OT: ($^$%@#&* Facebook

Tia Mary · 2009-06-23T04:25:50+00:00

Rant time again. So, at least half the known world is signed up with Facebook, including almost all of my family and most of my friends. I decide I should sign up too and did just that early last week. Sign up went OK and I wrote a few things to some of the people who I am now "friends" with. Next day, I go back to Facebook to see what the family & other friends have had to say. I had gotten the e-mails from FB telling me that everyone I wanted to be "friends" with had accepted. So I go to sign in and they won't accept my password. I try 3 or 4 times throughout the day but no luck. So I click the little "reset password" button and wait for the e-mail telling me what the new password is. I wait an hour & no e-mail. I wait half a day and no e-mail. I wait until the next morning and no e-mail. So over the next few days, I try 2 or 3 more times to reset the password and still don't get an e-mail from FB with the new password. VBS, I delve through the Help section and find the "Trouble signing in to FB" and fill out the form and send it off to them. Within less than 30 minutes, I have a reply asking me to verify who I am by replying to that e-mail. I do this and wait another day. STILL No Password. I wait another day. Still No Password. So the next day, I respond to the original e-mail again and ask them what's going on. No response yet so I'm not sure just what the deal is. I went back and tried to reset the password again just a few hours ago but never got the e-mail with the new password. VBS -- back to the Help page and went through the whole routine of filling out the form, yadda, yadda, yadda. I looked through the stuff at the bottom of the Home page to see if there was any way to contact them but nothing was obvious. HMMM -- maybe I need to wade further into the Help Page to see if they have listed any contact info -- like an e-mail addy. I did that the first time I couldn't log in but not with much enthusiasm. Needless to say, I...

Jun 23, 2009 27 Replies

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lucretiaborgia 17 years ago

Of the bowel type ??

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Bruce Fletcher (remove denture 17 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised if some folk went that far

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lucretiaborgia 17 years ago

I am sure some of the young males in the correct age group do! Any bodily function seems to be source of merriment to them, I used to want to wop my son when he was in that phase.

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Gillian Murray 17 years ago

It's strange we have been chatting about Facebook, and I just got a notice from an "older" friend of mine that she now has a facebofok page, and invited me to join!

Hmmmmm, I will think about it.

Gill

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Cheryl Isaak 17 years ago

Tell me about it...

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needlearts 17 years ago

I'm another one who will defend facebook. Okay, maybe defend isn't the correct word.

I've kept my info private and my friends' circle fairly small. I don't download apps, except in one weak moment when I started playing bejeweled blitz...I don't see a lot of crap because of facebook because I practice safe computing.

And the benefit of all this? Sure, I've connected to some old friends. But even better is that we have is a large group of family members who are all on facebook. This is how I found out my niece is going to Italy in the fall, otherwise I might not have known until the next time I went to NH. We see everyone's graduation photos right away. We're having an extended conversation and it's usually entertaining. We make each other laugh. I'm enjoying it. And I only check in once a day.

Plus - I've got stitching friends on facebook, too!

Donna in Virginia

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1961girl 17 years ago

On a related note, kids don't call anymore either - they text. I almost daily have to tell my kids to CALL me if they need something/ want to tell me something.

linda

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