OT facebook temper, temper!

I sympathise with you Polly.

I joined so that I could keep up with my nephew when he went to the USA, I have had some stuff sent to me until I realised that I hadn't made my email privste which I promptly did. Too late for me though, and it looks like it is for you too.

Unless it is a message from a relative, I just delete every other request/message/or whatever they are trying to sell/tell me about.

I hate facebook - it's a curse on society.

I think you can go into facebook and change your email address to whatever you want to - I'm going to do that and hopefully wont get any more from facelessbook.

Thank you, Di. I was needing sympathy and I can change my email address. ( with adult supervision, of course.) BUT - it wasn't the incoming junk that was hitting me, it was the Very Notion that there was a fb connection between where I wandered, shopped, asked . . . just a book review but it might have been looking for a cure for something quite personal like an occluded polyp in my left nostril and there's the whole internet pouncing in and publishing it? Nope. Enough. Ima/Polly

Oh! Polly! The group does specify that it is an open group & that means that ANYONE can see it!! I don't give out any thing that I don't want the WORLD ta see!! I have noticed that since I have medicare they have sold or given my name to others that I didn't!! It is just a sin ta prey on OLDER people like they do!

I have to say that a big problem with FB is that their default setting are wide open. However it IS possible to shut things down. For example, I checked details on my FB page settings and Polly what you are noticing is "instant personalization". The default is ON. To turn it OFF: click on the small triangle in the upper right blue bar click on Privacy settings click on the "edit settings" box beside "instant Personalization" uncheck the box

FWIW you can also go through the privacy other settings and set everything to "friends only". This shuts things down pretty well.

Another useful feature to edit is under "Account settings". Click on "notifications" and unselect all the email notifications. This prevents your mailbox from filling up because people have commented on our wonderful quilts. :)

Some younger folk are comfortable with having their bazillion friends know where they are and what they are doing at all moments of the day. I'm not so I adjust FB accordingly. Then I can enjoy the good parts of the social network.

HTH

Allison

Look at it this way - you wouldn't go do yardwork out in your front yard in your best suit, would you? Anything you put on the internet is pretty fair game these days. You can set your security settings quite high in Facebook - ask your grands for help, or just have a poke around on "settings". I have made a "throw-away" email address for Facebook, which is the one I give out anytime I want to sign up for a competition or leave a comment on a blog or whatever. It's a Yahoo address, but I reckon you could make one on Gmail or Hotmail or whatever tickles your fancy. You can just get rid of it when it is hacked or filled with spam or you tire of it.... the way you would throw out your ripped stained blue jeans after a couple of years of cleaning drains, digging weeds, etc. Your best personal, private email should stay just between friends and not used for stuff like Facebook.

Mind you, any comments on this group or any other Usenet groups are out there forever, so you might already know all this.....

-- Jo in Scotland

the RCTQ group on Facebook has now been changed to a 'closed' group by our Tammy. so we can all start revealing our secrets and feel safe no one outside the group can read them. big Thank You to Tammy for being so quick today. cheers, j.

"Polly Esther" wrote ... I was skeptical and cynical about facebook. Our grands signed me on during the Christmas Day get-together. They didn't give my real name or address or birthday but did give my email address un/whatever-ed. Tonight I was reading book reviews for a book and just all of a sudden on the book review website, there popped up MY picture ( now my picture is not my pretty face but a photo of some quilts we shipped to NewBorns in Need recently) and asked if I would like to comment on fb. Just as I was afraid of. The 'membership' with Facebook allows any website to track where I go. It's not a matter of saying something personal. I'm not going to do that. It makes me very angry that Facebook either opens up or tosses about my email address and (could be) picture/identity to EVERYONE. As best can be done, I will remove me from fb. If I have to take my computer out and let the gators nest it in and change my email address to a happy new name like Ima Dummy, I can do that. We hardly have any privacy left but I'll just be dipped if I'll let fb profit,stalk or shadow and SHARE where I go. In the general scheme of things, it IS a big deal. Polly . . . or maybe Ima Notta Dummy at a new address.

hmmmm, cant find the edit settings, several there for various purposes. nowhere did i see an instant personalization box. must keep looking i guess. tho my mind is not in a good place now so having probs with thinking full stop.. oh well. j.

"AllisonH" wrote ... I have to say that a big problem with FB is that their default setting are wide open. However it IS possible to shut things down. For example, I checked details on my FB page settings and Polly what you are noticing is "instant personalization". The default is ON. To turn it OFF: click on the small triangle in the upper right blue bar click on Privacy settings click on the "edit settings" box beside "instant Personalization" uncheck the box

FWIW you can also go through the privacy other settings and set everything to "friends only". This shuts things down pretty well.

Another useful feature to edit is under "Account settings". Click on "notifications" and unselect all the email notifications. This prevents your mailbox from filling up because people have commented on our wonderful quilts. :)

Some younger folk are comfortable with having their bazillion friends know where they are and what they are doing at all moments of the day. I'm not so I adjust FB accordingly. Then I can enjoy the good parts of the social network.

HTH

Allison

no worrys, i found it and i already had it right. wheww. for anyone else, go into privacy settings, then into the apps settings and then instant personalization. j.

"J*" wrote... hmmmm, cant find the edit settings, several there for various purposes. nowhere did i see an instant personalization box. must keep looking i guess. tho my mind is not in a good place now so having probs with thinking full stop.. oh well. j.

"AllisonH" wrote ... I have to say that a big problem with FB is that their default setting are wide open. However it IS possible to shut things down. For example, I checked details on my FB page settings and Polly what you are noticing is "instant personalization". The default is ON. To turn it OFF: click on the small triangle in the upper right blue bar click on Privacy settings click on the "edit settings" box beside "instant Personalization" uncheck the box

FWIW you can also go through the privacy other settings and set everything to "friends only". This shuts things down pretty well.

Another useful feature to edit is under "Account settings". Click on "notifications" and unselect all the email notifications. This prevents your mailbox from filling up because people have commented on our wonderful quilts. :)

Some younger folk are comfortable with having their bazillion friends know where they are and what they are doing at all moments of the day. I'm not so I adjust FB accordingly. Then I can enjoy the good parts of the social network.

HTH

Allison

Howdy!

Wish I could mark this "Like", Allison. ;-D

FB isn't for everyone, but what is? Air...water? maybe...

It's worth what I pay for it, I reckon.

R/Sandy

Howdy!

More likely, that's FB following you around. They offered you a chance to let them hook up your line to the newspaper's line, so it's all one big party line! (remember party lines? oy!)

Remember when we learned about "cookies" on our computers? They're still using them, they just don't use the same terms; when we agreed to FB (now it's a verb), god knows what all we agreed to. Call your church & ask 'em to send over a teenager to fiddle the dials & get you better privacy coverage. Or unplug that social network & move away from the FB.

R/Sandy - p.s. "I see you!" ...

Hanne, i think what happened was i asked for the group to be closed rather than open. Tammy was online at the time i posted that and she closed it there and then. i think when this is done the page would have to be refreshed for it to show to you then. at least you got it sorted out, lol. no harm done. j.

"Hanne in DK" wrote ... Scratch that - it is working for me again. No idea what happened there, but it was sure weird to post to a space I couldn't read...

Hanne in DK

Den 10-01-2012 22:25, Hanne in DK skrev:

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:05:04 -0600, J* wrote (in article ):

I think it's under the "apps" options.

Maureen

Standing very ready to be technically corrected here, Polly, but I think it's your computer that is recognized, not your email address. Everywhere your computer goes online, it is 'known' about. And sites communicate with each other about your computer. The only way to have internet privacy is to not be on the internet. The information gathering and data gathering game has grown to mega huge big activity. There's no way around it, if you are online, you are tracked.

Facebook has a way to deactivate your account, which will help tremendously about facebook. I don't know how, but there is also a way to actually delete your facebook account. They don't make that so easy to find out, but someone here can tell you or point you in the right direction.

Karen, Queen of Squishies

I've gotten over my silly tantrum. Now that you mention it, my credit card company tracks me and I've never minded that. One time I ordered a pair of forceps and they went into a panic. Forceps are good for holding steady a slippery silk thread when doing machine embroidery. They are also what the narcotics squad calls 'controlled substance paraphernalia'. Meaning, I think, good for holding a joint of suspicious leafy green stuff to get the final last puff without burning you fingers. Polly

"Karen"; "Queen of Squishies" < Standing very ready to be technically corrected here, Polly, but I

There are ways to prevent your location being tracked but generally they are more trouble than they are worth IMHO. The only time I ever do this is when I want to use pandora.com to listen to music. That site used to be open to everyone but now is restricted to US sites only. Since I'm from Canada I can't normally get in. But it is possible to set up a "proxy" for your computer to mimic being an American site and then pandora works up here. (I never did figure out the benefit of restricting pandora - one would think that wider exposure for relatively unknown bands would be a *good* thing). Allison

Google 'how to unsubscribe from Facebook' and several sites will appear that tell you what to do step by step. They also say you should not go back for a month to check that your account is closed because that will reactivate it. Sneaky people those FB guys.