http://www.brainsturbator.com/site/comments/facebook_the_cia_and_you/

One point I didn’t make in the article—since I figure I’ve exceeded my insult quota for the year with the “Fuck 9-11” piece—is something I’d like to get into here in the forum.  Basically, it goes a little something like this:

Why are white college students worried about the CIA?  Who the fuck are they kidding?  Who do they think they’re posing a threat to?

So much of the discussion about Facebooks ties to the CIA is going on in a nearly total vacuum of actual knowledge about the CIA, data mining technology, and the political realities behind social control.  For starters, let’s take a look at this graph—it depicts the average Facebook usage in April of this year:

Facebook’s users are overwhelmingly East Coast college kids.  East Coast college kids are overwhelmingly the most affluent consumers in the United States, which is the most affluent consumer nation on Earth.  As long as you’re driving cars, buying coffee, and shopping on a regular basis, nobody at the Pentagon is too concerned about your political beliefs, or how many protests you’re going to. I know a lot—a lot—of registered Democrats who flatter themselves with fantasies that the concentration camps currently being built here in the USA are for them.  That’s wicked funny. If you’re literate and involved enough to vote, that generally corresponds to a high level of education, which generally corresponds to a high level of income.

The middle class of the United States is the main fuel source for the entire system of hyper-militarized fascism—everything about the middle class, from their countercultural lifestyles to their liberal/conservative puppet show for adults, and especially the mortgage/credit debt lifestyle which keeps international finance afloat. 

Overall, resources like Facebook are to provide data for simulations, like SWS:
http://www.brainsturbator.com/forums/viewthread/230/

When the genocide machine gets rolling in the next decade, the victims will not be college kids—they will be poor, barely literate and overwhelmingly “minorities”.  (Which is a curious phrase when white anglo humans are a global minority here on Earth. War is peace, freedom is slavery, majorities are minorities.  Lather, rinse, repeat if desired).

For further reading, check out the Defense Tech “Data Diving” archive:
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/cat_data_diving.html

As long as you’re driving cars, buying coffee, and shopping on a regular basis, nobody at the Pentagon is too concerned about your political beliefs, or how many protests you’re going to.

I could not agree more.

Though this may mean little-to-nothing, I did do an experiment (well.. several.. but.. anyway.. this one is still running) where I paid off all of my credit cards, stopped buying things I did not absolutely need to survive, saved money in areas other than banks, etc.
The amount of “spam” mail I received went up during this period.
I then went back to buying things like.. cd’s, gasoline, running up debt on the cards, etc, and found that all of the spam dropped off again.
When I went back to paying things off, saving money, etc, the spam came back up.
It is probable to be just a fluke, but a weird one.

More relevant to this topic you write about:
Yes.  Students seem to be confused about life and how things work.  Many either do not care about the data collected or are very worried about not being seen and heard for their beliefs or ideas/ideals, so they attend these protest type events with hopes to change.
The thing that gets me, is that they continue to attend protest events, drink pepsi, drive to the events, play music at the events which is powered by the grid, make signs using markers, paper, spray paint, other items, etc.. they use all of the elements of the system to say, “system, we oppose you.” I can only imagine the system says some thing like, “our plans to cause mild tension in the populace and thus group up to spend more money on silly fake protests is working”, or something.  Tension creates poverty as equally as it creates things like.. jorbs.

I suppose I am rambling.

The point is this:
Students, who claim to care so much, care so little for supporting themselves.
Their ideals are warped so far out of reality that they can not comprehend (or maybe they choose to ignore) the cage which holds them in such a way they they blend right in to the mix of things like “if we spend money, the problem will go away) and “if we boycott one day, we can buy the next day.” You can not boycott ALL grocery stores unless you have your own managed food source.  Thus, you can not boycott anything with effect, any longer.  Look at what happened in the history of Russia.  The cost of bread was so astounding because people could not make their own.  DIY is a beginning to an answer.  Protest is second to DIY.

That’s quite an interesting experiment.  Consider how much communication and mutual selling of databases is going on, I really don’t think it’s a stretch—or even remotely paranoid—to assume that there’s a large-scale co-ordination between ostensibly “separate” companies, government agencies, and even social services.  It’s very funny to think of spam and junk mail as a “noise” feedback, sort of....inviting you back into the machine.

You know I was thinking that whole thing about spam and control makes total sense. Look at this:

http://www.proparanoid.net/hijack.htm

And read it all the way through to the BOTTOM. Then you’ll get where the spam can come in after browsing it top to bottom.

Oh and guys when they say “w**p***y” they are talking about people taking over sites and squatting them. Just wanted to clear that up in case anyone on these forums would get nervous. Not that thirtyseven or me or anybody else do those things here (not what you think- it has to do with rites that involve midgets and chickens and tiny tim records and hermaphrodite strippers all coverring themselves in cottage cheese and salsa in an underground tavern with mole people in the north pole- we can say no more for if we do it will piss Bob off and he will take a big whole dump on earth from the sky Nyuknyuknyuk)…

http://tinyurl.com/2o8c8x

“Facebook to open goldmine of data to advertisers”

Facebook is preparing an advertising model that would allow advertisers to target its users based on information that they reveal about themselves on the social networking website.

The group has soared in popularity to a record 30.6 million visitors last month, but is expected to make a profit of only $30 million (£15 million) this year on revenues of $150 million. Facebook’s new advertising system is central to the group’s efforts to “monetise” the social phenomenon that it has created, by which millions of people worldwide avidly log in to swap information about themselves.

The site is a potential goldmine to advertisers because it contains a host of data on its users, such as their birthdate, interests, events they plan to attend, holidays and musical tastes, as well as numerous photographs. The new model is at an early stage, but is to be piloted soon. It will enable advertisers to visit a dedicated website through which they could track down users more precisely than using traditional, blunter, targeting methods.

The advertisements are expected to appear differently from the banner ads and boxes that show up on the borders of Facebook pages at present. Instead, they would be mixed up with the “news feed”, which provides updates on the activities of each user’s friends.

Facebook’s attempt to boost advertising revenues by extending information about its members to advertisers echoes moves by Google to target ads based on the browsing activity of its users.

Roger Kay, the president of End-point Technologies, a US consultancy, said: “People get disconcerted about what appears to be the close monitoring of their behaviour. If you go to an XXX site and you get a condom ad popping up, it feels creepy.

“Google tried this kind of targeted approach and there were some complaints, and the group seems to have become more subtle about it. With Facebook, the new ad system may lead to some drop-off in users, but it’s a popular site so it shouldn’t hurt too much.”

Facebook does not have a wealthy parent company to prop it up, and so it is essential that the group record strong revenue growth, and an effective advertising system is by far the best way to do this, analysts say.