Farmville

[Aperitif]

I don't give an F for all this...I'm on Acebook.


Actually Mark, there's a market worth exploring here - "Ya-who?" Go for it.

 

[Tollers]

I don't give an F for all this...I'm on Acebook.

Actually Mark, there's a market worth exploring here - "Ya-who?" Go for it.

If i had my way, we'd coin and use that phrase as; despite the beating we've had in the press, we retain personal data for less than half the time of our competition. Or in facebook's case, indefinitely.

 

[Aperitif]

I deleted my Facebook "account" last September (parole board let me out early) and they still have all my details? Poor sods.
I got loads of disgruntledness from others who used the form in the way you described - tough eh?
My next step is to delete this CycleChat account

Never heard of Farmville anyway - are there EU subsidies available?

 

[trustysteed]

My next step is to delete this CycleChat account

wher's my pitchfork, burn the heretic!

 

[rusky]

Anyone seen the Facebook parody...

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qkc9VfDYLc

 

[rh100]

If i had my way, we'd coin and use that phrase as; despite the beating we've had in the press, we retain personal data for less than half the time of our competition. Or in facebook's case, indefinitely.

Have you been watching The Virtual Revolution, with the ace Dr Aleks Krotoski.
Saturdays was very interesting, a journo traced one individual user based on so called anonymous search queries that were released for public viewing. I consider myself reasonably savvy with the net, but this program opened my eyes a bit. I do feel that people throw away their privacy, thinking it's just the net, or it's just cctv, or it's just Farmville, with little thought to future implications. To sign up to these facebook apps, you are giving access to your data to the company that runs the 3rd party app.

As for Facebook itself, why confine yourself and anything you do want to express about yourself to the defined limits of FB, the program talks about this and suggests that the web is not as rich and individual as it used to be.

 

[ttcycle]

I don't do it - and neither do I do Facebook!

Faith restored-- the world is all normal again

I agree all these ridiculous things that pop on facebook - I do use it sporadically (more so since I have more time these days but CC has got to be the wrost procrastination tool) as there are some features that make it easy to contact certain friends of mine but I don't have my surname on there as used to get all sorts of weirdness on there.

I do find it disconcerting the amount of data that is available on facebook - I also find it very annoying that certain branches of the police have used it to look up information on individuals.....

 

[trustysteed]

Farmville

Sounds like the rural version of Stepford Wives.

 

[Tollers]

Have you been watching The Virtual Revolution, with the ace Dr Aleks Krotoski.
Saturdays was very interesting, a journo traced one individual user based on so called anonymous search queries that were released for public viewing. I consider myself reasonably savvy with the net, but this program opened my eyes a bit. I do feel that people throw away their privacy, thinking it's just the net, or it's just cctv, or it's just Farmville, with little thought to future implications. To sign up to these facebook apps, you are giving access to your data to the company that runs the 3rd party app.

As for Facebook itself, why confine yourself and anything you do want to express about yourself to the defined limits of FB, the program talks about this and suggests that the web is not as rich and individual as it used to be.

I did see that show RH and thought it was a very good introduction to the web (although it should be standard knowledge already). The example you gave was AOL's query logs being accidentally leaked is a good one. I looked at them a few years ago and it's an interesting insight even for the layman. Technically, the leak ddin't allow a user to be indentified explicitly, however critically, Google logs your IP addresses for 9 months and cookies for 18 months in their logs. Bing keeps data 6 months and Yahoo keep details for just 90 days. Hence i like Aperitif's moniker "Ya-who"

 

[Fnaar]

Tried Farmville (or whatever it's called) for 5 mins... waste of time, really. I do facebook, however.

 

[rh100]

I did see that show RH and thought it was a very good introduction to the web (although it should be standard knowledge already). The example you gave was AOL's query logs being accidentally leaked is a good one. I looked at them a few years ago and it's an interesting insight even for the layman. Technically, the leak ddin't allow a user to be indentified explicitly, however critically, Google logs your IP addresses for 9 months and cookies for 18 months in their logs. Bing keeps data 6 months and Yahoo keep details for just 90 days. Hence i like Aperitif's moniker "Ya-who"

Does wiping your cookies and cache make much difference in this regard? say I used google or yahoo one day, clear my cookies then use it again, would I still be seen as the same (although anonymous) user or would the queries be unrelated?

 

[Norm]

No don't do it! just don't! my opinion of you Dell has lowered considerably..Farmville? Honestly?!

If I was to list my "least likely topics to be started by dell", #2 on the list would be Facebook.

The only thing which would be higher would be "Farmville".

He'll start "poking" people next.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I had never heard of this before this thread and will never spare it another thought now. Never underestimate the sheer variety of ways people will find to waste time, whilst of course assuring everyone that they are really, really busy. Now, can't stop, I am really, really busy...

 

[rh100]

I had never heard of this before this thread and will never spare it another thought now. Never underestimate the sheer variety of ways people will find to waste time, whilst of course assuring everyone that they are really, really busy. Now, can't stop, I am really, really busy...

.......he must be playing Mafia Wars

 

[Kirstie]

Have you been watching The Virtual Revolution, with the ace Dr Aleks Krotoski.
Saturdays was very interesting, a journo traced one individual user based on so called anonymous search queries that were released for public viewing. I consider myself reasonably savvy with the net, but this program opened my eyes a bit. I do feel that people throw away their privacy, thinking it's just the net, or it's just cctv, or it's just Farmville, with little thought to future implications. To sign up to these facebook apps, you are giving access to your data to the company that runs the 3rd party app.

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I was academic consultant on that one. It was an OU/BBC production. Glad you liked it !
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