Hah! Go Sparky1!
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And now my boy's in love. All hearts and flowers. But, doesn't it freak you out that she used to change your diapers? I mean, when you think about it, the first woman you boned is the closest thing you've ever had to a mother. Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hm. There should be a play.
Angelus ,'Damage'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - May 13, 2010 9:25:05 am PDT #29220 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Steph L. - May 13, 2010 9:30:41 am PDT #29221 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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I just e-mailed that to my entire department.
msbelle - May 13, 2010 9:37:39 am PDT #29222 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
my parents are getting painting quotes today. YAY!
I got my first water bill....over $100.00....boo!
tommyrot - May 13, 2010 9:47:01 am PDT #29223 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Very strange. An anti-terrorism ad in Saudi Arabia that compares terrorists to clowns. Evil clowns.
Sparky1 - May 13, 2010 9:50:45 am PDT #29224 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
I think I need to pay attention more: I was just reading an email from my sister in gmail (which she does not use) and in the sidebar was a link to the googlemap with her address listed.
Her address certainly wasn't in that email exchange, and when I search my gmail it isn't in anything I've saved.
Now I have to figure out where they're mining that information from.
Theodosia - May 13, 2010 9:55:37 am PDT #29225 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sparky, could you have her address saved in your Contacts list? Either way it'd make me worried.
Sean K - May 13, 2010 9:59:53 am PDT #29226 of 30001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sparky, if I understand how that data mining works, it may just be that your sister has her address on her Gmail profile somewhere, and the data miner pulled it from there.
We're really at the point where if there's any information you only want to share with selected people, stay off the internet.
And if there's any of that information you've put on the internet over the years, you're too late. You could go hunt all of it down and delete it where you can find and get to it, but even that wouldn't do you any good because it's already spread beyond where you can get to it.
As much as I dislike Facebook's privacy policy, they may be one of the few companies being realistic about it (though they need better PR about it).
You CAN'T protect your information online. You. Can't. The best approach is to stop worrying about it.
Sparky1 - May 13, 2010 10:02:42 am PDT #29227 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
your sister has her address on her Gmail profile
She doesn't use gmail, so it's not that. I have no addresses in my gmail contacts.
The best approach is to stop worrying about it.
It's not worry, it's my librarian brain wanting to know what the search algorithm is doing.
Sean K - May 13, 2010 10:05:48 am PDT #29228 of 30001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
it's my librarian brain wanting to know what the search algorithm is doing.
Liar.
It's you're evil overlord brain wanting to know how to twist this technology to your own nefarious ends.
Jessica - May 13, 2010 10:08:21 am PDT #29229 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
As much as I dislike Facebook's privacy policy, they may be one of the few companies being realistic about it (though they need better PR about it).
Oh, I disagree. It's one thing to say "your information is out there" and another to say "Since your information is out there anyway, we're just going to opt you in to CHANGING ALL OF YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS TO COMPLETELY PUBLIC WITHOUT TELLING YOU FIRST, mkay?"
If they'd leave current users' settings alone every time they changed the defaults, that would be one thing. But it's completely unacceptable to take something I've explicity said should be private and make it public without asking first.
[There's also information on Facebook that's not publically available anywhere else, and that people might reasonably want to keep between themselves and a select group of friends. I might want "BDSM" in my list of Likes that I show to my explicitly approved Friends, but not publically searchable by, say, my boss. And the way Facebook operates, even if that level of privacy is an option today, there's no guarantee that they're not going to make it public by default without notification next week. NOT COOL.]