FACEBOOK down for hours today

"Facebook delenda est."

ooo same issye here

Why should the whole world know or care what everyone else is doing, who they're with or what their emotional state might be. It's pure narcissism. "Cold turkey" might be the best and only way to beat it but...I suppose there's an app that says it can help. It would be the methadone of the affliction and subject to similar abuse. I've heard it said that man is devolving and not the other way around. I'd guess there's plenty of truth in that thought.

media for a month and here's what happened."
These are mostly useless IMO because these guys have fb especially as their main work access. Like one's office phone in the old days. Can't give that up, rationally.

I would rather see a piece on an app that blocks all non-legit-work contacts for a time, non-revocable. Some of us would be mightily surprised.

to a prospective employee's social media accounts as part of a background check. Frankly, I think it could be argued that many such accounts are more reflective of a person's alter ego than of their actual self.

When I was working, our access was through a VPN. Login access required use of some dongle with an ever changing code. One's access expired if that code was incorrectly entered or not entered within a required time. One had to wait for the dongle to roll to the next code before trying again. It was a pain but that's how we did it. I cannot even imagine a FB requirement for access to one's workplace.

Although I feel it's abuse has become quite destructive, I'm realistic enough to know that the social media fad isn't going away soon.

High school and college counselors are nowadays encouraging students to be very careful of what they post, and to whom.

or fourth or ...

Speaking for myself, I got online reluctantly after a couple of years of my Sister - [yes, capital S :^) ] - telling me how wonderful it was - she was the first in our household to have dial-up. Mom was concerned about security, Sister was way more careful than most of the similar age-group about info, locations, etc. (she had college pals who warned her as some of *their* friends had been lax). I futzed around with Bulletin Boards a while ; [ which were already sort of old-hat to the cognoscenti] and enjoyed some of that scene before experiencing the wonders of the World Wide Web. So Sis and a few wise and beneficent sysops steered me to take care. And Mom, natch!

I still made some rookie errors but at the time dang near everyone did. I survived, somehow, getting into a few flame wars and maybe still do here when I lose my temper after a couple of ill-advised beers. :^) Over two decades later I still sometimes get "hot under the collar" as they used to say.

But it's still quite fun knowing "pen pals" so to speak, and is probably the best way of learning other peoples opinions and feelings other than face-to-face. And it's still a World
Wide Web - which IMO makes up for all the negatives!

So I guess now one could call me a semi-reformed-Luddite. (pat. pending)

Rick

As I don't have a social media account unless SE counts.

You're wide open to anyone, including lurkers, to be read. Posting is another matter as you need to be a member. Too often, I'd call many of these in SE to be more like anti-social media. Not much that's warm and fuzzy.

Whoever reads my post is fine with me.

Toni gets a warm and fuzzy from a few of us that post the truth.

These days they might choose to think you're lying, unless you were cautious enough to avoid any reference in applying.
What Steven and I forgot to mention is that some "ask" for your password(s). Optional, of course, but then 'We'll call you when we have an opening.'

Few of us have a problem with all that. We know we're being monitored by couple or three governments. One of us, in range and interest of China, got an anon message, 'Don't you know we're monitoring you?'
My answer would have been, "Proverbs 15:3".
When the agent looks it up- and he will- he'll find three cross-references from it in our Bible. Which he will have. You and A Couple of Others won't look it up. Too bad; our warnings are free of charge- while supplies last.

Google and Compare Bishop Shao Zhumin.

the PCs had something similar. He liked it because it was hands off, mostly.

but I'm afraid I can't.

that says, 'You just picked up your phone for the nth time, out of mth times allowed today.'
Then, it electrocutes, or something.
I don't know how it handles work pickups and such. Has to be smartphone, that can register movements and such.
Let's hack it into Proffitt's and see what happens.

Sort of related, maybe : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/19/chinese-province-bans-app-based-homework-save-pupils-eyesight

from the article :" Soaring rates of nearsightedness have been blamed partly on screen usage. While China’s overall rate of myopia is 31%, among high school students it is 77% and 80% among college students."

Rick " been wearing specs since 13 y.o. " Jones

I'd guess that no one but optimists and ophthalmologists saw this coming. These devices have changed the world and, IMO, not for the good. I was once disturbed by the growing number of products available for pets. I'm now seeing way too many accessories available for smart phones. There are dozens of mounting brackets, protective coverings and charging devices and cables. It's pure panic when the battery is low and there's not a charging port in site so now folks carry back packs with batteries designed specifically to charge their phones. Clothing is also being designed with special pockets to accommodate these. Women's and men's athletic apparel has these as well. Why one must have a cell phone pocket in a pair of "spray on" yoga pants is beyond my understanding.

after a period of time and saying, "At last! My arm is complete again!"

Sweeney Todd's line; out of prison, back to barbering, picking up his straight razor ...

Hey Steven,

A friend of mine uses those supplementary battery packs to extend the time he can run his 'telephono inteligente' as a music device - he has two, one for the phone and another for the bluetooth stereo speaker. He calls it his "modern ghetto-blaster" :^)

What concerns me, mostly, is how these devices are impacting our youth - I've seen small children, like ten years old, peering into the entrancing glow of their gadgets, almost oblivious to the people around them. This is in social settings and otherwise - from what I've read it is common for grade school kids to prefer to text each other rather than speak, even if they are in the same room! The scientist / media scholar Sherry Turkle has researched this extensively since the eighties and has written several books about our 'interface' with computers and people. I'd recommend her books "Alone Together" and "Reclaiming Conversation" for just about anyone. I think she has some online clips available also.

Cheers!

Rick

you note, sad.

And to think some futurists cannot wait for the "singularity" ! ( I believe I'll *not* be anticipating being converted into silicon).

Rick