Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 24, 2018

So true!

no such thing as privacy amazing what they consider a matter of public record

I really don’t care. Do you?

It makes you wonder what they’re not sharing when you consider what they are.

I doubt Facebook has a “Reaction” for Arlo’s reaction.

The crazy thing is, Marianne, Pat, Jen and the Murphys are people they don’t even know.

And you know that how?

Facebook. A world of self-isolated people thinking they can relate to the world.

We used to get these “organ recitals” in annual holiday letters; now they happen in real time.

I have a cousin who is an idiot, but the gods must protect fools.

She, her husband, and their three children went to Hawaii, and she updated her FB page on a daily basis.

Remarkably, their house and all their belongings were still intact when they returned.

Not much different than some of the comments you see on Gocomics.

It isn’t just facebook. Consider what could be figured out by reading all of your postings on this site, and combine that with all other sites you visit. Before I hit the comment button, here or anywhere else, I ask myself how I would feel to see that on the front page of the Post-Dispatch. That’s caused the deletion or editing of quite a few comments. But, the composite of all of my postings would tell anyone who cared enough to composite them pretty much everything about me. They would know all about my finances and my secrets. Fortunately, I don’t have enough of either to make it worth the effort.

Facebook the narcissists best friend.

My wife talks like even without Facebook about people I neither know nor care about like the Safeway’s cashier’s daughter’s neighbour et al. I’m glad she’s not on Facebook as well, although I’ve long ago mastered the act of pretending to listen, like most husbands have to.

The privacy train left the station years ago.

Its just another addiction. No treatment available though.

I was impressed with how Lost Wages dealt with BIG winners. Not a word released until after you’ve left town! ’Course the IRS guy is there grinning the whole time.

Commenting on here is the closest I come to any form of social media.

FaceBook is just a phishing site. It convinces you to give details about yourself. FB & others collect that info for profit purposes. Some people aren’t as lucky as Jarvis’ cousin.

People like sharing and some tend to overshare but that doesn’t give Facebook or any company permission to “secretly” give data to other companies that try to change your political stance.

At the same time; those who do share personal details on social media should be aware that even if they have their settings configured to private so that only a few select friends/family can read it, there is no stopping said friends and family from screenshotting your status and passing it around to others. “Say it forget it, write it regret it.” Never post something that you wouldn’t want the general public to know about you even if you think it’s private. I love social media as it’s connected me to long lost friends and family and even gave me a career that I love but it’s a double-edged sword. You have to be careful with your words. A slip up can destroy your life (loss of job, can make you a public laughing stalk, etc) and follow you around for years.

Luckily, I learned that lesson even before the internet as a girl gossiping and complaining about others behind their backs; of course, it got back to them and I was confronted. I learned to only whisper in someone’s ear something that I wouldn’t mind saying to the face of the person I’m talking about. That served me well in the future. I generally don’t talk about others but when I do, I make sure it’s something I either have already told them myself or something I would tell them if they were standing there.