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Re: Who's on Facebook?
From: John Huth
Date: 2011 Mar 16, 17:45 -0400
From: John Huth
Date: 2011 Mar 16, 17:45 -0400
If you want to sign up for facebook, you can create a separate e-mail account, and only use that one for FB activities. That will prevent your 'usual' e-mail address from getting spammed.
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I have a FB account, but I rarely check it, and I rarely check the e-mail account I use to access it. When I do check that e-mail account, I spend a fair amount of time deleting junk.
Every so often, I will post some photos or links on FB. I think this is the greatest utility of FB - it allows to easily post videos, photos, music, comments, links that you might want to share with others. It's effectively a kind of personal website.
I know from folks my age (I'm 53) who are FB addicts and seem to be on all the time. My kids are, too, but I don't check on them. I tell them there's a kind of mental "brick wall" I keep between me and them.
In any case, I think I might check my account once every two weeks or so.
John H.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Richard M. Pisko <rmpisko1@telus.net> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:14:44 -0700, Frank Reed <FrankReed@historicalatlas.com> wrote:So . . . . How do you prevent this address book harvesting? (I am not a member.)
There's a big difference between FB membership and active use. The whole Facebook business enterprise is built around a very clever, even devious scheme for harvesting email address books and then sending out invitations on the user's behalf. That's what enabled their geometric growth.
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Richard . . .
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