07-16-2013, 10:00 AM | #46 | |
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07-16-2013, 10:33 AM | #47 | |
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This is a problem for me as well. I originally felt I had to have a presence because I'm an author, but as an author, it's never been any kind of vehicle for getting the word out. (I've never bought an ad and haven't heard of anyone having great success doing so). BUT, all my friends and relatives have all their conversations there. I LOATHE the thing, but it's the best way to stay in touch. We recently had a relative in the hospital and all the updates are done via a private messaging on FB. GAH! I prefer my blog for just about EVERYTHING and I get more visitor from an author stand point than I have ever had on FB. That does vary with authors. Some have garnered a great fan base there (so I hear.) I'd close the account in a second if not for several people who have forgotten how to email... |
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07-16-2013, 10:38 AM | #48 | |
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Yes, not including info makes it harder for people to find me, but I'm really not hoping for people to find me. I'm only on there to keep track of a few people who seem to use it to the exclusion of everything else. |
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07-16-2013, 10:39 AM | #49 |
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Facebook has a phone number associated with me. I just cannot say that it is /my/ phone number. But nearly a decade ago, there was no option to leave that field blank. So, if you ever want information's 1-800 number (800-555-1212), my profile is a good place to look for that.
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07-16-2013, 10:52 AM | #50 | |
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(Also no Facebook/Twitter/... account). |
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07-16-2013, 11:22 AM | #51 |
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I do have facebook, twitter, G+, and LinkedIn. I use them for very different purposes.
Facebook is only familly and a few close friends from college. privacy setting default to friends only, but occasionally I open a post to a wider audience. twitter is all the technical people and what is going on in the local technology world. Also for following my daughters teen angst.and some beer related stuff. G+, hobbies and technology. lots of home brewing / craft beer stuff and woodworking, photography, etc. LinkedIn. despite a earlier comment it has cleaned up most of the spammy stuff. I only link to people I have personally met. career networking and nothing more. |
07-16-2013, 11:35 AM | #52 |
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I find it interesting that so many are paranoid about Facebook and yet have no problem posting personal stuff on various forums, such as this one. Or that using Facebook must be an all or nothing proposition. Just because one uses FB doesn't mean they must post every piece of information about themselves... they don't have to "Like" or "Join" or post anything that they don't want the general public to see.
As hard as it is to believe, anyone even mildly interested in finding someone could do it fairly easily before Facebook. Having said that, regardless of whether anyone uses Facebook or any other social media, never, never, NEVER trust their privacy policies! ALWAYS assume that anything you post will be seen by everybody. |
07-16-2013, 04:24 PM | #53 | |
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On MySpace, back in the day, when they used the cell phone number you gave to verify you by the old (sign/countersign) method, I know people that would borrow a cell phone (sometimes without permission) to do the job. The real owner never knew or perhaps didn't care, and then I "heard" of people who briefly got a cell phone activated and did the same thing. (A cheap throwaway would do the job.) Granted there were usually commercial reasons for going to this trouble. I personally have one FB account with my real name that is pretty locked down, and would certainly fall under the category of "no comment" and "neither deny or confirm" but it can be used to contact me. However, no real phone number. The email is one of many I have to separate out different kinds of contacts. If it becomes over spammed, I will abandon it. I have several that I can use to look around with. |
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07-16-2013, 04:30 PM | #54 | |
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07-16-2013, 04:33 PM | #55 |
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07-16-2013, 04:47 PM | #56 |
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Don't own Facebook acc. Not psychopath, but someone at job said I must be hidding something.
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My identity here doesn't connect to my bank account, my phone number, my employment history, my address, nor my education history. It doesn't even give a good representation of my reading habits--there's no checklist of books or genres to be downloaded; someone who wants to learn what books I like would have to read many individual forum posts. Quote:
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07-16-2013, 08:32 PM | #58 | |
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LOL. I actually get asked in interviews why I don't have a personal Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on account.
"Ah, so you've tried to find these accounts, and probably also searched Google?" - "Yes, of course." "That is the exact reason why I don't have these accounts. What happens in my private life is my own business, and you don't need LinkedIn to read my resumé as I've mailed it to you as requested." Mostly, the answer is something akin to: "Hm... uh... yes. Moving on...." Sometimes I get asked: "So, don't you frequent any forums, about your hobbies, or about computers, with regard to work?" Then the answer is: "Yes, I do, actually. However, my nickname is not the same on all forums. On some, it is. But even if you know one or more of them, you won't find any information that is of use to you. Everything you will be able to find, be it under my name or my nickname, is stuff that I'd tell you right here, too." I have observed that some people actually seem to regard such answers as hostile, as if you have something to hide. I however, see it as just being a private person. I do not put anything on the internet that I don't want you to know. As said: even if you know my real name, or one or more of my nicknames, you can only find stuff that I'd tell you right on the spot if there's a reason to. Quote:
1, 2: Mobile / SMS (same number for almost 15 years already) 3: My (very old) provider's e-mail, that I still forward. 4: Private e-mail on my own domain 5: On MSN Network (yes, still) 6: Use a PM, on a whole bunch of forums 7: If you have to, you can write a letter. I will answer it. And yes, I'll use a fountain pen to do it. On MSN, only one person is still regularly online. Maybe we'll both replace that with GTalk. (Not that anything beside the login data is filled out in the MSN profile...) I refuse to add any other way of communication. 6 ways to be reached is more than enough. (7 if you count the letter, but the last person to do this has been years back.) Since 1998, I can be directly reached in at least 3 different ways at all times. Before that, you could reach me in only two ways, and one of them was indirect: by talking directly to me, or hoping I was at home when you called my parent's landline. The reason that I don't add any other ways of communication is quite simple: I don't trust them. If I actually finish the book I've started someday, and then get around to publishing it and awe-ing the entire world with my genius in creating literature (*cooouuugh, choke*), then I'll probably create some social networking accounts as, the author of the book... being "John Smith" or "Jan Janssen" Last edited by Katsunami; 07-16-2013 at 09:01 PM. |
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07-16-2013, 09:03 PM | #59 | |
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Does the UAE gov't make it publicly known that it's monitoring all Facebook and Twitter accounts? At least users and potential users know in advance if that is the case. Or is it supposition based on the arrests of people because of the comments they've made on Facebook and Twitter. Quite frankly I think it stinks that they're monitoring it, but I'm also wondering why people are still using those applications if they're being monitored. And no, I definitely wouldn't be holding Facebook or Twitter accounts in the UAE either. |
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07-16-2013, 09:07 PM | #60 |
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Does anyone know how a gov't (or other) could monitor Facebook and Twitter accounts?
Is it as simple as somehow searching key words/phrases by users? What about private chat, that is the chat that is only between particular people and not open to all to see - how is that monitored? It seems to me that the group to ask how to do it would be the NSA and their ilk around the world, lol |
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