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Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Songbird76 said:
I wait until I get home to post that we were on vacation, and then I post pics. And I don't generally do the geotagging thing. I don't even have my birthday on there, nor my phone number, which a lot of people do. It just seems like a bad idea to me. My close friends know my birthday, so they don't need the reminder, and anyone who doesn't know it, I'm not close enough to that I would feel offended that they didn't wish me a happy birthday. And same with my phone number...my close friends have it, and anyone who doesn't already have it, they don't need it.
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Publishing my Birthday doesn't bother me at all. Mostly because I am starting to run out of them. Hell for all I know, I already have, so if it's there and it prompts someone to send me a big check or perhaps a yacht and deluxe retreat in the Bahama's, I cannot find any reason to fight their nice gesture.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Cesar R M said:
Yeah plus, I do not see why someone would need to have an open account. If someone is a friend of yours.. you can always add them to your list and limit your content to friends only.

Thats what I do.
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Me too. Seems like I remember early on people thought it was some sort of status symbol to just sign up friends to people they never even heard of so it would look like they were popular. I have been on Facebook for about at least 12 years and I still only have allowed about 48 actual friends to see my posts. I do allow public view but since the only people that can share stuff with are friends of mine we all seem to run in the same circles. remember the days here when there was a unofficial contest to see who could get the most "likes".
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Cesar R M said:
Yeah plus, I do not see why someone would need to have an open account. If someone is a friend of yours.. you can always add them to your list and limit your content to friends only.

Thats what I do.
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Yeah, I don't add people I don't know. I just don't feel comfortable with that. And in general, most of my content is friends only, unless it is just a meme that other people might want to share. I have very few things set to public.

But FB is about the only way I have to keep in touch with my brother. He doesn't ever call, or email or anything. At least on FB, I can see pictures of my niece, I can share pics of my kids with him, and he's more likely to respond once in a while on there than he is to call. I've found out twice now on facebook when he's had surgery. I'd know NOTHING if I didn't have FB. I just keep it as private as I can.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
Publishing my Birthday doesn't bother me at all. Mostly because I am starting to run out of them. Hell for all I know, I already have, so if it's there and it prompts someone to send me a big check or perhaps a yacht and deluxe retreat in the Bahama's, I cannot find any reason to fight their nice gesture.
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I don't post it because of phishing scams...people pretend to be you and use your own data like birthdates, maiden name, high school name, etc. Or a lot of people use birthdates as passwords, so people will use that info to hack into financial records, etc.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Songbird76 said:
I don't post it because of phishing scams...people pretend to be you and use your own data like birthdates, maiden name, high school name, etc. Or a lot of people use birthdates as passwords, so people will use that info to hack into financial records, etc.
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That happened with 2 people in my family already.
One scammer took the photos and information from a cousin who lives in Asia. And started to whatsapp uncles asking for money claiming he was "stuck at the border".
A few almost fell for it until they asked questions and the dude could not even answer correctly.

The other made a facebook account of one my uncles and started to post the worst kind of while also trying to add my family (to lure to add them back and steal more information or accounts).
 
FutureCEO

FutureCEO

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Goofyernmost said:
Me too. Seems like I remember early on people thought it was some sort of status symbol to just sign up friends to people they never even heard of so it would look like they were popular. I have been on Facebook for about at least 12 years and I still only have allowed about 48 actual friends to see my posts. I do allow public view but since the only people that can share stuff with are friends of mine we all seem to run in the same circles. remember the days here when there was a unofficial contest to see who could get the most "likes".
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I was on Fakebook when it first came out or somewhere around then. It was a college only site at that time.
 

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