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Re: Very few users care about privacy - Facebook example Go figure people willfully sign up and voluntary give up their privacy to Facebook. I bet the ones who care, like me, would never sign up in the first place. I never would sign up for any social networking site. |
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kudos:5 | said by Scatcatpdx: I bet the ones who care, like me, would never sign up in the first place. I never would sign up for any social networking site.
What, no large extended, geographically dispersed family and friends?
I make sure my privacy options are well set up and I can keep up on the doings of my younger relatives scattered around country and who don't communicate by voice anymore. It is a decent tool to do that. |
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kudos:1 | Didn't even know this was happening.
FB did not do a good job of making it public. Why do I think that was probably intentional????
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I am bit of loner and anti social. The few who know me to call me on my phone or send me a e-mail.
Another thing is I ma looking for permanent work and I do not want to give my age away, that is one reason I closed my LinkedIn account. |
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Camden, TN | said by Scatcatpdx:I am bit of loner and anti social. The few who know me to call me on my phone or send me a e-mail.
Another thing is I ma looking for permanent work and I do not want to give my age away, that is one reason I closed my LinkedIn account.
Don't you have to put your age on your resume or any application? |
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kudos:5 | said by BF69:said by Scatcatpdx:I am bit of loner and anti social. The few who know me to call me on my phone or send me a e-mail.
Another thing is I ma looking for permanent work and I do not want to give my age away, that is one reason I closed my LinkedIn account.
Don't you have to put your age on your resume or any application? No you don't. In fact if you interview someone for a job, you are not allowed to even ask about age. Federal law prohibits it and it has been that way for a long time. When I interviewed people to work for me 20 yrs ago, I was prohibited from asking that. |
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said by Scatcatpdx:Go figure people willfully sign up and voluntary give up their privacy to Facebook. I bet the ones who care, like me, would never sign up in the first place. I never would sign up for any social networking site.
First of all the the "right to privacy" really refers to the government not private companies.
Second Facebook does have privacy features. If people bothered to use them there wouldn't be as many issues. Sure if you use the apps they can use all your information but they tell you that BEFORE you activate the app. And if you like your privacy don't use the apps. It's that simple.
If Facebook offered to have an ad free 100% privacy guaranteed account for $5 a month, I wonder how many of the privacy complainers would sign-up? My guess not many. Which means they don't think their privacy is worth $5 so why are the complaining? |
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said by Linklist:said by BF69:said by Scatcatpdx:I am bit of loner and anti social. The few who know me to call me on my phone or send me a e-mail.
Another thing is I ma looking for permanent work and I do not want to give my age away, that is one reason I closed my LinkedIn account.
Don't you have to put your age on your resume or any application? No you don't. In fact if you interview someone for a job, you are not allowed to even ask about age. Federal law prohibits it and it has been that way for a long time. When I interviewed people to work for me 20 yrs ago, I was prohibited from asking that. Funny any job I have applied for has an area on it for your birthdate. Some jobs actually require a minimum age. Like 14 year olds can't work at McDonald's. Kind of need a birthdate for that. Under 21 year old's can't serve alcohol in many places. Kind of need to ask for an age in those jobs. I'm pretty sure that if you put down where you went to college you have to put WHEN you graduated so they can make sure you are telling the truth. Unless you're some Doogie Howser and graduated at 12, they can tell how old you are by your graduation year. |
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kudos:5 | said by BF69:Funny any job I have applied for has an area on it for your birthdate. Some jobs actually require a minimum age. Like 14 year olds can't work at McDonald's. Kind of need a birthdate for that. Under 21 year old's can't serve alcohol in many places. Kind of need to ask for an age in those jobs. I'm pretty sure that if you put down where you went to college you have to put WHEN you graduated so they can make sure you are telling the truth. Unless you're some Doogie Howser and graduated at 12, they can tell how old you are by your graduation year.
Yes, the law is stupid in many ways. But all the anti-discrimination laws passed in Washington are pretty stupid. I couldn't ask how old someone was, but like you say, graduation dates; dates when previously employed; and just plain using my eyes could tell me how old someone was. I had to sit thru a 1 day Human Resources seminar before the company would let me interview people for a position. And IF I wanted to discriminate for my own personal reasons, I could. I just was taught how to make sure that wasn't included in comments I made on interview forms HR made me fill out. The whole thing was just 1 big game we had to play to keep the federal watchdogs happy. |
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said by N3OGH:Didn't even know this was happening.
FB did not do a good job of making it public. Why do I think that was probably intentional????
Agree im on facebook daily and never noticed it. |
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said by Linklist:said by Scatcatpdx: I bet the ones who care, like me, would never sign up in the first place. I never would sign up for any social networking site.
What, no large extended, geographically dispersed family and friends? I make sure my privacy options are well set up and I can keep up on the doings of my younger relatives scattered around country and who don't communicate by voice anymore. It is a decent tool to do that. Ditto.
Facebook has brought old friends back with which I would otherwise have no contact.
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said by BF69:said by Scatcatpdx:Go figure people willfully sign up and voluntary give up their privacy to Facebook. I bet the ones who care, like me, would never sign up in the first place. I never would sign up for any social networking site.
First of all the the "right to privacy" really refers to the government not private companies. Second Facebook does have privacy features. If people bothered to use them there wouldn't be as many issues. Sure if you use the apps they can use all your information but they tell you that BEFORE you activate the app. And if you like your privacy don't use the apps. It's that simple. If Facebook offered to have an ad free 100% privacy guaranteed account for $5 a month, I wonder how many of the privacy complainers would sign-up? My guess not many. Which means they don't think their privacy is worth $5 so why are the complaining? So true. Lazy people want their privacy but can't be bothered to use the tools given them.
I don't use ANY Facebook apps because I don't feel TurnipTown or DrugWars are worth even the tiniest peek into my personal info.
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