only used the site sparingly, but over nearly 10yrs there is quite a bit I wouldn't want to lose.


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: DustBunny]
    #21699248 - 05/19/15 05:19 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Ythan check msgs plz be for k go


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: DustBunny]
    #21699291 - 05/19/15 05:29 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

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Have only used the site sparingly, but over nearly 10yrs there is quite a bit I wouldn't want to lose.



thats how i feel.  also; need to get the email addys of the few friends that i only talk to through there


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: memes] * 1
    #21699340 - 05/19/15 05:40 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I deleted my personal account years ago.
I still have one with a fake name and no pictures but I literally only have bands added to follow when new tracks and videos get released and to check on tour dates & what not.

I would never give a scan of an ID to any website for any reason.


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: Shroomopotamus]
    #21699357 - 05/19/15 05:44 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I just abandoned mine. Fuck that facebook. Why people use it instead of having real world interactions is beyond me. A buddy of mine made one for me after I told him I hate it and I think it's stupid and this and that. I don't need people knowing my personal life.:uhno:


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: ferrel_human]
    #21699387 - 05/19/15 05:51 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Meh, I like facebook still.  If they asked me for a photo id scan I'd just make a new account, not rocket science folks.  Most of my family live hundreds of miles away from me, and I don't care for talking on the phone unless I'm already drunk so facebook or texting are about my only options if I want to talk with my family and friends that live so far away.


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Re: Cancel your Facebook! Okay I know you probably won't but... [Re: ferrel_human]
    #21699412 - 05/19/15 05:55 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I had one last year. Made and met hundreds of new friends all over the planet. I wish I woul've gotten their email addresses before Facebook banned me (someone reported my account  for having a "fake" name).

Fuck facebook. Fuck the CIA ties inside facebook. They asked me to scan all my ID and send it to them... fuck that shit, especially when I don't know who I'm handing over my complete identity to.


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