You really must read this article (link below – pasting not allowed) about how over-reliance on Facebook can literally change your mind/brain
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August 9, 2013 at 12:18pm
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But if you’re anchored increasingly in the present, consequently constantly catering for and to the demands of the outside world, that inner narrative might be now even harder to sustain. The mind might remain more child-like, reactive and dependent on the behaviour and thoughts of others.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9975118/Facebook-Home-could-change-our-brains.html
Well thank God I won’t get Facebook Home and at present try to keep my private life out of it as much as possible.
In 2002 I was involved in researching the long term strategy of a major car maker.
The future is automated transport, no one at the wheel,
The main dilemma being whether this to signify one’s private car defeating the purpose or public transport which would put ‘customers’ off. A delicate balance had to be found.
It also implied people would change their behavioral patterns if it was to work.
At the time, concepts of cyber community were still in their infancy, an offshoot of physical products.
It was envisaged people could at one point share their way home and be open enough to keep their life’s appointments online. essential to the algorithms controlling the vehicles to maintain flow. The problem remained whether people were ready to give up their privacy.
‘………..Perhaps because until now, privacy has been the other side of the coin to our identity. We have seen ourselves as individual entities, in contact with the outside world for sure, but at the same time always distinct from it. We have interacted with that outside world, but only in the way and at the times we have chosen.’
No Facebook then.
Essential detail to mention, the vehicles would be the community.
Very true. Facebook is like a black hole. Once inside it’s hard for victims to escape its forces. It’s a new form of kazin – an open kazin where you can even share your secrets with the CIA or NSA. Clearly a very depressing way to waste one’s time and mental energy.
I’d rather share my secrets with the CIA than with Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page.
Zuckerberg has by reason of association become a CIA/NSA minion. Do some research, Baxxter, you need to open your mind. Same goes for that psychopath Bill Gates, who got to join the global club at minion level, a notch above rotating prime ministers and presidents.
Open your mind indeed. Do some research, says the ex-cop.
Kevin, I am familiar with things that you couldn’t even dream of. I happen to know a lot more than you about big data.
https://www.facebook.com/puccipu?fref=ts
Were we happier before the internet became part of our lives?
I certainly was. But then I was also younger.
We’re talking about FB not the internet.
The problem is that at times I can only turn to FB for intellectually stimulating conversation and debates (as strange as it may sound but you do find it if you know where to look).