Getting Off the Grid --- Phone muted, Facebook deleted

[Elessar]

One thing I hate is the 'Pre-Approved" Credit cards! I ended up shredding the mail and
sending it back that way, telling them to knock it off.

If the original is intercepted, someone can easily use the darn thing in YOUR name, i.e.,
Identity Theft. AARP got their membership card cut in half and mailed back to them
because they would not stop sending that garbage.

Capital One was sending me 'pre-approved' offers upwards of 4 times a month. I wrote to them to
stop. It kept coming. Then I called them and after a 20 minute wait was told it would take a few
weeks to cease when the database caught up! WTF? That is horse-pockey! I was given the option
to go on-line and request...so I did!

First screen was "Enter Your Social Security Number" Bullshit! That is illegal!

So I called them again and advised them requesting an SSAN is ILLEGAL and I would
get legal and Law Enforcement (FEDS) involved. I stopped getting the offers from
them after that!

[LongTermGuy]

Only Twitter for me....Many Patriots there...and need info.


`Personal info` is only an Illusion and not real....even IP floats / Masks...Good software is worth the money...

[Taco Junkie]

My landline is where I send anyone that I see as a possible bother in the future. Then I never answer it. The caller ID comes up on my tv screen so I'll know if anyone worthwhile ever calls. Anyone that doesn't leave a message I block the caller. Same for repeat nuisance callers.

My whole family is on Fuckbook so that and it's socialist politics makes it an easy decision to not have an account there. I convinced the wife we'd get computer viruses if we're on that.

Twitter is too much crappola too. I really don't care about the last time Mark Cuban dropped a deuce or what some halfwit athlete or lesser brained Bollywood type thinks about anything. They confuse fame with intelligence.

[mundame]

My husband just told me his daughter posted this (okay, on Facebook...) ---

You know those quizzes about what Star Trek character you are, or are you more liberal or more conservative? Turns out they of course don't care about your score: they store all the answers on your personal database file, which they have of everyone they can catch. So they have a LOT of info on anyone who takes those quizzes, and I have taken a few.

Those Google quizzes before you can read a news item are the same: data collection. You take 50 of those and they know all about you and store it forever and sell it. I suppose Google pays the newspapers for this forced access to their readers' data. I never cooperate with that -- that one I did figure out, but I was surprised about the "joke" Star Trek quizzes and such.

If you think about all the quizzes we have taken, they totally know how everyone is going to vote. You'd think the polls would be better. Pollsters must not buy the data; they should. Sampling clearly (!) doesn't work.