Facebook has become, without any doubt in my mind, a tool of the government, most likely under the supervision of the NSA, to collect as much information about as many individuals, both here and abroad, as possible. This is being done in order to assess, categorize, and track those who they believe may be a threat to the US, our government, and/or any of those who anonymously influence from behind the scenes. If they were not using it, they’d be absolute fools.
Look at the wealth of information we provide Facebook without them even asking us to. We tell them everyday through our posts just about every aspect of our lives. They know where we eat, where we live, who we live with, where we work, who we work with, where we hangout, who we hangout with, our likes, our dislikes, our dreams, our hopes, our fears, basically, how we feel about everything and anything. That is a wealth of data that has the potential to be used in a number of ways against you. Even if you don’t post about many of those things, it doesn’t really matter because your friends post about it and you too. Even if you never said anything about any aspect of your life, odds are others have and/or they has tagged you in posts or pictures when you have spent time with them or in regards to other joint interests or ventures.
Many of us tag people and locations in photos. Even if you have never tagged yourself in a picture, chances are enough people have tagged you in theirs so Facebook’s facial recognition software knows who you are. It’s gotten to a point where Facebook can actually pick you out of a picture and confirm it is you even though the person who posted the photograph didn’t tag you. They may not even know you and you being in the picture may of not have been intentional. They may have been taking a photo of their group and you just happened to be in the background. Facebook’s facial recognition software identified you and in order to confirm it is you, it looks through your friend’s list and then asks them to verify that it is indeed you! Recently, I have had Facebook asking me to do that very thing. Tag people I know in pictures taken people I don’t know. Am I crazy or is that not a bit frightening. Well if you are not scared yet, that’s fine because it doesn’t stop there. How long before Facebook will also be able to identify places, a location recognition program? So even without any type of security equipment localities could be identified from just a photograph that was posted on Facebook!
For months now, as I have mentioned before, we have all these personality tests. They are so enticing to fill out, almost impossible to resist. Hell yes, I want to share with everyone that I am 95% player who’s closest matches are celebrity George Clooney, super hero Batman, and businessman Bill Gates. Damn right, my true age is 25 though I’m 35, and if I was drink I’d be a Macallan 64 Year Old in Lalique Scotch that goes for nearly 500k a bottle. How could I possibly go without submitting this quiz that tells all my friends that I am 90% nineties, 95% open minded, and 51% evil, but in the way girls like, you know, that bad boy kind of way without being an A-hole. How do you know I’m not an A-Hole because my results on that questionnaire was only 10%. Oh and I almost forget, I AM 110% TEXAN BABY! YEAH Yea! I just can’t stop, why? It’s almost like, somehow, those who created them, knew what I was interested in. They knew exactly what it would take to get me to volunteer the information they wanted. I wonder how they knew that?***
***If you do know how they could have possibly figured out how to make those quizzes so damn irresistible then I suggest you go back and reread this post from the beginning. Also, I would advise not sharing the results of the new quiz craze that is taking Facebook by storm either.***
GUESS WHAT YA’LL, I GOTS ME AN IQ OF 238! That’s right, IQ tests! They are everywhere! It is the final piece of the puzzle.They now know everything about us: who we are, where we are, who we associate with, how we feel about everything, and how smart we are. If any one of us were ever to go off the grid, for whatever reason, there would be no place or person to run to in which the government wouldn’t be aware. Even if all known associates and locations were avoided, all those questions we’ve innocently answered about our interests, creativity, wisdom, and intelligence would provide enough information to evaluate and predict what our next move would most likely be. Not an option you could think of would not have already been statistically predicted by some super computer somewhere. In other words, if the government ever wanted to find any of us, they could, easily and efficiently. That is some super scary stuff, in my opinion.
I really find it all quite amusing. We get all up in arms about our right to privacy, to speak freely, to bear arms, etc, but, in truth, none of those things would ever do any one us any good, whatsoever, because we’ve already given all those rights up. We’ve done so willingly, almost enthusiastically, by providing them all this information about ourselves and others. Privacy, went out the window the day you created your Facebook account, your free speech can easily be turned against you to persuade people not to put any stock in anything you may say in the future, and whatever guns you own isn’t stopping the death from above that the government can rain down on you through the use of drones. It’s really quite hilarious when you think about it, isn’t it? Not in the traditional sense of course, but in the way you began to laugh when things have become so ridiculously outrageous in some sort of negative way that all you can do is laugh about it. Well all I can say is, enjoy the actual joyful laughter now and hope there is never any reason for the government to come looking for you, because they will find you and there will be nothing humorous about it.
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