Kaspersky Lab Promises New Backup Tool To Help Unhappy Social Media Users Quit (kaspersky.com) 54
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.
Is this for snowflakes? (Score:1)
Seriously, you people need to get the fuck over yourselves. You are just a bunch of narcissistic crybabies.
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Why should I not judge? I can and I will because I can, snowflake. Now go cry yourself to sleep.
It just seems rather ironic. You seem to be showing narcissistic tendencies and are quite frankly acting like a crybaby. Therefore it seems quite plausible that you're just projecting your own tendencies onto others.
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Step away from the coffee maker. Your anger management has peaked, and now spread out over the site of a bunch of babbling geeks.
By the way, have you thought seriously about joining Whitehouse.govr? You'd do really really well there.
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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.
Lol, not a problem (Score:5, Interesting)
"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.
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Another proposal (Score:5, Insightful)
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Social media is a part of life but people need to accept each social media site as only a fun fad and not commit so much emotion or effort to it. Social media, no different to the yoyo, the hula hoop or any other fad, just like MySpace. Play with it for a little while, gets boring or annoying, then stop, do not invest your life in it, you will suffer for it.
People need to place proper context on social media, ignore the hype and bullshit marketing, it is a game, it is not life. Play to amuse yourself and b
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Social media is a part of life but people need to accept each social media site as only a fun fad and not commit so much emotion or effort to it.
If only. Since I resisted FB for years, and only signed up when I needed to for the various projects I work on, I had a little different perspective. Well, my relatives found me, and I have to say that they run the gamut, but all are overly involved. From the over-sharer, who apprently shares every single thing she does on the internet - quickly unfollowed, to the drama queen who posts cryptic messages like "I can't stand it any more" and then everyone else holds her in their prayers, to the overly politici
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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.
The only antivirus needed is MS Defender (Score:3, Insightful)
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?
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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.
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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 l
Not Social (Score:2)
"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.
That's not the tool Facebook really needs (Score:3)
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.
Who gets the data? (Score:1)
The link to FFForget in TFS failed for me. (Score:1)