Internet Deleting Facebook Account

[Eli13]

It's nice to have something to quickly communicate with friends and family across the nation, especailly when you don't have their number or cell phone. The difference between me and most people is that I only accept people I know, and keep my privacy high, and I hardly ever get on. Its been nice though, as I just moved and it's nice to keep in touch with my old friends.

 

[diogom]

I'm not one of these addicted folks who spend entire days there, but I log in about once or twice a day, not for long though. I mainly use it for talk with some friends, but only the ones I really know. I have about 35, give or take, whilst many of my friends have 1325... stuff like that. I doubt they know 3/4 of them. Anyway, my main method of communication with friends is MSN, I only chat in fb with people whose MSN I don't have.
I don't plan to delete my account. It's certainly not the best thing ever (though 100x better than hi5, darn, that was such a failure, and a crap), but IMO worth keeping around. There are actualy some NASA, Roscosmos news I found there, and didn't find anywhere else.

EDIT: Plus, that last paragraph in Eli's post reminded me, next year I'm going to a High School where I know nobody, possibly only one person, so it will be usefull to keep in touch with old friends.

 

[SiberianTiger]

When I made a facebook account for me (by request of one of the O-F members I'm a friend with), I used my actual family name for the registration. Some time thereafter, I've got a wave of friendship requests from all over the world from people who shared the second name with me. In fact, I didn't expect that many people outside of Russia & Ukraine, and probably Poland (due to me having a -ski ending), would have one. After a 34th friendship request from a next bro I had not a slightest touch with, I terminated my account, terrified. :facepalm:

 

[Fabri91]

That also happened to me. Such requests disappeared after setting up an avatar, since most requests were from people looking for someone else named EXACTLY like me.

I also use it just to keep in touch with friends, and I also add contacts that I actually know.

 

[Sar]

I use it to keep in contact with old friends, since I rarely have time to meet them due to busy life and I have even somewhat reconnected with my step sis because of it, so I don't really have anything bad to say about it, but I enough paranoid not to share anything more than necessary, no phone number, address, home town or anything.

I have 30 or so friends and I have no problem declining requests, I only take those I'd actually like to meet in real life as well.

 

[Spacethingy]

We actually got warned about Facebook at college, about stuff that they do with all the things you put on there (details, photos etc.).

Apparently, one young lad put some... errr... shall we say, rather dodgy photos of himself on Facebook. Facebook sold a load of stuff to certain large customers. Next thing said young lad knew, he was the US Government's new "Face of Chlamydia", stuck up on billboards everywhere to combat the spread of the disease.

Poor guy. :rofl::rofl:

 

[n122vu]

I originally started my FB account as a means to share photos and news with friends, family, and coworkers of my daughter's progress after she was born. I got tired of telling the same news 25 times during the day, as it was always a complicated answer to "How is she doing?"

Now I just use it to mainly keep in contact with friends & family, and to stay up on the latest news from the interests I subscribe to, such as NASA for example. I have no plans to delete my account at this time, but like anything, that may change.

I get so tired of people sending me requests for Castle Age, Mafia Wars, and all of those. I don't have time to play those things. I barely have any time for Orbiter anymore, let alone play senseless games that have no use and give you nothing to show for your hours of mindless clicking.

 

[Tex]

Facebook sold a load of stuff to certain large customers.

That is highly illegal and I believe Facebook's own privacy policy says they won't sell your personal information to any 3rd party. If they did so without his knowledge or approval, especially resulting in his picture being used on an advertisement billboard, then he should have solid grounds to pursue charges against Facebook, not to mention civil litigation.

 

[Ghostrider]

Good luck against Facebook's army of lawyers...

 

[Lucy]

Quantity of lawyers means very little if you've so blatantly violated your own privacy statement.

 

[RichWall]

A quick search brought up these news articles;

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-20047703-68.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tec...vacy-issue-with-third-party-applications.html

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Consumer/facebook-privacy-scandal-facebooks-watergate/story?id=11912201

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20059247-17.html

But than again, todays Internet news seems to be more of an opinion of someone else's opinion of someone else's opinion.

Perhaps the new 21st century family stucture should contain a Lawyer, an IT specialist,
one that works in the Gov't and someone who actually produces something.

 

[DanM]

I never really felt comfortable with trusting Mark Zuckerburg with my information. That was part of why I deleted.

 

[Dambuster]

FWIW, I saw some article linked to from an article (maybe it was from one of the four that RichWall posted) saying that this latest privacy issue with Facebook was pretty much a non-issue. I saw another article (more interesting, IMO) which was talking about how the web needs to be replaced, and how some groups are working on that at the moment - but that would be a new thread altogether, even if I could find the articles.

As for the OP, I'm on option #3. I really don't have very much info on there, and I barely use any apps. And at the end of the day, apparently it is hugely useful at uni.

 

[Eli13]

The one thing I absolutely hate about Facebook is that you can be anyone you want, and no one can tell because Facebook cannot legally reveal the client. Case and point: Just this year at my now former Jr. High, a student (former or present we don't know) made a fake Facebook profile of a teacher posing him as a KKK member. I hated that teacher, but that just really set me off, and the school district couldn't do one thing about it.

 

[PennyBlack]

Facebook was great. I had a collection of friends, small in number from a gameing enviroment and a few from local. When my relatives and inlaws started getting wind of it, they all turned up and I was backed into what I now call "The Facebook of moaners".

All they do is moan, moan moan... The weathers bad, it's to hot, it's raining again. He's been doing this and she was saying that. I don't want to go to work or he's left me, AGAIN. And the unltimate... I'm bored. How quickly did I learn to abbrieviat my utter distaste. Then they ask stupid questions like, what should I do, what shall I eat, what shall I wear, is it a good idea and then to top it, they send you invitations asking you if you want to go somewhere so you can hear it again in person while some oppertunist snaps your face for a sodd'in tag... Give me a break.

I just make sarcastic remarks and rub their noses in it, in the hopes they delete me. But they just click the "like" button and go LOL. :facepalm:

 

[Keatah]

I don't bother with those online sites. If you want to talk with me, send me an old fashioned email or postal letter. Or perhaps pick up a telephone and dial my number. You can be assured if I want to speak with you, you will know how to contact me.

Facebook violates that principle.

 

[DanM]

I don't bother with those online sites. If you want to talk with me, send me an old fashioned email or postal letter. Or perhaps pick up a telephone and dial my number. You can be assured if I want to speak with you, you will know how to contact me.

Facebook violates that principle.

It's kinda strange to hear email be called "old-fasioned".

 

[FADEC]

Never had a failbook account. Never going to have one.

 

[orb]

I don't understand what's so wrong with Facebook. I last time visited it a month ago or even earlier just to accept some friendship requests, and I have had no problems with it at all, but I have no photos uploaded nor any other entries there, so maybe it's just me. I don't need to delete it either. I see no reason I would need to. If I receive e-mails from FB informing me about invitations I have received for some events some people from my contact list sent me, I just ignore them.