Do you have a Facebook profile?

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pianowizard · #1 Post by **pianowizard** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:13 am

Just curious.

#2 Post by **gator** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:40 am

Does facebook still ask for a .edu id while signing up? I did not join facebook (about an year ago) just for this reason ...

pianowizard · #3 Post by **pianowizard** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:43 am

gator wrote:Does facebook still ask for a .edu id while signing up?

I believe they waived that requirement several months ago.

Facebook is such a great way to stay in touch with friends. After getting an account, I stopped using Friendster.

qviri · #4 Post by **qviri** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:04 pm

http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=122601714 is my profile.

And yes, everyone can sign up these days.

pianowizard · #5 Post by **pianowizard** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:12 pm

qviri wrote:http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=122601714 is my profile.

I just added you as a friend.

SaberX · #6 Post by **SaberX** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:11 pm

Great idea.Heres my facebook if anyone wants a Canadain Thinkpad friend

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=789005211

#7 Post by **KristianJ** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:06 am

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=644720549 is mine - I'm happy to accept friend requests.

ThinkPad · #8 Post by **ThinkPad** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:42 pm

Facebook is a toned down version of myspace. I have both, but prefer the professional look of facebook. ALTHOUGH facebook has been adding nonsense applications and options that doesnt make it much different from myspace.

NS · #9 Post by NS » Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:48 am

Who wants me as a friend?

-> *sigh* i guess no one will...

You can find me in youtube.

pianowizard · #10 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:32 am

ThinkPad wrote:Facebook is a toned down version of myspace.

IMO, Myspace caters to teenagers, Facebook to college students, and Friendster to older people. I am among the oldest people on Facebook!

#11 Post by **JaneL** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:45 pm

pianowizard wrote:I am among the oldest people on Facebook!

Not so sure about that any more - Bill's on Facebook now -> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49824216934

SrAdmin Edit: Whaaat..!

#12 Post by **dorronto** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:03 pm

me too...dorronto, Ron Maida on Facebook

Ron

SaberX · #13 Post by **SaberX** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:14 pm

I just joined that face book page also....
feel free to add me as friend if you want to...
Bill Wheeler

#14 Post by **JaneL** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:28 pm

Yeah, we're all coming out from behind our masks, aren't we?

Q's and A's about the group are here -> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=73325

Temetka · #15 Post by **Temetka** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:58 pm

FWIW I greatly dislike social networking websites and as a result I have not joined any.

t20user · #16 Post by **t20user** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:05 pm

I have successfully stayed away from Facebook, although I understand many of its benefits. The thing that gets to me is that it is becoming essentially a tabloid for the masses. Photos of you and your mistress are no longer sacred,

. You can post and share some pictures sure, but the whole tagging photos bit is where it gets out of control.

ajkula66 · #17 Post by **ajkula66** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:53 pm

Temetka wrote:

FWIW I greatly dislike social networking websites and as a result I have not joined any.

Very well put, if a little more mildly than I would've...

As Shrek would say "I like my privacy"...

mattbiernat · #18 Post by **mattbiernat** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:31 pm

ajkula66 wrote:
As Shrek would say "I like my privacy"...

you can very well control your privacy. all you have to do is not write anything except for your name and make it private and not foundable over facebook. then you get your friends from your email and you share whatever you like to share. facebook just makes it easier to share pictures, news, etc... over the internet. it does not imply that you have to share everything with everyone over the net.

beGi · #19 Post by **beGi** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:59 pm

I couldn't agree more with "I like my privacy" just like George wrote...

Although I can understand social network benefits, the "price" of disclosure from my point of view, can give me more problems than I could ever benefit from such concept...

Although TP group is really nice idea, my social network is in my phone book/e-mail address list (and forums like this)...

And I don't like idea of tagging and pictures sharing with people that I said hello few times (talking about people you actually met in person)...

Marin85 · #20 Post by **Marin85** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:03 pm

I think the point in social networking sites is exactly the social networking... If we have to talk about privacy or conspiracy,[conspiracy] nobody is actually interested in one´s wedding photos... What is of interest are one´s true name and one´s contacts/connections. Even if one doesn´t create an account with his real name, judging by all other members linked to one you would be able, with great probability, to figure out who stays behind the nick. The more the network grows, the simpler it gets for them (yup, not the other way around)... Not by a chance, one of the founders of facebook is a former CIA... These people seem to never get out of the business :sigh: [/conspiracy]

Apart from that, I think it´s nice idea to have sort of facebook representation of our forum. In the end, it´s all matter of one´s paranoia levels...

Marin

ajkula66 · #21 Post by **ajkula66** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:31 pm

mattbiernat wrote:

all you have to do is not write anything except for your name and make it private and not foundable over facebook.

Sorry, no. The moment I put it in is the moment that someone somewhere knows I'm on Facebook, and the IP address that I've joined it from. I've done an excellent job so far of protecting my identity and am intent on keeping things that way...

Although there's about half a dozen people from my past that I'd love to hook up with again, I'm going about it in a different fashion...and will get there sooner or later.

Marin85 wrote:

What is of interest are one´s true name and one´s contacts/connections. Even if one doesn´t create an account with his real name, judging by all other members linked to one you would be able, with great probability, to figure out who stays behind the nick.

An excellent observation, as usual. I couldn't have said it better myself...

Kafka, Zamyatin, Orwell, Huxley....anyone?

#22 Post by **GomJabbar** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:55 pm

ajkula66 wrote:Kafka, Zamyatin, Orwell, Huxley....anyone?

That makes it 'a Classic' doesn't it?

Beaver · #23 Post by **Beaver** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:58 am

Big brother is watching you anyway

Marin85 · #24 Post by **Marin85** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:41 am

Beaver wrote:Big brother is watching you anyway

Well, maybe not everyone...

beGi · #25 Post by **beGi** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:12 am

Big brother says: Hello

mattbiernat · #26 Post by **mattbiernat** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:11 pm

ajkula66 wrote:
Sorry, no. The moment I put it in is the moment that someone somewhere knows I'm on Facebook, and the IP address that I've joined it from.

well if you don't want anyone knowing your IP address and associating that addrss with a facebook acount you can simply use a library computer to join a facebook acount. or you can hide your IP address and join a facebook acount. either way you can enjoy the full benefit of facebook without sacrificing your privacy.

ajkula66 · #27 Post by **ajkula66** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:34 pm

mattbiernat wrote:

well if you don't want anyone knowing your IP address and associating that addrss with a facebook acount you can simply use a library computer to join a facebook acount. or you can hide your IP address and join a facebook acount.

Library computers (and associated IPs) are probably the closest monitored ones in business, apart from the government ones, due to their past popularity with criminals of all sorts...

Take it from someone who has spent the last nine years in telecommunications and networking: there is no such thing as hiding one's IP address, not in a long run. Any stream of data can be intercepted at numerous points, if one has the capability and wish to do so. And Patriot Act (as well as some other pieces of legislation) makes such interceptions legal.

To make a long story short, and myself perfectly clear: I have absolutely zero interest in joining Facebook. Most of my friends worldwide are not on it, and vast majority of them will never be. I still write old-fashioned letters and talk to them on the phone. As much as these means of communication can be monitored as well, I've got decades worth of practice in not saying anything that I wouldn't want the third parties to know...and still getting my point across.

This is not to say that I don't understand the reasons why people join Facebook. To each his/hers own. Enjoy and stay safe...but I want no part of it. Not now, not ever.

#28 Post by **thePCxp** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:47 pm

Here is my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1355498773

killer · #29 Post by **killer** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:09 am

"Facebook has been targeted by malicious hackers seeking to steal valuable data from members.

The social network site has been hit by five separate security problems in the last seven days, say security experts ..."

Look here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7918839.stm

Rich.Carpenter · #30 Post by **Rich.Carpenter** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:54 am

mattbiernat wrote:you can very well control your privacy. all you have to do is not write anything except for your name and make it private and not foundable over facebook. then you get your friends from your email and you share whatever you like to share. facebook just makes it easier to share pictures, news, etc... over the internet. it does not imply that you have to share everything with everyone over the net.

Trouble is, you often don't understand the process until it's too late. Some friends of mine badgered me into signing up on Facebook, saying I need to "get up to speed with current technology". I figured, what the heck, and signed up. I immediately got all kinds of people I hadn't seen in decades coming out of the woodwork sending me friend invites. Some were great to hear from, others....well, I'd just as soon not. /shrug

I'm at the point now where I have to either accept their invite and any subsequent interaction attempts from them, or reject their friend invite, thereby offending them (wouldn't really break my heart, but I'd just as soon not hurt anyone's feelings or play a part in *any* possible drama that might ensue). I basically have to tell people to get off my lawn when, though they don't mean any harm, they really have little to no reason to contact me in the first place. It's like junk mail, really. You're hitting up everyone you know for correspondence. Some people just crave the false validation they get by merely having a gazillion friends on Facebook, I guess.

Me, I'm still trying to see its merits past all the banality.

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