Do you have a Facebook account?
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- Oculus Rift
- HTC Vive
- Playstation VR
- Samsung Gear VR
- Google Cardboard
- Other
Oblig. Missing Option post (Score:2)
(This is what happens when the owner of the site invites us to go Off-Topic.)
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Obvious Missing Option (Score:2)
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CowboyNeal needs to be before "Other". Otherwise it makes no sense.
Then again, it's a Slashdot poll, so at the end, it is.
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Smartphone software:
A couple of polls on the developers' side as to their hopes and dreams about making money versus the sordid reality (except for a few lottery winners).
Perhaps some user side polls about what convinces you a smartphone app is safe or dangerous?
On economic models:
Ways to cover slashdot's costs?
Best ways to fund OSS software development?
On slashdot moderation:
Biggest problems or ways to fix it.
On politics:
Something about how Trump and his supporters are using and abusing the Internet?
Sorry for my lack of effort, but I've already submitted a couple of suggestions along those lines, and either I did it the wrong way or the wise men of slashdot ain't interested. Or maybe I'm just joking again.
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Thought of two more Trump-related polls:
Who loves Trump most, America's real enemies or really ignorant people? (Of course thinking of how he is doing DAESH's bidding again with his mindless response to the latest insane events.)
A poll from Trump supporters (assuming there are some on slashdot): What do you hate most?
Actually, the idea that comes to mind there would be a pre-poll poll to separate the two warring camps and then reunite them in the comments section (below the seperate results)... (IOttMCO?)
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I think its a mix of unemployed people and people that want to set GOP on fire.
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I think its a mix of unemployed people and people that want to set GOP on fire.
I think that both groups are disproportionately likely to support Trump, but I think these are small groups. My current theory is that the bulk of his support comes from an unholy coalition of haters, but their only unifying principle is negativity. They hate a wide range of things, including some things that are loved by other groups of Trump's supporters.
Therefore I think that many of thing have convinced themselves that Trump is only telling the truth when he agrees with their pet hatreds, and he is lyin
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It's quite hard to believe that literally half of the US is a bunch of haters.
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It's literally hard to believe that someone doesn't understand the meaning of the word "literally" when they use it in a sentence that is apparently not intended as a joke, though this sentence might be so intended.
Right now I think the better historical comparison to Trump might be Agnew. The difference is that Agnew was much better trained and had some experience that would have actually been relevant if Nixon had resigned before he did.
If you are actually trying to say you support Trump, then please disr
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That's genius. That question will make them deadlock, ... literally :D.
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First programming language?
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Future polls....
If you could make politicians stop talking about one wedge issue, it would be:
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- Bathroom entry qualifications
- Hand/appendage sizes
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I'm sure it's been done before, but how long ago I'm not sure. I'm sure this number fluctuates quite a bit given any span of time.
What is your primary OS at home?
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Betamax
Zune
Google Glass
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as diafragm. That dit put some dents in my believe that traditional papermedia still has a superior workflow and higher quality.
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- Passionately hate all things social, including growing trends in workplace culture and education. Not religious, except in hating social.
Second vote! (Score:2)
Conisdering whiplash got first post I'm guessing he voted. that means he uses FB with his real name, 'cause it was the other 50% of the two votes when I voted.
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I don't use Facebook with my real name, though that is the name on my account.
Facebook spam uses me, but I created the account at the request of old friends, and it is one of the places you have to check when you're looking for an old friend for some reason... Basically ditto on LinkedIn, but with a tad less spam--but Microsoft will probably fix that soon.
Perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on LinkedIn as I face my retirement age? I'd rather keep on working, even in Quad 2 (of poor pay with good work), but big c
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I'm not sure if companies hate old people. I think hipster hiring managers hate old people as they tend to show them up. Been there, done that etc.
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(I thought I had submitted this comment a long time ago?)
What's the matter old timer, forget to hit submit? ;)
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If I ever had mod points I'd give you one, though I'm not sure what category.
However, in my case I think I was blacklisted for arguing with Taco about possible improvements for slashdot...
What is the mapping of a nasty tongue to a keyboard?
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Maybe I'm on the carry-over plan because at most I'll use 2 or 3 of the 15.
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I've found that ... loading a page at the start of the day ... can maintain your "consecutive days read" streak,
Thank you Captain Obvious!
Nonsense poll options (Score:4, Insightful)
"Yes (I use a real name)", "Yes (I don't use a real name)" and "No" are three mutually exclusive answers that cover 100% of all possibilities. There is no room for a "None of the above".
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> they still make one for you
You might not understand this. If you are in photos and other people upload them, Facebook may still identify and collected all the photos it thinks are you. It might just assign you a random id.
People may have mentioned your name or there may be posts or comments that Facebook weaves into a "profile" that is you.
When you sign up, if Facebook tries to match any photos you upload or any of your initial friends with one or more of these "profiles" it has for people who don't ha
Re:Nonsense poll options (Score:4, Informative)
Not necessary. Here are some other possibilities:
1 Part of the name is real and the rest is a pseudonym or incomplete - this seems to be quite common.
2 Uses only initials
3 Have multiple fb accounts with one with a real name and one with a pseudonym (eg one personal and one work)
4 Shares an account with their partner and/or relative
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5. Doesn't want to disclose such obviously marketable personal information to the Slashdot public...
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Two cases I can think of - an author I know has both a real account and her pseudonym (penname) on Facebook. There isn't a "both" option. I also know a musician that only appears on his community page through email he sends to the maintainer.
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But the open-ended "Other" can take care of the gaps. However, the reality of polling might be more interested (from my ancient study of sociology):
1. It's fairly easy to produce any results desired by the person paying for the poll.
2. It's even easier to produce a poll that produces garbage results.
3. Producing a poll that provides meaningful insights is extremely difficult.
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Technically I do have an account, because Facebook doesn't let you delete your account. Mine has been "deactivated" for years. I voted "no," but "none of the above" would have been more technically accurate. I don't have an active account that I use, and I haven't for many years, so it would be misleading to choose "yes." But I do technically have an account, so it's also misleading to choose "no." I voted "no" anyhow because I really wish I didn't have an account, and if I were up to me, I wouldn't have on
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"I tried to make one, but the power failed before I received confirmation."
"Someone made one for me, but didn't give me access rights"
None of the above is certainly a valid option.
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I voted "None Of The Above". "Yes (I used a real name)" AND I deleted it and will never be back.
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I was a 'none of the above' because I don't exclusively use my real name or not use my real name, because I have two accounts, one with my real name and one without. I created the one without my real name with zero friends and zero likes because I am often presented with the option to log into something with facebook and don't trust the company with access to my real information.
On a related note, I like using Google+ to log into things because I can select exactly which circles (none) I want to give the co
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False, I am a legit None of the Above.
A total stranger created a Facebook account for himself from his cell phone and he populated it with his deets, pictures etc. However, he used my email address. I decided to reset the password on my account (the email to me said it was my account) and I maintain it as is as a little bit of confusion to Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, et al. as to who I really am.
I got the same thing but for a psn account. The guy must have also given the address to some work people because all of a sudden I started getting emails from what appeared be a bunch of people who owned apartments talking about what they were going to do about certain residents etc. It was actually harder to convince them that they had the wrong email address than sony.
Absolutely not (Score:5, Interesting)
No Facebook, no Twitter, no Gmail, no LinkedIn. I refuse to let my personal information, social connections, and browsing habits be used as fodder for profit. I'm an old school NNTP nerd who still believes that spam means repetition, autoplay video is a crime against humanity, and anonymity is a fundamental right.
My lawn? Have a field day. It's vast and vigorous. I might even come out and play hackey sack with you... Just don't ask me for ID.
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anonymity is a fundamental right
Anonymity isn't a right, unless you're a hermit that nobody knows about. The people you know, the forms you've filled out, the taxes you pay, the benefits you take, the place you work, the credit cards you have all spell one thing. YOU are not anonymous. You need to watch "Person of Interest"
The only thing going for you, is that you (bughunter) haven't had all that linked together. And believe you me, if they (whomever "they" are) wanted to, could. It would just take a bit of
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What poeple have is different identities in different contexts. And it's very important, it's actually part of how you develop a personality too.
This is not full anonymity, but a very useful tool. It both exists in the real world and in the virtual world. And many people don't like it if their identities are linked.
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autoplay video is a crime against humanity,
My boss made me put an autoplay video in this object I was making. It almost made me sick and I still feel dirty...
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Incidentally, a close friend is a newly published author, Amazon is a very, very bad deal for
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But...you didn't post as anonymous coward!
(And yes, Slashdot ads DO track you.)
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I don't know about that. It probably depends on whether or not having a very large professional network is important for the position that you are applying for.
Oh, and if the job involves administering Facebook libraries or services then you will need a Facebook account in order to perform your work duties. (A bit like how you need a Gmail account in order to be a Google Developer.)
None of the above! (Score:2, Funny)
I sign in using Cowboy Neal's account to play those nifty games I keep hearing about!
Not one, many (missing option) (Score:2)
You would never have just a single set of car keys. What if you lose them? A spare makes so much sense.
The same applies to a credit card, or even bank accounts - there is no reason to have all your metaphorical eggs in a single basket.
So it is, or should be, with social media. Since there is no, present or future, way to ensure one name (or identity) maps to one person in the whole world there is no reason to
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If you make an account on Facebook, your family and friends will find you and link your account to theirs wether you ask for it or not. And then it becomes really easy to single you out from anyone else on the whole planet.
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If you make an account on Facebook, your family and friends will find you and link your account
Noooo. You send them friend requests and they accept. You deny or ignore friend requests from the "wrong" people to the wrong account - or preempt them by sending the requests out first. Obviously you shouldn't make the basic error of putting up an easily recognisable photo of yourself and NEVER fill in any personal details/ But that is a school-child error.
Not registering for Facebook == OpSec Fail? (Score:2, Interesting)
I signed up my unique name on Facebook to protect it from being registered by someone else pretending to be me. I have 0 friends (on purpose) and never use the account.
Sadly, yes (Score:2)
It is the only place where family and friend's gather online to share photos of their families. I try my best to keep privacy filters set to keep everything I post private. Unfortunately, my brother and his friends are of the ilk that post one-sided sensationalized news stories and "post this bullshit about faith/friends to see who responds" type of crap. Sigh. The only thing that has gotten better over time has been the reduction of Zynga spam.
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I got sucked into it the same way. Best friends having a wedding, organizing it through there. Now I make sure to post something very not safe for kids every month or so, just to remind them not to let their kids use their computer. It is a public service I perform.
Re:Sadly, yes (Score:5, Insightful)
I refuse, even when friends are doing stuff like that, out of principle. But now I feel like a shitheel.
Thing is, I had a friend who was dying of cancer. The last few years he'd come out with us when he felt up to it, and I could talk with him then, but mostly he kept up and wrapped up his affairs with his friends and family via Facebook. He was supposed to die in about 6 months, but he made almost 5 years, and I honestly think it was in a large part because stuff like that gave him something to want to live for. He saved another friend of mine's life during those extra 4 years (used CPR when the guy had a heart attack).
He asked me multiple times to get Facebook for him. I tried multiple times to explain my problems with it, but this is a guy who was great with cars and soccer, but couldn't give two shits about computing freedom issues. Couldn't even understand them, really. Every time I tried to explain my issues with it, I sounded like an asshole even to me.
Now he's gone, and looking back on it, frankly I was being a shitty friend for no real good reason. Some things are more important than being Right.
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Which technology idiot do you want to punch in the (Score:4, Funny)
Bill Gates
Mark Zuckerberg
Linus Torvalds
Tim Cook
Other
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you should include Stallman, Poettering, and Tim Berners-Lee too. I'd add "the guy who invented , the guy who invented popup windows, and the guy who invented autoplaying audio/video" but I don't know the names and I think they'd take over the poll.
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He said "punch", not "beat with a baseball bat".
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+Steve Ballmer
I don't have one (Score:2)
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Well said. If I had mod points I'd mod that up.
Yes to both. Multiple accounts. (Score:2)
There's no option to use both :)
zero friends (Score:4, Insightful)
I have a FB ccount with zero friends with privacy settings that allows only friends of friends to search me. And a fake name, of course.
I use it for websites that offer facebook log-in, its great not to have to create new accounts all over the place and in return I let them post whatever they want on my timeline. :)
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I like this. A lot. I'm all the time getting facebook log-in demands when looking for info. Now I have a solution. So simple I can't believe I didn't think of it.
I don't know... (Score:2)
I recall setting up a Facebook account, looking around and deciding it was a waste of time. Pretty sure I used a pseudonym, but I haven't logged on in years.
None of the above (Score:2)
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Yes, real and I use it in a limited way (Score:2)
I basically only use Facebook to keep track of events (koncerts, musik quizzes, that sort of thing).
I don't participate in any games or online "which Harry Potter character are you?"-type quizzes, and I aggressively hide everything even remotely relates to those things or anything that smells even vaguely like clickbait.
I can't imagine what goes through the heads of people who subscribe to pictures of scantily clad ladies or air strong political political opinions on Facebook, especially not under their own
It's futile (Score:2)
Not using your real name is futile. It's likely easily extraced from the Facebook dataset, even if you don't have an account, so not having an account is futile too. The question is not whether you have an account, the question is whether your friends and family are going to upload pictures and mail/phone addressbooks that include you. Don't worry, most of them will.
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There is a solution: Change your name to something ridiculously common (John or Mary Smith) and continue using your old name, not telling anyone but Facebook about your JohnSmith. Somewhat the reverse of what Marion Michael Morrison did, never using his birth name after he established a life as John Wayne. So long as a false name is not used for purposes of fraud, using whatever name(s) you choose is legal in the USA -- don't know about other countries, though.
A lot of Outliers, y'all are (Score:2)
Whether or not FB is a privacy-breaching metadata collector (it is, just like Google), if you "don't have a Facebook account" the first question will be "why not?" in my circle. As in: what are you trying to hide.
It's fine to not go on often -- people do their own things whenever -- but not having an account is weird and vaguely suspicious. I can count the number my friends who've never had an account at all on one hand.
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Wants, or requires, your phone number?
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Everybody has a FB account... (Score:2)
The only question is if you have an account that you created (which hopefully you have some control over) and if you have an account harvested from your friends on FB sharing their contact lists and whatnot.
I have several Facebook Accounts. (Score:2)
Only use for band management... (Score:2)
I only have a Facebook account to be able to manage my bands FB and reverbnation pages.
If it wasn't for that, I would have left FB long ago.
If you like Hard rock/Southern Metal, check us out, just search for Brackish Tide.
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I can access our bands FB page, and it lets me surreptitiously "browse" this thing called Facebook.
And what a vast wasteland it is.
After about 10-15 minutes on FB I get annoyed with all the firehose of crap, and log off.
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And what a vast wasteland it is.
Indeed it is.
All I ever see is Idiots, clickbait articles, and political pissing matches. It's not even worth it anymore.
What's your band called? I'll check you guys out.
Not anymore (Score:2)
I ditched Facebook, it was a nice piece of groupware for consumers but the content has shifted to clickbait and nonsense. Also, Messenger turned into MSN/Myspace. Still use Whatsapp though. That said, when I used it, I tend to go for real name more these days than before. I'm all for anonimity where required and privacy where desired, but most of my internet presence doesn't require a pseudonym and there are actually benefits as well in using a real name: I controla far larger share of the information avail
I was too dumb for pseudonym ... (Score:2)
Liars! (Score:2)
None of the above. (Score:2)
Countries That Welcome American Citizens (Score:2)
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To be fair, I don't actually use my real face, so there's that.
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Almost half the people here are on Facebook using their real name? And more are on Facebook than not? Are you the same people who send "free online greeting cards", handing all your friends' email addresses to spammers?
The only sane reasons that I have read for joining Facebook almost require using one's own name. My real friends who use computers probably have one of my email addresses, so they don't need it, but if I wanted to connect to long-lost high school or college associates then using "NotMy Name" as my Facebook name would defeat the whole purpose of the exercise. If I used it to communicate with possible and actual clients or business associates, likewise.
If I was not on Facebook, would I be likely to take the
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Who are you, CIA?
They already know.
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Use the old one, and really confuse the Big Brother processes that match leaked Slashdot account info to real identities (whatever those are -- names aren't, as any John Jones would say, and SSNs aren't, since in the early days, people could have multiple SSNs, and a lot of people used the same (wrong) one because a wallet maker included a sample Social Security Card which buyers apparently thought were individualized to them).
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I wasn't ivy league, but got my account because someone in my class was trying to bulk up the numbers for the group for our department.
I signed up, with my nickname + last initial.
I haven't gone in to delete it because I suspect I'd have to agree to the new TOS to be able to delete the account. I only logged into it once since grad school, when my neighbor wouldn't shut up about how great it was, and after stringing him along for a while ('you didn't think I'd use my name, did you?' 'Don't forget my accou