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Kaspersky Lab Promises New Backup Tool To Help Unhappy Social Media Users Quit (kaspersky.com)
Kaspersky Lab surveyed 16,750 people and concluded that often negative experiences on social experience overpower their positive effects -- and they're doing something about it. JustAnotherOldGuy pointed us to their latest announcement.
59% have felt unhappy when they have seen friends' posts from a party they were not invited to, and 45% revealed that their friends' happy holiday pictures have had a negative influence on them. Furthermore, 37% also admitted that looking at past happy posts of their own can leave them with the feeling that their own past was better than their present life. Previous research has also demonstrated peoples' frustration with social media as 78% admitted that they have considered leaving social networks altogether. The only thing that makes people stay on social media is the fear of losing their digital memories, such as photos, and contacts with their friends.
To help people decide more freely if they want to stay in social media or leave without losing their digital memories, Kaspersky Lab is developing a new app -- FFForget will allow people to back up all of their memories from the social networks they use and keep them in a safe, encrypted memory container and will give people the freedom to leave any network whenever they want, without losing what belongs to them -- their digital lives.
The FFForget app will be released in 2017, but there's already a web page where you can sign up for early access. Kaspersky plans to monetize this by creating both a free version of the app -- limited to one social network -- and a $1.99-per-month version which automatically backs up social content from Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Instagram in real-time with a fancier interface and more powerful encryption.
To help people decide more freely if they want to stay in social media or leave without losing their digital memories, Kaspersky Lab is developing a new app -- FFForget will allow people to back up all of their memories from the social networks they use and keep them in a safe, encrypted memory container and will give people the freedom to leave any network whenever they want, without losing what belongs to them -- their digital lives.
The FFForget app will be released in 2017, but there's already a web page where you can sign up for early access. Kaspersky plans to monetize this by creating both a free version of the app -- limited to one social network -- and a $1.99-per-month version which automatically backs up social content from Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Instagram in real-time with a fancier interface and more powerful encryption.
Seriously, you people need to get the fuck over yourselves. You are just a bunch of narcissistic crybabies.
Facebook gives you a free dump. Instagram is the only thing not easy, and what does the rest matter? There are already a few instagram solutions. It looks like more useless apps from A/V companies. But hey, it probably gives the russians the same access the CIA has, so that is great.
"FFForget will allow people to back up all of their memories from the social networks they use and keep them in a safe, encrypted memory container and will give people the freedom to leave any network whenever they want..."
No problem- I avoided all this stress by not having a Facebook account, or Instacrap, Pinterest, etc etc etc.
I host my own pics on my own servers, so I miss out on all the angst and data-mining.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
The only thing that makes people stay on social media is the fear of losing their digital memories, such as photos, and contacts with their friends.
Backup photos and other items to your computer or cloud drive?
Keep the account so you can contact people as needed, but don't bother posting or reading posts. And connect with people one on one instead of on a website by phone, email, or in person?
Are people unable to control themselves? Or conduct themselves in a competent manner to their own benefit? Is logic and reason dead now?
What about stopping wasting your time with stupid social media, and getting a life instead?
And anything you want to save you should have backups anyway. That's not hard even for the non-tech.
I got bored with everything but Twitter which I like for the tech stuff. It's like a gasp cool personalized RSS feed. Back to UserLand!
This one for sure. I'm white and a programmer that lives in Seattle so the vacation inequality problem is huge. I haven't had more than a single day off at a time in nearly twenty years. My Asian friends all get two or more weeks contiguous off each year. Yes, I understand flying to India is expensive and time-consuming so you need to spend as much time as you can there, but it's ridiculous that this industry tolerates that inequality. My last vacation was when I worked at Microsoft in 1997 and went to Mexico for a week. I got several phone calls a day. It suck when, for example, eating dinner and having the hotel manager track me down to take a phone call. I quit Microsoft after I had taken a Friday off to fly home for my mother's funeral and then was demanded to be back at work on the following Monday. I didn't really have any choice in the matter since I had to settle everything and sell her house. The one positive thing was that I got unemployment anyway since I found a sympathetic employee at the Washington state Employment Security Department. When you get screwed bad enough for a normally uncaring bureaucrat to sympathize with you, it's pretty bad.
Hence Kaspersky's attempt to make money on something else. The fact that they chose such unproductive and unnecessary activity is a bit worrying. Was there nothing else they could have applied their talent on? Is that the sign that the productivity has run out of room to grow?
45% revealed that their friends' happy holiday pictures have had a negative influence on them
Now, I have never signed up for any of these newfangled Faceagram Instabook Linkedspace things, so maybe I am just out of touch with modern life. But speaking solely for myself here, it makes me happy to know my friends had a nice vacation with some downtime, experiencing other places and cultures, etc.
I can't imagine why you'd ever be unhappy about someone you called a friend having a nice experience. Unless it was a shitty vacation or thereabouts, but that's a different thing.
So, serious question: does social media really have that effect on people? If so it seems ... unhealthy at best.
I'd rather not send my social media credentials to the KGB...
https://momentoapp.com/
I'm sure there's an Android analogue as well, but I'm unfamiliar with Android.
Kaspersky I am not too happy with them. We had some news about people being arrested for treason?
My payment system is a Windows system and I had to transfer some money and "Kaspersky Internet security" is working in the background and I am thinking to myself is it safe. I was transferring £5000 not a lot of money but but the account I was transferring it to had a lot of money in it. This Windows payment system has a long standing contract with Kaspersky, I wish they would let people know what is happening. When the licence is near its end they always send you an e-mail reminding you. So where is my e-mail telling me what is happening. Is my money safe? What the fuck is happening.
Sunday 05/02/17.
Are they gonna save the copy in KGB servers, CIA or Mossad servers? If Mossad I am ok with that. They have all the data already anyways.
"Social media" is more like mass advertising than social interaction. It is a form of instant gratification, that takes advantage of people's inherent insecurities. My best friends are ones that I know will hide me from the cops if I arrive at their door covered in blood, not the ones that spend the most time making superficial replies to my random posts. Build strong relationships with a small number of important people. You will be much happier.
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
It's a "Block All Political Bullshit" button. Left, right, libertarian, socialist, SJW, vegan, just block it all. Automatically blocks all links to any political sites and anything else enough people tag as political.
But Facebook won't do that just like they won't honor your endless switching your feed back to Most Recent. Because there's no money in it for them.
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I personally think social media is more about gossip and knowing what everyone else is doing. To me its sort of trying to replace what was once infrequent gatherings with friends to catch up. But I think some of that social media is a bit too much information at times for everyone. It's probably why on average people start off with a social web site frequently visiting and posting and then eventually that enthusiasm and interest fades. But I don't think people stay just because of their personal content. I think they are unwilling to cut the social cord to others for fear of losing a connection.
Will be data be hosted on the client's machine or on their servers? Will access to information from governments require a warrant?
Try without "www", it worked for me: https://ffforget.kaspersky.com... .
Promises that it will only share harvested social networking data with the Russian FSB.
I'm not his bleeping product. Say no to Facebook. So no to the walled garden!