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Did Cambridge Analytica Access Your Facebook Data?

How to Check If Cambridge Analytica Could Access Your Facebook Data | WIRED. Facebook is taking steps to prevent third party apps from accessing the personal data of Facebook users and their friends. This Wired article explains how it was done, and will take you to a page that will tell you if you are one of those who used the site, or whose Facebook friends used the site that mined the data. This is a cautionary tale. Don't fill out social media app questions that ask for personal information. Don't respond to phishing emails that ask for personal information. Don't put private information up on the web. Of course, to access banking, retail, and other sites, this can be required. But, you can verify the site is secure, and take other steps to secure your personal information. Learn how. Then, do it.

I Am Not A Victim, Phandroid

Are you one of Facebook's 87 Million Cambridge Analytica Victims?. Seriously? Phandroid is publishing this scare piece today about the Facebook sale of user data to Cambridge Analytica for use in their political campaign, and that makes users victims? Is there anyone who believes that there is any privacy of data voluntarily given on the Internet? Seriously? I tire of the constant hum of victim mentality that seems to accompany every new revelation that our data is being used to profit some corporation. The horror! When did profit become a dirty word? While Facebook should pay some penalty for failing to safeguard data that it promised to keep private, that is a far cry from making users into victims who are totally innocent. Put on your big boy pants and be careful what you say online. Duh.

Facebook Uproar - Classic Case Of Blame The Messenger

Facebook will let you 'unsend' messages, after being caught deleting Zuck's - CNET. While I agree that Facebook needs to be more transparent about its uses of information on the network, it is also clear that it is unfair to criticize Facebook because users give out information on the Internet and then expect that information to disappear. My mother said it best: "Son, don't ever say anything that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the newspaper". I suspect that she would say the same thing about Internet messaging and posting. If you don't want your information to be used by a profit-making venture, don't give it to them. Duh. There are risks in using the Internet for buying, selling, banking, and social discourse. Welcome to life. If you don't like what Facebook is doing with your information, regulate it, certainly. But, don't blame the Messenger for delivering the message after you write it down and put it in his hand. Jeez.

Hell, He Only Wanted To Meet Girls!

Facebook has been keeping Android call and text data - Business Insider. When poor Mark Zuckerberg co-created Facebook, he saw it as a way to get photos and information on the girls at the school. Which is why most guys do most of what they do. We want to meet girls. Duh. Well, Mark may have made billions of dollars when the idea took off beyond his wildest expectations; but, that much money and fame has its own reward. Strict scrutiny, criticism and a lot of envy. Oh well. Such is life. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. I am amazed at people who voluntarily speak their most secret thoughts, and give out their personal information in the cloud; and, then complain that someone is collecting it for profit. Again, duh. Some of my happiest and most sublime moments have been made possible by Facebook. I have criticized it also; but, information collection isn't one of the reasons. If I want to make certain that I have a private conversation ( I mean REALLY private), I use Signal text messaging. I am still amazed at how clueless most people are about the so called lack of security on the Internet. We blame guns for violence, when it is criminals who commit it. We blame the Internet for information leaks, when it is we humans who put the information out there. Get a grip, people. Jeez.

Delete Facebook? Say What?

Don't Delete Facebook%u2014Just Be Smarter on Facebook. Facebook really is as varied and complex as real life. In fact, the recent scandal about Facebook selling our data and information has propelled a knee jerk "delete Facebook" meme, as a way to stick it to the man. Please. Our personal data is out there; at least, to the extent we have given it out. Your mom was right: "Don't say anything you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the newspaper". I like keeping in touch with family and friends. I like being able to get my message out there. So, I only post what I WANT the world to see. If I want to have a private conversation, I use a method of communication that is encrypted and "private". So, don't delete your Facebook account. Figure out the ways to keep your information secure. Then, use them. And, remember, mom was always right.

#WhyIAmASolo - No Luddite Law Partner Can Tell Me When, Or What, To Blog

The transition to the new world is in the hands of the old - Real Lawyers. Kevin O'Keefe "gets it". He is the dean of Internet connection for lawyers, and taught me to blog in 2005. This article pinpoints the problem with BigLaw and the resistance to allowing firm lawyers to connect with clients and the public by speaking their minds and hearts online, via blogs and social media. Blogging and social media has created the FutureLawyer brand, in a way, and to a broader audience, that thousands of dollars of billboard and phone book ads never could. No law firm partner or administrator can require someone senior review my blog posts before I publish them. I doubt any of these types is up at 5 in the morning when I write them anyway. No law firm partner or administrator can require me to send my posts to marketing to let them post. I post myself the moment I write. No law firm partner or administrator can forbid me to engage with members of the public about my poetry, or my legal tech gadget posts, or to forbid my engaging directly with any other member of the human species. No law firm partner or administrator can restrict my connections with others on LinkedIn, so that marketing can control the firm's connections. So if you want to engage with the FutureLawyer, you can find me at: www.futurelawyer.com, on Twitter as @rickgeorges, on Facebook as 'Richard Georges", or you can call me directly on Google Voice at 727-537-9235. Let's have a conversation, and bypass the middlemen.

Facebook Delete All Messages - Nirvana

Facebook Delete All Messages Facebook friends, I love you all to death. I really enjoy our little private chats in the Messenger app or window. I prefer communicating via chat box to face to face, since I can shut you up with a click, and you will never know whether my Internet connection really did go down. I don't like confrontation, and I don't want to hurt your feelings. In fact, some of our conversations get pretty personal, and I REALLY hate having to see them every time I open Messenger. I really don't want to remember your last insult, or piece of unsolicited advice, or whatever it was you said yesterday that really ticked me off. So, I laboriously go through all the messages every now and then, click to select, click to get to the menu, and click to delete, and confirm that I really, really want to do it. Well, now we can remain friends, because with Facebook Delete All Messages, I can click one button, and all memory of you goes away. Thank you God, for making a world in which I can bulk delete Facebook Messenger messages. 

Don't Like Long Winded Twitter Feeds? Don't Read Them

Download Slate%u2019s 140 Chrome extension, which limits all tweets to 140 characters.. The big news in social media this week has to be the doubling of Twitter posts to 280 characters. If you have been spending way too much time on your feed following the ramblings of people you follow, I have an extension for you. 140 is a Chrome extension that will cut off twitter posts to the original 140 characters. No, Virginia, you don't have to read 280 characters of nonsense if you don't want to. Brevity is the soul of wit, and you really don't need more witless posts in your life, do you?

Twitter Going To 280 Characters - Is It The End Of The World?

Twitter is giving everyone 280 characters. It's the right move.. Journalism and lawyering train the mind to be economical in language. Brevity and clarity are well suited to our modern society. Attention spans are shorter; they are competing with many influences that did not exist a century ago. Successful bloggers keep their posts short and on point. 280 characters is plenty for me. Twitter on.

(Note: This post is 279 characters. It could be shorter, and still convey the message; but, it is still short enough for your attention span. Now, what was I saying?)

Facebook Friends - I Can Now Send You Money With PayPal, But I Won't

Facebook Messenger teams up with PayPal for payments. I connect with many of my Facebook friends with Messenger. In fact, I have made Messenger my default text software on my computer and my devices. However, just because you can now send money with your PayPal account, I want my friends to know that it isn't happening. Now, if any of you want to send me money, I am open to that. This is going to be a one way street. There are only two exceptions to this rule. She Who Must Be Obeyed, and She Who Someday Will Be Obeyed. I have to send them money. Otherwise, my life will become a living Hell. And, I want a peaceful existence. The rest of you have no power over me. Too bad.