Comments on: Parker’s Perspective: Protecting the Common Good Against the Excess of Social Media https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/ Online News Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:30:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mr. Entropy https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-155408 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:30:03 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-155408 In reply to Daniel Parker.

Well it was a good article, one that I agree with and wanted to add a tangential coda to.

My wife and I frequently walk around Lake Ella late afternoons/early evenings for pleasant exercise and we both marvel at the people, couples, young and old alike also doing so while completely absorbed in their cellphones/devices. It’s a wonder some don’t walk into the water they’re so distracted. People sitting on benches facing the lake, but only noticing the screen in their hands. Folks in their vehicles nearby, engines running again fully engrossed in texting the only redeeming grace is they’re not driving whilst doing it.

Unless it’s Food Truck/Bandstand Thursday evening, most of the people are lost in the alternate universe of their addicting thumbed keyboard and screen.

Me, I have a Blackberry with no “apps” on it since it’s for me it’s a mobile phone.

Thank you for your article.

]]> By: Mr. Entropy https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-155407 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:29:14 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-155407 In reply to Daniel Parker.

Well it was a good article, one that I agree with and wanted to add a tangential coda to.

My wife and I frequently walk around Lake Ella late afternoons/early evenings for pleasant exercise and we both marvel at the people, couples, young and old alike also doing so while completely absorbed in their cellphones/devices. It’s a wonder some don’t walk into the water they’re so distracted. People sitting on benches facing the lake, but only noticing the screen in their hands. Folks in their vehicles nearby, engines running again fully engrossed in texting the only redeeming grace is they’re not driving whilst doing it.

Unless it’s Food Truck/Bandstand Thursday evening, most of the people are lost in the alternate universe of their addicting thumbed keyboard and screen.

Me, I have a Blackberry with no “apps” on it since it’s just for me it’s a mobile phone.

Thank you for your article.

]]> By: Dan S. https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-155150 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 14:35:34 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-155150 In reply to Snidely Whiplash.

Weird, I don’t remember America being a socialist crap hole from 1936 to 1981 when we had marginal income tax rates of at least 70%.
https://taxfoundation.org/us-federal-individual-income-tax-rates-history-1913-2013-nominal-and-inflation-adjusted-brackets/

]]> By: Daniel Parker https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-155097 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 02:03:13 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-155097 In reply to Mr. Entropy.

Thank you for sharing, and for reading.

]]> By: Mr. Entropy https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-155092 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:09:05 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-155092 For some reason the link did not get published in the above comment:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-data-not-privacy-real-danger-n966621

]]> By: Mr. Entropy https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-155091 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:05:07 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-155091 Re: “…Facebook and other platforms have made a fortune off our information…”

This is correct. Most think your PRIVACY is what they want, but it turns out your age, sex, political affiliation, SSN, etc., is worthless. What they want it your DATA. The below are a couple of ‘pull quotes’ from the below linked article and I’ve shortened things a bit with comments in brackets [ ]:

“Even the tiniest interactions with an app or service give [THEM, i.e., Fakebook, Goog, Amozon] useful data in building a simulation of you.”

“Imagine [THE DATA THEY COLLECT] is a stick figure [OF YOU] at first, and as you use the system, it’s collecting fingernail scraps and bits of hair,” Raskin told NBC News. “What do you care that you lost a fingernail scrap? But they’re putting it together into a model of you.”

“With 2.3 billion users, “Facebook has one of these models for one out of every four humans on earth. Every country, culture, behavior type, socio-economic background,” said Raskin. “With those models, and endless simulations, the company can predict your interests and intentions before you even know them.”

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So they know how to manipulate you by showing ads for things they know you’ll like, or spin news stories, etc. The article is long, in-depth and chilling.

“Why data, not privacy, is the real danger “

]]> By: Gabriel https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-154917 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:37:24 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-154917 In reply to Hope.

Popcorn and remote control ready!

]]> By: News Maven https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-154816 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 02:35:56 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-154816 In reply to Snidely Whiplash.

Great post, Snidester.
The Dem-Socialists are all for letting illegals into our country without vetting – for the votes they think they’ll get in return. The illegals think they are escaping socialist hellholes, when in reality they are actually helping to build another one.

]]> By: Snidely Whiplash https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-154767 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 19:02:08 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-154767 Should the radical left get its way of 70 – 90% tax on the rich, free this – free that, and implement its socalist agenda our Nation will quickly become a crap hole like Venezuela.
Mr. Parker may then feel the jack-boot of government on his squirming kneck as they do so much more miserable regulation then just regulating social media.
Do you think many in Venezuela even have access to social media now that they have eaten their zoo animals?
Where is PETA on eating zoo animals anyway?

]]> By: Hope https://tallahasseereports.com/2019/02/04/protecting-the-common-good-against-the-excess-of-social-media/#comment-154759 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:55:21 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=207943#comment-154759 Tallahassee has its own version of tainted social media in The Usual Suspects

This is a group of people that attempts to infiltrate themselves in politics and promote themselves Non-Stop via WCTV, the Chamber of Commerce, the Tallahassee Democrat, taxpayer dollars , and their own media businesses. We all know who they are.

They attempt to manufacture Humanity, and suck out all the life and decency out of our Lives, politics, and quality of life.

Finally, they have come full circle because they were not built on a solid foundation, but puffed up images of themselves that are now deflating.

They are self-destructing before our eyes and enjoy the show because it’s long overdue.

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