[dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account

[Peter Brawley]

On 3/28/2018 20:26, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> How do you tell your children that the world is out to get you? How do you
> explain that the corporations (McDonalds, Burger King, A&W etc. are
> actively destroying your health? How do I explain this to a child,
> inundated with millions of dollars of TV ads?

Yeah, when they're young you curate their exposure, and you tell them 
something very like what you say, and you do all you can to ensure they 
learn to think critically. Nothing's perfect, but have a listen to 
11-year-old Naomi Wadler last Saturday 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiQaIaI9xmk>.

PB

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> '
> On the upside, I am without a wife and also kids,so this I guess is an
> academic question. I have no chestnuts in the fire, as it were. But I want
> to know, from those among you who have or plan to have, children, I want to
> know this. The world, thanks to our generation, is going to Hell. Why would
> you choose to bring a newborn into the chaos that we have created? Explain
> me this. (My own choice has been that the future world is too ugly to
> imagine, and therefore my choice is to forego having children.
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Jim Lawrence<accessd at shaw.ca>  wrote:
>
>> That's right. It is not until children have matured do they see long term
>> consequences to their action. We are just putting this reality all together
>> in our own minds...it is all moving so fast. Do our offspring stand a
>> chance without informed and vigilant parents?
>>
>> Every parent always tell their children to look left then right (or in
>> your case right then left) and proceed when safe to do so, across the road.
>> It was not always that way...we learned and we taught. Now our kids kids
>> are going to have to be taught the new world order.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Martin Reid"<mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk>
>> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 11:14:23 AM
>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account
>>
>> But the important target markets , kids, teenagers, women, men don't
>> really give a fiddlers.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> Sent from my Windows Phone
>> ________________________________
>> From: Jim Lawrence<mailto:accessd at shaw.ca>
>> Sent: ‎28/‎03/‎2018 19:09
>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues<mailto:dba-tech@ databaseadvisors.com>
>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account
>>
>> You are right but according to CA's CEO, all it takes is "likes" or
>> "dislikes" on ten items to create a strong personal profile. With thirty
>> tags, he said we have a in-depth profile with more insight than the person
>> themselves knows. So it does not even matter that you have never
>> contributed to a FB conversation...just the most rudimentary tagging is all
>> that is necessary.
>>
>> I would suspect that Cambridge Analytica also cross-indexes result to any
>> number of open data pools.
>>
>> I think Mark Zuckerberg, best summed it up with his opinion on those who
>> share everything on social media and expect alsolute privacy, "dumb F**KS".
>>
>> Chris Wylie is a "credit to Canada," says a Labour MP who heard the
>> whistleblower's explosive testimony about how the Leave campaign used
>> Cambridge Anayltica data:
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/as-it-happens/segment/15532139
>> http://bit.ly/2pMftaz
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "peter brawley"brawley at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:45:57 AM
>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account
>>
>> On 3/27/2018 21:43, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>>> Its too late Arthur. The doors of the proverbial barn are open wide and
>> have been for quite some time. What has been done is done and it can never
>> be reversed.
>>
>> It ain't all-or-none. What you never post on FB can't be harvested from
>> FB, and there's an argument for not contributing in any way to
>> Zuckerberg's con game.
>>
>> PB
>>
>> -----
>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Arthur Fuller" gmail.com>
>>> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 9:01:44 AM
>>> Subject: [dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account
>>>
>>> In the light of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, you may be tempted to
>>> delete your Facebook account. FB certainly doesn't make it easy to delete
>>> your account. What follows is a concise recipe for achieving this. But
>>> first a little preamble, that may help you in future adventures.
>>>
>>> 1. Visit Facebook in your browser. Drop down the arrow at the top right
>> of
>>> your screen and click *Settings*.
>>> 2. At the bottom of the General Account Settings, click *Download a copy
>> of
>>> your Facebook data*.
>>> 3. Select *Start My Archive*. This may take a while. When the process has
>>> completed, you'll see a little pop-up notification. I suggest that you
>> log
>>> out and inspect this file, if only to realize how lax you've been with
>> your
>>> data.
>>> 5. Go to Delete My Account
>>> <https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account>. (This
>>> link will take you directly there; no need to login again.
>>>
>>>
>>> There, it's done. You're free at last. You will receive another message,
>>> saying that it could take up to 2 weeks for FB to physically remove your
>>> account. Under no circumstance revisit your account during this period,
>>> else you'll undo what you've just done.
>>>
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