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Why Facebook Is Evil

BECAUSE THEY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO USE THEIR FULL NAME!!!

Ok i will stop yelling. Putting your full name on your profile is like inviting Jason to your house for tea! I mean come on... At least make hatchet murder/stalker killer do a little work to find you!

But facebook has privacy settings that keep me safe right??? Yes they have privacy settings so no problem all`s good. Thank God for that...

So here`s the thing take for example the fictional character Ms NoStalkersPlease. Now she really doesn`t like to be bothered with pesky killer/stalkers. But she has lots of friends and wants to be on facebook too.

No problem sets up facebook account using real name as per instructions (so your friends can find you of course)... excellent. Load pictures hook up with old friends.. done.

Now Ms NoStalkersPlease is single and hoping to find that special soul mate kind of guy to round off her life. So off to the dating sites... set up profile keeping name private of course to protect you identity naturaly. Lots of creeps out there you know.

Enter the villain posing as gentle soulmate seeker on dating site but really lurking is axe swinging stalker. Incognito of course I mean stalkers like their privacy too you know.

Because Ms NSP wants to meet someone local she is willing to say at least what city she lives in. That`s not saying much I mean nobody knows her real name so should be ok.

Here`s what happens.. after chatting a bit with gentle soulmate seeker MS NSP decides to take things to the next level and sends him her msn address so they can chat a bit... Of course she doesn`t use her real name in her hotmail address that would be foolish so all is fine.

Now what do you think happens next??? Mr Stalker Incognito takes hotmail address to facebook uses the address for a friend invitation and BLAM facebook tells him who she is... Now isn`t that dandy.

Next thing you know Jason is over for tea... And that for sure is why facebook is evil!

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Article Date 2010-01-07 12:43:26
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How to protect your self from getting screwed by facebook

You may have the impression by now that I don`t care much for facebook and you would be right. But that`s not what this post is about. This is a tip on how to protect your self online in particularl if you use a site like facebook.

Here is the tip... DO NOT use your real email for your facebook account. Make a hotmail, gmail... or what ever mail you like and use that for your facebook account. Do NOT use that email for any other reason. Along with this measure do NOT user your `normal` password for your facebook account either.

Here is why.

1. When you give someone your real email address they can use it to find out who you are on facebook. All they have to do is add you to their email contact list and ask facebook to do a friend search and bingo there you are.

2. If you use your real email and password on facebook and someone either hacks your account or an employee with access to to facebooks database can then use the same email and address to access your email account.

Once they access to your main email account they can use it to retrieve your passwords for your other online accounts... Like your banking and credit cards. You get the idea.

Now I single out facebook here but the same logic applies to other sites you choose to be a member of that use email as registration. You need to have an email account that is used just for that purpose.

Now here is one final and the most powerful tip of all. If you realy want to protect your self from facebook the best thing to do is delete your account now and never create another account with them again. If your lucky the disks that they stored your info on will be hit be lightning and destroyed because we all know facebook won`t delete it.

Ok thats it for now. Play safe out there

Pete.

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Article Date 2010-09-21 18:04:17
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