Hear, Hear, I definitely agree with you on that!
My facebook has only a distorted partial picture of me, and email
address/etc only available to friends. No page after page of pictures,
likes&dislikes, etc. I mostly use facebook for keeping in track with
friends and others who DO use it a lot. I hate reading people's
updates every 15 minutes--"Going to shower, brb!" "Done showering,
eating cereal!" "finished cereal, getting smashed!" etc
I learned to like facebook a lot more after I found that you can untag
yourself from photos, limit what actions of yours (the "newsfeed")
that others see, disable the Wall, etc
Scott
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Soren wrote:
You're right, and sorry for my cranckiness, it came out wrong
because of that.
What I wanted to say is that sites like FB are often searched by
employers in regard to job applicants. In my country there recently
has been several news articles on the subject. Mostly because people
over the years make several profiles on several sites and then
forget about them as time passes. And ones future boss might get
quite a story from those profiles.
With the earlier compromized (also) mail servers at yahoo, google,
among others, history shows that one is taking a risk about ones
personal info by submitting to an online service. Also, the usually
heavy use of scripting of these online services makes it almost
guaranteed that ones email addy is 'lifted' by the provider.
So, beware, and make precautions, was really all I wanted to say :)
Scott Sipe wrote:
Regardless of whether or not you like facebook, it IS almost 5
years old, so I'm not quite sure it counts as "new" :-P
Scott
On Sep 21, 2008, at 2:21 AM, Soren wrote:
Yeah, beacuse 'new' equals 'good'?
No-f*king-way!
Think again, Naushad :D
Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
Are you guys on facebook?
If yes, then lets create a Hardware Group "Group".
