So I was on Facebook today...
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I wouldn't go so far as putting LinkedIn in the same category as FaceBook. Although it is a social network, too, LI's purpose, way of functioning and target audience is totally different. I, for one, have a profile on LI, and have made a number of business contacts using it. Heck, there's even a link to my LI profile on my CV. Meanwhile, not a single friend request has been sent to me by a girl that is inspired by my eyes (although she's never seen me), or one with profile avatar of a class b porn star, or anything similar. And, there is no farm on LinkedIn :)
Where it seems there are only borderlines, Where others turn and sigh, You shall rise!
I use Facebook and even like it (shock! :omg: horror! :wtf: ) but the apps/games are rubbish. Farm and Mafia Wars in particular are really annoying when your friends' 'achievements' show up on your home page. Thank God FB provided a way to block applications from showing up on your home page. But I found a 'Which Friends character are you?' quiz that said I'm Chandler. :cool:
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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Abhinav S wrote:
The minute I created an account on facebook, all my address book contacts turned up there.
They have a password field for the email address you used to register to their site. They ask you that password while you are distracted and when you enter it, they send an invite to everyone in your address list. The solution is to read before entering anything, and think before clicking. A slut I used to know in college had all her email contacts added to her friends list conveniently because she did not read before she gave the info. ;)
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Right. I didn't enter mine. They should be banned from even asking.
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I know, bad start to a post but this is odd. I was going through the suggestions for friends and Christian came up. So I thought well it must be a small world that Christian is friends with someone I know. I clicked to see the mutual friends and there weren't any, it just must have thought I would like Christian as a person and should be his friend. Either that or they've started scanning your browser cache...:suss: Anyone else have this happen to them? I get a lot of random suggestions (not to mention the odd requests from lovely ladies with provocative profile pics that seem to know me...) but never quite this targeted.
------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.. but it ROCKS absolutely, too.
It will also look at your interests (at least for deciding which annoying ads to present). I'll have to go make sure Code Project is in my profile...
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So you want to publish your details on Facebook and then complain that they are not protecting your privacy - is it just me that sees a contradiction in this. While I don't belong to the tin beanie brigade I do consider "social networking" as the creeping cancer of the net.
Doctor Nick wrote:
the odd requests from lovely ladies with provocative profile pics
I got one of these in my hotmail account
Although I have never seen you, your eyes inspire me
:doh:
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Although I have never seen you, your eyes inspire me
:)
-muneeb A thing of beauty is the joy forever.
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I know, bad start to a post but this is odd. I was going through the suggestions for friends and Christian came up. So I thought well it must be a small world that Christian is friends with someone I know. I clicked to see the mutual friends and there weren't any, it just must have thought I would like Christian as a person and should be his friend. Either that or they've started scanning your browser cache...:suss: Anyone else have this happen to them? I get a lot of random suggestions (not to mention the odd requests from lovely ladies with provocative profile pics that seem to know me...) but never quite this targeted.
------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.. but it ROCKS absolutely, too.
I have had that before, someone from years ago was in my friends suggestion list, but has no links with any of my current friends. All I can think of is that she searched for me (my profile is hidden - well I think it is...) and it's come up on my list. Which is quite disturbing if that is the case, as who knows where I am appearing on Facebook... Might have to have a close read of the T&C's, but I bet they are rather long and tedious...
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Right. I didn't enter mine. They should be banned from even asking.
The worse is they keep on sending email reminders to those who haven't joined. Which means they keep sending email to my parents and boss to join facebook, frustating for them, bad for me
Ravie Busie Coding is my birth-right and bugs are part of feature my code has!
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I use Facebook and even like it (shock! :omg: horror! :wtf: ) but the apps/games are rubbish. Farm and Mafia Wars in particular are really annoying when your friends' 'achievements' show up on your home page. Thank God FB provided a way to block applications from showing up on your home page. But I found a 'Which Friends character are you?' quiz that said I'm Chandler. :cool:
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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So you want to publish your details on Facebook and then complain that they are not protecting your privacy - is it just me that sees a contradiction in this. While I don't belong to the tin beanie brigade I do consider "social networking" as the creeping cancer of the net.
Doctor Nick wrote:
the odd requests from lovely ladies with provocative profile pics
I got one of these in my hotmail account
Although I have never seen you, your eyes inspire me
:doh:
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Chandler.
From what I know of you on CP, that would have be my answer as well. Joe, well ... is Joe, and you are definitely no [brain fart: insert Monica's brother name here].
Merci, mon ami. :) That's Ross, btw.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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Abhinav S wrote:
The minute I created an account on facebook, all my address book contacts turned up there.
They have a password field for the email address you used to register to their site. They ask you that password while you are distracted and when you enter it, they send an invite to everyone in your address list. The solution is to read before entering anything, and think before clicking. A slut I used to know in college had all her email contacts added to her friends list conveniently because she did not read before she gave the info. ;)
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Eh - When I signed up and saw that, I thought it would be a good idea. Unfortunately, it didn't work. :sigh: Manual Friend-finding for me.... I did find it fairly obviously pointed out, though. Maybe I'm just used to installers that install Google desktop against my express refusal to let them?
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Eh - When I signed up and saw that, I thought it would be a good idea. Unfortunately, it didn't work. :sigh: Manual Friend-finding for me.... I did find it fairly obviously pointed out, though. Maybe I'm just used to installers that install Google desktop against my express refusal to let them?