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  • mraustin1337, on 11/10/2007, -10/+358Let me save you clicking on the link.

    If you post something online other people can see it. Sorry if no one told you.
  • mraustin1337, on 11/07/2007, -9/+306This domain was registered to "Vishal Agarwala" who was on the executive board (http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=albumoftheday&tld=com), co-president, of "Future Business Leaders of America" at "Palm Harbor University High School" (http://phufbla.quangn.net/board.html) the other co-president was Angela Lin who may or may not be this Angela Lin (http://www.angelalin.net/) who is playing Miss Price in Coram Boy. Coram Boy was written by Jamila Gavin (http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=14061) who was born in Mussoorie, India (http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D1C3A07dcd22FD0qGi3E9DFF1) which has a place of interest called Gun Hill (http://www.travel-himalayas.com/himalaya-travel-attractions/mussoorie-travel-tours.html).

    Obviously this flash animation is promoting gun violence. Also at least I cited my sources.
  • kingkilr, on 10/31/2007, -9/+219Holy Crap! A guy who financed facebook worked at a company with another guy who worked for a different company that was created by the CIA . . . that's conclusive!
  • deuceswilde, on 11/07/2007, -7/+189And all those people are connected to Kevin Bacon, that's the scariest part.
  • brianrwalters, on 10/12/2007, -35/+216I fell asleep...
  • JerodSlay, on 10/12/2007, -6/+116oh crap! the governments are going to find out my birthday and poking habits.
  • JesusFaction, on 10/31/2007, -5/+112dont delete your account
    just put up ridiculous data to throw them off
  • osuguy, on 10/17/2007, -23/+129haha rrrrright, this girl is connecting people four-five past employers away. One lady that joined a company from a government organization, that's not directly connected to facebook. Common. Saying that this says facebook is an evil government organization only there to steal our data is.... just not probable. If this is a problem, maybe she should do a video on google's massive searchable index of americans. Facebook can only gather what you place in it, or what it gets from google. Buried as retarted.

    I also like looking at drunken half naked girls on a daily basis. Long live facebook.
  • UoMDeacon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+99Wait...information I post myself on the internet might be seen by other people???!!!!
  • Lax32, on 10/12/2007, -22/+110Yeah it might be scary but as a college student there is no way my facebook account is going anywhere...
  • Andross01, on 10/12/2007, -7/+77So, lemme get this straight.......because an investor who used to head PayPal happened to be a member of a conservative group that contained a board member who used to be part of an information and intelligence agency that is further linked with the government....

    What is this, six degrees from Kevin Bacon?
  • shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -6/+72The user definitely gets screwed over on this one. But it's a marketers dream to have all this information collected, organized, and up for grabs the way to anyone with cash.
    Selling products through Facebook has not proven very successful for affiliates, but using Facebook for data mining definitely has a ton of potential.
    - A marketer's perspective.
  • DECwakeboarder, on 10/18/2007, -23/+82Wow....next time don't get one of the most annoying 8th graders to read.
  • sleepwalkers, on 10/17/2007, -23/+82BUT OMG DON'T YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE 9/11 CONSPIRACY AND HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS LYING TO YOU AND BUSH IS EVIL AND IRAQ IS A SHAM? FACEBOOK IS JUST THE GOVTS NEXT FRONTIER!!!!
    MY STORY WAS BURIED BY DIGG! *cry*
    [/heavy sarcasm with a liberal dose of crappy grammar and caps lock.]
  • Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54Oh ***** they can't seriously have access to how many students have read Catcher In The Rye. Oh ***** oh Jesus we are SCREWED if they know how many students have read Catcher In The Rye!
  • msashlay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46I think they call it "The Facebook" out of habit because it used to be www.thefacebook.com while www.facebook.com would take you to a different site.
  • shawnanigans, on 10/31/2007, -1/+47Women lie about being single on Facebook. I learned that today in a most terrible way.
  • DelSolMan, on 11/07/2007, -1/+37Big Brother is watching you poke.
  • hustl3, on 11/05/2007, -5/+40The voice man... the voice.
  • TheRealM3D, on 10/12/2007, -5/+38You guys know what's REALLY scary? Even without facebook, the government already knows:

    1. My REAL name (*gasp*)
    2. Where I live
    3. My social security number!
    4. How much money I make
    5. What taxes I paid and how much I got back
    6. What car I drive
    7. What my political affiliations are (registered to vote?)
    8. and at least a LITTLE bit about my sexual orientation and behavior... (marriage license)
    etc, etc, etc...

    They also know my age, gender, date and location of birth (birth certificates), my ethnicity (census/birth records), where I work (taxes) and if I'm involved in any religious or social groups (charitable donations and again, taxes). They have easy access to my phone number, financial records, credit score, investments and a bazillion other details about me.

    But facebook is bad because they might learn my favorite color, band and beer? Yeah. You are SO smart. Thanks for saving me from the government.

    This chick gets the Total Moonbat Award. Dugg down for idiocy.
  • tidu, on 10/12/2007, -6/+36This is somewhat of a conservative viewpoint, but 1) you put it up there and 2) you agreed to the policy (without reading it). There's nothing you can do, except say "oh facebook is a mean bad company", forget about it and then use it the next day to accept another friend request. I know this is more of a cautionary website, but still... the world isn't fair.
  • Nevrast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Wait, Facebook can help me get laid?

    // is a college student.
  • Supaman223, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Bush's Phone taps keep us safe, but the existence of facebook emboldens our enemies
  • rstarr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31Wait...what?
    People are upset about this?
    You're posting it on the ***** internet!
    You should see this coming.
  • hello2usir, on 10/12/2007, -7/+31Okay, so Facebook readily discloses their privacy policy.
    If there's anybody for the facebook users to be angry at here it's themselves for not reading it.
  • trogdor282, on 10/12/2007, -6/+291) The sole purpose of Facebook is to share your personal information on the internet.
    2) Obviously there is some huge conspiracy by Facebook to... share your personal information on the internet.
    3) ???
    4) Profit!
  • inactive, on 10/31/2007, -13/+35It's pretty obvious that Facebook doesn't give a flying ***** about your privacy. The site has almost no security at all. It should also be stated that certain employers can (and do) have unlimited access to Facebook profiles, regardless of privacy settings, thanks to the Patriot Act and other various legislation.

    Facebook is not your friend. Sure, if you are a college student it might help get you laid and give you something to do on your notebook instead of paying attention during class, but always remember that Facebooks goal is not to connect people. It's to harvest information and *eventually* try to use that information to print money.

    Any idiot can have a Facebook account. Set yourself apart, buy a domain and set up a WordPress account...or a blog/website of your own design. If you are actually interesting, it's not that hard to find a "social network" of your own.

    Still, if you just have to be on a social networking site, go for Facebook over MySpace. If you have to have both, because you probably belong to at least 3 other additional networking services already—kill yourself. But if you are a hot chick, definitely post some nudes before you do.
  • wando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I was going to write the same thing until I saw your post. This is something that very few companies offer to do, most keep all of your info regardless of whether or not you quit their services.
  • Rice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Still better than Myspace.
  • Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Wait are you saying that If I give away tons of personal information about myself and post it on the public domain someone might actually look at it and use it for malicious purposes? This is stunning....
  • TheDigerati, on 10/12/2007, -62/+81Interesting, Scary, and time to delete my facebook account.
  • tfedullo, on 10/12/2007, -10/+29mirror
    http://albumoftheday.com.nyud.net:8080/facebook/
    http://albumoftheday.com.nyud.net:8090/facebook/
  • DuFace, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Why does everything have to be a government conspiracy?
    What happened to the good ol' days when social networks were just social networks?!
    Oh wait..
  • SonicRush, on 10/12/2007, -13/+31It's loose change all over again...
    I would like to see a lot more hard proof before just assuming all this is true.
    Also calling it "The Facebook" is as bad as "The Google"
    Chances are she's never even used it.

    If you go to facebook and look at the privacy policies, they have it spelled out very clearly what they do and don't do with your information.
    This vid is all about the FUD.
  • chriscooley, on 10/12/2007, -18/+36would like to see some more research, but still scary
  • erictheninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18The first thing I thought when I signed up for facebook was, how stupid do you think I am to give you my political orientation, phone numbers, address, etc.? It should be common knowledge that you don't disclose this information. If it's not, then all the horror stories about kids not getting jobs or getting in trouble w/their school b/c an employer or a faculty member had an account on Facebook and read their information should've been a blatant warning.

    I don't want to insult someone because I'm sure it took them a while to find the dramatic music to play in the background, but this is Rick Romero at his finest.
  • fluffypancake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Dugg for the ripped off music = Boards Of Canada
  • SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22Don't be ignorant. Have you ever read a disclaimer? Tons of companies use similar disclaimers, even if such a disclaimer wouldn't hold in court and even when they never plan to need it.

    Without any info on how much they sell, or what is used for personal identification, this is just another stupid kid's project that amounts to nothing.
  • CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Dr. Anita Jones is a professor at my university, University of Virginia. She is a professor in the computer science department, a department I work in on a regular basis (9 hours a week). Let me tell you something, she is no government pawn. She served on all of those boards/etc. because she is extremely knowledgeable and one of the top computer scientists in her field. There are also much more important things in her life at this time, and I can tell you first hand that this is nothing more than tin-foil-hat-wearing-anyone-with-any-power-wants-to-eat-babies-*****. Digg users are reasonable enough to bury 9/11 conspiracy theories and this has even less basis in fact than those. Just because some person with too much time on hands can draw lines between two things doesn't mean that they are all in some giant conspiracy.
    For those of you interested, here is her profile at the computer science department website:
    http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/profs/jones.html

    That being said, the real danger of facebook is that online data can be accessed and placed elsewhere by anyone and you should never put incriminating things online. Which is why I tell my friends who do post drunken pictures that it isn't a smart idea. However, there is no conspiracy here, just like there isn't a conspiracy anywhere else.
  • shawnz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19way to quote every license for every service on the face of the earth. who cares?
  • amdinator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I just watched this in its entirety. And you know what? I don't care. Almost everything online (and even many hard copy offline services) have a similar TOS, it's not just facebook. And why should I care if all this stuff I post is getting lumped into a database? Do any of you believe that someone will actually go through each and every file individually? No. As demonstrated very well by this flash, it all goes into charts and mass statistics which I actually think are pretty cool. I see no reason to worry about any of their arguments. The CIA already knows our phone numbers, addresses, etc. This is nothing new.

    As far as other users collecting data about you, your facebook can be set to only allow viewing from friends.Otherwise, the default is to only allow viewing by others in your networks. Unlike myspace, facebook is not indexed by google. I don't see what all the fuss is about.
  • Kosterfield, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I'd hazard a guess as to when you leave they will get rid of any of your content, but anything they decided to use before that point is still theirs to keep. But that is a very contradictory statement.
  • shteinb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15This is silly. The story of how Facebook was founded is very clear and documented. It started as a hot or not thing at Harvard for undergraduates. However Marc Zuckberg happened to have broken a number of Computer Services policies(taking people's private info from house lists without permission) and therefore the site was quickly shut down. It quickly morphed into something else. As it became extremely popular at Harvard it spread to other Ivies and eventually to other schools. You can read more at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook ... but hey the evil government probably wrote the article anyway.

    As for privacy? If you are putting stuff there that you don't want others to know... well thats just retarded. Its a ***** social networking website.
  • sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14You fail for actually thinking that Digg would allow you to display images in the comments section.

    *EDIT* Oh damnit. Now I just look like a retard because you took out the [url] and [img] tags you tried to use.
  • airquotes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I hate when a narrative over text reads half as slow as me.
  • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/31/2007, -1/+13No one is going to care if you got drunk in college. Everyone gets drunk in college.
  • MScrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11> "My worry is how long they hold on to this information. As a college student, I have occasionally drank too much and done stupid stuff, and my friends of course took pictures and promptly posted them on facebook. Thats fine right now, but I don't want to get into my career and have someone dig them up and try to hurt me with them. It would suck if a private party with friends right now turned into corporate weaponry 30 years from now."

    Even before Facebook, things can always come back to haunt you. Like when you run for President, and people find out you did drugs in college..... or you run for governor and stories surface that you have groped women for the past 30 years... etc.

    Everything you do is documented... somewhere. It might be stored in someone's mind... but it's there.

    And all this happened way before Facebook.

    Either stay locked up and never leave your house... or live life and have fun. The same rules apply in real life as they do on Facebook... don't do or show anything illegal.
  • opticrime, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Facebook is selling your information to the Nazis. Really. Network analysis PROVES it to be true:

    http://www.optimuscrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/omfg-nazis.jpg

    YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH POINTY ARROWS CONNECTING THINGS! IT'S SCIENTIFIC!
  • osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Wake up, posting your personal information on the internet has inherent dangers. I am afraid of systems that collect information and store it in centralized databases and just mine it to find issues with me, BUT I won't complain if I volunteer the information - don't be dumb.
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