DuhNooz rides again!
Roger Miller said in a song, “You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd.” Seems obvious. But people try. Not literally, but they do stupid stuff that amounts to about the same idiocy.
Like they go on social sites, type in vital info on themselves, even secret stuff they would never want their parents or closest friends to know, then they’re surprised and shocked when their secrets go flittering through cyberspace like confetti on a New York parade. Duh-h.
Why do people do that? Because they’re herd animals. Intelligence doesn’t seem to matter. They all follow the herd. It takes that to be accepted… they think. But like human predators in the old west preyed on buffalo herds and big cats prey on wildebeest herds, human predators prey on the human herd animal everywhere.
But the prey keeps on doing what attracts the predator. Over and over. Buffalo, wildebeest, human. Makes no difference.
Herd people get little cards at Supermarkets and Drug Stores. Cards they use for alleged discounts. They’re not getting discounts off regular prices. but off inflated prices. What are they really getting? The chance to share their personal buying habits with the stores and with manufacturers who supply the stores… otherwise known as predators.
So whatever happened to privacy? Stolen? Nah. It hasn’t been stolen. It’s been given up willingly.
Remember the pay phone? It used to be in a private booth. You could get in the booth, close the door and have a private conversation. Now people use cell phones in the middle of crowds, and talk about private stuff as if they were alone. Now when you do see a pay phone it’s out in the open with just enough cover to cover the phone, not you.
Share on Myspace and Facebook? Myspace isn’t your space, people. It’s their space. Facebook is your faee alright, but somebody else is using your face for whatever pleases them, not you. And what pleases them is money and power.
Sellers of junk of all kinds have been sharing information on their suckers… er… customers for longer than anybody can remember. You buy something from one catalog, you strangely start being bombarded with other catalogs. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that your name and address has been sold. And not just your name and address, but your buying habits. What you’re buying, how much you’re spending, anything else that can be extracted from the info you’ve given up freely.
Now you think you’re going to go on a website, give up your deepest, darkest secrets, photos, videos, life history… and nobody else is gonna know what you said, wrote, spilled out of your soul? Duh-h.
But there’s hope, herd. Time to try again. Four college guys have come up with a new, encrypted, super-private way to share your deepest secrets, but still keep them secret. So now we have… aha! The solution! It’s called Diaspora…4478 backers, $168,019 pledged of a $10,000 goal. Because of what? Pay careful attention. These guys want to share their lives, their vital info, and help others do so, but don’t want to be controlled by a giant corporation. That means Facebook. And unlike Facebook, their new way will keep your shared stuff secret. They promise.
We can hear the hoof beats of the herd already. Roller skates are being oiled. The herd is already donating money to these four guys they don’t know. Just can’t wait to line up and share their secret information.
Cause this time… This time, they’ve found four guys they don’t know who’re gonna keep their secret stuff really secret. Duh-h.
