{"id":898,"date":"2011-12-13T21:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/?p=898"},"modified":"2018-07-14T16:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T15:51:23","slug":"suicide-solution-%e2%80%93-goodbye-to-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/suicide-solution-%e2%80%93-goodbye-to-facebook","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Solution \u2013 Goodbye To Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seppuku\"On Christmas Eve 2011, I intend to commit suicide, as a Samurai would to regain his honour \u2013 or in reality, commit virtual seppuku. I\u2019ve pretty much had it with the festering, turgid, data-mining advertising feed, AKA Facebook. Following an enlightening BBC programme it seems that like Google, Facebook\u2019s sole raison d’\u00eatre is to generate advertising income by sucking in keywords from users\u2019 posts and \u2018likes\u2019 to match them up with targeted advertising. This of course, in the eyes of prepossessed stock-brokers, is a fantastic opportunity to make an overnight buck; or at least, a share of the reputed 100 billion of those virtual bucks, should it float\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that I\u2019ve only just started to see the advertising; like everyone else, I flatly ignore it. But there is I fear, a more sinister undercurrent in the stream that floats the Facebook boat. Historically, Facebook has a poor record on privacy, choosing to bolt the stable door after the horses have hot-hoofed it over the hills and far away. Their (lack of) actions lead me to believe they have a policy of testing in a live environment to see how far they can push their envelope. The disturbing thing is, for every word I type and every \u2018like\u2019 I click, an advertising profile is being built around information extracted from my keyboard and mouse. It\u2019s similar to actively granting key-logging software to be installed on your computer to record your every move. Not unlike Google really.<\/p>\n

How many of you have Gmail accounts and don\u2019t sign out your Google account after you\u2019ve checked your email? It\u2019s the same deal. If you\u2019re signed into your Google account and continue to surf the web, they will, unless you specifically opt out of data collection, continue to monitor your web activity so they can tailor their advertiser\u2019s products to the profile they build around your browsing habits. Dig deep enough and you can opt out; but you can\u2019t with Facebook. Both companies have seemingly bottomless pits of digital storage where historical personal information can be stored infinitely and called upon to refine the ad-targeting process.<\/p>\n

So this is where I get off the ride. It\u2019s my opt-out from making too much information available to organisations who want to dehumanise people into click-through conversion-rate graphs. This is not some paranoia trip kicking in folks, this real<\/em>. I see it in action on the work I\u2019ve done using Google Ad-Words. Those services thrive on the science of perfectly targeted advertising, and it is<\/em> a science that relies on data; data collected from you and me, while we mind our own business.<\/p>\n

Whilst there\u2019s not much (if anything) I can do about what data has already been collected and stored, at least I have the option of no longer actively participating. I\u2019ll still keep a social-networking presence (for now) under my Twitter account – @thedrumdoctoruk \u2013 until of course the irritating ads start pumping my way \u2013 and Twitter could certainly use the revenue after their 2010 revenue deficit. I\u2019ll also be contactable via this BLOG site – which doesn\u2019t host any advertising…<\/p>\n

So, until we meet in the next life, my Katana awaits…<\/p>\n

\"Seems<\/p>\n

Seems like Facebook don’t like websites who actively encourage taking their advertising revenue away…<\/p>\n

For those also interested in Facebook suicide please visit www.seppukoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

On Christmas Eve 2011, I intend to commit suicide, as a Samurai would to regain his honour \u2013 or in reality, commit virtual seppuku. I\u2019ve pretty much had it with the festering, turgid, data-mining advertising feed, AKA Facebook. Following an enlightening BBC programme it seems that like Google, Facebook\u2019s sole raison d’\u00eatre is to generate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,3],"tags":[24,25,26,27],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedrumdoctor.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}