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Cambridge Analytica is a red herring. Oh, look, F*c*b**k gave your data to eeeeeeeevil Trump people! Never mind that it gave five times as much to those wuuuuuuuuuderful Obama people in 2012!<\/em><\/p>\n

No matter. It’s still lovely to see people finally waking up to the fact that when you’re on FB, you’re the product, not the customer. <\/p>\n

I wonder how long this will last? Will the rage and revelations against FB begin an online privacy revolution? Or, more likely, will data-gobbling and stupid data-spilling go on unabated after a few token crony-gov regulations?<\/p>\n

It’s encouraging that even big names like Playboy<\/em><\/a>, Tesla, and Space-X<\/a> are dumping FB. But as long as Granny and old high school chums are still giving themselves away to the Zuckerbergians, millions are going to hang out there.<\/p>\n

Heck, even I have a FB page<\/a>, although it’s not really mine, and I’m grateful to the quiet friend who maintains it and who has built it up. Fortunately, it’s meme-heavy, funny, useful, and not personally revealing.<\/p>\n

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But speaking of personally revealing, isn’t it infuriating that our “friends” are probably handing over our private communications data — including unlisted phone numbers, the numbers of burner phones, and times and lengths of our phone calls — to FB? <\/p>\n

FB whines that users of their Android app had to give consent to that particular datagrab<\/a>. But nobody mentions the rights and interests of us who may have had our information scooped — thanks to our “friends” opting in to having their calls and texts logged — despite every attempt to avoid both FB and idiots.<\/p>\n

Social media has cheapened the very concept of friendship and turned “friends” into informers — who for the most part don’t even know that’s what they are.<\/p>\n

People have always been the weak link in security, but now the ways they can casually betray others are simply beyond comprehension.<\/p>\n

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FB is after your kiddies<\/a>, too, and gaining access to them in the classroom with the help of Our Glorious Government.<\/p>\n

Ohhhh, and surprise, surprise, the creepy connections run deeper and deeper<\/a>. (Palantir = CIA)<\/p>\n

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I was saving up links to make a post about alternative social networks. But as long as Granny remains on FB and Twitter is the<\/em> official source for both quick news and pithy wit, alternatives don’t mean much. <\/p>\n

With social media you have to already have critical mass before you can have critical mass. It’s a weird world.<\/p>\n

So this is not a post about leaving FB or other social networks, just another rant of rage and, this time, a little hope.<\/p>\n

Still, here are a few links related to alt-social media, and good luck with them:<\/p>\n