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Dec 14^th, 2010 at 11:18am

alrot Offline
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Now I wonder why I got go many spam

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/13/technology/facebook_id_privacy/index.htm

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Reply #1 - Dec 14^th, 2010 at 12:06pm

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Thanks Alex. Depressing.

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Reply #2 - Dec 15^th, 2010 at 12:05am

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typed in my real name and got someone else with the same name lol.

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Reply #3 - Dec 15^th, 2010 at 12:25am

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This is partly the reason I refuse to sign up for Facebook. I'm pretty much the only person in my school that doesn't have an FB account. (And that annoys them to no end. Grin

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MY SPECS= 5' 11" Slightly less than healthy male, 160 lbs., Brown eyes........Oh...you were wondering about my computers specs.....

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Reply #4 - Dec 15^th, 2010 at 11:23am

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Signing up to anything online gets the same results ...... Facebook is no different to ordering things from Amazon anything you share online is fair game to people wanting to sell you something, or swindle you.

Get over it ........ and get used to it ........ or stay offline .... off the phone ........ and live in a cave with no connections to the outside world because that's the only way you are going to escape the marketing man's grasp..... and I'm sure he'll eventually find you in a cave.

I've got a lovely set of cave paintings for £9.99 a month ...... 12 paintings for under £120 ....... a bargin Grin

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Reply #5 - Dec 15^th, 2010 at 5:19pm

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I have a number of relatives on facebook -- and I have found others listed with my, so I am told, unique name... but none are me.
When relating to email transfers today, I was asked if I had a computer (assumptions, assumptions)...
"Yes, I do, but what does that have to do with transferring this to my online account? My computer has no online connection -- that's why I'm here [at yours]."
I also have a television -- but no commercial connection nor is an antenna allowed... I must settle for the occasional VHS viewing.

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Reply #6 - Dec 15^th, 2010 at 7:31pm

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H wrote on Dec 15^th, 2010 at 5:19pm:

I must settle for the occasional VHS viewing.

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Excuse mua , what is a VHS? ....gosh that must be old ! Shocked

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Reply #7 - Dec 15^th, 2010 at 8:14pm

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VHS = Video Home System, better known as VCR. I still have 2 of them.

What's really old is someone in here (I think I read it in the Sports section) still has some Betamax tapes.

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Reply #8 - Dec 15^th, 2010 at 8:24pm

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Facebook can be used responsibly. I see so many list their phone #s, street address, all kinds of identifying information for all to see. I use Facebook a lot, but I am careful about what I put out there for the world to see.

Plus, you don't need facebook to share your info. You can look up anybody on the internet and find tons of info floating around out there. Phone #s, street addresses, all that, is often easily found through online phone books and other databases.

Dave

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Reply #9 - Dec 15^th, 2010 at 8:53pm

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Webb wrote on Dec 15^th, 2010 at 8:14pm:

VHS = Video Home System, better known as VCR. I still have 2 of them.

What's really old is someone in here (I think I read it in the Sports section) still has some Betamax tapes.

Haha! I have to hook it up to a battery charger set on 12 volts. I'm tellin you all, Betamax is the future Grin

Get yours before the shelves are empty. Wink

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Reply #10 - Dec 16^th, 2010 at 5:26pm

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alrot wrote on Dec 15^th, 2010 at 7:31pm:

H wrote on Dec 15^th, 2010 at 5:19pm:

I must settle for the occasional VHS viewing.

Excuse mua , what is a VHS? ....gosh that must be old!

Webb wrote on Dec 15^th, 2010 at 8:14pm:

VHS = Video Home System, better known as VCR. I still have 2 of them.
What's really old is someone in here (I think I read it in the Sports section) still has some Betamax tapes.

Steve M wrote on Dec 15^th, 2010 at 8:53pm:

Haha! I have to hook it up to a battery charger set on 12 volts. I'm tellin you all, Betamax is the future... Get yours before the shelves are empty.

Betamax was actually the better format but Sony wouldn't cordially share the technology; mine is long gone.
My VHS units (JVC VCR and Daewoo TV/VCR) are amongst what I managed to salvage from my now demolished place: over ten years old but just out of the box (although I had to repair the Daewoo from damage in the package) as of February of this year. Free VHS rentals are available here at the Library.

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Reply #11 - Dec 17^th, 2010 at 12:25pm

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When Philips pioneered the CD-player they also experimented with video CD's A.K.A. DVD's XD huge fail that they didn't

Also Me and a mr Rooney were talking about a former member, Mr Kesten and after i logged in on Facebook guess which friend suggestion I got....

This reminds me..... still got to apply for a Job @ Facebook!

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Reply #12 - Dec 17^th, 2010 at 2:00pm

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eno wrote on Dec 15^th, 2010 at 11:23am:

Signing up to anything online gets the same results ...... Facebook is no different to ordering things from Amazon anything you share online is fair game to people wanting to sell you something, or swindle you.

Get over it ........ and get used to it ........ or stay offline .... off the phone ........ and live in a cave with no connections to the outside world because that's the only way you are going to escape the marketing man's grasp..... and I'm sure he'll eventually find you in a cave.

I've got a lovely set of cave paintings for £9.99 a month ...... 12 paintings for under £120 ....... a bargin Grin

I realize that "they" will find me one way or another. I avoid FB to "limit the damage" so to speak. I still get spam...but I probably get less than FB users. Kiss

If my friends or family want to contact me I have a cellphone and an e-mail. Don't have my cell number? Just search my name on the internet, you'll get my house phone number from one of those internet phone books...it's not that hard to search Google. Roll Eyes

And even with just an e-mail and a cellphone I'm still WAY more connected than my parents when they were my age 30 years ago. You can't say I live under a rock just because I have no Facebook account. There was life before FB (Not 100% sure though?). Grin

Oh, and those paintings sound like a deal! How soon can you ship 'em? Cheesy

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Reply #13 - Dec 17^th, 2010 at 3:57pm

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Souichiro wrote on Dec 17^th, 2010 at 12:25pm:

Also Me and a mr Rooney were talking about a former member, Mr Kesten and after I logged in on Facebook guess which friend suggestion I got...

In another coincidence, I just rediscovered a CFS WWI campaign set, on an old HD, that I never uploaded (it featured retextured Camels, Fokker Triplanes and Albatroses; applicable videos and sound effects -- a rather large feat of uploading on a dial-up); anyway, Björn had provided the translations into German.

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Reply #14 - Dec 25^th, 2010 at 5:00pm

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This is precisely why I don't use my real name on the interwebs. Wink

"Guard well the words you use, for they can be the keys to your freedom or the manacles of your slavery." - me

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