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

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MissStepcut|1348547823|3274117 said:
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.

True. That's why I rarely use the same screen name for any forums I am on. :naughty:
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

madelise|1348553422|3274130 said:
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.

How in the hell could they contact you and see your wall page and photos? Are you sure your security settings that high?

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:

Friends of friends will kill you. I only have my relatives and a few friends I have known for a long time as friends but some people aren't too picky when friending people.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

AmeliaG|1348573121|3274187 said:
madelise|1348553422|3274130 said:
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.

How in the hell could they contact you and see your wall page and photos? Are you sure your security settings that high?

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:

Friends of friends will kill you. I only have my relatives and a few friends I have known for a long time as friends but some people aren't too picky when friending people.

Well, on this same "internet privacy via FB" note, what do ya'll feel about people posting photos of their kids? Or making Facebook pages for their kids? Kids that have no say over the photos posted, and may one day be upset over particular photos posted? I woke up this morning to a friend posting a photo of her daughter knocked out in the Emergency room hospital bed, with an IV in her arm, with its comment detailing their visit to the emergency room. I'd never publicly share that kind of medical information about myself, and this mom is doing it for her. Poor thing.

It kind of creeps me out that I try so hard to keep photos of me unsearchable through Google, and yet parents are plastering their kids' photos all over the net. These guys will grow up into a future where Google will have all their childhood photos, and then some. The idea that any future employer, teacher, heck ANYONE that hears about your name.. can Google you, and see what you look like.. kind of freaks me out.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

madelise|1348554063|3274131 said:
MissStepcut|1348547823|3274117 said:
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.

True. That's why I rarely use the same screen name for any forums I am on. :naughty:
That'll only go so far! A couple of identifying bits of information (even something as simple as "I hate bananas" and "my first car was a beater Toyota") along with your tone and writing style, and someone who knows you could string it together.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

MissStepcut|1348635765|3274740 said:
madelise|1348554063|3274131 said:
MissStepcut|1348547823|3274117 said:
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.

True. That's why I rarely use the same screen name for any forums I am on. :naughty:
That'll only go so far! A couple of identifying bits of information (even something as simple as "I hate bananas" and "my first car was a beater Toyota") along with your tone and writing style, and someone who knows you could string it together.

Lol or, posting photos of your engagement ring.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

madelise|1348638641|3274760 said:
Lol or, posting photos of your engagement ring.
That's not what did me in when I went from suchende to MissS but it certainly doesn't help! Or pets. Or stories of some recent vacation, etc.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

madelise|1348588921|3274336 said:
Well, on this same "internet privacy via FB" note, what do ya'll feel about people posting photos of their kids? Or making Facebook pages for their kids? Kids that have no say over the photos posted, and may one day be upset over particular photos posted? I woke up this morning to a friend posting a photo of her daughter knocked out in the Emergency room hospital bed, with an IV in her arm, with its comment detailing their visit to the emergency room. I'd never publicly share that kind of medical information about myself, and this mom is doing it for her. Poor thing.

It kind of creeps me out that I try so hard to keep photos of me unsearchable through Google, and yet parents are plastering their kids' photos all over the net. These guys will grow up into a future where Google will have all their childhood photos, and then some. The idea that any future employer, teacher, heck ANYONE that hears about your name.. can Google you, and see what you look like.. kind of freaks me out.

I'm always amazed at what people will post about their kids. I get really annoyed when parents post their kids' report cards, "Kimmy got straight A's again! 4.65 GPA. She's a genius!" I understand being proud of your kid, but what happens if Kimmy makes a B next time? I don't really know why this bothers me so much. I was a straight A student, but I would have been mortified if my mother would have posted that for all the world to see (or for anyone to see). Thank god there was no social networking in the 80's.
 
Re: Now FB wants you to rat on your FB friends using fake na

LAJennifer|1348676648|3274954 said:
madelise|1348588921|3274336 said:
Well, on this same "internet privacy via FB" note, what do ya'll feel about people posting photos of their kids? Or making Facebook pages for their kids? Kids that have no say over the photos posted, and may one day be upset over particular photos posted? I woke up this morning to a friend posting a photo of her daughter knocked out in the Emergency room hospital bed, with an IV in her arm, with its comment detailing their visit to the emergency room. I'd never publicly share that kind of medical information about myself, and this mom is doing it for her. Poor thing.

It kind of creeps me out that I try so hard to keep photos of me unsearchable through Google, and yet parents are plastering their kids' photos all over the net. These guys will grow up into a future where Google will have all their childhood photos, and then some. The idea that any future employer, teacher, heck ANYONE that hears about your name.. can Google you, and see what you look like.. kind of freaks me out.

I'm always amazed at what people will post about their kids. I get really annoyed when parents post their kids' report cards, "Kimmy got straight A's again! 4.65 GPA. She's a genius!" I understand being proud of your kid, but what happens if Kimmy makes a B next time? I don't really know why this bothers me so much. I was a straight A student, but I would have been mortified if my mother would have posted that for all the world to see (or for anyone to see). Thank god there was no social networking in the 80's.

lol, that doesn't bother me. medical issues and poop stories bother me. POO! I have seen photos of POO on my newsfeed! Um, I love your darling little miracle, and I love how much you love them… but no poo, please.

So FB has recently changed the way the privacy thing works, AGAIN. So those banner things :?: Whatever they're called.. those are always PUBLIC. Anyone who can find your page, through another friend's page or your comment somewhere, will be able to see your banner, and its comments. Also, FB has changed the settings of the Profile Pictures. Your old pictures all stayed with your past settings. Any new ones you might have posted in the last week or two are automatically set as PUBLIC. Anyone can click your profile photo, see it larger, and see all its comments. You have to go and change the privacy settings on each individual photo, instead of setting privacy to the whole album like FB used to allow.

After this thread, I spent a good amount of time trying to "fix" my FB privacy and my SO's FB privacy. I'm quite annoyed that FB does not alert us when they do changes like this.
 
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It's not like facebook pics expire. If my mom had publicly posted pics of my baby poo (in a diaper, in my crib, in a tub) or even just my bath pictures, that were still "out there" in my teen years... oh, my god. How horrible!
 
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The cloud is just a slick new hype word for the same old unsecured servers we fear to give our CC info to. Only this time you totally sign away any control of that data to the operator of the cloud service, and then you're at their mercy as the pull the rug out from under you.
 
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