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by **Number 9** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:19 pm

I just sent a friend request to Rafa!

by **Judge** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:19 pm

woof woof ! wrote:
Judge wrote:
Number 9 wrote:
Judge wrote:joined newkit facebook thingy, just to stop taff laughing

Judge!

no one asked you barry chutters

Barry Farm Plum Chutney.

just needs his ferret

by **JoeTerp** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:34 pm

woof woof ! wrote:
Sabre wrote:Woof, the problem is that we rarely read the terms of service and things like that. Information is power, look google, they give you free mail, free everything, because info is power. Anyhow, it's up to you to rovide the info you don't consider critical for you.

"They" start with your E:mail address Sabre.

yes but because its free to create email adresses all over the place can't you just make one for the sole purpose of creating your account?

Back in the day (2004) when Facebook first came out, it was ONLY for kids in Universities and you could only register if you had a .edu email adress. Back then it was stricly networking with a quick blurb about your likes and dislikes a list of all your friends and where they went to school and then a single profile picture. I believe it was meant mainly to allow people to keep track of their friends from high school that they weren't THAT great of friends with so you don't really talk to them on the phone, but you are still interested enough to see what they are up to, what school they go to, did they transfer etc. etc. AND for all the new people from towns all over that are now living in your dorm hallway you can see what music/ movies they like where their hometown is etc.

by **woof woof !** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:22 pm

Brought to my attention by Rajiv StarScream

Facebook - the CIA conspiracy
Page 1 of 2 View as a single page 3:09PM Wednesday Aug 08, 2007
By Matt Greenop
American Dad's conspiracy coverage could benefit from a flick through the Facebook.

Facebook has 20 million users worldwide, is worth billions of dollars and, if internet sources are to be believed, was started by the CIA.

The social networking phenomenon started as a way of American college students to keep in touch. It is rapidly catching up with MySpace, and has left others like Bebo in its wake.

But there is a dark side to the success story that's been spreading across the blogosphere. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook to the CIA and the US Department of Defence.

The CIA is, though, using a Facebook group to recruit staff for its very sexy sounding National Clandestine Service.

Checking out the job ads
does require a Facebook login, so if you haven't joined the site - or are worried that CIA spooks will start following you home from work -check them out on the agency's own site.

The story starts once Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had launched, after the dorm room drama that's led to the current court case.

Facebook's first round of venture capital funding ($US500,000) came from former Paypal CEO Peter Thiel. Author of anti-multicultural tome 'The Diversity Myth', he is also on the board of radical conservative group VanguardPAC.

The second round of funding into Facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's key areas of expertise are in "data mining technologies".

Breyer also served on the board of R&D firm BBN Technologies, which was one of those companies responsible for the rise of the internet.

Dr Anita Jones joined the firm, which included Gilman Louie. She had also served on the In-Q-Tel's board, and had been director of Defence Research and Engineering for the US Department of Defence.

She was also an adviser to the Secretary of Defence and overseeing the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is responsible for high-tech, high-end development.

It was when a journalist lifted the lid on the DARPA's
Information Awareness Office that the public began to show concern at its information mining projects.

Wikipedia's IAO page says: "the IAO has the stated mission to gather as much information as possible about everyone, in a centralised location, for easy perusal by the United States government, including (though not limited to) internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver's licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data.".

Not surprisingly, the backlash from civil libertarians led to a Congressional investigation into DARPA's activity, the Information Awareness Office lost its funding.

Now the internet conspiracy theorists are citing Facebook as the IAO's new mask.

Parts of the IAO's technology round-up included 'human network analysis and behaviour model building engines', which Facebook's massive volume of neatly-targeted data gathering allows for.

Facebook's own Terms of use state: "by posting Member Content to any part of the Web site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorpoate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorise sublicenses of the foregoing.

And in its equally interesting privacy policy: "Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (eg. photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience. By using Facebook, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States."

Is the CIA really providing the impetus and the funding behind the monster growth of this year's biggest dot com success story? Maybe only the men with the nice suits and ear pieces can answer that.

by **Woollyback** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:29 pm

this might be a bit more to your liking, woof

@rsebook

by **Bad Bob** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:32 pm

Woollyback wrote:this might be a bit more to your liking, woof

@rsebook

by **woof woof !** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:41 pm

Woollyback wrote:this might be a bit more to your liking, woof

@rsebook

,

already registered woolly, it's the mods favourite site.

by **andy_g** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:46 pm

by **metalhead** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:09 pm

by **Kharhaz** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:32 pm

Facebook, is it like another myspace kind of thing? you know, a place for geeks? The kind of place where you cant be bothered to go out and meet people so stay in and meet people that way?

I see the point of forums, to discuss football with people you dont know and to take in other points of views. I just cannot see the point of places like facebook. "you meet new people", take your local bus instead of driving your car ! same thing only you get a better idea of whether the person you are talking to is going to annoy the hell out of you !

by **kazza 1** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:45 am

Have any of you guys got Bebo?? THB, its a lot easier to use and you can add skins and apps to the page. I know you only want Newkit members but you might get a few more members to Newkit if someone adds it to the groups on Bebo. I have a few Liverpool supporters on my Bebo page who are not members of Newkit and I met them through Bebo. I talk to them all the time. I have tried to get them to join but they dont seem interested, Maybe if there was a Newkit page, maybe more people would want to sign up.

This is the link to my Bebo page..... if you cant see it ... then you have to join up,

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=525441245

PS please dont take the pi$$.. only joined cause me son asked me to :laugh:

by **Kharhaz** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:50 am

kazza 1 wrote:PS please dont take the pi$$.. only joined cause me son asked me to

And thats the general attitude with places like Bebo, facebook, myspace....save yourself the indignity, and the justification of it all, just post your pics in the fit birds thread on here !

by **Judge** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:47 am

woof woof ! wrote:
Woollyback wrote:this might be a bit more to your liking, woof

@rsebook

,

already registered woolly, it's the mods favourite site.

by **Paul C** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:25 am

kazza 1 wrote:Have any of you guys got Bebo?? THB, its a lot easier to use and you can add skins and apps to the page. I know you only want Newkit members but you might get a few more members to Newkit if someone adds it to the groups on Bebo. I have a few Liverpool supporters on my Bebo page who are not members of Newkit and I met them through Bebo. I talk to them all the time. I have tried to get them to join but they dont seem interested, Maybe if there was a Newkit page, maybe more people would want to sign up.

This is the link to my Bebo page..... if you cant see it ... then you have to join up,

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=525441245

PS please dont take the pi$$.. only joined cause me son asked me to

Bebo is for chavs

I gotta myspace page, it's ok but facebook is better imo

by **Woollyback** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:43 pm

paul has highlighted me to the fact i may have a stalker already

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