Facebook owns you - Page 3

ZenGum · 12-14-2009, 05:37 PM

Merc, do it ASAP. I'm not on facebook but am checking it out, and stuff I have read suggests that the default positions are for minimum privacy and maximum sharing. Also the settings are in several different menus and stuff.

Vanessa ... you berry wewcome. Fox news ... "very informative" bwahahahaaa.

TheMercenary · 12-14-2009, 05:38 PM

I am just not sure I can find all the different menus to do it, I am not really FB savy. If anyone has any advice on where to do all the changes I would appreciate it.

Cloud · 12-14-2009, 06:30 PM

tricksy Facebook tried to get everyone to open all their content to public. You need to go in and delete all that default settings.

Since Facebook has my real name on there, I deliberately keep my page very simple, family oriented, and open only to those who know my real name. Any potential employer would find nothing objectionable on there.

And NO, I'm not giving them all my fucking passwords to all my sites. No way, no how.

wolf · 12-15-2009, 01:23 PM

I don't do Facebook or MySpace or any of that other nonsense.

I've spent all these years avoiding being found on the internet, why should I change now?

toranokaze · 12-17-2009, 06:38 PM

I'm kinda with you wolf. However, I do use these sites but work hard to keep anything personally identifiable off of them.

TheMercenary · 12-17-2009, 08:31 PM

EPIC joins the fight.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/18503..._of_words.html

A little more info about the issue.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...y_options.html

xoxoxoBruce · 01-13-2010, 01:25 AM

Interview with a Facebook insider. Interesting look at how it works and how it's changing. Also the people that work there.

classicman · 01-13-2010, 03:35 PM

wow - I bet that sort of thing goes on a lot more than we sheep realize.

skysidhe · 01-23-2010, 10:38 AM

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Gravdigr · 02-09-2010, 05:24 AM

I just said this elsewhere.

classicman · 10-18-2010, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook app users, including people who set their profiles to Facebook's strictest privacy settings. The practice breaks Facebook's rules, and renews questions about its ability to keep identifiable information about its users' activities secure.

From here

Its getting even worse ... Damn glad I don't play any of them.

glatt · 10-18-2010, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

Damn glad I don't play any of them.

Yeah, but if any of your friends play them, then your FB info is compromised already.

I think at this point, if anyone thinks there is anything private about what they put on FB, they have a serious lack of understanding about how FB works, regardless of their settings.

classicman · 10-18-2010, 01:40 PM

Well .... Shit then. I'm just gonna post my SS#. bank account info, PIN#'s address, phone and mothers maiden name along with all my passwords.
That way I won't worry that its being stolen.

Griff · 10-18-2010, 04:23 PM

I feel better about being pre-millennial now. Now I just need to edit my gazillion cellar posts...

GunMaster357 · 10-19-2010, 04:22 AM

I still don't have a FaceBook/Twitter account. I am unable to see anything useful in this system. I hate giving away any personnal information on the web.

I only maintain a Viadeo account for professional purpose.

And usually, if asked for an email, I provide one that is hosted by google/hotmail/whatever.

12-14-2009, 05:37 PM	#31
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Merc, do it ASAP. I'm not on facebook but am checking it out, and stuff I have read suggests that the default positions are for minimum privacy and maximum sharing. Also the settings are in several different menus and stuff. Vanessa ... you berry wewcome. Fox news ... "very informative" bwahahahaaa. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

12-14-2009, 05:38 PM	#32
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I am just not sure I can find all the different menus to do it, I am not really FB savy. If anyone has any advice on where to do all the changes I would appreciate it. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

12-14-2009, 06:30 PM	#33
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	tricksy Facebook tried to get everyone to open all their content to public. You need to go in and delete all that default settings. Since Facebook has my real name on there, I deliberately keep my page very simple, family oriented, and open only to those who know my real name. Any potential employer would find nothing objectionable on there. And NO, I'm not giving them all my fucking passwords to all my sites. No way, no how. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

12-15-2009, 01:23 PM	#34
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I don't do Facebook or MySpace or any of that other nonsense. I've spent all these years avoiding being found on the internet, why should I change now? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-17-2009, 06:38 PM	#35
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	I'm kinda with you wolf. However, I do use these sites but work hard to keep anything personally identifiable off of them. __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.

12-17-2009, 08:31 PM	#36
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	EPIC joins the fight. http://www.pcworld.com/article/18503..._of_words.html A little more info about the issue. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...y_options.html __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-13-2010, 01:25 AM	#37
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Interview with a Facebook insider. Interesting look at how it works and how it's changing. Also the people that work there. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-13-2010, 03:35 PM	#38
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	wow - I bet that sort of thing goes on a lot more than we sheep realize. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-23-2010, 10:38 AM	#39
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	web 2.0 suicide machine http://suicidemachine.org/ Need to disappear from Facebook or Twitter? Now you can scrub yourself from the Internet with Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, a nifty service that purges your online presence from these all-consuming social networks. Since its Dec. 19 launch, Suicide Machine has assisted more than 1,000 virtual deaths, severing more than 80,500 friendships on Facebook and removing some 276,000 tweets from Twitter. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/ar...#ixzz0dSDqavqi

02-09-2010, 05:24 AM	#40
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	I just said this elsewhere. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

10-18-2010, 01:40 PM	#43
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Well .... Shit then. I'm just gonna post my SS#. bank account info, PIN#'s address, phone and mothers maiden name along with all my passwords. That way I won't worry that its being stolen. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-18-2010, 04:23 PM	#44
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I feel better about being pre-millennial now. Now I just need to edit my gazillion cellar posts... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

10-19-2010, 04:22 AM	#45
GunMaster357 Professor Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Brest (FRANCE) Posts: 1,837	I still don't have a FaceBook/Twitter account. I am unable to see anything useful in this system. I hate giving away any personnal information on the web. I only maintain a Viadeo account for professional purpose. And usually, if asked for an email, I provide one that is hosted by google/hotmail/whatever. __________________ "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce

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