FACEBOOK OT

Rhoda,

I'm sorry you are getting this bad email - that is a pain for anyone when that happens.

But - did you only put the information on Facebook, or is there anywhere else you (or someone else?) might have made that same info available?

I'm only asking because I've been on facebook for a few years, and I get very little (about 2 pieces in 4-5 months!) spam from being on facebook. I know this, because I have a dedicated email that I use only for facebook. I am very careful to keep most of my info private, visible only to those who are already my friends.

Well, this might not help you , but I'd suggest you think about if this info is somewhere else out there.

In the mean time - don't ever reply to the emails. If they seem to have a valid sender address, then you can pass them on to their ISP who might be able to do something. But mostly the sender is disguised anyway :-(

I hope it goes away!

Hanne in DK

I agree - I haven't been on FB look very long (only about 6 months) but haven't gotten a single piece of nasty mail. However, like Hanne I am vercareful who I share information with and I have NEVER joined any of those silly games or other groups that 'pull' your personal informaton in.

I do enjoy FB as my neices and nephews use it, as well as friends from different areas of the country who I'd otherwise never hear from :)

-Irene

Thank you for your interest but I have an acceptable list and the rest is suppose to go to "junk." I had my information taken out by a professional Computer person I can trust and whom I pay to keep things clean.

I've been computering since the middle 1900s and use it for family contact, fellow quilters, and mainly for writing my books and also do some publishing of my own. I'm not a "dilly-dally" person. My delete button works for me every day... Like Obama who warned the young people to be careful what they put up on Twitter or Facebook as it will be part of their history for life.... or words to that effect. I regret not following that advise.

Rhoda

Rhoda,

I only meant that FB is not the only place we share our info, for example your email is on these posts too (unless you have disguised it, of course).

Obviously, someone could have gotten your email from FB when you did have an account there, if it was not protected. Or from someone you email with having a virus and inadvertently sharing their address book with "the enemy".

If the emails always either come from the same sender or contains certain obvious words/phrases, then you can direct those emails straight to the junk folder of your emails. Then at least you will not have to read those unpleasant emails.

Kind regards, Hanne in DK

I occasionally get messages where the heading says that ..sduridkmgn.. has sent me a message on Facebook. They are not addressed to me - usually a silly code, and I don't recognise their name, so I don't open them, just delete straight away.

I got these even before I joined Facebook.

Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

Hanne wrote:

Rhonda that's awful. When I had a very small problem with FB, I couldn't even find a person to complain to, just a 'helpful' suggestion that I check their Facts And Questions page and hope that somebody else had had your specific problem, posted a fix, and that you can find both those bits of information.

I've been fortunate that very little if any spam gets through to my gmail account. It's much better than the email account provided by my ISP, which has turned into 'Who Wants to Annoy Sunny?' and which I never check anymore.

I'm headed to your blog right now. Can't wait! Sunny

It's not just Facebook by any means. I got "those kinds" of email for years before I ever heard of Facebook. I think most of mine started when I got a Hotmail account for Newsgroups. Unfortunately, you're forced to sign up on Hotmail with a "regular" email account. So a lot of the Hotmail junk filters it's way to my ISP account. Facebook isn't evil. It's not even bad other than it kept me away from the sewing machine.

Anyhow, the internet is not for the faint hearted. You can pretty much tell from the subject line what is worth reading and what goes directly into the garbage.

I just figure it's the price we pay for all the great stuff we get. Like quilt shop ads.

Cindy

Rhoda, I've never had a facebook account and have been getting these messages for months. Fortunately, they automatically go to my junk mail folder so the only time I even see that there is a message is when I go into that folder to empty it. Since I've never had an account there I know it's junk and never even bother to open them. Every great once in a while something makes it to my junk folder that isn't supposed to but that's a rare event. I have several hotmail accounts and find that the filters work quite well. Good luck.

Kim in sultry NJ

Old and cranky here, too. We had a FB page with access to the kids' pages. Sometimes it was just Too Much Information! Our motto with the offspring has always been "No news is good news."

I lost interest in facebook. It was like sitting in a room with my high school friends, my family, my old work friends, my online friends -- none of whom know each other. Maybe if I could have separated out those groups onto individual pages, it would have been better. I've kinda given up on it.

Sherry