Is Big Brother Watching Or What?

[chopsaw]

I'm not to awfully worried. Allot if people I've met that live in central part of the U.S to the West coast didn't realize VT was even part of the United States. Most thought we we're part of Canada.

Chris

Had some friends move to Vermont several years ago . They came back for a visit one summer . Still had their coats on .

 

[bluewhisper]

"Big Brother is watching you" should be updated to "Big Brother likes you."

Doesn't that sound more friendly?

 

[SonnyE]

I'm not to awfully worried. Allot if people I've met that live in central part of the U.S to the West coast didn't realize VT was even part of the United States. Most thought we we're part of Canada.

Chris

I have a picture of me in my Leaf Peeper Hat I got when we visited friends in New Hampshire and Vermont. ;)

You can Thank our Public Schools for not teaching folks Geography and History properly. :mad:

 

[gmc2003]

Ho-Ho---I know where Vermont is!!:)
And a Beautiful place it is!!
It's also the place my Maple Syrup comes from!! :D

Bear

Not a big fan of tree piss myself, but there does seem to be alot of people who do like it. It's our oil so to speak, and most of PA is just as beautiful.

Had some friends move to Vermont several years ago . They came back for a visit one summer . Still had their coats on .

That's kinda funny. I went to San Diego once in the late summer early fall and we were the only ones swimming in the ocean without a full wetsuit on.

I have a picture of me in my Leaf Peeper Hat I got when we visited friends in New Hampshire and Vermont. ;)

You can Thank our Public Schools for not teaching folks Geography and History properly. :mad:

Peepers ughhhhhh. Enough said.
.

 

[SonnyE]

Peepers ughhhhhh. Enough said.

We came, one week too early, turn was just beginning. So we missed it.
Came, spent a few daze, left. Taking only Great memories, leaving only a bit of money.

But I have always known Vermont was one of the United States.
One of the 50. Not the 57. :confused:;)

 

[Medina Joe]

I quit Facebook last week. It was nothing but advertising and political advertising. I keep most stuff private because I have kids. Lot of creeps now days. I have only met a few great people online that I allowed in our life's. I feel you just need to be cautious..

 

[SonnyE]

I quit Facebook last week. It was nothing but advertising and political advertising. I keep most stuff private because I have kids. Lot of creeps now days. I have only met a few great people online that I allowed in our life's. I feel you just need to be cautious..

Hate to break it to you, but Facebook never "goes away". Your info is still there, just inactive.

 

[BandCollector]

I believe that this post has gone sideways.

 

[SonnyE]

I believe that this post has gone sideways.

Vee are vachink you too! :confused:
You troublemaker! :rolleyes:

LOL! :p

 

[BandCollector]

LOL!

 

[GaryHibbert]

Well, as you can see by my high security User Name, I'm not overly concerned if people know who I am and where I live.
And no, Drayton Valley is NOT in Vermont. LOL
Gary

 

[Medina Joe]

Hate to break it to you, but Facebook never "goes away". Your info is still there, just inactive.

You are right. They just don't get anymore info. That's the point.

 

[zippy12]

I know exactly where most of the kitchens and pits are from the pictures you post! That is unless you turned off the GPS on your cell phone so that info is not recorded in your pictures....

:eek:

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
- Buffalo Springfield

 

[Bearcarver]

Here ya go---I'm not worried!
Kinda like Alfred E Newman "What Me Worry"??

Left to Right; Bear's House---Bear Jr's Tower Shop---Bear Jr's House.
Winter Shot---No leaves on the trees:

 

[BandCollector]

Vee are vachink you too! :confused:
You troublemaker! :rolleyes:

LOL! :p

Hey Sonny,

I really like your Pistol Target Human Silhouette Avatar!

How apropos for the post "Is Big Brother Watching or What"?

John

 

[SonnyE]

You are right. They just don't get anymore info. That's the point.

Unless and until you peek at somebodies pictures, or what they said...
Then BAM!
Facebook is something I feel is wrong. I feel it is too invasive, and way too connective.
If somebody gains access, there is a lot of information there somebody could, possibly, use to make me miserable.
But it's not a good idea to make me miserable. I might retaliate.
So although I discovered Facebook is what it is, I don't frequent it much.
And I've only unfriended two people in my time. But for good reason, I did not want their crap showing up on my page.
One a drunken druggie half sister of a niece, another a raving maniacal liberal cousin of the wife.

I've experienced some real shit online. It pays to be vigilant.

Oh, and here's another one: A Friend of the wife's is a personnel manager. One of her tools is to take a look on Facebook to see what sort of posts are on there. And what sort of Friends are connected to the prospective hire. Any bad shit there, and it's the round file for the applicant.

Yeah, if you are online, somebody can see you. Privacy went the way of the 5¢ Cigar.
I accept it. Or you could attempt to go off the grid.
But then they'll make a TV reality show about you.... o_O

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My Weather Station.

 

[johnmeyer]

Oh, and here's another one: A Friend of the wife's is a personnel manager. One of her tools is to take a look on Facebook to see what sort of posts are on there. And what sort of Friends are connected to the prospective hire. Any bad shit there, and it's the round file for the applicant.

Bingo! That is precisely the issue with the stuff you put online, and is the only point I was trying to make earlier, but you are making it better.

To quote the famous line from "War Games," the only winning move is not to play. Obviously all of us are "playing" by posting. But, if I were at a stage in my life where someone, like that personnel manager, could deep-six my application after reading stuff I'd posted, I sure as heck would limit what I exposed.

 

[ghostguy6]

Being a former private investigator myself I can tell you we used Facebook and forums just like this to track people down on a daily basis. Some people post so much about themselves we could track their daily movements in advance to the point we could serve them any time we wanted to. People's lives are based on routine and your timeline only makes it public. Finding runaways was a snap because the youth of today can not function without social media. Using Google's reverse image made it even easier because most people post the same photos over multiple accounts. I've even collected evidence of perjury from forums just like this, had court cases dropped and charges laid against those individuals because they bragged publicly on the internet. My personal favorite was when some 18 year old punk posted" totally lied my ass off in court and the judge bought it! What an F*in dumbass!" to his social media account while the court was in recess. Needless to say the judge was not to happy when court resumed and I had to testify with a screenshot of his account. With GPS tagging on phones now you can tell exactly when and where someone is. This could easily be used by someone with malicious intent. There are already documented cases where criminals used Facebook to know homeowners weren't home when they committed B&E's.

Someone posted about using Facebook to look up prospective hires. We would take this a step further and often find multiple social media accounts belonging to the same person, quite often we discovered that the original Facebook account was faked solely to look good to the employer. There are even services out there that will create a fake account and populate your page with "professional friends" to make you look good. This also happens with Linkedin as well.

Before I go on too much of a rant, I will check my profile and ensure the very basic info is there;)

 

[SonnyE]

Being a former private investigator myself I can tell you we used Facebook and forums just like this to track people down on a daily basis. Some people post so much about themselves we could track their daily movements in advance to the point we could serve them any time we wanted to. People's lives are based on routine and your timeline only makes it public. Finding runaways was a snap because the youth of today can not function without social media. Using Google's reverse image made it even easier because most people post the same photos over multiple accounts. I've even collected evidence of perjury from forums just like this, had court cases dropped and charges laid against those individuals because they bragged publicly on the internet. My personal favorite was when some 18 year old punk posted" totally lied my ass off in court and the judge bought it! What an F*in dumbass!" to his social media account while the court was in recess. Needless to say the judge was not to happy when court resumed and I had to testify with a screenshot of his account. With GPS tagging on phones now you can tell exactly when and where someone is. This could easily be used by someone with malicious intent. There are already documented cases where criminals used Facebook to know homeowners weren't home when they committed B&E's.

Someone posted about using Facebook to look up prospective hires. We would take this a step further and often find multiple social media accounts belonging to the same person, quite often we discovered that the original Facebook account was faked solely to look good to the employer. There are even services out there that will create a fake account and populate your page with "professional friends" to make you look good. This also happens with Linkedin as well.

Before I go on too much of a rant, I will check my profile and ensure the very basic info is there;)

Leann's use as a personnel manager was simple. No shades of gray.
But most kids have minute by minute posts, like they are in a place with their friends, but oblivious to the fact anybody can see.
And most criminals get caught because they are stupid. But everybody in Jail is innocent. Just ask them.

 

[johnmeyer]

Ghostguy, that is a really good post. Thanks!

It also helps separate the real from the unreal. Sometimes Hollywood movies make it look like both the good and bad guys can take our online activity and do things that are not really possible. Your post helps me understand what can really be done.

In my business, which is media restoration, I have a similar problem. I constantly must educate people about their inflated expectations gained from watching those same movies. The most frequent request I get is to somehow make a fuzzy license plate number, taken with a security camera, suddenly appear. Clients are always disappointed when I tell them it can't be done: they've seen it so many times in the movies that they think it is real.

I then send them a link to this very humorous, but accurate, compilation of Hollywood clips that repeatedly show the impossible, with the subject heading on my email: "this is fake." Click on this to watch a 1:41 minute compilation of clips from movies you've probably seen:

Let's Enhance

Someone needs to do a similar compilation of all the exaggerations we've seen about how much both the authorities and the bad guys can find out about us. Ghostguy tells us what can actually be done, and it is bad enough and clearly is something we should think about when providing information to random forums and sites.

However, paranoia induced by watching Hollywood movies needs to be tempered by reality.