Party Vibe

good point – also the attention they get isn’t always positive. One persons fun/hedonism is another debauchery, and incites hate and anger in opponents, some who have real power.

facebook is made to be easy for anyone to use, not just alternative/fringe culture people, or techie computer enthusiasts. Although they claim it is “free speech” and lightly moderated, Zuckerberg actively encourages parents, bosses, teachers, policemen and all sorts of other authority figures to act as free security staff for him, and to investigate any suspected criminality. FB is also set up to make it hard to keep things private, and the seemingly innocent practice of tagging of photos creates a trail of where someone has been!

Nightclubs and the night time economy in the UK have traditionally been linked to organised crime of various kinds and a culture of drug use and dealing, and in some cases even a culture of fighting and violence for many decades. the local constabulary here in a fairly sparsely populated part of the UK openly mention that they monitor facebook regularly, both acting on reports from other citizens and also their own detectives’ investigations.

FB also has a culture of not just co-operating with law enforcement but to save legal costs on both sides they hand over info on ad-hoc request rather than expecting a Court Order served on them.

Worse, I strongly suspect a culture of bragging and youthful defiance is amplified by the facebook culture, so authority figures think that things are far worse than reality. This leads to stuff like my local friends being asked for £20 000 security/policing costs for holding an event in our area..

I am lucky inasmuch that not only do I not use facebook, my real name is literally shared with 10,000 Chinamen. I googled it and even found 5 dudes who do very similar jobs to mine. One even shares my interest in nature / wildlife photography, filling his blog with pics of cats, dogs, and even a Suffolk Sheep – but he is not me, he’s still in his 20s and in Singapore.. I thought it was a highly amusing coincidence TBH (especially as he must have put some considerable effort into finding the sheep, there aren’t many in Singapore as they take up too much room!)

I would expect that even the action of untagging a photo is still logged somewhere on an internal log file, not for any sinister reasons but its simply how these sorts of databases/computer systems are set up to make sure that they are working properly. But if a FB photo was required for evidence purposes as part of a serious crime investigation, the cops might be given access to these logs.

whether someone uses a cameraphone, a separate digicam or even a full DSLR kit to take pictures isn’t the real issue here. Its what folk do with them afterwards.