Why I dont do facebook !

[HunterICX]

Lucky I dont have anything with these Social blogs/pages

it's pethatic how the majority of those users communicate more to eachother throught those stupid blogs/pages then they would if they where in the same room.

HunterICX

[Catfish]

Hello,

i really despise those "social" networks, after all it's only one step more towards total knowledge and control, of the state - and certainly your company can look at it anytime.

Only write things in Xing, facebook whatever what you would reveal to a total stranger, in a bar - and nothing else period.

There's certainly a good trick against this rubbish, by just using it properly :

"I am now 89 years old, have not much interests apart from reading history books, have no internet access (only at net cafés) and live alone in my own house. My wife is dead and i am almost bankrupt."

Be sure to leave your real eMail adress, you will be astonished how very little spam you will suddenly receive, along with no viagra, sports, insurance, credit or dating offers any more

Greetings,
Catfish

[GoldenRivet]

@ Catfish

in regards to your spam comment

The best practice is to have 3 e mail addresses

One for personal use

One for Professional use

One for spam

The personal use e mail could be the goofy inside joke screen name like "DorkyTurd1999@xmail.com" this would be used for communitcating with friends and aquaintances.

The professional use e mail would be something simple like your name "John.Doe@xmail.com" and this e mail address would be used for appearance on resumes or for other professional contacts as it would be inappropriate to use "dorkyturd" as your professional contact e mail addy.

The spam e mail could be anything "SpamBin1999@xmail.com" - you would use this e mail address on any social networking, online purchases or other such interactions which would likley result in your receipt of spam messages.

This has more or less always been my rule of thumb when it comes to creating e mail accounts

[Dowly]

Or you can just use email that has a good spam filter.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Or you can just use email that has a good spam filter.

this is true.

However, I have tried 5 or 6 different email systems, Yahoo, aol, hotmail, gmail etc etc

I have found Gmail to have about the best spam filter that there is.

but even the best spam filter wont catch it all... and may even still send some legitimate messages to the spam bin.

I have found that probably the best way to approach spam is to create a bogus e mail address that you never intend to check or monitor which is used solely for online purchasing / signing up for stuff online etc.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Lucky I dont have anything with these Social blogs/pages

it's pethatic how the majority of those users communicate more to eachother throught those stupid blogs/pages then they would if they where in the same room.

HunterICX

Often they are in the same room yet still communicate via their accounts....a way of life with some, a habit too hard to break

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Rilder

Sorry I must of been unclear. I was talking about those people that will go and tell me to get on facebook, and get mad if I don't add them on it, as if this social networking site is somehow an important facet of our friendship.

My apologies. It was late and I was tired and in one of 'those' moods. I didn't mean to overreact.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Often they are in the same room yet still communicate via their accounts....a way of life with some, a habit too hard to break

Kids in the back seat of the car, texting each other on their cell phones.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Kids in the back seat of the car, texting each other on their cell phones.

Aye and that

I've a daughter upstairs with her foot in plaster after a foot operation who texts her mam who is downstairs, messages, rather than use one of the dect phones in the house.

Force of bloody habit

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Aye and that

I've a daughter upstairs with her foot in plaster after a foot operation who texts her mam who is downstairs, messages, rather than use one of the dect phones in the house.

Force of bloody habit

Force of shuffing down the Mobile Phone bill down yer throat

HunterICX

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I've a daughter upstairs with her foot in plaster after a foot operation who texts her mam who is downstairs, messages, rather than use one of the dect phones in the house.

What ever happened to good old fashioned yelling?

That's how we did it in our house, dadgummit.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Force of shuffing down the Mobile Phone bill down yer throat

HunterICX

That is partly the problem, all the mobile phone packages in the household have free unlimited text bundles.

The idiot that pays the bills doesn't even text (6 per month....if that)

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

What ever happened to good old fashioned yelling?

That's how we did it in our house, dadgummit.

She wouldn't dare....I doubt the police would appreciate my habit of gagging her every night so she wouldn't want to make do with a camping bed in the garage

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

What ever happened to good old fashioned yelling?

That's how we did it in our house, dadgummit.

I lived downstairs. My stepmom would just stomp hard on the floor (my ceiling) if she wanted anything. I'd better come running if I knew what's good for me.

On the other hand the last roommate I had was texted by his girlfriend to his computer every 15 seconds: "I haven't heard from you. What's going on?" "Why haven't you called me?" "Okay, *&#^@*(, I'm through with you!" "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." "Please call me."

All the time I'm using his computer to look for work while he's out with friends...

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

this is true.

However, I have tried 5 or 6 different email systems, Yahoo, aol, hotmail, gmail etc etc

I have found Gmail to have about the best spam filter that there is.

but even the best spam filter wont catch it all... and may even still send some legitimate messages to the spam bin.

I have found that probably the best way to approach spam is to create a bogus e mail address that you never intend to check or monitor which is used solely for online purchasing / signing up for stuff online etc.

Using Gmail myself and I get one spam email that gets thru maybe once in 3-5 months. And trust me, tell me a porn site and my email addy is on their database.