And let me know if you want to see a picture of what I made for lunch today.
Posted on 08/14/2013 3:45:45 PM PDT by Veto!
Facebook users in a study led by the University of Michigan wound up feeling worse about themselves after two weeks, and their moment-to-moment mood darkened the more they browsed the social medium. ... The more you used Facebook, the more your mood dropped.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The article was about those who use FB not having a social life outside of FB. That is the comparison, about the time spent using each, not all this other nonsense you just mentioned.
BTW, there’s also a Freerepublic page on Facebook. It’s great when Freerepublic goes down.
>>What is RL? Never heard of it.<<
It is the “white space” between interwebz postings.
>>I searched one line of your post and it is already indexed in Google. I am always amazed at how fast Google (government) indexes the site.<<
It can’t link back (at least bot automatically) your post to your RL persona (unless you use your RL name as your FR handle).
I do have a FB ID for reading, but I never post and I never Like. It is an allowable variation of my RL name but is not a name anyone knows me by.
But I keep getting suggestions about others I may know and some of them are people I really do know. That scares the heck out me when you consider my profile is blank and I have given it no data from which to work.
FB also has real content. It depends on what you choose to include in your scroll.
What info are they going to give out for identity theft? You don’t give them your SS No., driver’s license, or bank info. or credit card info. You can incur identity theft just by writing a check or buying something online. All they know is my name. You don’t even have to give them your correct birthdate if you don’t want to. I know more people who have incurred ID theft that are not on FB than I know those who are on FB. In fact, I know of no one who has had that problem from being on FB. If you’re afraid of ID theft, then don’t make any online purchases, or do online banking.
>>What info are they going to give out for identity theft? You don’t give them your SS No., driver’s license, or bank info. or credit card info. You can incur identity theft just by writing a check or buying something online.<<
* Your name
* Your DOB
* Your sex
Those 3 are 80% to Identity theft
* Your spouse
* Your birthplace
* Your residence town
Move to 85%
* Your home place, HS, etc.
90%
* Your hobbies (those can be used to authenticate)
* Your relative’s names (including, indirectly, your Mother’s maiden name which can be easily pieced together)
* Whether you are in town or on/planning vacation (frequently used for break-in artists)
* Your friends (and their information)
If I was an identity thief I could use all that information to make a profile of who you are and lever it into making someone thinking I am you. From there I just have to make a few calls and, boom, I am in.
The more small information you give out, the more the thief knows to pretend to be you.
As for lying about those data, then why supply it at all? You think these professional thieves don’t know all the tricks about how most people mask these data.
You tell people all that, you crazy.
You seem to be an expert on ID theft. For FB, you have to supply a date of birth to confirm that you are old enough to be on FB. But many people lie about the actual date so as not to allow ID theft.
I have 73 friends on FB, and in turn, they have thousands of friends on FB among them, and not one has had ID theft, even after being on FB for years. Do you shop online, or bank online? Do you write checks, apply for jobs or loans? Have you written checks, which contains your name, your spouse’s name, address(including town), bank, and bank acct. number? Even some physicians ask for your SS NO. when going there for treatments. You don’t have to write it in, but many do. Medicare cards contain your SS # and you are told to carry this with you wherever you go. You won’t apply for Medicare so you won’t have your identity stolen?
Announcing that you are going on vacation is a foolish thing, and shouldn’t be done. I never do. It’s called being cautious and using common sense. Listing hobbies is a stretch. Some things you listed can be found on any job application. I know more people who have had their IDs stolen who were not on FB than those who are on FB, which is none. If it was that easy to steal your ID by being on FB, it would be running rampant right now, and the anti-FB people would take that statistic and run with it. If you don’t like FB, so be it. But avoiding identity theft by not going on FB won’t do it.
And let me know if you want to see a picture of what I made for lunch today.
>>Announcing that you are going on vacation is a foolish thing, and shouldn’t be done. I never do. It’s called being cautious and using common sense. <<
A rarity. Few people ask themselves “am I giving away personal info when I make this post?” I have monitored my relatives’ and friends’ FB accounts and have devised many ways to put together the data to do identity theft.
And I am not even a pro and just used my imagination.
By % very few houses and/or cars are broken into but I bet you have locks on the doors and use them.
Anecdotes don’t overcome reality. Billions of credit card transactions were made for years with only a few being stolen. It took decades for laws and the banks to catch up and those who got nailed were nailed badly.
FB: small upside, HUGE downside.
Then I have a great suggestion. Don’t use FB. The rest of us will just go on having fun without you.
>>Then I have a great suggestion. Don’t use FB. The rest of us will just go on having fun without you.<<
I don’t except to read fools who post their life’s stories there.
And wonder when the anecdotal hope runs out on them.
Funny. Thanks. But I hope you’ve eaten that lunch by now.
So, after all that negativity, you admit to using FB!
So, after all that negativity, you admit to using FB!
Never been on Facebook and never will. But I am in IT security ops so I know what really goes on.
>>So, after all that negativity, you admit to using FB!<<
I access it, I don’t use it.
You avoid facebook because you know what goes on with their IT security? Do tell.
In order to access it, you have to have an account, with your name, home town, and all the other things you mentioned. Unless you hacked into someone else’s account. And reading it is using it.
>>In order to access it, you have to have an account, with your name, home town, and all the other things you mentioned. Unless you hacked into someone else’s account. And reading it is using it.<<
I listed none of those other than my semi-name (a variation on my RL name which is legal but no one would ever guess as being me: I am fortunate I have a relatively common name).
Most people/fools do NOT lie on FB since, like the One Ring, they WANT to be found.
And hacking FB is easier than taking condiments from a mall food court. Very few use privacy controls and liking a friend who likes a friend is an invitation in.
As an experiment I created a completely false non-de-plum and had hundreds of invites in minutes and was able to make out to the 90% level of my prior list of exposure at least 20 or 30 people (I didn’t do it but any good ID thief could). No technical hacking required.
When you open the door, putting a “keep out” sign in crayon is pretty useless.
And under my semi-RL FB ID have yet to like or post a single comment. I just lurk. To preserve my privacy and still see what fools these mortals be.
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