putasidemobile

I'd say it is a battle, and a battle that is won by Facebook. I now want to surrender, but with a little dignity.

You won't convince your social group to delete their Facebook account. You may, however, convince them that you are not cool.

I'll probably take the other advice, open a new account, use a week for invites, turn on email-updates, and bite the bullet.

> Facebook users can invite non-Facebook users by email to events, if they want to.

This stops after a while. Even when you stay a pleasant person, you'll always be "that guy" requiring an extra action to contact. The social ripple/ping of an event stays inside Facebook.

> You want to be in their social graph, but not have a Facebook account.

In the ideal form this would be a totally open protocol (with backing of Facebook, Google, ... and W3C).

In the current form, I do not know enough about Facebook to suggest a good system. Yes. I want to be in their social graph, but not have a Facebook account or be under Facebook TOS. If that is meaningless at the moment, maybe we should make it mean something.

Related: Please Facebook, let me peek over your walled garden. Taking a privacy-friendly stance, with the current Facebook, hurts my social life.

I do not trust your company, and I think you are bound to act unethically in the future. But I do not ask you to become a trustworthy ethical company. Mess with the accounts of my friends all you want. I just want to be invited to the next BBQ. People have stopped using e-mail for announcing these social events, and _all_ use Facebook. Could it be possible for me to not be on Facebook, yet still stay up-to-date on what my friends, or hell, even my parents now, are doing? A more advanced social graph API that hooks into email, RSS, Twitter, whatever... ?

I'm sure you also have my email-address from the address books of my contacts, so you could verify me.

As one of your longest non-users (I remember when TheFacebook required a Harvard-email for invite), please let me become a semi-user. It won't pay you a dime, but it will make the world a better place.

Actually you share one more, important, datum: This user uses Tor. Likely uses Tor for other, possible nefarious, purposes too. Likely has a high X_keyscore.

Your real profile and location can be inferred from your browsing habbits and friend's data.

Unfortunately, with the current size of Facebook, even "not having an active Facebook account" shares data, especially when you are in an age category where all your peers do have profiles. It's a negative signal to recruiters and employers ("must have something to hide...").

This is almost surely not content hosted on Google.com, but content hosted on sites which Google redirects to.

If Google serves a single malicious site as a linked result (or in a redirect) it will flag Google.com as hosting malicious content.

This has been the case for years now, also for other Google properties, like Youtube and DoubleClick.

I may have been too harsh on Google. If Google implements: "Hey, this javascript ad code is trying to redirect to another domain, let's throw up a warning." then that would be great (no matter if it hits their own ads).

Google may also share information from SafeBrowsing with other companies, so they can opt to fix their stuff.

Also that what I may view as terrible ads, Google sees as companies gradually finding the razorsharp edge of their program policies.

For obvious reasons, we do not hear (or see) anything about the successful efforts to keep scam and spam away from their networks.

It showed me an album page on Android too. And a Google ad for a free to play Flappy Bird clone (called Flappy Bird).

Clicking on the ad I was greeted with a landing page, with tiny gray jpeg letters telling me that this free game service costs only 5 Euro a week (automatic renewal). The company behind it, Mobster Ltd. leads me to a dead end on Cyprus and a whole lot of internet complaints.

So please do not click that link or Google may be forced to block imgur. Sorry.