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Huffington Post Goes NSA on Its Members

On top of a voluntary exodus this is beginning to sound like a purge as well.

» Posted By julieanne On December 17, 2013 @ 11:34 am

That’s exactly how I’ve read some of those articles enlightening us about scaling back in our lives. Even though I agree with the sentiment it sounds off coming from a multi-millionaire.

I thought “that’s rich coming from the 1% – telling us to learn how to be happy with less”. It’s a patronizing, very right leaning sentiment.

» Posted By julieanne On December 17, 2013 @ 10:43 am

At the risk of being your echo, I second your comments about wanting to avoid an echo-chamber. I actually enjoyed finding the all-too-rare commonality with folks of other political stripes. But when it happened I was grateful for it.

I got a lot of flak from Obama supporters when I voiced my concerns about the NSA happenings and about his drone policy, not to mention the assassination of an American citizen in Yemen. I got called a “bagger” and lost a lot of fans for daring to disagree. It was actually hurtful to me that people resorted to that. The most hurtful or disturbing part to me was seeing how extreme partisanship in our country is damaging no matter who exhibits it. I decided then to unplug a while and rarely posted there anymore. I’m tired of people being in entrenched positions politically.

I do think that the trolls abounded and I am not referring to those with whom I disagreed. I refer to those who posted one sentence retorts that were flat-out lies. I don’t care for any rewrites of history, especially when we are talking about current events. And it felt dangerous to let those comments go in the new AOL era with a lot of on-lookers who might have taken those lies as facts. And it felt exhausting having to respond to those things for that sake, too.

» Posted By julieanne On December 17, 2013 @ 8:49 am

I was pondering the nature of political discourse last night and a very fundamental thing occurred to me: Democracies are also based on privacy via the ballot box. The sacred right to express ones political views without fear of repercussion is a built-in aspect to our national political dialogue.

How a so-called political blog could overlook that is kind of astounding.

» Posted By julieanne On December 14, 2013 @ 11:42 am

Thanks HLL, I am glad to find you anywhere! As I said above: we’re like a diaspora now.

» Posted By julieanne On December 13, 2013 @ 12:42 pm

hahahaha! I did actually study some anthropology.

anyhow, we are a diaspora now.

» Posted By julieanne On December 13, 2013 @ 12:42 pm

PS have a great day yourself and I totally respect what you are saying!

» Posted By julieanne On December 13, 2013 @ 11:33 am

I do not think I could successfully convince others who happen to like FB to leave it for another alternative, no matter how much I might want them to adopt an alternative. I respect that they are happy on FB and enjoy it and I just like to spend what time I can with them there. In other words: it’s not all about what I want in these diverse communities, many folks are pretty mainstream and I don’t care to wage that argument with them.

» Posted By julieanne On December 13, 2013 @ 11:27 am

I can respond to why I do use and enjoy facebook – yet I never like any pages or do any games or anything like that. And I always lock down and recheck my security settings.

I am a part of a few scattered communities from going to school overseas, to a larger punk rock diaspora that could no longer afford to live in San Francisco and scattered, to some HP posters that I became friendly with.

Not everyone has skype, not everyone has the time to communicate news one to one with everyone related in their community that might be interested in that news. So it’s convenient, plus the widespread adoption of fb means you will most likely find people there with whom you have lost touch (compared to any other site). That is how it has been useful to me.

» Posted By julieanne On December 13, 2013 @ 10:46 am

Hi HLL, Imus, everyone!

I find this whole thing fascinating in an anthropological way. What happens to a virtual community that has suddenly become a diaspora.

anyhow, it’s me: missjulz

» Posted By julieanne On December 13, 2013 @ 10:27 am

I suspected the same thing! That the change in format plus the new change were actually what they wanted: traffic to the site but less commenting.

» Posted By julieanne On December 12, 2013 @ 10:53 am

I think I have successfully blocked this person from fb and I enjoy connecting with my friends around the globe there… I grew up in Europe and fb really does provide me a connection I enjoy since I use it mainly for non-local social life. So I do want to keep my account. Also, my parents have gotten a real education on how not to accept any anonymous friend requests so that has been helpful. And I have privately emailed my contacts to alert them so they will be mindful of doing that too. I feel okay there and he is leaving me alone now. But I do want to avoid any other loonies finding me this way. It’s an important lesson, this stuff does happen! How HP can ignore the vulnerability in that with all the vitriol on that site is beyond me!

» Posted By julieanne On December 12, 2013 @ 8:50 am

I have referred to what’s happened at HP as the “oprahfication” process – with the fawning over celebrity, lowest common denominator in arts/food sections (the food section used to be good actually!), and the new age-y quick fixes on changing your life…Not to mention all the troll food articles.

The political exchanges also became so anemic of substance over the years since the merger with AOL. The quality of discussion has just sunk to such an abysmal level that I won’t miss being there at all and had been more absent than present in the past year. Now i’m happily done with HP – a full two months after cutting off cable TV as well. I feel so much … lighter. 🙂

» Posted By julieanne On December 12, 2013 @ 8:44 am

Hi AdLib,

I am here to underline your third point about the need for anonymity. It turns out I got myself an online stalker who is a disturbed individual. Through HP he found my fb page, hacked it and my email, and started to communicate to my family members via facebook. This is a person with certain mental illness who has disrupted my family and my life. I have for three days now asked HP to not just cancel my account but to delete my profile and they have not obliged. Instead I am getting their standard email replies saying they are experiencing heavy traffic with issues from other posters. I will keep writing to them until they’ve done this. But I do not doubt they have an abundance of similar emails to attend to now.
People need to take this seriously. It has negatively effected my life in dramatic ways.

» Posted By julieanne On December 12, 2013 @ 8:23 am