Why I don't trust facebook

[nikimcbee]

see you posting about the evils of Subsim.

Let me think about that one.

[Reece]

I was a member of Facebook and deleted my data and closed the account, several months later i get an email from Facebook to say that my account has been reactivated!! WTF!! Closed it again but is it really closed? probably not!
@ Skybird, I have had an account with PayPal for a few years now, never had any problems whatsoever, easiest way to pay for most online transactions!

[nikimcbee]

I guess I'm not totally "anti-facefook"; I'm not a "hater" so to speak. Maybe I'm just paranoid about their services. It's set off my virus software one too many times. Even though I had the "block" on, I was amazed how many times I had to re- turn it on again

If I were to sign up again, I'd be really picky about who I friended.

On a side note, I'm glad to hear that you found more of your family. Have you found any other "long/lost people?"

I found people from elementary school, that I hadn't seen since I moved in 82.

[mapuc]

I say the same thing as Sailor Steve.

I have a FB-account, but I do not share everything and those thing I do share, I share only with my friends

If my friends wanna know more about me they can email me and ask.

I know that FB are using cookies on my computer-It's a bad thing to do. However if it can make them happy so be it.

I have rejected every commercial spot that appears on my wall.

But without FB I hadn't met my old schoolmates and old working colleague

Edit
To say it strait: some people are really Stupid!!
"Facebook said this week that hackers using stolen username and password credentials try to break into at least 600,000 accounts every day on the mammoth social networking site."

I know that there are many on FB that clicks on page that contain vira or they give away their account to who it may be. So many on FB are just 110 % stupid.


Markus

[Reece]

Originally Posted by mapuc

So many on FB are just 110 % stupid.

Markus

That is a large percentage!

[gimpy117]

thats why you need a good password.

[Sledgehammer427]

thats why mine is...

ah waittaminute.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I guess I'm not totally "anti-facefook"; I'm not a "hater" so to speak. Maybe I'm just paranoid about their services. It's set off my virus software one too many times. Even though I had the "block" on, I was amazed how many times I had to re- turn it on again

I'm sorry, Jason. I didn't mean to come off as rude or defensive. I seem to be "having a day" with everyone today.

If I were to sign up again, I'd be really picky about who I friended.

A good idea. As with Subsim, All my friends there are either real friends or aquaintances or people I've actually had dealings with online. The guys in my band are "friends". Their wives and girlfriends too, as well as one brother of our main guy, who I've met with a lot. On the other hand his other brother and more distant relatives are not, as I don't really know them. I seem to have a lot of FB "friends" (43 the last I checked), but they are all people I've met or know from Subsim.

On a side note, I'm glad to hear that you found more of your family. Have you found any other "long/lost people?"

Oh yes indeedy. I recently got a request from someone I knew in a church group long ago. This led to a few others, and one of them was a guy I also played in a band with back then. It turns out he's had a 25-year career as a recording engineer and producer, and that led to us now being in his studio for our current project. We've done a lot of catching up, and he and the guys in the band really like each other, and we spent eight hours laying down tracks yesterday, and we can already tell that he's going to do a great job for us.

So yeah, FaceBook's been good to me.

I found people from elementary school, that I hadn't seen since I moved in 82.

That's cool.