Crack pot theories

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Get a load of the link below, guys!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... cious.html

I have noticed that a lot of us on the spectrum are not into FB, Twitter and other general social sites, so I felt you should all be made aware of this crack pot theory. I don't FB or Twit, and I am NOT a murdering psycho! I also resent that anyone thinks those who aren't into the general social site fads must be nuts. My relatives are not on the spectrum, but most aren't registered with those sites. They happen to share my dislike and distrust of those sites. These sites routinely violate the privacy of members, and people often get in trouble by putting stupid stuff on their pages, or have trouble from other people hassling them through their pages. I see no reason to use general social sites. I get what I need from WP, and I also like to read and post at Dear Abbie, and occasionally at political sites I am interested in. I keep in touch with relatives by phone, and emails, and do absolutely fine without signing up with those invasive general sites. And no that doesn't mean I am nuts, and neither are my relatives nuts for not using FB or Twitter. I wonder how much these sites paid these crack pots to write this bogus story?

That is one of the biggest loads of s**t I've ever read. It is insanely (pun slightly intended) easy to make a fake Facebook profile.



Yes, yes and yes. Regarding the latter, a friend of mine just experienced that from an ex AND her mother. Guess what--he still didn't get rid of his Facebook page.

I'm still waiting for the day when the entire thing crashes.

Interestingly I read an article the other day that claimed those people who didn't join facebook were anti-social and more likely to be of interest to the security services as potential terrorists / insurgents!

So, if you join you are a psychopath and if you don't join you are a terrorist?

Yes, it's a crackpot theory.

It says if you do not join you are a potential mass murderer. They have two examples to support this theory.

I wanted to post about this the other day, but couldn't find a better link than the Daily Fail. I do know it came up on slashdot before that, however.

I am extremely dubious about Facebook. People lose their jobs and benefits over Facebook posts. I know of one woman who lost her sick leave benefits for depression (link) because photos on Facebook didn't display her being sad enough.

Another link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ ... efits.html

I think that a lot of people are getting entirely the wrong idea about what Facebook is. The idea that everyone should be using it or they're bad people is extremely disturbing to me. I don't have a Facebook account under my real name and have no plans to because I can't keep up with it. I did have an account I used for playing the Dragon Age 2 flash game, but once I got all five of the in-game items I stopped playing.

I doubt that this stuff will ever impact me, but it's frustrating to see these attitudes and beliefs spread with absolutely no empirical data to support them.

There was even a guy in the comments saying that where he works they won't even hire people that don't have a Facebook page or that keep it private.

I do have one but I use a fake name, keep it private, and would probably delete it if the few friends I have on it wouldn't complain. I barely use it and barely have anything on it. I only have 5 people on it and there are two that I haven't talked to in ages.

If I tried to get a job and they asked about Facebook I'd either have to lie and say I don't have one or try to explain to them that my private conversations with my friends are none of their business. To me it's the same as if they asked me to hand over my cell phone to read my text messages or read all my snail mail or tapped my phone.

Last edited by hanyo on 09 Aug 2012, 6:40 am, edited 1 time in total.

The first article is from an tabloid newspaper, which should be taken with a grain of salt. Tabloids print whatever crap and people read them. Why they read them I will never understand.

In that case didn't they ever hear of fake smiles for pictures or trying to do things to cheer yourself up? What was she supposed to do, sit at home crying and slashing her wrists and posts pictures of that? I'd imagine that even with someone like that guy that wrote "A Child Called It" you could find some family photos where everyone looked "happy" despite the horrific abuse going on.

When I was a teenager in a report about me they said I wasn't totally socially phobic because my mother told them I went to a concert one time. That was so stupid. Just because you do something one time that means nothing. Even now I rarely leave the house but if they wait around long enough they could get pictures of me going somewhere and think that was "proof" of something.

Yeah, the judge who denied my SSI claim said that I was not socially impaired because I use forums and attend all of my therapy sessions. Never mind that not attending them means I'll lose my benefits and never mind that I am invested in the therapy because I need it. It just proves I'm not impaired.

It's odd how they'll use things like posting on forums against you yet if you yourself tried to use forums as an example of not being completely socially isolated they would act like it's not the same as talking to real people face to face, as though the people online aren't real. Maybe they don't act that way as much now but in the past I've had people act like any friends you have online "aren't real".

Even online I have a lot of problems with real time interactions with people I don't know. Forums are just easier because you have more time to think about what you post and you can delay answering and it's easier to ignore people.

At which point they would tell Smithers to release the hounds.

Actually a lady who worked for the local authority said they told their staff they weren't allowed to have Facebook accounts in case they said anything non-standard about their employer. I don't think they mind which way it is as long as they can dictate it.