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Originally Posted by monster
Dear Facebook friends,
If you want to stay privately connected with me, FFS just PM me, it's real easy. Or drop me an email. or call me.........
are you ashamed of our relationship? 
Or are you just a bit stupid?
Facebook is like a public restroom. ZMaybe in an upscale club -depending on the caliber of your "friends", but it's still public (and full of old, old graffiti that's really not worth c&ping because everybody but you has seen it before)
It is not the place to share anything that it would hurt you for somebody to find. It's ridiculously easy for people to "stalk" you there, this is nothing new. If this is your paranoia, it's not the place for you...snd really, please just get off the internet. You must know some nerd/geek types who give you the shudders. They are the people who can find anything you ever posted in any place on the intrnet. So if you don't want them to read it, just don't post it. facebook is too easy for them, trust me. my cat could stalk you on facebook. (if he wasn't so distracted by all the twittering) |
Yes, yes, and thrice yes.
One of my cousins gets herself into regular flaps over facebook. She freaked my mum out at one point by passing a message via someone else in the family (no, I dont know why she didnt just phone, they're a weird bunch) to say be careful because people can see if you've been on their page. Since mum had spent a little time, out of morbid curiosity looking at her sister's widower's page and really did not want the bastard to know she had been, this upset a her a lot.
Mum doesn't engage in facebook, except to go and have a quick gander at some of the family's pages just to see what everyone's up to. She doesn't post, she just looks. If she wants to talk to them she picks up the phone. Or she looks at entertainment gossip pages and star's profiles etc. I had to go find her some stuff online that categorically showed the notion of people seeing who has looked at their page to be a total scam, else she was just not going to go back on again.
The other week I get a fb message from said cousin informing me, just in case I wasn't aware of it, that my page is set to public. I thanked her (whatever) for letting me know, but told her my page is intentionally set to public. Next thing I know I am getting bombarded by instructions on how to make my profile or posts private in order to protect other peoples' privacy. Along with suggestions that if I am going to keep my page public, then I shouldn't post responses to things on other people's timelines if they are private.
She totally fell out with another cousin over it.
Seriously, get fucked and do some reading eh?
How many times does this sort of thing have to crop up, go viral and then get proved false before the automatic response changes from 'post this to everybody I know', to 'google this and see if it's a scam'?