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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.
"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...
What about stopping wasting your time with stupid social media, and getting a life instead?
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?
You Americans with your shit terms and conditions and indentured servitude mentality. You want to think about joining a union. Then you might work decent hours for fair pay and ge t holidays etc.
But no you're too brainwashed and"unions are communism".
Enjoy your corporate slave lives.
100% positive there is a correlation of those unhappy people being single vs non-single (even more so being childless and single vs families)...which is what facebook whoring seems mostly about.
I quite in 2010 and never looked back. To depressing if you're forever alone for a long period of time...even if you're happy for the people around you.
"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.
100% positive there is a correlation of those unhappy people being single vs non-single (even more so being childless and single vs families)...which is what facebook whoring seems mostly about.
Could be a chicken and egg thing. A lot of men are choosing to remain single because the cards are stacked against them, and present day young women have been raised on a steady diet of misandry since they were young, and are mostly pretty unpleasant to be around, so it's kind of understandable that men are a little harder to get. My single male friends are either really happy or putting up a big front, and the older single females - not so much. The lament is "Where did all the good men go?" Well - it's like Yogi Berra said, "..if they aren't going to go there, there's no way you are going to stop them."
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
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
Yeah, yeah, and then we have to pay you guys BTC 5 to unlock it again. We know the drill, your colleagues have been doing this to us for years.
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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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... .