#personal.com

[sharontate]

Yes, I too like getting used by friends. 

[niiru-once]

don’t you just love it when someone who you thought was close to you starts to diss your sexuality? No? Me neither. Literally, even after all we’ve been through, they find the nerve to say “ bi sexual? does that word even exist? cuz i cant see it in the LATEST digital dictionary.” Haha, those are their exact words, mind you. They treat my (and lots of others’) sexuality as something that /doesn’t exist/. And yet they still say that they’re saying “opinions and maybe facts”. I’m sorry to those who were unfortunate enough to read all of this but, I just can’t believe that someone who I treated as a /twin/, as an /equal/ would stab my back, take my trust and throw it on the ground. Before they even started dissing on bisexuality, they said this: “ the problem of this generation is that there are same sex marriage “ “   So its not the individuals fault if they are homosexual. but they should see the side they are ARE EITHER MAN OR WOMAN AND ACCEPT THAT FUCKING TRUTH “   “ I will leave my opinions or maybe facts in this chat “   “ Its up to that person if s/he stays with the same or opposite sex. What i said is that people fail to realize their own gender and fail to accept it and fail to learn its science side and fail to learn that they can change “   “ Its ok to like the same gender. as long as they dont like them sexualy and haan da nga idakdakel “(haan da nga idakdakel = they don’t make it big)  “ theres no problem with homosexuality. the only fucking problem is that they are sexualy attracted with the same sex “ Can you see where this all went? It’s hipocricy, they’re a hipocrite when it comes to things they don’t understand. Then they try to say that “I’m only being a dick because in the future, I won’t be able to.” So, (correct me if I’m taking it all wrong) they’re basically doing this for their own amusement. They want to see others being uncomfortable before they, quote-on-quote “change”. And now that I think that our... /discussion/ is about to end, our friend comes in and consoles us (mostly the backstabber) and so I’m basically, “Oh, so you’ll listen to her but not me? Sure, ok, great talking, dude. Just... ok, listen to the one with /no/ experience at all with this and not the one /with/ experience.” Don’t get me wrong, I love our friend (quite literally actually). But the dickhead seems to trust her more than me? And we’ve been “friends” for like, 3 years... Anyway enough of that, I think I’ll just sleep it off. And to be specific I’m talking about one person. Good night to those who actually read this.

[flamingheter0]

this has actually been the week from hell and I apologize for my absence.

[niiru-once]

I just wanted to talk to my cousin... so I went online on FB and chatted with a group chat that included her... I left for a few mins and found that she had left the group because she felt like she was being shunned by our friends

We talked to her individually, and she kept saying that she was fine and I just didn’t know what to do so I kept chatting with her... I don’t know if I made it worse or better and just... I feel so fucking bad right now... we’ve been together since we were babies up to now and this is the first time she’s done this and I just don’t know what to do

I’m sorry to the mobile users who had to read this... I really am... I’m sorry if I’m rambling... I just... don’t know anymore... my cousin being this depressed just makes me... depressed as well... I’m sorry

[patriciawieringminor2015]

Samenvatting Tegenlicht ‘Jouw data is goud waard’, 24 april

Alles wat wij online plaatsen wordt opgeslagen door bedrijven zoals Google. De verzamelnaam van deze data is ‘Big data’. Bedrijven hebben er veel geld voor over om alles van jou te weten te komen.

Dit is niet alleen om passende advertenties te creëren, maar ook om op basis van jouw gegevens jouw toekomstig gedrag te kunnen voorspellen. Daarin zit het grote geld.

Data is voor veel bedrijven een inkomstenbron. Men weet dat data geld waard is maar toch kijken we weg voor de gevaren. We geven onze data gratis weg. We worden er niet voor betaalt, wat eigenlijk wel zou moeten.

Dit vind ik een eng idee maar aan de andere kant maakt het me niet eens zoveel uit. Ik heb niets te verbergen en in sommige situaties vind ik het juist fijn dat bedrijven mij benaderen in plaats van dat ik zelf op zoek moet gaan.

Opkomst Big Data

De opkomst van big data komt vooral door de massale verkoop van smartphones en Tablets. Met deze techniek kunnen we veel gegevens opslaan zonder dat we het in de gaten hebben. Ik vind het best eng omdat mijn nieuwe Smartphone al mijn wachtwoorden weet. 

Zelfs de vrienden met wie je omgaat zeggen over jou wat voor persoon je bent. Maar we hebben nu zelf geen power om deze data te verkopen. Michal Kosinski kan er bijvoorbeeld achter komen wat voor mens je bent door na te gaan wat je allemaal ‘liked’ op Facebook. Dit vind ik eng want ik ‘like’ altijd alles op Facebook, maar ik post niks.

  Toekomst

Als we onze persoonlijke data als iets waardevols zien en er regels komen, (vergelijkbaar met de regels voor geld) zal misbruik van big data moeilijker worden. Het kan ook helpen om de economie in stand te houden. Denk hierbij aan nieuwe banen. Informatie wordt waardevol en het werk wordt dan heel anders.

Er zijn talloze bedrijven en start-ups zoals personal.com en privacyfix.com. Deze zijn bezig met het terug winnen van onze persoonlijke data. Datacoup.com van Matt Hogan is een website waar mensen hun eigen data kunnen verzamelen en deze kunnen verkopen. De toekomst is dat big data bij de consument  komt.

 Strijp-S

Om meer van de bewoners op Strijp-S te weten te komen zouden we ook gebruik kunnen maken van Big data. Van welke diensten maken zij bijvoorbeeld gebruik, waar werken zij en met wie gaan ze om? Dit is best lastig om te achterhalen. Er bestaan wel wooncommunity's, zoals SPACE-S, waar we gegevens kunnen vinden. We moeten ons afvragen hoe we innovatie en data kunnen gebruiken om bewoners van Strijp-S het leven makkelijker te maken? Deze vragen ontstonden ook al uit de inzichten van afgelopen week.

[robpegoraro]

This Story Probably Won’t Make You Change Your Passwords

Not long after the Heartbleed security flaw was uncovered, my colleague Rafe Needleman suggested that we schedule a holiday just to change our passwords. Maybe that would make a difference? Because, so far, not much else has.

With yet another security-scare story afoot (not that I'm necessarily persuaded by Hold Security's claims), we're once again being told that it's time to change our passwords. The problem is, most of us don't--even, it appears, people who have already upgraded to password-manager sites. At Yahoo Tech, I suggest options to the usual password preaching. That means I'm not being hard enough on readers, right?

[architectingreality-blog]

Personal.com

A relatively new start-up called www.personal.com is looking to become a central location for everyone's personal data. They provide the ability to host your data, in a structured fashion within what they term 'gems'. These represent categories and subcategories of information about you, your family, car, kids, allergies, preferences, travel plans, etc. and you are able to selectively allow other people and applications access to your gems. The idea is that it saves you having to fill out forms, make lists and deal with all of the information that you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis and you can share it with whomever you like.

One key difference to other web-based stores of personal information is that their privacy and security policies put you in control of your data. If you want it removed from their servers, you can ask them to delete it and they guarantee that it will be gone. They also look at this as a long term play as they believe that it will take years before people are ready to use this type of service on mass.

What do you think? Would you use it? How do you feel about a commercial entity having effective control of your personal information, all in one place? As one person put it,

"It's a hacker's wet dream!"

I'm on the fence on this one for now.

[zero--]

Apparently I'm ungrateful all just because I messed up a god damn email.

Eurgh, hate people.