I realize you're being rather tongue-in-cheek - but I wanted to say...

I work at a university, routinely interact with student workers, and have to say - these sorts of "stories" are garbage. Kids vary in terms of their work ethic, as has always been the case. There's nothing particularly different about recent generations compared to earlier ones. Even the kids who need to improve their work ethic mostly know the right way to communicate with their bosses and co-workers. They get a bit loose when talking to coworkers who fall in their own age group - but that was true even way back when *I* was the new kid.

And, incidentally, back when I was a new worker - trimming the wicks on the gas lamps - there were magazine articles saying basically the same sorts of things to people my age.

The real lesson here (if there is one) is that the folks who are attempting to make a living giving career advice to young people haven't changed significantly in many decades.

If these geeks want dates, I think they'd get more benefit out of a Bathbot.

I'm talking about the more recent revelations that came out this past June - regarding how the "friend finder" was slurping up information like your friends cell phone numbers etc. and storing that in shadow profiles (which got exposed because of the Facebook bug in their profile download tool).

The existence of Facebook and Google+ shadow profiles has indeed been known for a while.

I quit Facebook (and deleted my account) several weeks ago - right after the stuff about their shadow profiles came out.

It sucks because Facebook can have its uses - it's definitely a much easier way to keep in contact with some of my friends and family that live across the US and in Europe. But, in the end, what Facebook is doing to its users just is too high a price for me to willingly pay.

What's interesting is it's been obvious for a while that Facebook is trending downward - it's the older folks (my peers) that are really keeping it going. Younger people (e.g. my daughter) mostly still have Facebook profiles, but it's no longer their primary sharing tool. Some have moved to Tumblr, some to other networks - but the tide turned a year or two ago. I'm sure Zuckerberg knew this when he was figuring out the optimal time to launch the IPO, and I'm sure it's why they're pushing harder and harder now. It's only a matter of time before they join MySpace.

4. There's no way this won't be easy to disable.

Except, frequently, those individuals are still stupid.

Thanks to your shenanigans, now we have to listen to every conspiracy theory anyone throws out there.

Also, what percentage of Screen Actors Guild members make a living at acting?

Frankly, my gut response to this non-story is "cry me a river".

Well, to be fair... A hundred or so posters above yours also "couldn't be arsed to do a trivial google search".

Slashdot is fertile ground for Wikialities...

The truly elite used them two at a time - one with the left hand, one with the right.

It is an unfortunate truth that our government is more responsive to the desires and needs of our corporations than it is to the rights of our citizens.

I am looking for the same thing - but, in the meantime, I've already moved my personal mail off Gmail. While the ideal scenario is to have no one sniffing around in my email; since at the moment I can't do much about the government, I can at least keep Google out of it.

If a gruff-talking general and a scruffy-looking scientist show up at your door, you might want to ask some hard questions before agreeing to anything.

Even Snow Leopard had LaunchPad - and that was being sold in 2009. You almost never see it, though, because the tablet paradigm doesn't translate well to a computer... so no one chooses to use it.

"Meaty"?