[ale] _W_T_F_!!!!

[ckurtz11 at comcast.net (Cy Kurtz)]

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:38 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I think social networking is a total waste of time. However there are
> people in my life that that matter to me and they think it's better
> than fresh figs with a dollop of goat cheese all wrapped in prosciutto
> (YUM!). And since they are posting pics of their current adventures on
> that abomination faceplant, I gave up and signed up an account.
> 
> I was asked _before_ I could tweak privacy settings if I wanted to
> search my gmail contacts for "friends". I selected "NO" (didn't see a
> _HELL_NO_ button).
> 
> So imagine my shock and horror when faceplant offered to make friends
> of a list of people from my gmail contacts anyway.
> 
> Most telling was the contact to a bogus account I use for testing that
> has a garbage name (like aassddffgg at gmail). I had just done a mail
> exchange between that account an my normal account about 2 hours
> earlier so it was a "recent" contact. At the time I was signing up on
> faceplant I did have gmail open and I was logged in. But I did NOT
> give faceplant my permission to scour my contacts.
> 
> Zuckerman gets big "YOU SUCK" in my list of people to subpeona for
> crime against humanity.
> 
> -- 
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
> Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness 
> Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits    
> 
>  Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by
> faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken on its own
> merits.
>    Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992 
> 
I kicked my facepaint habit about two months ago(over some objections
from the same sort of people).

There is no such thing as a free puppy. The site, the servers, and all
those apps must cost a fortune and they are selling every bit of info
they can get to recover costs and make a profit.

Much like commercial TV, you are the product, your time and attention,
and facepaint is selling it to its advertisers.  It's the new TV. Run ..
don't walk.

Cy Kurtz