The Time To Get Off Of Facebook Is Now.

[dawp]

Goldman and a Russian company investing in Facebook doesn't suddenly make us more vulnerable to cyber warfare.

Well, It doesn't make us any less venerable.

 

[us3rnotfound]

What, you go to Facebook to:

-read about others' daily issues/annoyances, or read others' daily report that everyone must have to know
-read someone's philosophical shit
-read an informational post that everyone already knew or is grossly overexaggerated
-view drunken party scenes
-view a whole family get-together, complete with captions for each picture

If you have something real to post, post it. There are a few that do use facebook correctly, but most really just put their life up on there and must be thinking the whole world is 100 people in population.

 

[Jeffg010]

LoL this thread makes me laugh. Fear mongering at it best. Look only people who have something to hide get paranoid. Harvey you are the biggest fear monger on this board. first it was Bush now it is Facebook thanks for the laugh.

 

[Wingznut]

I still don't understand the "threat"... Like many others have posted, there's nothing on my FB page that can't be found out by other means. And certainly no information I would care if anyone researched. It's not like I put my SS number on there...

Harvey, I see your point about clicking on links that could lead to a virus. But to completely eliminate that possibility, I'd pretty much have to drop off the 'net altogether.

I suppose if some Russian dude really wants to see the my pics at the beach, or see how I wished my Uncle a happy birthday... More power to him. *shrug*

 

[rasczak]

interesting.

 

[IcePickFreak]

Facebook users are communists? I knew it!

 

[yllus]

Even in the worst case scenario, if you've already got a Facebook account with many personal details listed in it, it's too late. That data isn't really deleted from Facebook's servers if you remove your account - it's just made publicly inaccessible. Nobody throws away valuable data like that in this age of cheap disk space.

 

[mrrman]

never joined, never will

 

[rudder]

It's data farming. I may have used the other addresses while registering domains or other things, if they come up with my name in a few places and match my sign-up email, they add it. It's nothing new but until that happened I wasn't aware that they played that game.

If you do a search of an email account you have for friends you may know.. you have to enter credentials and facebook will then attach that email to your profile.

 

[Juddog]

My facebook account uses a garbage e-mail account, and I don't put my cellphone number, etc. so risk is minimal. If you approach a site like facebook from the get-go assuming that they will take whatever information you put in there and sell it off, datamine, etc. then it's not that bad of a site. Some people use it like a diary though and put all of their personal info in there, which to me is a bit foolish.

 

[Homerboy]

Nothing "personal" on my Facebook account at all. Maybe my name I guess.
I've had FB for years and years and really have never seen any spam, malware etc that I can attribute to it sent to me. In fact, with gmail I don't think I have seen "spam" in years.

 

[Bateluer]

My facebook account uses a garbage e-mail account, and I don't put my cellphone number, etc. so risk is minimal. If you approach a site like facebook from the get-go assuming that they will take whatever information you put in there and sell it off, datamine, etc. then it's not that bad of a site. Some people use it like a diary though and put all of their personal info in there, which to me is a bit foolish.

As I've said previously multiple times, you can keep your account secure and free of your personal information. But, someone you're friends with can completely negate that by leaving their account unsecure. You spend hours securing the windows and privacy wall of your house, while your buddy just leaves the front door open.

 

[Minerva]

As I've said previously multiple times, you can keep your account secure and free of your personal information. But, someone you're friends with can completely negate that by leaving their account unsecure. You spend hours securing the windows and privacy wall of your house, while your buddy just leaves the front door open.

Guilty by association.

Screw these datamining pricks. D:

Yet people just walk right in and sign up. No wonder AOL prospered for so long...

 

[Capt Caveman]

Not concerned. If FB did anything malicious, the gov't would be all over them as well as the FB user base. Heck, you have to provide more personal information here if you want to use FS/T.

 

[SunnyD]

So wait, you all signed up for facebook without using a spam email account? Shame on you.

 

[darkewaffle]

So because the *gasp* Russians invested in Facebook this is now a problem? Give me a fucking break. Facebook isn't about to turn over their data to an investor, if anyone is going to abuse it to make money, it's Facebook themselves who have no qualms about using your demographic data, your work history, or your interests to sell ads at you.

Goldman and a Russian company investing in Facebook doesn't suddenly make us more vulnerable to cyber warfare.

I thought the same thing. Putting too much info in facebook is retarded, but no more so now than it was before.

This is like saying if Facebook had african investors you could get aids.

 

[irishScott]

I don't put anything on facebook that I don't mean for public consumption, and I have a pretty full profile. Anyone who takes my posted info is quite welcome to bask in my awesomeness.

 

[MotionMan]

FACEBOOK PRIVACY ALERT!!! There is a NEW PRIVACY setting called "Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-Facebook websites and it is automatically set to "Enable." Go to Account >Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites >Instant Personalization > Edit Settings, and un-check "Enable". BTW if your friends don't do this, they will be sharing information about you. PLEASE COPY & REPOST

You're welcome.

MotionMan

 

[alkemyst]

So do I get one of those furry hats nao for free?

 

[Perknose]

If a friend said you were at a party and you got wasted or posted picture, you don't think it's associated with you somehow?

Yup. Friends post pics including you, and if they tag you in them (and women always do), those pics magically show up in your profile whether you want them to or not.

You have to TELL your friends to untag you, and since it's (in my experience) mostly less computer savvy females doing it, good luck with that!

 

[Perknose]

So your theory is that everyone is Russia is a spammer?

Not everyone. Yevgeny Absurdakov in Minsk claims he's not, and says his little sister Svetlana isn't either, which is why I feel fully confidant about sharing my SS # with them, for reasons they patiently and helpfully explained to me.

 

[Perknose]

Good PSA. I dropped Facebook due to crazy and annoying women, but spamming would be another good reason to get rid of it.

KT

Yeah, what IS it with Facebook and women? I joined at the behest of several female artist friends. It's an estrogen fest, sadly polluted and dominated by the neediest and most clueless of the attention whores among their effing friends.

One woman, a talented artist but a nutter, has even pissed off her other friends by refusing to communicate anymore by phone or even e-mail, it must be ONLY by freaking Facebook!

And, of course, it is indiscreet to defriend major friends of friends and/or people you may not want all that much to do with because they're annoying but for whom defriending would cause a disturbance in the vaginal force field.

Anyway, I signed up with a humorous name, a throwaway e-mail, and zero genuine personal info. Only my friends on there know who I really am.

But I'm here to tell you this: Facebook kinda' sucks.

 

[Ksyder]

You can untag yourself from other people's photos, I do it all the time.

 

[ultimatebob]

It will be fun to see Facebook go public... that sucker will probably triple in value over the first few weeks of trading, only to have the value crash when people suddenly realize that they don't make all that much revenue for a company of their valuation.

 

[vi edit]

On the topic of privacy...I found out about this website today...yikes

http://www.spokeo.com/

I did a search for my parents and it even has my sister and I listed as children. It's a cyber stalkers best friend. White page stuff has been around for years but this one really consolidates and gives a lot of stuff.