Facebook has settled a class action regarding the Cambridge Analytics fiasco. Go get your share of the settlement. The money (over 750 million dollars) will be divvied up according to the number of claimants so get your share of it.
Claim form —
https://facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/#submit-claim
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Man I’m late to this party by a week. Thanks for the link on the facebook class action. I clicked it and got shaking circles that just sat there. Thought it was a prank.
I used FB to update only my family and extended family on my travels. that was it. Oh, and to join a couple of user groups to ask questions.
As to the early days, yeah, I had a Texas Instruments calculator with some sort of programmable mag strip which I never used. Oh and, as a sophomore in HS I learned how to “program” a “computer” by marking reader cards with a pencil, and something would happen on screen. I can’t honestly recall what happened on screen, but the process of programming it was the most fun for me.
I’m “on the spectrum” of oldness too, as I recall Timex simplex, Quarterdeck, actual floppy floppies, shopping at Fry’s electronics for cases and power supplies, MB’s, processors and drives……and recall driving up US101 through Palo Alto and seeing billboards along the freeway with black text on white field asking “What is Dos?”
Ah, good times…..
I was never on Facebook for myself. Only to check others. The minute I heard it was “free”, I knew that my information would be sold and/or there would be ads.
TANSTAAFL
If it seems to be too good to be true, it probably is.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
Caveat emptor.
I had a Facebook account for several years, I didn’t post to it and I blocked all their intrusive and ad software. There may be people in here that for whatever reason they use/used Facebook are eligible for this payment.
For myself, when my son and his family of 6 were deployed to Naples, Italy my daughter-in-law would use Facebook to update everyone in the family on their activities and post photos. It was easier than trying to send family members emails and photos one at a time and it runs on any platform anyone in the greater family might be using.
It had its uses.
They’re back in the USA now and he’s since retired from the Navy so I don’t need it anymore. Which is a good thing because a while back my son said he posted something on Facebook I could look at if I wanted to. When I tried to log in I found my account had been deleted.
I told him about that and said I would not be opening or trying to open another Facebook account. I don’t even know when exactly they closed it, I never used it enough to notice. The juice just isn’t worth the squeeze.
But …
There’s a lot of ‘free’ stuff that’s well worth having. I’m surprised greatly if you don’t use any open source software at all. In those cases TANSTAAFL applies but those software developers are paying for the lunch, which still isn’t free to them. They put a lot of sweat equity into their software and it’s awfully nice of them to let us have it free of charge.
Even nicer are the ones who will release multi-platform versions ported to Windows so I don’t have to use a Linux distro on a dedicated machine to run that open source stuff.
I’m not a Linux fan boy or any other kind of fan boy, I just use what works best for my purposes and I know enough about this stuff to decide what works best with no small amount of authority and experience. I don’t have anything set up to run Linux as a dedicated OS (nor am likely to) but I do use it fairly often on bootable media to dig into the guts of Windows by offlining a Windows OS it so I can work on it. I.E. — You can’t work on the SAM hive on a Windows installation while Windows is running. You can do anything you want to it if you boot to alternative media in a Linux distro thumb drive and handle the files from there.
Which BTW is why you should always wipe and destroy any media with an OS on it before you discard it. I’m not one of the bad guys but the bad guys absolutely know how to do this.
I have a disk clone operation underway right now on a Linux bootable thumb drive. My sister’s machine ran out of space on the root drive so I’m copying it sector by sector to a bigger drive. Her computer will never notice the difference except that now it will have plenty of room on the root. Or it will when I finish I mean.
So, yeah, from my perspective just because something is free doesn’t mean it’s junk, or worse that it’s detrimental. I’m just pointing this stuff out because other people might read our conversation and get the wrong idea about some things. When you say if it’s free it’s gotta be unhealthy they might not realize that doesn’t always apply to everything universally.
TANSTAAFL doesn’t apply to things emanating from the goodness of people’s hearts, for instance.
Agreed about free not being bad or junk.
But when you have a profitable business with high earnings that charges nothing to use its products, you have to ask where the money is coming from. In Facebook’s case, ads and/or your info.
Saw that instantly. Decided for me it was not worth it.For others, it is. Especially if you are told you are the product and you’ve agreed to that.
But Facebook did not say that. Thus the lawsuit.
In general principle I despise Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest of that garbage. Sometimes circumstances dictate I use such things but I don’t like doing that even so.
Frankly, I don’t see the point unless it’s the way my daughter-in-law used it. But she uses Facebook for other things than just keeping the immediate family up to date too. So I guess I should say the way I used it. I wasn’t happy about that and had no say in the matter but I did want to keep up on what was happening in my son’s family.
(He’s home now so whenever he has a significant amount of time, like driving somewhere, he calls me and we sometimes talk for hours. That’s way better than Facebook as far as I’m concerned.)
I’ve been working in or at least interacting with the IT field for a long time so I’ve been around since BBSs and the very first chat rooms. I suppose I got all of that out of my system decades ago. The same goes for gaming, the last game I got involved in was Skyrim: The Elder Scrolls.
None of that stuff interests me anymore. I regret the empty hours I spent playing computer games but not the time I spent interacting with other real live human beings. Whether that was on a BBS or here at BWC.
God, we are old. I remember BBSs and chat rooms. Even had a poorly attended BBS of my own. (My timing sucked. Started it just as the internet hit hard)
I remember Skyrim, but never really played it. Now, all of the Ultimas and Civilization?
Time suck!. Spent way too much time on them.
Now I wish I had more time for here.
And had my last Saturday clear. I live a bit more than one hour away from Wright Patterson. Would have loved to way lay Bill there and embaress him in front of his friends with things about Neil Armstrong he’s gotten wrong.
And got him envious of when I met Neil Armstrong.
Yes I did. Blog here on this site. Search for “My encounter with Neil Armstrong.”
Warning. It’s not that interesting.
Lol, yeah, I read your Armstrong blog. It was interesting in that I know you from this site. It’s always good to get a personal perspective on things like that.
I remember going to computer swap meets where they were selling and people were wearing t-shirts that said “I surf the World Wide Web”. That was a real boast back then, totally a nothing burger today.
Too bad you didn’t get the chance to go meet Bill. It would have been fun reading your account of the event.
Back in college, if you wore your calculator in a holder on your belt, people would come up to you and talk to you with envy. I had one. About $700 for a calculator that did the same things that today would be about $20 or less.
And I do remember those t-shirts. Never wore one myself.
HP-11C but it fit in my backpack. Refused to put anything on my belt or into my shirt pocket with a pocket protector.
I was a geek but not necessarily a nerd.
I was, and still am, a proud nerd! A geeky, goofball nerd!😁
And yes, I had pocket protectors with at least 3 pens in it, and typically more, with at least one blue and one black, and sometimes a red.
Lol, during those college days when you and Harry were running around being nerds, or geeks, or geeky nerds … I was running around in tiger cammies with lots and lots of pockets. Which I filled with a lot of things, none of them were calculators.
You’re just not prepared for contingencies unless you have your cargo pockets stuffed with so many grenades and so much ammo that you clank when you take a step. That makes it hard to be subtle but also encourages an attitude where you don’t really care about subtleties. Odds are good the people you would want to be subtle for heard the helicopter you arrived on anyway.
Windows has a dandy calculator built in at no extra cost. So I suppose you might consider it free. I use it so much I have it programmed to launch from a customized mouse button. I’m a nerd, just a different kind of nerd. I can be pretty geeky too. One of my friends is a retired Master Chief and we geek out when the opportunity arises. He likes gadgets and gizmos as much as I do.
Military geeks are still geeks, body and soul. We’re just a more aggressive breed of geek. Only two types of geeks ride a helicopter to work, we’re not the rich liberal elite kind. We’re the other one 🙂