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Re: Facebook invitation - how did they do this? Thanks for the video. It's sort of related but not really.
After all, I don't belong to Facebook. Never have, never will. So this Automated Research (or whatever) has me in their files even though I'm not a member/customer.
And since I'm not a member/customer, I don't have the same option to opt out or block as a member does. I find that a little unnerving to tell the truth. |
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australia | said by goalieskates:Thanks for the video. It's sort of related but not really. After all, I don't belong to Facebook. Never have, never will. So this Automated Research (or whatever) has me in their files even though I'm not a member/customer. And since I'm not a member/customer, I don't have the same option to opt out or block as a member does. I find that a little unnerving to tell the truth. My interpretation is that there is some confusion b/w gathering a likely group of people in a list using facebook data base and a perception that these people have access to your profile.
The video clears this up for me in respect to ones personal settings
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kudos:4 | reply to goalieskates
I got one of those invites from a friend. I hate Facebook because of the privacy issues there and I have never used it, never been to my friend's page, never would join Facebook or even allow a cookie if I went to some member's page there. I block Facebook in my Hosts file.
So, when I got that invite in one of my email addresses, I immediately disabled that email account and opened a new one and am still finding sites where I registered and gave that old address to and it has been quite a task to move everything to the new account as that was my oldest email account and thus had been used more than my other, newer accounts. I did not give my friend the new account address.
I use email mostly now for newsletters, list servs, for registering at websites, etc. For friends whom I really want to have an email address, I give them a NON ISP one that isn't always reliable, or even working, but is less traceable if they do stupid things like giving Facebook their address book.
The irony was that my friend compromised my email address because she wanted me to see the photos she put on her wall. All she needed to do was use Opera's Unite to share her photos in a SAFE and PRIVATE manner.
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| That's the issue with it, it's so easy to snowball the size of that database once they began...Especially when the people you trust with information is more free in giving it away to third parties than you'd like. I truly hate these massive identity databases. They may be harmless right now, but you know a LOT of Less Than Good people are drooling over gaining access to it.....
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