Islamic State militants called on supporters to scour social media for addresses of their family members – and to “show up [at their homes] and slaughter them."
This isn’t aimed at anyone here because we are all mostly like minded. But it just blows me away how easily people give up info. Your info is not safe, it will be used against you & yes, people play dirty. Protect your people.
Reminds of the idiots that put their children(s) names on the back of their cars with the sports team they play for. Not to mention the homo stick family stickers.
Nothing like letting every pedophile in your AO know how many children you have, what their names are, and what sport teams they play on.
First rule of the internet: Never post up your home address.
As for FB filtering posts to control the emotions of its users… it’s not like that hasn’t been done in advertising, television, and movies since somebody realized that if they paint a picture of a pretty lady next to their brand name that it might make people want to buy their goods. I’m sure that if you went back a thousand years, you’d see a picture somebody painted of a naked lady with wings and a helmet and ‘+ULFBERHT+’ nearby.
Being old school, if anyone wants to reach me, leave a voice mail on my home answering machine (if it wasn’t for the wife wanting one, I wouldn’t have one.)
Something tells me that if I did that, ISIS wouldn’t be the only “interested party” to find my facebook pages. Although the thought of some low level functionary in a cubicle at NSA, CIA or the FBI trying to figure out the connection between Bruce Lee, old nunchaku and modern domestic terrorism is almost enough to make me do it.
I feel like you might be as disappointed as Detective Munch (Law & Order: SVU) was on receiving his FBI file from the '60s and '70s after placing a FOIA request.
