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[daniel]

I'm not on Facebook. The idea of anyone being able to look me up kind of creeps me out. There are people in my past I'd really rather didn't know where I am.

[Michgal007]

Originally Posted by daniel

I'm not on Facebook. The idea of anyone being able to look me up kind of creeps me out. There are people in my past I'd really rather didn't know where I am.

You can have your security settings where no one outside your 'friends' circle will be able to see anything other than your profile photo. Even among your 'friends', you can restrict what they see (to a large extent). That's what I have done.

[daniel]

What creeped me out was that friends of my friends could see me as a friend of their friend. Since the friend in question blogged every detail of her life, more information about me reached people I do not know than I was comfortable with. The day after I friended my friend (who was a real friend, not just an on-line "friend") a dozen people who I did not know anything about, sent me friend requests, apparently for no other reason than we had a mutual "friend."

I have nothing against virtual "social networking" for those who enjoy it. I just don't care to participate. I can chat anonymously here on Prius Chat, and only people I've chosen to meet or to communicate with in other ways know who I really am. And I can communicate with my real friends and family by email. Facebook offers me no benefits I cannot get in other ways. Again, I have nothing against Facebook. I just choose not to participate.

[Southern Dad]

I'm not surprised that the Facebook is dumping the IE7. It is after all, not the current IE Browser. Of course, since I walk a different path... I use Safari.

I'm sure that I put far too much on Facebook but I really just don't hide anything. I've reached that point in my life where I don't need secrecy. Heck, my phone number is listed in the book.

It's not a secret that my DD9 and I are avid Disney fans. So is it a surprise that I'm on a Disney forum? While at WDW in October 2012 we actually encountered someone from the Disney forum while waiting in the line for a ride. She saw me uploading a photo to The Dis from my iPhone and actually knew who I was from posts, profile and such. I wasn't creeped out at all, I actually thought it made the world a little smaller.

A young lady that I know posted that she was laid off on her Facebook status. A friend of a friend saw it and knew of a job opening. She was unemployed for 10 days... There are some advantages to networks.

[cwerdna]

Not exactly new but I dug it up after having mentioned it to a friend of mine recently.

Socialbot Network finds it easy to harvest data from Facebook users | Naked Security
Beware of Accepting a Robot Friend on Facebook | Webupon

[cwerdna]

Facebook forcing "Timeline" down users' throats
Facebook forces Timeline; tips to hide users' past - Yahoo! Finance

It's also confirmed at https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?p...50408488962131.

UPDATE on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012:
Last year we introduced timeline, a new kind of profile that lets you highlight the photos, posts and life events that help you tell your story. Over the next few weeks, everyone will get timeline. When you get timeline, you'll have 7 days to preview what's there now. This gives you a chance to add or hide whatever you want before anyone else sees it.

You can learn more about these new features by taking the quick tour available at the top of your timeline. If you want to get timeline now, go to the Introducing Timeline page and click "Get Timeline." Or you can wait until you see an announcement at the top of your home page.

FWIW, I've sent my feedback pleading that this not be forced on all of us at https://www.facebook.com/help/contac...50272491747654. I think everyone who finds Timeline messy/jarring (me) or is concerned about Timeline's privacy should send feedback.

[KK6PD]

Sorry, my life is not an open book, in fact my facebook page uses my nickname as the user name, even then I have only hooked up with people I know, well!
I'm with Daniel on this ony, it falls under the heading, "How not to be seen, don't stand up"

Monty Python - How Not to Be Seen (Original version) - YouTube

Monty Python - How Not to Be Seen (Original version) - YouTube

[cwerdna]

"Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook" was pretty decent. Unlike some of the other documentaries, they actually talked to Zuck a bunch and even showed the house that was their "office" in the company's early days...

Unfortunately, it won't be rerun in the next two weeks, but I think it's likely CNBC will rerun it in the future. I didn't realize why there were so many scenes from London until I saw the credits. Its looks like it was done by a British company or for/by the BBC.

[cwerdna]

It finally happened. Rumors of this have been swirling around the last few weeks or so...

Facebook IPO launched officially - SlashGear

[daniel]

Here's a guy who thinks Facebook's IPO is a money grab by the owners, and that Facebook is on the way out and is going to die:

Commentary on ZDNet.

I think Facebook’s IPO comes at a time when Facebook is on its way out–out of our lives and out of our gadgetry–for good. I believe that a lot of people have discovered that it’s a waste of time and computing resources. It was cute for a while but now, they’re trying to rekindle interest in this juvenile phenomenon by issuing this IPO. It’s silly but it will make megamillionaires and billionaires out of people who aren’t qualified to deliver pizza. Crazy stuff, that.