Facebook Users - Beware of the 5th of November

[Sailor Steve]

I like FaceBook. It's the only contact I have with my kids. That said, I only remember to log on every few days, and then see if they've posted any new pictures of their kids. The band uses it to advertise.

So, if it went away tomorrow I'd be a little bummed about my kids, but it wouldn't really mean anything.

[discomjim]

if the anarchists say 5th, bet your life it'll be the 4th or the 6th !

[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

The hacking group, Anonymous

Anonymous isn't really a "group" it's just a pseudonym anyone who is connected with sights like 4chan, 2chan 420chan etc. uses when they want to do things like this. There isn't some central evil council or anything.

[Anthony W.]

I only use Facebook for photos and keeping up with my friends scattered across the globe.

I have lifetime memories on there. If they get rid of my photo's, I'm gonna be FREAKING P.O'D LIKE NEVER BEFORE!!!

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Anthony W.

I only use Facebook for photos and keeping up with my friends scattered across the globe.

I have lifetime memories on there. If they get rid of my photo's, I'm gonna be FREAKING P.O'D LIKE NEVER BEFORE!!!

Backup while you can, then.

[Anthony W.]

FOR EVERYONE:

http://www.mytechguide.org/8578/back...ebook-profile/

Yes it works, I just did it.

[Sailor Steve]

It strikes me as weird that anyone would use FaceBook as storage. I keep everything on my own hard drive. FaceBook is for posting things I want people on FaceBook to see. PhotoBucket is for storing things I want to post anywhere else, like here. If either of them died tomorrow I would lose nothing except a connection to that site. Meh.

[MH]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It strikes me as weird that anyone would use FaceBook as storage. I keep everything on my own hard drive. FaceBook is for posting things I want people on FaceBook to see. PhotoBucket is for storing things I want to post anywhere else, like here. If either of them died tomorrow I would lose nothing except a connection to that site. Meh.

Now days younger people relate to the web as The Web....its always been there and always will be.
While uploading content to some sites maybe safer than keeping it on a PC the best solution is to burn staff at some high quality media and keep it somewhere safe.

[CaptainMattJ.]

Remember Remember the Fifth of november

The facebook torching and plot.

I know of no reason

Why the facebook treason

should Ever Be Forgot!


I love that movie.

"Why wont you die!"
"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof."

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Anthony W.

FOR EVERYONE:

http://www.mytechguide.org/8578/back...ebook-profile/

Yes it works, I just did it.

Ok, that's fine, but say FB disappears off the face of the planet - can you access those photos without FB? Idk, but you may want to check before you rely on it.

[STEED]

Facebook is for gloater's who think there so much better than the rest of us. Look at me I got 50 thousand friends!

I would not miss Facebook.

[Hottentot]

Bleh, disliking Facebook is so yesterday. It used to be when five years ago I said I don't need it and won't register, people looked at me like I had just told them to world is flat. Now every other person I come across remembers to tell that he/she refuses to touch the Facebook, that it's the incarnation of all evil in the world and that people using Facebook are dumb sheep.

It's a freaking website!

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

It's a freaking website!

Yup.

It's a fad, a trend. No different than Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, or Furby, or any other overhyped fad or trend. It will have an initial peak, then slowly fade into general acceptance, until it's replaced by the next thing. Myspace, anyone?

[Growler]

Originally Posted by MH

...the best solution is to burn staff at some high quality media and keep it somewhere safe.

Also, if you have digital photos that you've taken - print them (or at least, the ones that may have historical interest to future family, for instance) - digital media does degrade, and technology does change. Anyone have at easy reach a 5 1/4" DD disk drive to read this old file of mine, for instance. Sure, have backups on digital (CD, DVD, etc) but have albums of printed pictures, too... and store them carefully. If we don't print some of these digital memories and store them, we'll lose huge swaths of history if technology marches past us without our keeping current, or if the tech just plain fails.