Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for June 20, 2013

I do remember President Clinton’s eagerness to get us all on the web… connections for everyone. The thought crossed my mind then.

The Feds scans Facebook photos for faces that have been tagged with a name, and adds them to their data base. They been doing this for quite some time now. I like to post photos of politicians and tag them with the names of sex offenders.

This is why I prefer to use pictures of flowers on the internet. My family & friends know who I am; I know who I am and that is all that matters. Great strip today, Jan

Dont forget to mention linkedin, skype, tango and similes

For all those that think, “I have nothing to hide so surveil away!”

this is only the beginning… won’t be long before we all have chips implanted in our hands like the movie Demolition Man

it’s the other way around if you follow Snowdens “talk”

It just gets worse and worse! I wonder what’s next – or do I even want to know?

Friend has a high security company – he always has one or two folks a day forget their swipe card. He considered voluntary chips in the hand. I casually opened a huge Japanese stiletto and asked him – Right or left? Ruined lunch.

this is one of the main reasons I never use my photo on FB and I NEVER EVER like the businessess that send me crap. I also never give my e-mail to stores, they just sell it and I get enough crap mail.

I knew it.

George Orwell was off by a few years. Is ‘1984’ even required reading for kids this day and age?

I have a photo of my cat on Facebook. But none of me.

yes! big brother is watching!!

I read “1984” in high school but it was in an elective class so you only had to read if it you took that class. I also only use pix of cats or flowers or something on Facebook and in places like this.

its the fact that we can all relate to it that makes it so funny.

I went to high school in the 70s and I had to read 1984.

I know people joke/complain about implanting microchips in people, but it would certainly be nice when a child – or adult – is kidnapped to be able to track them down immediately. (Maybe we’d even know what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.)

Assimilation is good, don’t fight it..

Oh no!

Don’t facebook either…

This was all predicted in Minority Report.

I don’t do FB either. And something tells me today’s strip won’t be all that “far fetched” in a few years.

No, Zuckerberg started it to capture all your money. … by selling all your info.

In public places (like Facebook) you’re fair game. Email and other private communications are off limits!

You might get some info by typing your name in Google Images (if it’s an unusual name – “John Smith” won’t cut it.) Also look ;yourself up on Intelius.com (no photos, but info if you don’t have a common name).

Run!

I use the pets for avatars, often, too, though I’m not sure what difference it makes. The sheer mass of data is in itself a protection, but there is always the risk, of course, of saying the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It is what it is. Mostly, I suspect, a glorious waste of resources.

@Dry, someone must, they’re digging for him again.

That’s why I don’t have a Facebook account.

This is my real picture.

NSA – Facebook double ungood

NSA – Facebook double ungood.

Was 1984 ever required? I was done with HS by 1955 and had advanced classes so I read pretty much whatever I wished. I read it back then and since (and Brave New World with Huxley’s later update) but I have even dabbled in writing some short stories of that gendre back in those days.

I use FB to keep in touch with local friends across town (group 1) with a chat board that watches a nest only seasonally (group 2) and with grandkids who don’t yet Skype and distant cousins ((group 3).

I share many photos (much more than the small Flickr assortment I’ve shared here on GoComics) and at my age there is so much data on me (print and internet) that Google searches come up with a lot (including divorce date, purchase of houses and much similar). I’ve even contacted other women across the world who share my name (for the heck of it).

I refuse to give certain data on FB (things that would facilitate ID theft) and that seems to infuriate them as I am constantly told that I have “not completed” my ID.