Glenn Greenwald: ‘Nobody Should Use Facebook’
Speaking in Canada, Glenn Greenwald was asked why Edward Snowden isn’t on social media.
“He doesn’t use Facebook because he hates Facebook,” he said. “They’re one of the worst violators of privacy in history. Nobody should use Facebook.”
Greenwald did add that despite the difficulties of being the most wanted man in the world right now, he thought Snowden would be an engaging presence on Twitter, should he choose to go in that direction. Snowden practically lives his life online these days, he added, and “actually, before all this happened, before anyone knew Edward Snowden, it’s what he did anyways.”[su_csky_ad]
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
tiredoftea November 3rd, 2014 at 6:08 pm
Way ahead of you, Glenn!
OldLefty November 3rd, 2014 at 6:10 pm
I never did Facebook, but I AM always awaiting instructions from the Mighty Greenwald.
Tommy6860 November 3rd, 2014 at 6:14 pm
If anyone thinks it is just FB that is bad, then stop using Google, Gmail, Outlook, Bing and so on. Not only that, may as well stop using your cell phones, those devices say just as much about what you do as any online activity. I mean, I may as well just stay offline, draw my curtains and hide under the foil sheets.
This guy struggles to remain relevant.
M D Reese November 3rd, 2014 at 6:55 pm
I realize that it’s all a compromise–I just try not to make it any easier than it already is. I for sure don’t have any nude photos (or any photos) on a cloud somewhere.
mea_mark November 3rd, 2014 at 6:14 pm
That is why avoid Facebook like ebola, it’s bad. Business with no moral compass just a drive for profits gathering information on people so it can exploit it, very bad.
tiredoftea November 3rd, 2014 at 6:15 pm
Kinda like Apple, Google, eBay and most others.
mea_mark November 3rd, 2014 at 6:25 pm
Facebook was founded by Zuckerberg using deception and deceit. Never trust those kinda people. Apple, Google, eBay not as bad, but keep an eye on them. Facebook, no way.
Obewon November 3rd, 2014 at 6:48 pm
FNC’s Eric Bolling touts SnapChat because he thinks it supposedly vaporizes in 5 minutes… but saved SnapChat’s of 20+ celeb nudes published prove errant Bolling the dimmest on TV.
OldLefty November 3rd, 2014 at 6:31 pm
And including the Guardian when he wrote there.
People who use “Ghostery” said Greenwald’s articles in the Guardian have counted like, 92, embedded corporate trackers.
Are we to believe that his new site (who threw Matt Taibbi under the bus, by the way), isn’t doing it as well?
Carla Akins November 3rd, 2014 at 6:42 pm
I have learned to embrace FB. I know there is no privacy, my public thread is community related road closures, missing kids, local news with an occasional picture of the world’s most adorable grandchild.
Facebook is what it is, I never list my employer – that could get me in trouble, but anything I place on FB is for public consumption. There’s a certain amount of irony in “worst violators of privacy” when speaking of someone that stole government secrets and ran to Russia.
Tommy6860 November 3rd, 2014 at 6:57 pm
FB is bad, but like you, I don’t list anything about me. My education, where I live, anything. And I mostly only comment on the pages of my friends and that entails most politics and social issues.
Hirightnow November 3rd, 2014 at 7:42 pm
You’re on FB?!???!!!???
I want to send you some Farmville seeds, help me to solve a CSI case, and join me in my pirate quest to take Tortuga from some guy in Idaho!
I’ll be “friending” you shortly!
Anomaly 100 November 3rd, 2014 at 8:13 pm
Laughing!
Hirightnow November 3rd, 2014 at 8:30 pm
You too!!! I want to send you some bonus “Candy Smash” points!!!
Anomaly 100 November 3rd, 2014 at 8:42 pm
Yay for me!
Carla Akins November 4th, 2014 at 5:05 am
Bwahaha. Bring it, my friend!
Larry Schmitt November 4th, 2014 at 7:22 am
I am almost forced to use FB too, in order to keep in touch with my family, who are spread all over the country. But like you, I don’t have anything about me on there. No hometown, no school, job, interests, and I only have 23 friends, all family. FB even went so far as to send a message to one of my sisters that they should suggest friends for me. When she posted that, I replied that FB should go eff themselves. Might be coincidence, but there have been no more similar suggestions.
Carla Akins November 4th, 2014 at 10:00 am
I get the suggestions to “complete” my profile all the time, I just ignore it. Mr Akins has absolutely no social media presence. He has an email account but doesn’t use his name. I mean nothing.
Larry Schmitt November 4th, 2014 at 10:40 am
I also ignore those suggestions. If it didn’t require my birthdate, it wouldn’t be there either.
M D Reese November 3rd, 2014 at 6:52 pm
I agree with him about facebook. Never been–won’t ever go.
Khary A November 4th, 2014 at 9:45 am
Even without the points being made about privacy, Facebook is damaging in a multitude of ways other than that. There have been various studies and inquiries into the damaging effects of the social media site. I’ve been off it for almost two years now and I can tell you it felt better dropping that than it did quitting smoking.
M D Reese November 4th, 2014 at 12:41 pm
I believe you completely–and I did quit smoking.
I have a good friend who quit using it a couple of years ago. She had it mostly for family–sharing pictures and such. She hated it–and finally told her family (all of whom live nearby) that if they wanted to get ahold of her, they could call her on the phone, and if they wanted to share a particular photo with her, they could e-mail it. She was relieved.
Facebook is insidious–it’s everywhere. A lot of web sites us FB for comments–I won’t. They are too interconnected with everything everywhere. I don’t expect privacy on line, but I also would like to keep a few things to myself.
Khary A November 4th, 2014 at 1:25 pm
I’ve heard the friends and family argument but i dunno it just doesn’t hold water with me. With so many ways to communicate now why reduce the interactions we have with one another to cursory and passive concern? I watched myself actually growing distant from people via that forum and learn to hate some of my now former friends because they were sharing things there that they never would have said to me face to face. Funny that those things seemed to come out around 2008 and again around 2012, I wonder what was going on around then? So now I really cultivate my active friendships, I look for people who want to share in my life as opposed to just merely observing.
M D Reese November 4th, 2014 at 2:15 pm
I hear you–I’ve only experienced FB vicariously, and that was close enough. I have a friend who still has an account “to keep in touch” with his kids. Hey–why not just give them a PERSONAL call or email?
Hass November 3rd, 2014 at 7:24 pm
Not just FB, it’s more like any site you.
Hirightnow November 3rd, 2014 at 7:40 pm
Hirightnow: “Nobody should pay attention to Glenn Greenwald.”.
There. I’m on the Internet, and I have a forum. Listen to my words.
AAASuperPatriot November 3rd, 2014 at 7:44 pm
The NSA would like nothing better than for people to ignore Glenn Greenwald.
And, apparently, you are their tool.
Hirightnow November 3rd, 2014 at 7:51 pm
Glenn isn’t doing much to dissuade me from ignoring him…
AAASuperPatriot November 3rd, 2014 at 8:38 pm
Are you the monkey with his fingers in his ears?
Hirightnow November 3rd, 2014 at 9:24 pm
I’m the one with the hand over his mouth, actually…
But it’s not “speak no evil” as much as it is “Keep from vomiting in disgust”…
fahvel November 4th, 2014 at 3:35 am
ooooh, use the mouth habd next as your fourth hand.
fahvel November 4th, 2014 at 3:34 am
oh no, he’s the fourth monkey and you know damn well where he puts his finger.
Tammy Minton Haley November 3rd, 2014 at 8:16 pm
…so, what? are you one of the naive pollyannas who didn’t know the government has been listening in since listening in began?
it’s certainly not Hi’s fault you’ve been so…unconcerned, indifferent, lost for 30 years…
snowden is a traitor, not a hero–and greenwald is his pimp…period.
apparently, you’ve been asleep…
Hirightnow November 3rd, 2014 at 8:32 pm
How do I love thee, Tammy….
Let me count the ways:
1 one thousand
2 one thousand
3 one thousand…
AAASuperPatriot November 3rd, 2014 at 8:37 pm
>>…so, what? are you one of the naive pollyannas who didn’t know the government has been listening in since listening in began?
Listening? If only!
Clearly you don’t know what Greenwald and Snowden told us the government is doing.
fahvel November 4th, 2014 at 3:33 am
and dear tammy, you idiotic attitude is why the concept of freedom and liberty are words rather than a reality.
Tammy Minton Haley November 7th, 2014 at 5:34 pm
before you call another “idiotic”, perhaps you should check your grammar…the sentence should read…”…your idiotic…”…
you’re stupid, and an asshole…
fahvel November 4th, 2014 at 3:32 am
you have just become a fool.
StoneyCurtisll November 3rd, 2014 at 7:42 pm
‘Car Talk’ Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At 77…
RIP Tom..
Loved the show.
Hirightnow November 3rd, 2014 at 7:42 pm
DAMN!
Sorry to hear it.
AAASuperPatriot November 3rd, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Was he sick? If so, I had no idea.
I gotta say, I am really fond of him and many of the NPR folk.
StoneyCurtisll November 3rd, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Alzheimer’s…
Thats a tough road to go down..
AAASuperPatriot November 3rd, 2014 at 7:50 pm
I just read that. I really had no idea. I knew that the recent shows were repeats but I figured they were just retiring.
I also see that the show started in 1987 which is when I think I started listening.
AAASuperPatriot November 3rd, 2014 at 8:42 pm
If you don’t care about the government spying on you, you might as well take a dump on the Constitution.