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Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake names

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Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

Nobody is forcing anyone to use facebook. Who gives a shit?
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

i am not a member of FB.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

Yssie|1348281644|3272630 said:
kenny|1348280836|3272626 said:


If you don't like it don't use it.

I don't have a FB account, or any other social networking account - I am not comfortable with the risk and loss of control. Millions disagree - they're welcome to it.

I totally agree.
To each their own, people vary, etc.

AND ...

New draconian steps that FB takes which further chip away at what's left of member privacy are very worthy news stories.
Perhaps a few will hear the story and make a better-infomed decision on membership.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

It actually creeps me out to see fake account names. I don't see how putting your real name is an invasion of privacy. Your name is basically everywhere. And really, you don't have to use your real email address, you don't need to use your real phone number, or put your address on there. You don't have to post anything at all if you don't want to.

Am I missing something?
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

ForteKitty|1348282726|3272639 said:
Am I missing something?

No.
You are happy with FB.
Some others won't like this new rat-out-your-friends thing.
People vary.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

What makes you think I even use it? Condescendingly assuming much?

Btw, their real friends shouldn't rat on them. If they do, maybe it's time to get new friends.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

kenny|1348280836|3272626 said:
Facebook makes more money if they have your true identity, but they know that many people use fake names.
Now they are asking you to tattletale on your friends who are not using their real names.

I hope their stock price sinks to one cent.

I guess you can count me in as one of those who would like to see their stock sink to one cent (or lower). I hate Facebook, which I think is a destructive force in the lives of many teenagers and young adults. My daughter is much better off when she is not on Facebook. I have never been on it and never will be. I think I'd like to see its founders bankrupt. I think they have done a lot of damage and reaped a lot of financial reward for it. Any argument about its minor operational in's and out's (like whether one "rats" on others and makes sure his true identity is known to Facebook advertizers or not) is simply not germane to my main objections to Facebook. Arguing about it is like arguing about the arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic.

AGBF
:read:
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

ForteKitty|1348283966|3272647 said:
What makes you think I even use it? Condescendingly assuming much?

Well, you did say it creeped you out to see fake accounts, ForteKitty. I assumed that you meant it creeped you out to see fake accounts on Facebook, which would naturally mean that you had used it! I may have inferred incorrectly, but I think you can see why I would have done so!

Deb/AGBF
:saint:
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

AGBF|1348284175|3272651 said:
Arguing about it is like arguing about the arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

FB hasn't hit its big Iceberg yet, just lots of little ones so far.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

AGBF said:
ForteKitty|1348283966|3272647 said:
What makes you think I even use it? Condescendingly assuming much?

Well, you did say it creeped you out to see fake accounts, ForteKitty. I assumed that you meant it creeped you out to see fake accounts on Facebook, which would naturally mean that you had used it! I may have inferred incorrectly, but I think you can see why I would have done so!

Deb/AGBF
:saint:

I meant in general, like on most forums.

And WOW. Wishing people would go bankrupt? Sorry, but they're not responsible for your daughter's behavior. She is, and if I'm really stretching it, her "friends" are. People need to stop blaming others for their own choices.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

ForteKitty|1348285061|3272664 said:
And WOW. Wishing people would go bankrupt? Sorry, but they're not responsible for your daughter's behavior. She is, and if I'm really stretching it, her "friends" are. People need to stop blaming others for their own choices.

I have yet to find that my wishes cause harm. I am really not that powerful. I am not a witch; I do not have supernaturnatural powers. My thoughts do not cause damage as long as I keep my tongue and pen in check. In fact, my entire professional life has been based on the premise that making unconscious feelings conscious is healthy for people with intact egos, although risky for people with fragile egos. I merely put pen to paper (so to speak) here in a place where Facebook was highly unlikely actually to be affected by what I shared. Why should I have to feel one way or another? Why shouldn't people be free to admit anger as long as they do not act inappropriately on it?

Deb/AGBF
:read:
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

I've had this happen to me.I added my husband's last name to my last name on facebook,so I had both on my account.In my country women don't get the husband's last name with marriage,but I liked to see his name there and I thought nothing of it.Well,last month I got suddendly logged out while I was on the homepage,and when I logged back in I got a notification that someone had reported that my name was fake :eek: I actually had to take my husband's last name out of my profile or it would have been closed.Now...because of the way I keep my privacy settings,only someone in my friends list could have done this.I actually wrote about this on my facebook,because I truly don't see the point.It was my real name,after all :(sad
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

ForteKitty|1348281727|3272631 said:
Nobody is forcing anyone to use facebook. Who gives a shit?


Well "said"sista. Clearly folks have too much time on their hands.

cheers--Sharon
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

Someone must have ratted me out bec I had changed mine and they changed it back on me and told me if I change it again to a fictitious name my account will be deleted without warning.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

AGBF|1348307631|3272723 said:
ForteKitty|1348285061|3272664 said:
And WOW. Wishing people would go bankrupt? Sorry, but they're not responsible for your daughter's behavior. She is, and if I'm really stretching it, her "friends" are. People need to stop blaming others for their own choices.

I have yet to find that my wishes cause harm. I am really not that powerful. I am not a witch; I do not have supernaturnatural powers. My thoughts do not cause damage as long as I keep my tongue and pen in check. In fact, my entire professional life has been based on the premise that making unconscious feelings conscious is healthy for people with intact egos, although risky for people with fragile egos. I merely put pen to paper (so to speak) here in a place where Facebook was highly unlikely actually to be affected by what I shared. Why should I have to feel one way or another? Why shouldn't people be free to admit anger as long as they do not act inappropriately on it?

Deb/AGBF
:read:

Really, really interesting point, in general. :read:
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

Autumnovember|1348367544|3273063 said:
AGBF|1348307631|3272723 said:
ForteKitty|1348285061|3272664 said:
And WOW. Wishing people would go bankrupt? Sorry, but they're not responsible for your daughter's behavior. She is, and if I'm really stretching it, her "friends" are. People need to stop blaming others for their own choices.

I have yet to find that my wishes cause harm. I am really not that powerful. I am not a witch; I do not have supernaturnatural powers. My thoughts do not cause damage as long as I keep my tongue and pen in check. In fact, my entire professional life has been based on the premise that making unconscious feelings conscious is healthy for people with intact egos, although risky for people with fragile egos. I merely put pen to paper (so to speak) here in a place where Facebook was highly unlikely actually to be affected by what I shared. Why should I have to feel one way or another? Why shouldn't people be free to admit anger as long as they do not act inappropriately on it?

Deb/AGBF
:read:

Really, really interesting point, in general. :read:

Right, that is an interesting point. However, she missed my point entirely, which is, she is displacing her anger. This device is not responsible for "young people's" bad behavior. That's like blaming Pricescope for people going bankrupt because someone bought too many diamonds.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

ForteKitty|1348373334|3273095 said:
Autumnovember|1348367544|3273063 said:
AGBF|1348307631|3272723 said:
ForteKitty|1348285061|3272664 said:
And WOW. Wishing people would go bankrupt? Sorry, but they're not responsible for your daughter's behavior. She is, and if I'm really stretching it, her "friends" are. People need to stop blaming others for their own choices.

I have yet to find that my wishes cause harm. I am really not that powerful. I am not a witch; I do not have supernaturnatural powers. My thoughts do not cause damage as long as I keep my tongue and pen in check. In fact, my entire professional life has been based on the premise that making unconscious feelings conscious is healthy for people with intact egos, although risky for people with fragile egos. I merely put pen to paper (so to speak) here in a place where Facebook was highly unlikely actually to be affected by what I shared. Why should I have to feel one way or another? Why shouldn't people be free to admit anger as long as they do not act inappropriately on it?

Deb/AGBF
:read:

Really, really interesting point, in general. :read:

Right, that is an interesting point. However, she missed my point entirely, which is, she is displacing her anger. This device is not responsible for "young people's" bad behavior. That's like blaming Pricescope for people going bankrupt because someone bought too many diamonds.

I didn't miss the point to which I chose to respond: that you took me to task for having strong enough angry feelings that I would wish to bankrupt the founders of Facebook. I never addressed the other issue you at which you took a swipe.

I did not choose, in my last posting, to get involved in a discussion of what I think Facebook does to society and I am not obliged to address every point you raise in your postings. I was absolutely not displacing my anger. You are making an inference when you say that I am. And-as with all inferences-your inference may be (and in this case is) wrong if you do not have sufficient information when you make it.

My objections to Facebook are many. They do not hinge on my daughter's reckless use of it. My daughter is mentally ill and incompetent. If I were to condemn every institution which failed her, I would have to condemn every institution in the United States, because her illness makes it impossible for virtually anything to work for her. I have, however, seen what Facebook has done to many, healthy young people all around this country. I do not believe that it is innocent in the bullying done on it. Nor do I think it is a healthy pastime. But this is not a comprehensive essay about Facebook. It is merely an effort to disabuse you of the notion that I am either incapable of defending my point of view or unable to comprehend your postings.

AGBF
:read:
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

ForteKitty|1348373334|3273095 said:
Autumnovember|1348367544|3273063 said:
AGBF|1348307631|3272723 said:
ForteKitty|1348285061|3272664 said:
And WOW. Wishing people would go bankrupt? Sorry, but they're not responsible for your daughter's behavior. She is, and if I'm really stretching it, her "friends" are. People need to stop blaming others for their own choices.

I have yet to find that my wishes cause harm. I am really not that powerful. I am not a witch; I do not have supernaturnatural powers. My thoughts do not cause damage as long as I keep my tongue and pen in check. In fact, my entire professional life has been based on the premise that making unconscious feelings conscious is healthy for people with intact egos, although risky for people with fragile egos. I merely put pen to paper (so to speak) here in a place where Facebook was highly unlikely actually to be affected by what I shared. Why should I have to feel one way or another? Why shouldn't people be free to admit anger as long as they do not act inappropriately on it?

Deb/AGBF
:read:

Really, really interesting point, in general. :read:


Right, that is an interesting point. However, she missed my point entirely, which is, she is displacing her anger. This device is not responsible for "young people's" bad behavior. That's like blaming Pricescope for people going bankrupt because someone bought too many diamonds.

Ah, Forte - I was genuinely pondering what she had said. Definitely wasn't saying it was interesting because of the debate at hand!

(Just telling you in case you took it the wrong way!)
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

So, do I need to edit my name n FB? I included my maiden name, which I do not otherwise use, because it's made it possible for childhood friends to find me.

Maybe my daughter should edit her name, too. She added a nickname as her middle name, so that friends from certain activities would be able to find her.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

KaeKae|1348442654|3273314 said:
So, do I need to edit my name n FB? I included my maiden name, which I do not otherwise use, because it's made it possible for childhood friends to find me.

Maybe my daughter should edit her name, too. She added a nickname as her middle name, so that friends from certain activities would be able to find her.

Just call up FB on the phone.
I'm sure with zillions in profits from near a billion customers they hire millions of humans waiting stand by to support their product 24/7. :lol:
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

ForteKitty|1348282726|3272639 said:
It actually creeps me out to see fake account names.

Me too.

AGBF|1348414093|3273174 said:
I have, however, seen what Facebook has done to many, healthy young people all around this country. I do not believe that it is innocent in the bullying done on it. Nor do I think it is a healthy pastime.

To quote Kenny, :) I think people's FB experiences vary. My family is spread wide apart and FB has been instrumental in keeping us close even when we couldn't see each other in person on major events. It recently helped us mourn together a family member who died suddenly and tragically. I couldn't go to the funeral as was the case with many family members. We used FB extensively to keep in touch during this time.

Our extended family has about 5 teenagers and they haven't had problems with bullying even though most of their FB friends are classmates. I know bullying exists and is tragic when it does but it doesn't happen to every teenager that's on FB.

ETA: I don't like the encouraging members to rat on their friends though.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

AmeliaG|1348444195|3273320 said:
ForteKitty|1348282726|3272639 said:
It actually creeps me out to see fake account names.

Me too.

I don't use my name. I don't do it to creep people out, or anything. I just try to hide from people that I don't want to contact, and from employers, coworkers and soon-to-be-applied-graduate-schools. :knockout:
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

madelise|1348458817|3273469 said:
AmeliaG|1348444195|3273320 said:
ForteKitty|1348282726|3272639 said:
It actually creeps me out to see fake account names.

Me too.

I don't use my name. I don't do it to creep people out, or anything. I just try to hide from people that I don't want to contact, and from employers, coworkers and soon-to-be-applied-graduate-schools. :knockout:

I know Madelise. I wasn't meaning you. Even if you use your real name, you can block people from contacting you on FB. I think one of my FB friends set up restrictions so that no one outside of her friends list can contact her in anyway shape or form within FB. As far as hiding information, I think its just safer not to post stuff on the Internet that you would mind anybody seeing. I think sometimes using fake names gives an illusion of privacy that is not always there.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

AmeliaG|1348490214|3273569 said:
madelise|1348458817|3273469 said:
AmeliaG|1348444195|3273320 said:
ForteKitty|1348282726|3272639 said:
It actually creeps me out to see fake account names.

Me too.

I don't use my name. I don't do it to creep people out, or anything. I just try to hide from people that I don't want to contact, and from employers, coworkers and soon-to-be-applied-graduate-schools. :knockout:

I know Madelise. I wasn't meaning you. Even if you use your real name, you can block people from contacting you on FB. I think one of my FB friends set up restrictions so that no one outside of her friends list can contact her in anyway shape or form within FB. As far as hiding information, I think its just safer not to post stuff on the Internet that you would mind anybody seeing. I think sometimes using fake names gives an illusion of privacy that is not always there.


I know it wasn't meant directly at me, lmao, you guys wouldn't know if I did or didn't. I'm just saying, there are legitimate reasons out there besides trying to be a creeper :wink2:

I have my profile on pretty darn private, and people still manage to find me. In fact, it got so counterintuitive.. that those I tried to get in contact with, couldn't.. yet I'd still get people who I didn't want to find me, contacting me. I don't post things I don't want people seeing. No drugs, or prostitution on my page! :lol: I just have these annnnnnoooyyyinggggg, nosey, gossipy coworkers that I really don't need in my business. ;)) and who knows what schools might think of even the simplest photo! :lol: People can get offended at the slightest things, now. The 7th Day Adventist university I'm applying to doesn't allow any mind altering substances to be consumed by students. What if they see me posting that photo of a beautiful latte design? Oh no! The horror! Caffeine! lol!

I just don't think it should be any of FB's business what we use as our contact names. And really, just because a "friend" decides to be a tattletale on you to the "FB Authorities" shouldn't mean anything to FB. If I felt like creating havoc, I can go and flag every single one of my friends for having false names! What're they going to do to confirm? Make us show them our SSN and photo IDs? It's a tad ridiculous. Yes, I think it's dumb when people have The Smasher as their names, but if Bartholomew wants to just be Bart... or heck, if he hates his given name, so he wants to put Matt... who cares? I hope people aren't adding complete strangers on FB so that they would know the actual identities of their friends, regardless of their public "names".
 
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madelise|1348508272|3273764 said:
I have my profile on pretty darn private, and people still manage to find me. In fact, it got so counterintuitive.. that those I tried to get in contact with, couldn't.. yet I'd still get people who I didn't want to find me, contacting me. I don't post things I don't want people seeing. No drugs, or prostitution on my page! :lol: I just have these annnnnnoooyyyinggggg, nosey, gossipy coworkers that I really don't need in my business. ;)) and who knows what schools might think of even the simplest photo! :lol: People can get offended at the slightest things, now. The 7th Day Adventist university I'm applying to doesn't allow any mind altering substances to be consumed by students. What if they see me posting that photo of a beautiful latte design? Oh no! The horror! Caffeine! lol!".

How in the hell could they contact you and see your wall page and photos? Are you sure your security settings that high? My friend who had her account restricted, I couldn't message her, couldn't invite her to be friends, couldn't see her photos or anything on her wall page. All I could see was her name and profile pic and that was it. So if she had posted one of your beautiful latte designs I wouldn't have been aware of its existence. LOL She had to invite me as a friend because there was no way I could contact her within FB or see any of her FB content. Her account was like Fort Knox! Luckily I had her email address or else I never would have been able to contact her. LOL
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

kenny|1348442857|3273316 said:
KaeKae|1348442654|3273314 said:
So, do I need to edit my name n FB? I included my maiden name, which I do not otherwise use, because it's made it possible for childhood friends to find me.

Maybe my daughter should edit her name, too. She added a nickname as her middle name, so that friends from certain activities would be able to find her.

Just call up FB on the phone.
I'm sure with zillions in profits from near a billion customers they hire millions of humans waiting stand by to support their product 24/7. :lol:

There's a plan!!!
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

Online anonymity often turns out to be anything but. Better to post under your legal name as a reminder to only share what you're not afraid to have associated with your "real" name and reputation. For that reason, I find the whole discussion of protecting one's online anonymity unsettling. I've had my username linked up with me so many times... here on Pricescope, under both usernames I've had! (It's a popular place to lurk for people in my age group, apparently, with all the recent engagements in my circle). On other message boards too. And of course, I only know about the people who called me out on it.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

AmeliaG|1348514327|3273831 said:
madelise|1348508272|3273764 said:
I have my profile on pretty darn private, and people still manage to find me. In fact, it got so counterintuitive.. that those I tried to get in contact with, couldn't.. yet I'd still get people who I didn't want to find me, contacting me. I don't post things I don't want people seeing. No drugs, or prostitution on my page! :lol: I just have these annnnnnoooyyyinggggg, nosey, gossipy coworkers that I really don't need in my business. ;)) and who knows what schools might think of even the simplest photo! :lol: People can get offended at the slightest things, now. The 7th Day Adventist university I'm applying to doesn't allow any mind altering substances to be consumed by students. What if they see me posting that photo of a beautiful latte design? Oh no! The horror! Caffeine! lol!".

How in the hell could they contact you and see your wall page and photos? Are you sure your security settings that high? My friend who had her account restricted, I couldn't message her, couldn't invite her to be friends, couldn't see her photos or anything on her wall page. All I could see was her name and profile pic and that was it. So if she had posted one of your beautiful latte designs I wouldn't have been aware of its existence. LOL She had to invite me as a friend because there was no way I could contact her within FB or see any of her FB content. Her account was like Fort Knox! Luckily I had her email address or else I never would have been able to contact her. LOL

I had mine open for friends of friends.. so that friends can find me. Instead, I got these weird, perverted comments written to me by who knows what kind of people. Now I have it under that initialed last name, and I changed it so that only friends can search me by name or email. Friends of friends can message or add me, but they'd have to find me through our friends-in-common's pages, rather than by search. Those "friends of friends" can still be trouble, though. One of the most disturbing "comments" I got were from a friend-of-a-friend. :oops:
 
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