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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited March 2009
    As an Internet Developer, I understand it (Facebook) completely but don't use it. All 4 of my teenagers do.

    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU POST

    Years ago, I did build out an "alias" on MySpace, pretending to be my kids age so I could keep track of what they were doing. They FLUNKED, making every security breach you read about come true where stalkers identify by name, address, age, school, etc. We had some serious discussions about that and they are very well educated about the dangers now.

    The thing now is that current AND prospective employers check all (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Monster, Google, high school reunion sites, etc., etc.) and make hiring/firing decisions based upon what they find :eek:
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited March 2009
    It's become a major networking tool for me with work. I can't believe I how many attorneys as old as my Dad use it.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited March 2009
    cnh wrote: »
    Personally, I'm a member of the paranoid generation. The LESS info I have out there about myself the less surveilled I will be. Various security engines troll those sites and your public face may not be who you think you are, nonetheless, Gov't and others probably have access to everything you put out.

    Too Big Brother for me. A free space that is NOT really as free as people think it is.

    Just my paranoid 2 cents. Perhaps a few years in therapy might be warranted for me...or I might be right. Even I'm not sure so I stay away.

    Even this site is probably vulnerable...

    cnh

    +1 on that
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited March 2009
    I just added you Ben.
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  • metal83
    metal83 Posts: 1,219
    edited March 2009
    inspiredsports wrote: »
    +1 on that

    +2
    I agree
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited March 2009
    cnh wrote: »
    perhaps a few years in therapy might be warranted for me...

    +1

    :)
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  • Norm Apter
    Norm Apter Posts: 1,036
    edited March 2009
    inspiredsports wrote: »
    As an Internet Developer, I understand it (Facebook) completely but don't use it. All 4 of my teenagers do.

    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU POST

    Years ago, I did build out an "alias" on MySpace, pretending to be my kids age so I could keep track of what they were doing. They FLUNKED, making every security breach you read about come true where stalkers identify by name, address, age, school, etc. We had some serious discussions about that and they are very well educated about the dangers now.

    The thing now is that current AND prospective employers check all (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Monster, Google, high school reunion sites, etc., etc.) and make hiring/firing decisions based upon what they find :eek:

    While that's good advice, I think its also worth mentioning that Facebook has various privacy settings but of course its up to each user to set these correctly. For example, I have my settings so only people whom I have "friended" can view my pictures, information, etc.

    I am not using my Facebook for job networking, at least not yet.

    That is, its set up so prospective employers wouldn't be able to do this unless they surreptitiously worked through a friend or hacked in (which I'm sure might be possible). People within my various networks (i.e. university, grad school, geographical) do not gain access to that info. Only friends.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited March 2009
    I was on Myspace at the urging of my Brother who was trying to look up old freinds. He really got into it and I did for a while too. I found it difficult to use and not very easy to stay in touch. Its very hard to follow communications when somebody writes on somebody else's comments-if the other person wasn't your friend then you were out of luck.

    I had a FB account for a year or two, but I really didn't know anybody else that used it and I didn't try too hard to find old friends either. Again my Brother, who by the way is not an Internet addict, urged me to get on. Well now all of a sudden we're hooking up with all kinds of old friends, friends from High School and the old neighborhood from growing up. Its really been cool-very nostalgic.
    I like FB 1000% better than MySpace-definitely less flair. In comparison MySpace is for more for the teeny bopper with all the razzle dazzle that people put on their pages. I've also found it much easier to stay up to date with what others are doing. In addition to seeing status updates, you can also see when somebody else is tagged in a photo, or a conversation, etc.

    You don't have to let the world see any of your pages, you can configure it fairly privately. I like that it's much more configurable than MySpace. My Ex still hasn't gotten in and she has been trying and is friends of some of my friends. FB still has some stupid stuff though and I'd rather avoid that, like food fights etc.
    I like being able join a cause or a group and again get in touch with people.

    As far as picking up a phone? I can't stand the phone, and some of the people I used to be friends with I wouldn't know what to say anyway, certainly not enough for a long conversation. So a quick hey how ya doing every so often on FB works out nice. Besides, maybe there is nothing to talk about, but when you or a friend see an interesting pic or conversation going ont, you can comment-stay in the loop so to speak. Besides, 80% of the people I hooked up with on Facebook practically dropped off the face of the Earth and I wouldn't have had the foggiest idea on how to get in touch.

    Its interesting to me that some of you are concerned about privacy. FB and MySp can be locked down to keep people out, yet here on CP absolutely everything is publicly viewable and is indexed by Google and Live, etc. :rolleyes: Its just interesting.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited March 2009
    Yesterday I'm at Disneyland with a girl-friend of mine and as were sitting having coffee this girl sitting behind my friend keeps waving at me. Finally she ask if I'm Ron, sure enough I went to grammer and high school with her. We chatted for a few and FaceBook came up. She said join as there's a lot of our classmates on there. So I just did, and she was right, pretty cool.
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited March 2009
    what **** pisses me off is i'm trying to set up a profile and **** facebook won't let me use Bill Gates but allows me to use William. **** facebook.

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  • edbert
    edbert Posts: 1,041
    edited March 2009
    I am on there as well. It is great for someone who moved around a little as a teenager and attended a couple of colleges. It is a lot of fun seeing the people that you went to elementary school and see how they grew up and what they are doing now.
    I know just enough to be dangerous, but don't tell my wife, she thinks I'm a genius. :D

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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited March 2009
    heiney9 wrote: »
    I have people begging me to get a Facebook account. I spend too much time on the computer as it is :). I'm resisting, but it seems to be a good way to reach back into the past. A good friend of mine just got set-up with a computer after not having one for about 6 years........she joined Facebook and so many people have come out of the woodwork. She's enjoying it a lot.

    Once I get my new netbook set-up and I can be more portable perhaps I will get an account. Right now I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

    H9

    Slight thread derail:
    My daughter swooped down on an Asus netbook last week. She loves it.
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