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Post by Roadster_Surrey » Sat Feb 04, 2023 1:24 pm

Nanu wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:53 pm We have to accept in todays modern society we are continually monitored and tracked one way or another.

If you have a mobile phone you can be tracked to within 25 metres of where you actually are. If you use a credit or bank card, you can be tracked. If you walk around the majority of towns and cities in the world, you are being tracked. Even when you drive from A to B you are being tracked.

If you don't like it, go live in a cave and eat grass.
Yes and it's really unfortunate that world became like this. All this great technology to make our life easier is collecting information all the time. ANPR camera storing your travels almost everywhere. So, I prefer not to add to that and minimise exposure (no social media, alexa and other listening devices). It's bad enough, Marriott, BA, my accountant and bunch of other companies lost my personal data.

Good indication what data BMW gathers is looking into BMW app.

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Post by Pondrew » Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:48 pm

Roadster_Surrey wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 1:24 pm So, I prefer not to add to that and minimise exposure (no social media,
This IS social media! :)
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.

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Post by Roadster_Surrey » Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:50 pm

I don't treat forums as social media. It's a discussion board.

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Post by Scubaregs » Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:59 pm

Roadster_Surrey wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:50 pm I don't treat forums as social media. It's a discussion board.
Wiki disagrees.

"An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.[1]

Forums act as centralized locations for topical discussion. The Forum format is derived from BBS and Usenet.[2] The most notable and significant Internet forums communities have converged around topics ranging from medicine to technology, and vocations and hobbies.

Forums are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, product"
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Post by Pondrew » Sat Feb 04, 2023 5:07 pm

Scubaregs wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:59 pm photo sharing,
That reminds me; still haven't received the photos of Lynne in the buff as promised! :lol:
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.

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Post by Scubaregs » Sat Feb 04, 2023 5:13 pm

Pondrew wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 5:07 pm
Scubaregs wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:59 pm photo sharing,
That reminds me; still haven't received the photos of Lynne in the buff as promised! :lol:
Me neither mate. Probably just as well though as LYNN would go mad(er).
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Post by Roadster_Surrey » Sat Feb 04, 2023 7:34 pm

Scubaregs wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:59 pm
Roadster_Surrey wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:50 pm I don't treat forums as social media. It's a discussion board.
Wiki disagrees.

"An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.[1]

Forums act as centralized locations for topical discussion. The Forum format is derived from BBS and Usenet.[2] The most notable and significant Internet forums communities have converged around topics ranging from medicine to technology, and vocations and hobbies.

Forums are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, product"
I would never consider checking "official" definition, especially, since forums were already out there when term "social media" was coined or came to existence. So, in my mind, it's like usenet, just discussion board.

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Post by Scubaregs » Sat Feb 04, 2023 7:40 pm

So facts don't matter? :rofl:

Whether you perceive it as social media or not does not change the fact that it is.
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Post by enuff_zed » Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:51 pm

Scubaregs wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 7:40 pm So facts don't matter? :rofl:

Whether you perceive it as social media or not does not change the fact that it is.
I think you'll find it contains an element of anti-social media too :D
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Post by Roadster_Surrey » Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:53 pm

It's the first time, I heard that forum is social media. Forums, which existed long time before social media term came to life or someone thought about Facebook, Instagram and whatever else. So, I will keep to my opinion.

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Post by enuff_zed » Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:04 pm

Roadster_Surrey wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:53 pm It's the first time, I heard that forum is social media. Forums, which existed long time before social media term came to life or someone thought about Facebook, Instagram and whatever else. So, I will keep to my opinion.
Well, it's a medium by which people can exhange opinions and information and it is open to all.
Difficult to differentiate that from social media I would have thought?

But then, who cares, it's a generic label that covers all of us who can't find a better way to waste our lives than staring at a laptop, mobile or similar mind-numbing device. :rofl:
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Post by Nanu » Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:10 pm

We should be careful on the forum, we don't know for certain but someone on hear maybe a spy and monitoring our posts to identify subversive types? :ninja:
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Post by Pondrew » Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:11 pm

enuff_zed wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:51 pm I think you'll find it contains an element of anti-social media too
This forum is the most 'social' media I've ever encountered. Some of the content in this thread is absolutely nothing to most of the hate and nastiness I have seen on other car forums/ social media (or discussion boards as some like to say)! :thumbsup:

I used to frequent one of the early big car forums twenty odd years ago. There were often threats to kill people. Seriously! :o
And NO, they were never aimed at me! :D
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Post by Scubaregs » Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:22 pm

Pondrew wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:11 pm There were often threats to kill people. Seriously! :o
And NO, they were never aimed at me! :D Successfully.
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Post by Pondrew » Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:24 pm

Scubaregs wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:22 pmCFA.
I am now interested as have no idea what that means.
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.

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