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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 10:08 am
Jimmer, thanks so much for posting that article link! I've passed it on to everyone on my list. The article mentions that there is, or will be, a privacy option for each and every status, post & photo there. (I don't mean the current setup, I know how that works, I mean the new setup that starts today.)But I don't see it. Is it activated yet? And does it mean that all friends can see those posts or only the intended recipient?
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 10:15 am
I don't know Mame. As I mentioned when I posted it, I don't know a lot about Facebook and how big an issue it is so I'll leave it to the Facebook experts on here to comment on that. Hopefully, someone else who knows more about it will jump in and comment.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 10:18 am
Chewi, try to join using your daughter's computer - if she uses a different one. If she's a member, then her computer hasn't got that annoying glitch that yours has. Once you've registered, write down your username and password so you won't forget, and then at that point you should be able to access your account on Facebook from your own computer. Hope that my idea works for you.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 10:34 am
Please don't spam all your contacts with that misleading article. If you've already got your page set to friends only, then it will stay friends only. The only people affected are those that already have their settings set so that everyone can see your updates. <snip> Facebook’s Mr. Okelola noted in an update to the post that the beta test won’t affect users whose profiles aren’t already publicly viewable. Wall Street Journal blog link <snip> When Facebook announced last week that users will now have a new set of privacy options for sharing content, we got the story wrong. We thought everyone's shared items were going to be changed to public by default, but Facebook HQ emailed to tell us that only people with public profiles would see that happen. Those are the only people to see the new interface so far. Users whose privacy settings are set to friends only will maintain that as their default setting in the future, the company says. read write web link
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 11:01 am
Like I said in my original post, I was wondering whether this was a big deal or not and that's why I asked people who know more about Facebook here for clarification. The whole thing is a bit confusing but maybe that is poor writing in the article. For example, in the one that you linked to it says: Too Bad It's So Confusing Unfortunately, it's very difficult to manage the new privacy settings as they are currently constituted. Several members of our staff struggled to make changes to message-specific and default privacy settings really stick. The feature is confusing if not outright broken. A lot of messages intended for limited distribution are going to be sent out wider than the author intended. That's not good. Ultimately some more clarity around just what Facebook wants to do with privacy would be really helpful. The company tends to talk in very simple terms to its users but has recently hired professional lobbyists in both the US and Europe to advance its privacy agenda. But what is that agenda? Anyway, thanks for clearing up the point that regular users are not affected, LT.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 1:16 pm
I'm not horribly worried about the public thing, but I AM watching it carefully. I've got my settings so private that my posts don't show up to anyone other than friends because I do NOT want people seeing my posts. I'll continue to monitor this, though - because I don't want that privacy wall to change at all. As soon as they make it too much of a pain to remain private, I'll dump the facebook account and go back to food ol' fashioned e-mail.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 1:31 pm
Yeah Teach, I'm pretty much the same way. I like that this has opened up a dialogue on FB (and beyond) about their privacy settings and in some cases made those who didn't bother to initially adjust their settings more cautious, which I believe is a good thing.
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 1:35 pm
Thanks Mame....Its just so wierd that the stupid Bday thing bounce back up everytime.... I will just call Olivia up and have her try to make me an account....on her laptop.... I just dont want my real name is all..... There are just some people that I dont want to contact me... Thankyou.... Let you know...
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 2:26 pm
Chewi, good luck, and do let me know when Olivia finally gets you set up. You have my email addy. xoxox
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Taysmomcj
Member
03-24-2008
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 3:51 am
Someone sent me the below message on Facebook yesterday. Does anyone know if it is true?? Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,there have been many members complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow. Records show that the reason is that there are too many non-active Facebook members and, on the other side, too many new Facebook members. We will be sending this message apround to see if members are active or not. If you are active please send to at least 15 other users using Copy+ Paste to show that you are still active. Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks will be deleted without hesitation to create more space. Send this message to all your friends and to show me that your still active and you will not be deleted. Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg I did not come from Facebook itself, it came from a friend, I guess because it tells the one who received it to pass the message along. This just seems to wierd to me to be true. Wouldn't Facebook contact us by our contact email, not the Facebook Inbox??
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 5:40 am
Taysmom, I don't know but I would not pass it on. I feel certain Facebook can tell who is active or not and that they would send the message to individuals and would NOT ask people to forward to all their friends. I think you're right, thinking they would contact us at our email address. It has all the markings of some sort of scam. Also, Facebook isn't running slowly for me.
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Taysmomcj
Member
03-24-2008
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 5:43 am
See, didn't Facebook send us an email to our contact email when we were to vote on the new privacy terms??? It totally didn't feel right to me that they would have us send this email to our friends. Sounds so much like spam to me.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 7:05 am
Sounds like spam.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 7:31 am
Anytime an email urges you to "pass it on to all your contacts", that's the red flag that it's a fake. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/overload.asp Scroll down the page to see the FaceBook version.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 8:16 am
Yep. Anything that says "forward" or "send" is junk.
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Ladybug007
Member
08-13-2000
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 8:56 pm
OH NO!!! I am now addicted to Farm Town on Fbook.. you build and take care of your own farm..and BB11 is starting ...oy
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Friday, July 03, 2009 - 5:09 am
OMG I'm so hooked on Farmtown!!!!!!I'm still learning everything,but it's fun!
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Treasure
Member
06-26-2002
| Friday, July 03, 2009 - 6:32 pm
Mictay and Ladybug, who are you on Farmtown, I am Desert Cowgirl.
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Ladybug007
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, July 03, 2009 - 6:44 pm
My name is just Becca@
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 5:40 am
sorry treasure it took so long to reply,my name is just wenn.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 7:45 am
Is there a way to see the people that have been looking at your FB? I noticed the friends list on the side changes when I go into my page, I wondered if those were the last people to view my page I cant do FB at wk,now I know why they blocked the site, no one would get anything done. I go to FB after work and look at the clock and I have been there an hour and didnt even notice!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 10:15 am
Pamy I don't know for sure, but I'm fairly certain it's just a random thing. I kinda like that it does that, it's fun to see whose pics pop up when I go to my page.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 11:36 am
I like it too! It's fun to see them on other people's pages too!
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Alwayzmovin
Member
11-06-2003
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 12:22 pm
Oh yeah, I'm addicted to FT big time, almost to level 28 or 29, can't remember. Since I broke my ankle there's not much else I can do but sit and farm and farm some more. lol I'm easily entertained.
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Cathie
Member
08-16-2000
| Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 1:37 am
I'm new to Farm Town and need more neighbors--anybody have an opening for a neighbor??? I am Cathie on Farm Town, Cathie Chandler Read on Facebook.
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