I Didn't Tell Facebook I'm Engaged, So Why Is It Asking About My Fiancé?

[freshwest]

21. I'll give it a try. My friends and I still have myspace accounts that just sit there.

And the last time I tried to get into it to close it they wanted more data!

I hope Face book doesn't do that to me. After I had to give them my cellphone number to start using IM years ago, was my first time getting spam cellphone messages and voicemail.

For crying out loud, I was getting texts from Ralph Reed and his ilk and they still come in occassionally. So they must have sold my cellphone number to rightwingers immediately.

The greater problem is that the other ways of social networking are dying out. DU has about 100K less members than I when I first signed on. Other sites where things were busy and people could chat, have turned into ghost towns as the members set up mirror groups on Facebook. Others have gone into Twitter and never return.

So the CIA, NSA or whoever it is must be loving all of this. I see a number of vendors now only sell or give product information through their acccounts on Twitter or Facebook. We are being captured in a world wide drift net.

While I'd like to achieve a Nirvana-like state of total disinterest and or the default comfort zone of 'it's for our good but we just don't understand' state, I can't, really. People do need to connect, exchange data and ideas and it's been infected with greed and abuse. Oh, well.

Thanks for the suggestion.