Post by Víðarr on Nov 18, 2014 22:40:48 GMT
In preparation for this board going live, I have been doing some prep work to try and have as many people as possible view this space. This has included creating socal media accounts and doing some Google-related things.
What has interested me about this is the way one social network in particular has behaved. Well, I'm saying 'one social network' - I'm sure they all do it - but this one in particular is a lot more blatant about it. I am of course talking about Twitter and I am talking about the pushing of the social-media trash culture.
I signed up in order to simply promote this board, yet upon activating my account had found that it had auto-tracked my IP address, added 35 Z-list 'celebrities' as people that I 'Follow' and also spammed me with the profiles of the other disposable empty-heads contained in this vast wasteland of slogans, punchlines and feminism.
The thing that riled me the most though is the blatant way in which they track their users and in particular track the links which are posted to their servers. With each post from my user handle 'odalismforum' which contained a link to this board, I would have between 5 and 11 guests instantaneously active on the board, all from different IP addresses, who would stay for around 10 minutes before disappearing.
What is going on here? Is this Twitter auto-scanning for 'bad' content? I thought things had to be reported on there before Twitter wasted any resources on something this small and trivial. Or, another theory is it could be the nature of the Twitter beast that sad folk have installed bots to trawl through any and all posted links. Why, I wouldn't know. Perhaps to case out websites which have poor security in order to scope them for future attacks? Perhaps they are just cataloguing links and storing them to a database, along with the content? (Hence the reason for visiting instead of merely just storing the links) Maybe they could be from different agencies looking to catalogue information?
Who knows. If i had to punt though, my money would be on the bot option.
It all begs the question though....what is the point? Is it really necessary to do this?
I suppose you take your chances and pay your price. A website which essentially promotes celebrity gossip culture to such an extent is a red flag and should have warned me prior to posting that all was not right with this place. And all the while the masses that use it are completely oblivious and are content to merely ignore the truth staring them in the face. Well, hey, it's either ignore it or start thinking, and who wants to do that? Thinking only gets in the way of telling your 500 followers about which condiment you've decided to have with your dinner.
What has interested me about this is the way one social network in particular has behaved. Well, I'm saying 'one social network' - I'm sure they all do it - but this one in particular is a lot more blatant about it. I am of course talking about Twitter and I am talking about the pushing of the social-media trash culture.
I signed up in order to simply promote this board, yet upon activating my account had found that it had auto-tracked my IP address, added 35 Z-list 'celebrities' as people that I 'Follow' and also spammed me with the profiles of the other disposable empty-heads contained in this vast wasteland of slogans, punchlines and feminism.
The thing that riled me the most though is the blatant way in which they track their users and in particular track the links which are posted to their servers. With each post from my user handle 'odalismforum' which contained a link to this board, I would have between 5 and 11 guests instantaneously active on the board, all from different IP addresses, who would stay for around 10 minutes before disappearing.
What is going on here? Is this Twitter auto-scanning for 'bad' content? I thought things had to be reported on there before Twitter wasted any resources on something this small and trivial. Or, another theory is it could be the nature of the Twitter beast that sad folk have installed bots to trawl through any and all posted links. Why, I wouldn't know. Perhaps to case out websites which have poor security in order to scope them for future attacks? Perhaps they are just cataloguing links and storing them to a database, along with the content? (Hence the reason for visiting instead of merely just storing the links) Maybe they could be from different agencies looking to catalogue information?
Who knows. If i had to punt though, my money would be on the bot option.
It all begs the question though....what is the point? Is it really necessary to do this?
I suppose you take your chances and pay your price. A website which essentially promotes celebrity gossip culture to such an extent is a red flag and should have warned me prior to posting that all was not right with this place. And all the while the masses that use it are completely oblivious and are content to merely ignore the truth staring them in the face. Well, hey, it's either ignore it or start thinking, and who wants to do that? Thinking only gets in the way of telling your 500 followers about which condiment you've decided to have with your dinner.
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