Author Topic: Question about Facebook (Read 48026 times)

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #25 on:** May 27, 2010, 11:13 »

Quote from: RacePhoto on May 26, 2010, 21:43

Quote from: Zeus on May 26, 2010, 16:17
I just canned my FB account. What is really bad is you have to keep it in a deactivated state for 2 weeks before they actually delete it. Like you somehow need a cooling off period in case you really don't mean it. I had enough of watching some "friend" play Farmville.

So you didn't find the button to Block This Application, easier than closing your account? Just block Farmville, all invitations and notices disappear. Same for the rest of the games. One request from someone for you to join or sending you a gift, you just hit Block This Application, done deal.

Hi, Yes sure the button is obvious enough. Mine was a general comment on the level of what is said on Facebook. None of the intelligent people that I converse with on this and other forums or by email or in real life ever say anything on FB. So this begs the question why waste even a minute there. It's just about all mindless.

donding · « **Reply #26 on:** May 27, 2010, 11:26 »

Quote from: patrick1958 on May 27, 2010, 10:29

Quote from: donding on May 27, 2010, 10:22
Go and deactivate....DELETE???...your account then sign back in and it will automatically reactivate just by you signing in. You can not delete it unless there is a button besides deactivate that I could not find. Try it and you will discover that it will reactivate it just by signing in, you don't have to go to your account setting to do it..it does it for you.

https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account&__a=3

Help me out here...maybe I'm just down right stupid, but I deactivated my account and when I click on that link, it takes me to the sign on page. When you enter you name and password it takes you to your account which is then reactivated with all the information still present. If it was deleted then I should not have been able to sign in. It should have shown no account found.

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #27 on:** May 27, 2010, 11:48 »

Quote from: donding on May 27, 2010, 11:26

Quote from: patrick1958 on May 27, 2010, 10:29
Quote from: donding on May 27, 2010, 10:22
Go and deactivate....DELETE???...your account then sign back in and it will automatically reactivate just by you signing in. You can not delete it unless there is a button besides deactivate that I could not find. Try it and you will discover that it will reactivate it just by signing in, you don't have to go to your account setting to do it..it does it for you.

https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account&__a=3

Help me out here...maybe I'm just down right stupid, but I deactivated my account and when I click on that link, it takes me to the sign on page. When you enter you name and password it takes you to your account which is then reactivated with all the information still present. If it was deleted then I should not have been able to sign in. It should have shown no account found.

This is what sis so irritating and arrogant about FB. Once you "delete" the account it takes 2 weeks for the account to actually be deleted. If you try and sign in for some reason then you go back to square one and have to delete it again.

donding · « **Reply #28 on:** May 27, 2010, 11:53 »

Quote from: Zeus on May 27, 2010, 11:48

This is what sis so irritating and arrogant about FB. Once you "delete" the account it takes 2 weeks for the account to actually be deleted. If you try and sign in for some reason then you go back to square one and have to delete it again.

Hmmmm..so I guess I need to check back in two weeks. It didn't say anything about that when I deactivated it, just that it was deactivated. You know the sad thing about this is, I just joined facebook two weeks ago because I needed to find a family member..

RacePhoto · « **Reply #29 on:** May 27, 2010, 12:08 »

Quote from: patrick1958 on May 27, 2010, 10:29

Quote from: donding on May 27, 2010, 10:22
Go and deactivate....DELETE???...your account then sign back in and it will automatically reactivate just by you signing in. You can not delete it unless there is a button besides deactivate that I could not find. Try it and you will discover that it will reactivate it just by signing in, you don't have to go to your account setting to do it..it does it for you.

https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account&__a=3

Good one which should remove data as well, but we'll never know that.

Thanks for the easy link.

cthoman · « **Reply #30 on:** May 27, 2010, 12:08 »

Quote from: Zeus on May 27, 2010, 11:13

So this begs the question why waste even a minute there. It's just about all mindless.

You just need better friends. Just kidding.

Personally, I appreciate knowing what is going on in my friends', family's, old roomates' and former coworkers' lives. Yeah, I could probably pick up the phone instead and have a much more meaningful conversation, but there is something to be said for having them all hanging out in one place 24/7 to entertain me. The privacy stuff is definitely a concern, but that pretty much goes for everything on the web.

cathyslife · « **Reply #31 on:** May 27, 2010, 12:34 »

Quote from: cthoman on May 27, 2010, 12:08

Personally, I appreciate knowing what is going on in my friends', family's, old roomates' and former coworkers' lives. Yeah, I could probably pick up the phone instead and have a much more meaningful conversation, but there is something to be said for having them all hanging out in one place 24/7 to entertain me. The privacy stuff is definitely a concern, but that pretty much goes for everything on the web.

I feel the same way. It is so convenient having to post one story on my page, and having my (big) family and friends be able to read it all at the same time, instead of telling the story a bunch of times. I would miss that part.

I hate how they are stealing data, but really, in today's world, when you sit down in front of the computer and log on, don't you pretty much know somebody is going to be watching you? I am in NO WAY condoning what facebook has done, they have gone WAY too far and there should be some sort of crackdown.

Someone in a previous post asked about gmail...I think it works basically the same way. I got a Droid Eris (Google) phone a few months ago, and it's incredible how much it knows about me and how much I didn't have to input. A little scary, but again, I haven't noticed any increase in spam, and haven't had anything drastically scare the bejesus out of me, so I think I'll just be as diligent as I can about privacy and forge on into the future. I might reget it and you all have my permission to say I told you so!

madelaide · « **Reply #32 on:** May 27, 2010, 14:52 »

Quote from: FD-amateur on May 27, 2010, 01:57

If someone else signs up, they'll do the same, saving the addresses of non-FB members. They don't use those for direct spam, but to construct networks that go beyond the FB members. That's why they are so amazing (they are!) in suggesting who you might know. Freaky...

So probably some of my friends and aquaintances who signed up in FB let FB scan their Yahoo address list, and FB grabbed my non-FB email address and saved it in their database. Some did not invite me because I was already in their network with the other email address, some invited me through my main email address, and then I invited them through FB and not added them through their invitation. And the other people I don't know are probably friends of these friends who had their address books scanned, and FB suggested that we may also be friends. Freaky indeed, and it is amazing that people would let FB scan their Yahoo Mail anyway.

madelaide · « **Reply #33 on:** May 27, 2010, 15:00 »

Quote from: cclapper on May 27, 2010, 12:34

Quote from: cthoman on May 27, 2010, 12:08
Personally, I appreciate knowing what is going on in my friends', family's, old roomates' and former coworkers' lives. Yeah, I could probably pick up the phone instead and have a much more meaningful conversation, but there is something to be said for having them all hanging out in one place 24/7 to entertain me. The privacy stuff is definitely a concern, but that pretty much goes for everything on the web.

I feel the same way. It is so convenient having to post one story on my page, and having my (big) family and friends be able to read it all at the same time, instead of telling the story a bunch of times. I would miss that part.

I joined FB because so many of my SP colleagues - some even leaving SP - were there and we could keep each other posted about new photos, etc. Then I found several college mates, and Internet friends. It's nice to send them a new video, something to read, whatever, and read about something new in their lives (although I don't share anything really personal there). But it's a bit silly that some people only say "It's raining here today" - and even sillier that people write back.

I play Bejeweled a lot and tried Treasure Island the other day - very cute, but I found it so boring! I did not even try Farmville and such because I suppose they are all about the same. But their cute graphics I see from my friends's posts are eye-catching.

Another anoying thing is being informed what a friend wrote on his friend's wall, when I have nothing to do with that friend of a friend. Is there anyway I can avoid this?

lisafx · « **Reply #34 on:** May 27, 2010, 18:02 »

I'm not on FB - I spend WAY too much time online as it is. Don't need another time-waster.

But my husband was shocked to see how much info he was given about distant relatives he barely knows that friended him. Why do they think he wants to know how much time his distant cousin is spending playing Farmville, and what her score was? Snore... He deleted his account.

A good friend of mine has been forbidden to babysit her grandson because her daughter in-law was able to view how much time she was spending playing some game on facebook while the baby was napping. Now they aren't even speaking. Really, that is way too intrusive IMO.

If I have no life that's nobody's business but mine

Dreamframer · « **Reply #35 on:** May 28, 2010, 04:00 »

Guys, I posted yesterday on my wall on FB that I'm going to delete my account because there is no privacy, and then my friend told me FR introduced privacy again. It happened yesterday I think, and now again, you can hide almost everything. You can also be the only person who can see your friends list, and other people can see only friends from your friends list that are in common with him/her.
I went to my account and hide everything I thought is important to hide.

FD · « **Reply #36 on:** May 28, 2010, 23:54 »

Quote from: Dreamframer on May 28, 2010, 04:00

Guys, I posted yesterday on my wall on FB that I'm going to delete my account because there is no privacy, and then my friend told me FR introduced privacy again. It happened yesterday I think, and now again, you can hide almost everything. You can also be the only person who can see your friends list, and other people can see only friends from your friends list that are in common with him/her.
I went to my account and hide everything I thought is important to hide.

As far as I read on tech blogs, they just simplified the user interface to the privacy, so you don't have to wade through pages of settings any more (often overlooked). The policy staid the same. They don't honor "Delete account" properly, and only Zuck knows what data they keep after you went. It's clear what Zuck thinks about his users: "Dumb f@cks".
There are fine social networks, with proper privacy, like MySpace and Friendster. I don't understand what this brat made take over the world. Pure arrogance will be amongst the reasons.

FD · « **Reply #37 on:** May 29, 2010, 00:06 »

Quote from: lisafx on May 27, 2010, 18:02

I'm not on FB - I spend WAY too much time online as it is. Don't need another time-waster.

I have a few connections that are into network management for large corporations and governmental organizations. It's scary how much production time is lost on FB there. Where it's blocked, serial emails go around to point to proxy sites.

Randy McKown · « **Reply #38 on:** May 29, 2010, 01:58 »

Quote from: cclapper on May 27, 2010, 05:51

Quote from: Randy McKown on May 26, 2010, 22:41
LOL yeah we have those apps blocked on all our FB accounts. They annoy the crap out of me. I have one personal FB account that I could live without but I'd die without the business ones.

Question about the personal/business accounts. I first had a personal account. Then I wanted to created a Page for my cathyslife (business) stuff. The cathyslife page is tied to my personal account and personal friends. I never wanted it to be but couldn't find a way to separate the two. Meaning I don't necessarily want my family to be fans of my business site. Short of creating (and I think you have to pay for) an ad to bring in more fans, is there a way to have a separate business account?

I'm not sure if there is another way but here's the way we use FB .. create a personal profile that is more or less for business use then create the page attached to that profile. We direct people to both from our website. We encourage potential clients we are targeting to become a friend so that we can build on the personal relationship with the client through direct contact which creates bigger sales / loyal return clients. Then we get them to fan the page to maintain professionalism. Using the two profiles in conjunction creates the perfect FB marketing program ... For family and friends you don't want trying to chat you up when you are networking you can either group them as family & friends then turn off the chat for that group while working or you can do what a lot of people do and just create another account for personal use.
FB ads are a waste of time I think. We invested into a 3 month trial run on them last year and they honestly didn't produce. They didn't cost hardly anything but they didn't return a profit either. Might depend on your target audience though. Some fields may produce better results.

RacePhoto · « **Reply #39 on:** June 02, 2010, 10:05 »

Just found this interesting site that you copy a bookmark, go to Facebook and it checks all areas for privacy settings so you can see if you missed something.

http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/

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