Stupid people ?

[Petrichorwheels]

Never heard of it.

Cambridge analytica.
They averted your eyes from that?

 

[oldwheels]

I think the news info reliability goes

BBC
Twitter
Facebook
CycleChat..🤣🤣🤣l

Without getting political I would put BBC at the very bottom of any list nowadays.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Gordon's alive ????

Said in your best Brian Blessed voice

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Cambridge analytica.
They averted your eyes from that?

No, I'd forgotten that, I had to look it up to jog my memory.

 

[Jody]

Cambridge analytica.
They averted your eyes from that?

Cambridge Anal did make it sound like a porno.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Cambridge Anal did make it sound like a porno.

It did didn't it, made me wonder what the post was on about.

 

[Jody]

It did didn't it, made me wonder what the post was on about.

I certainly wasn't googling it at work

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I certainly wasn't googling it at work

I no longer work but wasn't googling at home either, I'd have got some serious grief from my Good Lady if she'd spotted me with a list of porn sites on the PC.

 

[gbb]

Not everyone is aware of the above at all. I recently had a detailed conversation with my oldest daughter (age 16). Despite loads of online safety and awareness sessions, she was very keen to buy a supersized reversible octopus plushie as advertised on TikTok.

She had found a website where it was available for $14 which she thought was reasonable. The website looked very genuine, was well laid out, and other products (although not many) were available.

So I talked through the economics of it. How is this vendor going to get a supersized plushy and post it from the USA to the UK for only $14.99 and make any profit? Then we looked at all the sites we could find which had this plushy for sale. Two sites by the same person selling for $14.99 and one site selling for £120.

"But it's only $14.99"
"Well if you want to take the risk and never see your money again, that's up to you. "

I then pointed out the risk of import duty being levied.
She then did some of her own investigation and noticed that in all of the different tiktok accounts advertising or using the plushy, it was always being held by the same woman. She found another video which showed just how small this woman was in real life.

Slowly she has come to the realisation that this is a scam. I also found some articles talking about the Tiktok super sized plushy scam.

So no, there are plenty of people that can be taken in by a well orchestrated scam.

Tbf, of course we all make mistakes, particually when young (who doesn't without some guidance ?) I had a hard, thankfully not too expensive but salutary lesson at 16. I didn't make the same mistake ever again.
I find myself giving 'life' guidance to my16/17 year old grandaughter, better to give them a heads up rather than finding out the hard way.

But when you see 30 to 50 year olds doing it, you do have to wonder ?

 

[oldwheels]

Which is piss poor and lazy effort to communicate important info and it really shouldn’t be just a case of stick it on FB.

To add to my earlier post I agree with you but how else can information be spread easily nowadays. There used to be a local notice board here but it has been out of use for some time and it in any case would not be accessible to me due to it’s location.
Letters could be delivered but that would be expensive and slow in these cash strapped times. Not everybody has a known phone number so that is out.
The assumption now is that everyone has a computer and smartphone. Our local ferry booking system is trying to make the whole system paperless with no human interaction.
Don’t get me started on banking.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

To add to my earlier post I agree with you but how else can information be spread easily nowadays. There used to be a local notice board here but it has been out of use for some time and it in any case would not be accessible to me due to it’s location.
Letters could be delivered but that would be expensive and slow in these cash strapped times. Not everybody has a known phone number so that is out.
The assumption now is that everyone has a computer and smartphone. Our local ferry booking system is trying to make the whole system paperless with no human interaction.
Don’t get me started on banking.

The World Wide Web, a whole host of ways that don’t involve Facebook even ones that can push the info to you, so you don’t need to go looking for it on FB.

How does someone not on FB access the information you see there?

 

[I like Skol]

How does someone not on FB access the information you see there?

I'm not a FB fan or punter and this does exclude me from some of the info stream that applies to me and my hobbies. My opinion is that if they don't operate in a more inclusive manner then it's their loss (and in the case of my 4x4 car club it is a direct and real loss to them as they often turn to me as a navigator, planner and rescuer).

 

[oldwheels]

The World Wide Web, a whole host of ways that don’t involve Facebook even ones that can push the info to you, so you don’t need to go looking for it on FB.

How does someone not on FB access the information you see there?

This is the problem.
It is assumed everyone is computer literate and checks for information regularly or even receives email messages.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This is the problem.
It is assumed everyone is computer literate and checks for information regularly or even receives email messages.

Which Facebook won’t solve as they won’t check it or know how, or even know how to sign up to FB.

 

[oldwheels]

Which Facebook won’t solve as they won’t check it or know how, or even know how to sign up to FB.

We used to have a sort of bush telegraph which kept everyone informed.
The old men used to gather daily around the pierhead area for a blether which spread any news of importance. Some would call it gossip.
Nowadays with so many settlers coming in that has collapsed. I used to know or at least know of nearly everyone in this small town but nowadays I know my immediate neighbours but virtually nobody else.