Facebook Abstainers could be labeled Suspicious

[Sleeping Cobra]

According to this article printed in tagesspiegel.de, not having a facebook account should be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.
No facebook, no job offer.

The article mentions the fact that in the US, people were subject to handing their passwords over to potential employers, which privacy advocates, facebook, and the US government disagree with. But the article takes it one step further in claiming that not only did US employers have a legitimate point, but also suggesting that those who abstain from facebook could be mass murderers.

According to this article printed in tagesspiegel.de, not having a facebook account should be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.
No facebook, no job offer.

The article mentions the fact that in the US, people were subject to handing their passwords over to potential employers, which privacy advocates, facebook, and the US government disagree with. But the article takes it one step further in claiming that not only did US employers have a legitimate point, but also suggesting that those who abstain from facebook could be mass murderers.

As examples they use Norwegian shooter Anders Breivik, who used myspace instead of facebook (or as they put it, "largely invisible on the web", haha @ myspace), and the newer Aurora shooter who used adultfriendfinder instead of facebook. So being social on any other website isn't good enough, it has to be specifically facebook that people are using.

While it is already established that sites like facebook and google+ are no good for political activists, abuse survivors, and people in the witness protection program; abuse survivors will have to take a back seat while more and more insane articles like this come out.

There seems to be an insanity bubble around older people which has arrived after the initial facebook boom that brought in the youth, where they see facebook as a necessary utility; instead of a trendy website that will have passed in a few years.

http://activepolitic.com:82/News/201...uspicious.html

[Housecarl]

[2ndEviltwin]

what is wrong with this world... nevermind don't answer that.

[mzkitty]

LOL, what rock band was it that had a song called "Mama, we're all crazy now"?

[changed]

LOL, what rock band was it that had a song called "Mama, we're all crazy now"?

Quiet Riot.


I tell any young person that will listen not to have Facebook. I tell them that is the first thing a potential employer will look at.

[Double_A]

Facebook is the next MySpace.

Who's MySpace? yes that's my point.

Got Facebook stock? my you are a stupid M.F'er

[L.A.B.]

On the sick society scale the aforementioned articles weighs HEAVY.

[Ben Sunday]

From the OP:

There seems to be an insanity bubble...

You got that right!

This has to be one of the most asinine articles and concepts I have seen in a long time. No Facebook for me, now or ever. I never got the memo regarding mindless chatter about what you eat, what you wear, how much soccer the brats play, or other unknown folks (how many pervs?) that has become such an American icon while simultaneously being the poster for American cultural decay, inane values and generally insipid conduct. Monumental egocentric behavior and waste of time.

Another line from the OP:

According to this article printed in tagesspiegel.de,

Ah, the friggin Germans manipulating humanity again, or at least trying

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[minkykat]

I like labels! I've been labeled a lot of things in my time but Mass Murderer? Never had that one. I will cancel my FB account directly just so I can earn my MM merit badge!

[Oilpatch Hand]

Oilpatch Hand is the nattily-dressed fellow in the chair:

[FireDance]

These people are lacking common sense. OR, they want you to "buy the product" - pish pah. I'm kind of with you Minky - cancel because I think yo' stupid enough to fall for it. My facebook is so bloody boring that I doubt seriously if they could gleen anything from it. I have began to delete people that seem "odd" lately. You know the ones "drunk on the beeeech again!!" And so on. But who cares. Most of those people are not friends. I think people forget that.

[Publius]

Their on drugs I tell ya!

[Border guard]

I don't do Facebook or Twitter. I'm a bad boy!!!

[jimmertoons]

I do have a facebook acct, at least that's what the updates that I keep getting say. I don't know how, but my daughter says I even have 21 friends!

[Wise Owl]

No facebook in this family either. Don't want one either.

My son and his wife have one I think as does my older sister. Why? No idea. Not my bag to get on some social site. TB2K is enough social site for my taste. What do I need that other carp for?

Just the fact that it tracks you movements on the net is enough for me to say no thanks.

Sheesh......I guess I am also a probable MM......? This crippled up old grandma.....yeah sure.

[Warthog]

Facebook

[DrJerry]

Mine is in Dutch!(.hyves.NL)

[Anrol5]

According to this article printed in tagesspiegel.de, not having a facebook account should be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.

Or it could be that you have a computer that is as old as the hills, that has problem with "new" software. I've got one that gets confused and crashes, whenever it is required to use new fangled technology.

I find it impossible use Facebook because my computer dies, whenever I go near it.

Anrol

[Marthanoir]

Quiet Riot.


I tell any young person that will listen not to have Facebook. I tell them that is the first thing a potential employer will look at.

Slade,

Quiet Riot just did a cover

[Marthanoir]

I don't do Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo or Google+
I don't have an account on any of them and don't even visit the sites,

[Foothiller]

No facebook, no job offer.

This has already happened to me.

I view that like drug testing.

Principles matter.

I refuse to use facebook and I refuse to piss in a cup. Period.

Guilty till proven innocent is not right.

Everytime you step into an airport, you're assumed to be a terrorist and have to prove that you are not.

Same thing.

I choose to opt out of anything I don't like or that violates my principles of liberty, justice, and most importantly of all, a right to privacy and innocent until proven guilty.

The nation of sheople think I'm crazy.

In an insane society, the sane are labeled as insane.

This is where we are.

Complete batshit crazy and completely cowed.

I read 20% of Americans are on some form of anti-depressant.

Connect the dots. Why are so many Americans depressed?

Cognitive dissonance. They know something's wrong, but listen to the propaganda machine and are told what is happening is right and for their own security.

That causes internal mental issues, being forced to believe (ridiculed by other believers if you don't) something you know is not true.

2¢

[Caver78]

Look....if you paid your taxes the govt already knows EVERYTHING plus where you live. I find FB handy as I just share articles back to my page, like a spare file folder. Lots of them are boring science articles, so if TPTB wanna neb around the worst that will happen is someone will die of sheer boredom.
Best case senario some underpaid screener will learn something new. ROFL!!

[rhughe13]

Facebook is where you can watch the daily barrage of people that change their status from "In a Relationship" to "Single" to "In a Relationship" in one day, everyday. It's a great place for people on depression medications or those that want to watch people on depression medications.

[Dennis Olson]

As I've said before, I have a FB account. NOTHING is in it except my contact info (and some puppy pics). I am only "friends" with people from TB and some old acquaintances of mine. I never, EVER post private stuff to it. And I mean NEVER. You could show my FB account to the freakin' POPE and he'd be bored with it.

[mrrk1562]

i have one ..i dont where i grew up ..and family are scatterd all over the place .. iv reconnocted with people that i havent heard from for years ..even an old love of mine found me there ...you just dont put nothing on that you are not willing to share with every one ... as far as the government is concerned they have the ability to peek into any ones life weather it be legel or not ..im not living my life in a bubble ....as far as my polical veiws go the government already know im a tax protester ..that i beleave in freedom and always i grew up on an army base and had fed back ground checks all the time and have held sercurity clearances as well ..i was part of the common law movment and i know our group was survailance, 2 of us where even arrested on bogus charges that were latter dropped and dismissed as being with out merit.....now why did the romans throw christians to the lions again ..because of what they beleaved in .. i will not bow down and beg on bended knee for something i have a right to exercise ...i dont yell fire in a crowded movie house ...and i dont write threats on face book or any where else ...

[bethshaya]

I bet if you did some research and found who actually wrote the article, you'd find that they were a Gen Y person. They cannot understand why someone would choose face to face or voice contact over text.

But who knows...maybe with what is left of this world is left to them, future wars will be decided by countries playing Call of Duty instead of on a real battle field. Saves lots of lives. But then again, by that time, their parents will be dead and no one will be left to wipe their 40 yr old noses and hinnies. So they will probably starve to death with no one working (at fast food) and no one to cook for them either.

[Dennis Olson]

future wars will be decided by countries playing Call of Duty instead of on a real battle field...


Ender's Game....

[Double_A]

Look....if you paid your taxes the govt already knows EVERYTHING plus where you live. I find FB handy as I just share articles back to my page, like a spare file folder. Lots of them are boring science articles, so if TPTB wanna neb around the worst that will happen is someone will die of sheer boredom.
Best case senario some underpaid screener will learn something new. ROFL!!

Even what you've shared here that you use FB for is informing to people who want to get an accurate profile of who you are what you like and what interest you. That information in valuable to others, don't fool yourself.

[Caver78]

Thanks Double A...this was the last ''share'' to my FB page...the marketer's must be going wild...heheheh....
It's a safe bet my few FB friends have lapsed into a coma...[sorry guys!]

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[topcat46]

Coming soon: sign-up for FB or pay a federal tax assessed on your tax return.

[Straycat]

Facebook is where you can watch the daily barrage of people that change their status from "In a Relationship" to "Single" to "In a Relationship" in one day, everyday. It's a great place for people on depression medications or those that want to watch people on depression medications.

...Really? I can't say I have those kinds of friends. Mine tend to be stable, responsible adults with families and jobs. Which is why their FB updates interest me - it keeps me up-to-date in their lives. I guess if I had the kinds of friends you're talking about, I wouldn't be interested in FB, either.

I have a FB account. My friends include my relatives, bosses, coworkers, neighbors, childhood friends in other states, etc. And it isn't a problem, because I'm not stupid enough to post compromising information that would get me in trouble with any of them. Instead, we can share photos and updates of our gardens or hikes or other events in our lives in one central place for the convenience of all. I don't post anything online anywhere that I'm not willing for the entire world to know.

IMO, Facebook is a handy networking tool for grownups to keep in touch. It's nothing but trouble and drama for the younguns too immature to control themselves in public. Fortunately, I don't count any of those younguns among my friends, so my FB doesn't have any of that nonsense.

[Caver78]

Thanks StrayCat.....FB really isn't the source of ''crazy'' it gets blamed as. User Error has a big part in it.

[Aardaerimus]

From our youngest years the government has engineered us to accept and participate in social trends - from sports to other social collectives that compartmentalize us and influence our decision making processes. They want the flock to follow and not stray so they can easily manipulate our decisions while giving us the illusion of choice. Generally, even the outcasts follow some subset of social norms, so even in their rebellion against them they end up in an equally controllable subset.

Very, very few actually stray entirely from the complex, pyramid of social control. Naturally, when they leave the matrix, all eyes are upon them for their "madness" and audacity, and the eyes atop that pyramid do not take kindly to these individuals.

[tanstaafl]

Bloomberg TV just said that California was counting on up to $2 billion in tax revenue related to Facebook. Instead the company's stock is desperately trying to find a bottom to end the stock's slide (I think it's flirting with a 50% loss from the initial public offering) and the company is apparently facing a brain drain as executives bail out of the company. In the lower left of my Bloomberg TV window right now is a link to a video with the text: "Facebook's User Problem: Facebook Has a Possible 46M `Duplicate' Users."

The point being, Facebook may become less relevant soon enough and the "Facebook problem" may become a moot point.