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<ma...@mail.com> wrote:
> On 2018-08-03, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2018-08-02, ma...@mail.com <ma...@mail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2018-08-02, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 2018-08-02, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:51:44 -0400
>>>>>> Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It may actually be the same thing, an expectation of centralized
>>>>>>> computers taking care of everyone, instead of a whole lot of computers.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That is certainly the picture that appears in every science fiction
>>>>>> mention of computers pretty much right up until reality did something
>>>>>> different.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And now, under reality v2.0, the wheel is coming around again.
>>>>> We're going back to centralized computers taking care of everyone
>>>>> (FSVO "care").  There are still lots of computers everywhere,
>>>>> but they're just being used as terminals.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Is Facebook the present reality of Eternal September (Not the site, the present 
>>>> reality of the mob of people who would discover the Internet in September.)
>>> 
>>> Most of the people on FB make the "eternal September" crowd look like
>>> intellectual giants.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Look at the accusation that the Russians meddled in the election by posting
>> bogus stuff on Favebook. Who the heck gets their political information from
>> FB??? If there are many people doing this we have a lot more problems than
>> just Russians!
>> 
> 
> The accusation, as far as I can make out, is that the russians gave the 
> information to wikileaks, which posted it. What nobody seems to question is whether
>  the information was accurate, which it seems to have been.

They created a bunch of fake profiles, individuals and groups, and posted a
lot  of cr@p, which their other personae then liked and/or shared to give
them more exposure.

> 
> I have a relative, young, that posted on Facebook, pictures of himself in the pub
> with his friends, empty glasses of beer all round. It took a while to get him
> to understand that it might be seen by prospective employers.
> 
> 



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Pete