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Alice Penelope Drake is typing...

[onceandfuturemascot]

Hello out there in beta land I guess?
Oh good it pulled my full name off my phone without asking
Glad to see everyone is as ethical as facebook now
And that everyone knows my middle name
I guess its fine if its a closed beta...

[true_noir]

Ugh, facebook. Don't remind me about that. I wasted a month of my life playing some farm thing there. But it really doesn't seem very secure, and very invasive, doesn't it?

[onceandfuturemascot]

Sadly this is what life is like now if you spend any time online at all
Anonymity was a nice trend but everything is a lot more 60's political sci fi than 80's cyberpunk now

[true_noir]

Hey now, those are actually kind of fun to watch. Good old spy thrillers are more interesting than some of the movies they have these days.

But, I suppose you're right. It is hard to be anonymous, isn't it? This has certainly made it much harder.

[onceandfuturemascot]

I was thinking more Fahrenheit 451
Or anything else written by a sci fi author who foresaw the internet and proactively complained about the kids using it

[true_noir]

Oh, I haven't read that, but I think that I've heard of it at some point. There's so many works in English that I need to read one of these days.

People predicted this, though?

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[clear_eyes]

Facebook never forced a closed beta like this.

I'm sorry you had your information exposed. I'm not too happy about that myself.

[onceandfuturemascot]

I'm more worried about the people on here who seem to be kids
Or the ones who put their credit card information on their phones

[clear_eyes]

Someone else had that same thought earlier.

[Had the thought, not made the mistake. She won't throw you under the bus, Maya.]

But being only 17 myself, I'm worried about the same thing as your first point. I don't want anything getting to anyone weird.

[notbunaga]

if it's any consolation your name sounds fake.
like a young british heiress in a jane austen novel.

[onceandfuturemascot]

Someone here has to be painfully anglo saxon I guess

[notbunaga]

well you're doing a good job so far
anyway i wouldnt be so concerned about this too much
it wouldnt make sense for a company to paint a big target on themselves with something like this
if they wanted our info, they could've gotten it without the app, from what i can see. we wouldn't be any the wiser until the loan sharks come over to break our thumbs
so they're either super incompetent...
or there's something else to this

[onceandfuturemascot]

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[digthefuzz]

beta believe it! LOL
it's not a bad name tho

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[oceanicbutterfly]

At least it's a nice name. Imagine if your middle name was Treeslug or something.

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[myboggartisthemoon]

Curious. Mine only use my middle initial.

'Penelope' suits you, though.

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[judicatus]

Seems that it doesn't display everyone's full names in equal measure. I'd call it sloppy if I weren't concerned over the security risks already present in exposing one's first and last names alone.

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[scarlet_devil]

At least Facebook gives you a choice to download it or not.

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