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Let's Talk About Facebook and Star Army

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There are some serious problems with Facebook and how it basically makes its money by gathering the personal details of your life and sells them to advertisers, and also how it was involved in Russian government's interference in the 2016 US Presidential Election.

PART 1: Facebook's Privacy Problem


PART 2: Facebook's Fake News Problem

Russian Troll Factories, which generate bullshit social media posts to influence opinions, have been taking advantage of Facebook including buying Facebook ads with Russian Rubles. The best known of these is the "Internet Research Agency" (IRA).

This post from Reddit does a better job of connecting the dots than I would, so I'll just quote it:
By the way, Camridge Analytica, which was on the American side of the election meddling, just got outed on tape saying they used bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians. Facebook data from some 50 million users ended up with Cambridge Analytica.

In summary: Facebook is shady.

So, bringing it back from international data brokers, information warfare, and foreign spies, back down to little old Star Army, our relationship with Facebook is that we use an app on Star Army's forums so that we can use Facebook to log on to the site. We also have a Star Army Facebook group with about 150 members.

Here's the questions for you all:
  • Are you thinking about deleting your Facebook?
  • Do you think the Star Army Facebook page is valuable?
  • Do you ever log into Star Army using your Facebook?
  • Do you think I should clear all Facebook features from the main Star Army website to prevent them spying on you guys?
 
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With a brief overview of this, as someone knowing well of big data, the internet of things and most importantly facebook's antics, I'll keep myself brief.

No. I'm not deleting my facebook, firstly, because it's not connected. And secondly, I watch what I put on there. Never anything dubious.

No clue. I come here to escape RL for a brief moment and hang with the people and enjoy my time. I'd hate to have my face known here. Not for shady reasons or that I don't trust it here. But just. Yeah. Takes away the escape from RL part.

Nope

It's... Problematic, the last question. We have to ask what effect facebook has on the site, which features we'd lose etc.
 
I personally dont use facebook to login with any other site including SARP due to these sorts of things and mostly cause I dont remember my details, I feel the SARP page would definitely be useful if we utilize it and put updates about the site and such on it to help attract new players perhaps?

I wont be deleting mine but i dont use it to post and only follow some interesting pages to get my daily dose of whats happening around the world, as for removing Facebook features from SARP, I haven't noticed them much so I can't really say if its a good idea or not
 
I'm not going to delete mine, as, well, I haven't updated it since 2011 or 2012 - and I haven't logged in (or visited Faceboon itself, for that matter) since 2014-ish.
 
  • Was required to delete my FB when i got my MOS in the navy. Brought it back last year, Though i only use it to complain about things nobody else knows or cares about (just like every other veteran). So i gain an equal amount of nothing by keeping or deleting it, So i might as well keep it.
  • Joined the SARP page but never get notifications on it. Would be a pretty good thing if it had an active social media person to post on it constantly but i dun really think its what SARP needs.
  • Nope.
  • Spying is a pretty vague term. I dont want someone tailoring information about me, No. But at the same time the SC already went over everything ive done on SARP from a government phone/laptop all of last year so its nothing new to me to have someone knowing everything im doing and saying on the internet.

Honestly there are worse ways to find out stuff like this... When i was given my first Chit-stand, I was given a folder with every little detail the government had on me until i joined the navy; Social media presence, Political standing and opinions, The fact liked to play MMORPGs, Flagged behaviors and actions, Even some little things like a traffic stop i got into once where a friend threw a bag out of my window, And a time a police officer showed up when i was airsofting with friends at a construction site where all in there.

And this wasn't even a secret apparently. All i had to do was request a freedom of information act on myself and pay 20$ to the FBI and unless i was subject to an open case they would have sent this very information to me in the civilian world.

Long story short: Someone already knows Everything about you. If its not a private interest its somebody else.
 
Not planning on deleting my Facebook. It is how I stay in touch with my friends and family scattered all over the globe. I have always been careful about what I post on FB. I rarely if ever get political.
 
I think some of you guys missed the point: The question is what should I do as far as Star Army's relationship with Facebook.
  • Should we remove the Facebook like button (which is essentially a tracker)?
  • Should we remove the Facebook login app from the board?
  • Should we keep using our Facebook group?
It doesn't matter to me whether or not you delete your personal Facebook, I was just curious.
 
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