Hope you guys

[DCandtheUTBand]

are signed up for Parler. It is a free social media site dedicated to free speech. It is still small but if we are to have an alternative it has to start somewhere. I suggest signing up and visiting at least once a week and maybe it will hit the tipping point and take off. Prather. Loomer, McInness,Candace Owens, Dana Loesch, Huckabee, Pags and other notables are on there. I really want FB and twitter to eventually go the way of myspace but people have to have a viable landing place.

Another site to look into is minds.

 

[gatordad3]

What I would love to be a part of is a conservative version of YouTube. No reason so many conservative channels are being demonetized by the liberal dominated staff at YouTube. Would love to have James Woods back on social media(Twitter).

 

[BoxofFrogs]

How come folks are ALWAYS late to the party?
Hmmmmm..........

 

[DCandtheUTBand]

How come folks are ALWAYS late to the party?
Hmmmmm..........

Box I have known about FB from the first day I signed up...the only reason I did was because of family ...mainly my sister. Now I have a fake facebook account for all my "controversial" according to the FB overlords activities aka politics. I just use my real one for reading family stuff and rarely post on it and keep the personal info to a minimum.

I am a former IT professional who worked for an ISP and have used the tools to "spy," aka a sniffer using a NIC card in promiscuous mode, on customers. I captured all kinds of data including usernames and passwords for unprotected sites and one rare occasions had to look at logs to see who was doing what and hand that info over to someone else.

Privacy is important to me and knowing what I know I guard mine but the spying is ubiquitous and just being on the net exposes you more than you really would like.

In fact privacy has never really been a thought even from the early days when telnet and usenet were the "things" of the day. Even back then as an engineering soon to be computer sci major I could easily see what others were doing online and where they were going. Late at night when I worked security at the university I would get on and see more than 3/4ths the sites being visited were gay porn and this was early 1990s. The person connected to that site full username was visible and their identity easily discovered because they all were their initials followed by last 4 of social.
Using a simple command that was not restricted would give you their full name.

Fakebook Google etc don't like you using fake ids...it screws with their spying and marketing model but I have always had real and fake ids for everything I do.

I have 3 main emails. One if for friends and family so its real. Another is for signing up for newsletters and other such things that clutter your mail. Its a real account and then there is my dc account which I use to sign up for all other fake accounts.

I use TOR when I want my activities to be as anonymous as possible.

 

[BoxofFrogs]

Hmmmmmm.... when i want to reach out and touch one of
my family members i just pick up the phone or write a letter
or send a card and send it by snail mail or we'll see each
other during the holidays or reunions.
Yes, i know, it's a generational thing.
One thing i absolutely and positively know is that
"Fakebook is of the devil" Fact! (CIA NSA) just to name
a few.
I remember reading an article about divorces and
what i learned was a survey was taken amongst
several attorneys and the question that was asked
of these attorneys was............... Get ready!!!
What is the leading cause of divorces. The answer was,
Fakebook! Old high school and college flames hooking up.
Imagine that! Lol
Kinda sorta like someone saying they bought Playboy
magazine to read the articles not to look at the naked
pictures.

 

[BoxofFrogs]

What I would love to be a part of is a conservative version of YouTube. No reason so many conservative channels are being demonetized by the liberal dominated staff at YouTube. Would love to have James Woods back on social media(Twitter).

Well big boy.
What's that saying;
Just Do It!
DC will help you out! (For A Small Fee)
Even Box will help you out! (For A Small Fee)

 

[gatordad3]

Well big boy.
What's that saying;
Just Do It!
DC will help you out! (For A Small Fee)
Even Box will help you out! (For A Small Fee)

I'll pass!

 

[DCandtheUTBand]

Hmmmmmm.... when i want to reach out and touch one of
my family members i just pick up the phone or write a letter
or send a card and send it by snail mail or we'll see each
other during the holidays or reunions.
Yes, i know, it's a generational thing.
One thing i absolutely and positively know is that
"Fakebook is of the devil" Fact! (CIA NSA) just to name
a few.
I remember reading an article about divorces and
what i learned was a survey was taken amongst
several attorneys and the question that was asked
of these attorneys was............... Get ready!!!
What is the leading cause of divorces. The answer was,
Fakebook! Old high school and college flames hooking up.
Imagine that! Lol
Kinda sorta like someone saying they bought Playboy
magazine to read the articles not to look at the naked
pictures.

Well when I reach out to family on FB its to post pics of the kids or vacation stuff and etc. Otherwise I read what they are doing which is more efficient than 1,2 and 3rd cousins, aunts uncles etc picking up the phone and calling everyone on their list to share that Johnny made the deans list. In the old days they might call 2 people and then mention it at some get together if someone asked how Johnny was doing.

After I got back from Canada I shared a few pics out of over a thousand (got to love digital cameras.) I had one of moms 1st cousins by marriage comment on it. No way I call her up and say hey I am gonna drive up 2hrs to show you my vacation pics. Are you interested? "Not really just come to the reunion and bore us there" LOL FB required me to pick my best photos and share a few and one caught her eye.

So a service like this has value. Its just that people should realize that they will become digital Soylent Green if they overshare too much personal info. And the users are definitely being bought and sold like cattle.

 

[DCandtheUTBand]

If anyone isnt sure how the underlying parts of FB work I will summarize. You join and give demographic info. This is just the surface of the marketing and really the least effective IMHO. Then you like groups , people and things. FB then puts you into a category involving this and that group.

A small internet e-commerce shop who sells custom left handed compound bows out of his home creates a shopify account and then uses FB ads to find left handed hunters whose fanatical passion is to bow hunt. Boom he has a very motivated audience. His odds go from 2-5% sales out of 1M of the general public to targeting 1M left handed fanatical bow hunters worldwide and a possible 30-40% sales rate. Even he has a chance to make money in the era of Amazon.

 

[Ncgatr1]

Parler is great, Do they have a conservative version of Twitter?

 

[BoxofFrogs]

Fakebook in particular is the most appalling spying
machine that has ever been invented.
I believe Assange is a tee bit smarter and knowledgeable
than "you know who"!
Some folks are so ingenuous,callow,raw, green or what
ever you wish to call it that they think no one can see them
hiding in the bushes.