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Please educate this dummy about Facebook. Simple question: Are there web sites that ask you to register, never saying that you are really registering on Facebook? Or am I just not reading well?
I was at my high school alumni's web page. It provided a place to register which made sense to me. I did so. Nowhere on that page did I see anything about Facebook. Yet, a few seconds later I was receiving an email asking me to confirm my Facebook registration. I did not, of course. I do not want to be on Facebook. Nothing against Facebook. Just not wanting to be there. So, I deleted that notice. But I keep wondering. Are there web sites one might want to be part of that get us registered on Facebook unknowingly? I'm remembering a couple of years ago a friend telling me that she found me listed on Facebook. Yet I had never, to my knowledge, registered there.
Is it me? Careless reading? How do I avoid this? Thank you.
Welcome to the internet, on it YOU are a commodity, who's personal information is traded and sold at will for the sake of profit. And you might have a FB account, you just don't know it.
This seems to be saying they could get my information by someone else who communicates with me allowing them to upload information from their data. Right? That's bad enough and probably explains those other times. But, today, I actually registered. I've not gone back to see if that alumni page told me it was a Facebook page. Should I have recognized a Facebook page when I saw one? Should I have seen "Facebook" somewhere when I registered? Probably not, judging from that article but, if yes, I am going to be a lot more cagey about registering anywhere.
The more I see of this electronic world, the more I want to go to Pern.
I'm also not interested in Facebook at all. I want my friends to actually communicate with me personally, and I will do the same. Facebook, to me, is like getting one of those mass emails from someone, who copies a ton of people on the email. That's not a relationship, that's a newsletter or a bulletin board. I'd rather have a couple of friends who actually call me, and write emails specific to me, than a slew of people on a mailing list they also copy me on.
I just don't get Facebook. And I sure don't want to be signed up against my will, either!
I did see a hilarious South Park show one time about having and losing friends on Facebook. Too funny.
Those people that used to spam your mailbox with every forwarded email are on Facebook. Now they post stupid pictures. See.. you can dump them and only keep the people that really use it the way you like to. It's pretty easy.
Facebook is what you make of it...like many things in life.
I use Facebook as a method of logging-on to various websites.
I actually like Disqus a LOT better because it will bring me directly to my posts at a website....so I can re-read or reply to someone's comments to me. Facebook.........rarely brings me back to my old posts when I hit the link button.
A tool used for information gathering and monitoring by the elite!!
MY ADVICE: STAY OFF THAT SITE!!
Right. Their last email gave me a chance to unsubscribe which I did but the mail keeps coming. Moreover, I suspect they've made it public as the last email had names of some five persons that I do know wanting to "be friends".
Something went amiss here. My fault for know knowing what I was doing. Too bad I can't have that much success renewing my cell phone subscription. How did this world get so complicated?
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