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2018-03-17 -Lurid Crime Tales-

No Facebook or Twitter? You're Probably a Spy.

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-17 10:34|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 I don't. Adm Grace Hooper laid it on the line as far back as 1981. Automation and privacy are mutually exclusive.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-03-17 11:00|| 2018-03-17 11:00|| Front Page Top

#2 So I'm a spy?

Then where are my femmes fatales?

Posted by charger 2018-03-17 11:37|| 2018-03-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Or maybe just over 65.

Posted by Tom 2018-03-17 11:43|| 2018-03-17 11:43|| Front Page Top

#4 @ #3 - I'd even drop it down to over 50!

Posted by DooDahMan 2018-03-17 11:47|| 2018-03-17 11:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't do Facebook/twitter. I like my privacy. Every now and then I will send a photo shopped picture to friends and fam. Just like people who paste on facebook photoshop thier wrinkles before posting.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-03-17 12:22|| 2018-03-17 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Speaking as a imaginary spy for an imaginary three letter agency, I would hope our documents division would have the wherewithal to gin up a convincing social media backstory.

Lack of social media presence is simply a sign that one has a life.

Posted by SteveS 2018-03-17 12:26|| 2018-03-17 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 A form of guilty until proven innocent.

Posted by Iblis 2018-03-17 13:33|| 2018-03-17 13:33|| Front Page Top

#8 One time, in the course of conversation, I mentioned I'm not on farcebook or sh*tter. A young lady said to me "Why would I trust you then?" I replied "Your trust is needed by me how?" She was speechless.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-17 15:30|| 2018-03-17 15:30|| Front Page Top

#9 A spy would be on Facebook and Twitter under many different aliases.

Posted by Alistaire Gloluns2996 2018-03-17 15:48|| 2018-03-17 15:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, I already lost out on a minor business opportunity two years back. After sending an email indicating my interest, the other fellow replied with a deeply suscpcious email asking who the hell I was, what was my facebook and what was my LinkedIn. After replying I had neither, that was the end of the relationship..

They just don't trust you unless you exist on their platforms. The age of trust is over. It's not coming back. Either you have a facebook/linkedin that they can see, or there will be no business. End of story.

Posted by Harcourt Angoluting9366 2018-03-17 19:10|| 2018-03-17 19:10|| Front Page Top

#11 I wonder just how much you "lost" Harcourt Angoluting9366? Perhaps nothing at all.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-17 19:22|| 2018-03-17 19:22|| Front Page Top

#12 The reason they wanted to see your facebook or linkedin had nothing to do with qualifications. Your personal life, facebook friends, etc is non of their friggin business.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-03-17 19:29|| 2018-03-17 19:29|| Front Page Top

#13 I would hope our documents division would have the wherewithal to gin up

It seems they do.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-17 21:18|| 2018-03-17 21:18|| Front Page Top

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