Password bill

It appears that there is a bill in Congress that will allow potential employers to ask applicants for their facebook passwords. WTF?!?

First off, why in the blue hell is there even a bill that will allow this?

Second, is there no such thing as privacy, anymore? I mean, if you tell someone "Happy Birthday" and play "Words with Friends" on Facebook, it shouldn't hinder you getting a job!

Also, if you don't give your password to the potential employer does that automatically disqualify you, kind of like if you don't give out your credit history and what not?

I seriously wonder what this world is coming to!

What makes it even worse is that employers are totally in their rights to do this, since the FCC has no rules/laws regarding social media. However, one would think they'd have some kind of ethical issue with asking for people's passwords. Don't you agree?

So, what do you think about all of this? Would you give an employer your password? Why or why not?

Keep your politics off my page!!!

I don't know about you, but I've noticed more and more on facebook that people are pushing their political views on everyone.

For instance, there is this thing going around saying some along the lines of who cares that Whitney Houston, a cracked out whore, died when millions of "hard working " Americans die everyday protecting our freedoms.

Now, I'm all for the troops and all, but doesn't that seem like a bit much? If you think about it, most people, in a matter similar to Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse, hadn't mentioned anything positive about Whitney in years, but the minute she died everyone is her biggest fan again.

The same can be said for the troops, to an extent. How many people do you know actually talk about them everyday? With the exception of the few that I know that were over there or have a loved one over there, no one.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that no one dying is ever a good thing, but do you really need to use Whitney's death to create this, for lack of a better term, political hate agenda?

There are other such things that I notice, such as "people that watch Glee are nothing but a bunch of homosexual, bleeding heart liberals", "Sesame Street brainwashes children into believing ____", "God is a Republican, why aren't you?", etc.

It is all just insane and too much, I tell ya.

Remember the days when everyone kept their politics to themselves? I miss that time, I really do.

Well, thanks for reading!

Trend?

I've noticed something...a trend, if you will...happening on facebook. It seems as if many of my friends that are married have taken to merging their accounts.

Now, I don't want to come off as sounding like I have a problem with this, because I don't.

Having said that, I would never merge my acct with the little woman's.

Why, you may ask? Well, it is more of a question of individuality. I hesitate commenting or e-mailing people with these merged accounts because you never know who'll read it first.

Am I the only one that thinks this?

Twitter?

*SIGH* Yes, I am thinking of actually joining twitter, but not sure yet. If I do, I'll make my name available for all of you to follow.

I'm also thinking of making a facebook acct for blogging purposes, especially since most of my readers are people not in my everyday life.

Stay tuned for further information on both these possible forthcoming accounts.

Anyone remember privacy?

Privacy? Anyone have a clue what that used to be? It would appear not as we seem to want to know every little thing about everyone. A forthcoming blog with go more into depth on this topic, but for this morning, I'm focusing on Facebook. Yes, Facebook.

I remember when that site started. It seemed like it would take an act of Congress just to join, whereas Myspace was like the playground around the corner...anyone can join.

As time has passed, though, as with any new playground, Myspace has become dilapidated. At the same time, Facebook has opened the floodgates for anyone to join.

A while back they changed their privacy policy to where if you post anything on someone's wall, it pops up on everyone' (on our friend list) news feed. Like just about everyone else, I'm not a fan of broadcasting what I say to someone on their wall to everyone. If they want to read it that bad, then they can go to that person's wall and read it, otherwise, its none of their business. When you left a comment on Myspace, it never became a huge story for all to see.

Recently, I've noticed this new application, or something...not really sure what it is, that lets you know who views your profile. Here is my query...is it really that big of a deal to know who views your profile? Most people, at least on my list, have their profiles set to private, so the only people that would be looking at it would be those on their friends list. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they the people you want looking at your profile? Isn't that why you approved them?

Sometimes I really do wonder why I even bother with this site. Then I remember how utterly pointless the other option, Twitter, is.

Hack!

I seriously despise hackers. I think I blogged about this once before, but I boggle my mind to think that someone actually sits around trying to create programs meant to steal someone's facebook password. Yes, that's right, my facebook account was hacked.

Now, back in the day when myspace wasn't the abandoned amusement park of the internet, my account, along with everyone else I know (whether they were on my friends list or not) was hacked in one way or another. Facebook, up until recently, hasn't had any issues with hackers.

I guess with their revised "privacy" policy, hackers feel its open season. I've already had a couple of friend requests from random people that do not exist. At first, I thought maybe they were one of my blog readers or someone from my past who I just forgot, but after asking around, it turns out they did not exist, so I denied their request.

This brings me back to my original topic. Facebook, as of right now, is supposedly the biggest social network site. You would think they would have a better way to filter fake profiles and such.

The fact that they don't have better filters and have become so lax with their security, not to mention don't seem to care about their users' privacy (posting anything anymore almost automatically makes it available for everyone unless your privacy settings say otherwise).

I guess with all this hacking and lack of privacy, soon enough another site will rise. Facebook would do well to learn from the demise of myspace. It had the same problems and now look at it. Guess they'll learn, right?

In the meantime, I suppose I better change my password and hope that works (and that I'll remember it). Stupid hackers!!!!

Kill Obama Poll?

Yes, you read the title right. Apparently, there is a group on Facebook that posed the question on whether or not to kill President Obama. This is beyond wrong.

Whatever your political views are, it doesn't matter. There is no reason to wish death upon a human being, let alone start a group for that sole purpose.

I don't have all the details on the group. It was brought to my attention in my blog surfing tonight, but if Facebook ever does anything right, they need to remove this group.

The creators of the group should be reprimanded as well. Obviously, they haven't done anything particularly wrong, as far as I know. I think it is illegal to make nay kind of threat on the President's life, but I could be wrong. If I'm not, then, the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, or whoever handles this kind of stuff needs to hunt these people down and handle them accordingly.

That's just my opinion.

A good laugh

Saturdays tend to be light around here, so I'm going to keep the tradition going by posting this. Don't laugh too hard!

Facebook issues

How many of you use facebook? Have any of you had the same problem I've recently been encountering. I've logged in, and then all of a sudden it locks up. Initially, I thought it was a computer problem, but facebook is the only site that has that issue. Not to mention, it does the same thing on any computer I use.

Turns out that I'm not alone in this problem, but since facebook is not known for helping out (or caring) about the people that use their site, its not likely anything will get remedied in the foreseeable future. *SIGH* In the meantime, I'll just have to wait for the chance to slip in.

At least the issue isn't with my comp, so that's a relief.

While they'e bailing folks out

Seems as if the government is bailing any and everyone out who asks, so my question is, why not bail out those of us that have student loans?

At first this came up in a new group that was started on Facebook, but it has been gaining steam since then. I'm not a fan of bailouts, because I see it as a handout, but I do see the logic in bailing out college loan holders.

It costs an arm and a leg to go to college in this country. I went to a small La. university and still had to depend on scholarships, loans, and a grant to pay for my schooling. I wouldn't mind them bailing me out, but I'm not asking for it.

The idea is intriguing, though. Especially since it seems as though the government is helping all but the people.

Any thoughts or opinions?

What happened?

Myspace and facebook used to be good for meeting new and old friends, as well as wasting time on-line. Now they're just sites that I log on to check mail and stuff.

Mysapce is the site I prefer. I remember when I first got on there, I would go on there searching for new people to meet, chat up, and possibly even hook up with. That didn't last long, as I decided to delete all those non friendly friends (one of which was the infamous Tila Tequila) in exchange for people that share similar interests to me, went to school with me, or that I actually knew. At the time, I was also working in a computer lab, so the bulletins keep me pretty bus with filling out pretty much every one's surveys and other bulletins. This got to be a bit annoying, though. however, now I'm missing those bulletins. It seems no one even gets on there. If not for my obsession with comments and whatnot, I doubt there would even be a point to get on there other than to keep in touch with my old friends.

I joined facebook out of peer pressure. To this day, I still don't know how to use most of the stuff on there, but the applications keep me pretty occupied for a couple of minutes, and the poking keeps me in touch with people rather than leaving a comment that says something like "Hi! How are you? Long time no chat!" On top of all this, maybe it's just my comp, but the profile page seems to take forever to load, maybe it's all the crap I have on there. Unlike myspace, though, the friends I have on there, found me almost immediately after I joined!

After saying all this, I am reminded of a couple years ago when there as all this drama about the negative connotations of myspace and facebook. How neither site does a good job of policing itself, blah, blah, blah. On top of that, there have been references to both sites in various TV shows and movies. I have a theory that these reason have led to the downturn of both sites, but I could be wrong.

Either way, I still have both sites. No plans of deleting either account either. If you want to join me on there, e-mail me and I'll add you. Just don't be a stranger afterwards.