Facebook experience

[Mick_Marsh]

Some silly bugger was trying to create a facebook account with my email address today.
I kept getting emails
"You recently registered for Facebook. To complete your Facebook registration, follow this link:"

Having a healthy mistrust of such emails, I tried to create an account with my email address. It wouldn't let me. Said the address had already been used.
I tried to log in. Password not correct. So I requested a password reset as I had lost it, they sent me an email which logged me in. It said I was already logged in on another computer.
I quickly changed the password and all the personal details of the account. Now, hopefully, no one will be able to create a facebook account with my email address.

[rick130]

I have a fix for that.

I refuse to use/register/look at Facebook :D

[Mick_Marsh]

I don't want to register for facebook either.
It appeared to me as if someone was trying to steal my identity, or at least part of it.

[clubagreenie]

Yes the issue is not that you don't want it. It's that when someone else gets your email they can "give" you one regardless. Just register your email and forget. That way they can't do it.

[Grumbles]

YJust register your email and forget.

I'm not a member of facebook etc heck - I can't keep up with the couple of forums I am involved with.

Your comment above CAG - can you please tell me what that means?
Thanks.

[p38arover]

Yes the issue is not that you don't want it. It's that when someone else gets your email they can "give" you one regardless. Just register your email and forget. That way they can't do it.

I'm on Facebook because someone else registered using my details then sent a friend request to my wife. Fortunately, I was able to change the password, So I have one "friend" - my wife.

[incisor]

So I have one "friend" - my wife.

a friend at last!

[p38arover]

a friend at last!

Elisabeth calls Scouse my second-best friend as she wouldn't like him to think that he's stuck with me as a best friend. :(

:D:D

[Scouse]

Phew !!

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Yes the issue is not that you don't want it. It's that when someone else gets your email they can "give" you one regardless. Just register your email and forget. That way they can't do it.The problem is then that you have just confirmed your email actually exists and after all facebook disclaims any responsibility to protect ones identity.

[Mick_Marsh]

The problem is then that you have just confirmed your email actually exists and after all facebook disclaims any responsibility to protect ones identity.
True, but it stops someone else from using my email address (which is already in the public domain) for things I have no control of.

I have another email address which is being used by a kid to register on kids sites judging by the Paddle Pop Lion emails I am getting.
On yet another email address I am getting emails about job interviews I've not applied for at Coles, Maccas, KFC, etc. I've replied to them "I have a job but I'll keep you in mind."

[superquag]

I had an interesting experience with facebook some time ago... - tried to set up an acccount or whatever using an old (from) work nickname. - Could'nt 'cos it was already used ... shrt story, still don't know how I managed it 'cos I'm a computer illiterate... but got a new password sent to my email addy, looked right through this bloke's postings, pics, comments and his "friends".... and left a message thanking them all for an evening's entertainment!
- Identity theft is a foregone conclusion for those silly enough to put 'real' data on this or any social network.


Don't people realise THEY are the product being sold ? - Facebook et al is merely the barn to live in as they fatten up and give their lives away ?

Edward Bernays and his ilk have much to answer for....

[rick130]

True, but it stops someone else from using my email address (which is already in the public domain) for things I have no control of.

I have another email address which is being used by a kid to register on kids sites judging by the Paddle Pop Lion emails I am getting.
On yet another email address I am getting emails about job interviews I've not applied for at Coles, Maccas, KFC, etc. I've replied to them "I have a job but I'll keep you in mind."

Mick, you may find it's something as simple as a typo such as an extra .au.

My email is my business name @bigpond.com and I keep getting emails for a company in WA with a similar business name whose email addy is the same first name @bigpond.com.au

[isuzurover]

Mick, you may find it's something as simple as a typo such as an extra .au.

My email is my business name @bigpond.com and I keep getting emails for a company in WA with a similar business name whose email addy is the same first name @bigpond.com.au

Either that or someone out there doesn't like him... ;)

[incisor]

and that from someone that uses hotmail...


[bigrolf][biggrin][bigsad][thumbsupbig][bigwhistle]

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

a friend at last!
At least you don't see me complaining about having no friends:p cause I ain't got any;)

[Lotz-A-Landies]

At least you don't see me complaining about having no friends:p cause I ain't got any;):confused: :confused: :confused: Whats a "friend" :confused: :confused: :confused:

[vnx205]

:confused: :confused: :confused: Whats a "friend" :confused: :confused: :confused:

I once saw the comment that a friend was someone who would look after your dog or cat and water your pot plants at a moment's notice because you had been admitted to hospital or had to rush off to be at the bedside of a dying relative.

The comment was made in the context of questioning the use of the term "friend" to describe Facebook relationships.

[p38arover]

I once saw the comment that a friend was someone who would look after your dog or cat and water your pot plants at a moment's notice because you had been admitted to hospital or had to rush off to be at the bedside of a dying relative.

The comment was made in the context of questioning the use of the term "friend" to describe Facebook relationships.

I think my wife would do all that. Scouse wouldn't as he's only a second-bestest friend.

[tonic]

:confused: :confused: :confused: Whats a "friend" :confused: :confused: :confused:


I was once told that a friend will bail you out of Jail but a true freind will be sitting beside you in the cell saying, "that was fun, want to do it again":Rolling:

[Jeff]

I was once told that a friend will bail you out of Jail but a true freind will be sitting beside you in the cell saying, "that was fun, want to do it again":Rolling:

The version I heard was, a friend would help you move, but a true friend would help you move a body.

I was on facebook a few weeks ago, when I got a message from a friend saying he was in trouble, that he was in the Phillipines and had been robbed. I rang him at home to tell him of his secret travels and he knew nothing and hadn't been on fb for weeks. A few mutual friends also got similar messages from the same user profile saying the same thing. If I hadn't known better they would probably have asked me to send money, but I cut the conversation short. I like using fb as I can communicate with lots of racing people easily, but I don't go in for all the Farmville etc crap.

Jeff

:rocket:

[tonic]

We are doing a 30 year school reunion this year, FB has been great. Also has been good for family and photos etc.

[Slunnie]

I use it all of the time, love it. Such a great way to communicate, share things, keep up to date with friends, keep in contact with people who you don't see often etc. Its a great supplement to face to face where that is not always easy or possible. You choose what info you want to put out there.

[Sleepy]

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Why would someone want to steal your identity Mick?:confused:

Steal your vehicles, I could understand.:p

[clubagreenie]

I'm not a member of facebook etc heck - I can't keep up with the couple of forums I am involved with.

Your comment above CAG - can you please tell me what that means?
Thanks.

If you register your email with facebook, then no one else can use it. You don't have to use it and the occasional email you may receive from them can be ignored.

[Mick_Marsh]

Why would someone want to steal your identity Mick?:confused:
Beats me?
I've offered to swap lives with many people.
They get the 101's. They get the Mercs.
Sadly (for me) they all say no when I point out I get their wives and family.
(Some think about it for a bit though.)

[Mick_Marsh]

facebook got back to me pretty quick. They deleted the account.
I didn't tell them I had managed to hack it.

I've set up a new one just to make the email address tot able to be used again for a facebook account. This means I have lost the other fellows friends.
They were American anyway.

[Slunnie]

facebook got back to me pretty quick. They deleted the account.
I didn't tell them I had managed to hack it.

I've set up a new one just to make the email address tot able to be used again for a facebook account. This means I have lost the other fellows friends.
They were American anyway.
Its interesting that he was able to start it without access to your email account also. Dont they usually send a confirmation email to activate the accounts on these types of things?

[Mick_Marsh]

Its interesting that he was able to start it without access to your email account also. Dont they usually send a confirmation email to activate the accounts on these types of things?
Yes. And I shouldn't have been able to log in without a password.
We were both logged in at the same time. Maybe I activated it when it suddenly logged me in. I remained logged into the account all afternoon observing. When I felt sure he had logged out, I changed the password and birthdate on him.

i hadn't entered that birthdate and I didn't know who the two friends were but they went to schools in America.

[p38arover]

I use it all of the time, love it. Such a great way to communicate, share things, keep up to date with friends, keep in contact with people who you don't see often etc..

Ahh, that's the thing. Generally I have no interest in keeping up to date nor do I want to share. I don't reply to emails from my family (nor many others). In fact, the family no longer emails me as they know they won't get a reply. They email my wife.

I prefer the telephone for communications.

[Shonky]

Facebook is like a Land Rover.

It has it's inherent problems, it's users don't like it when it is changed, it is readily criticised by those who don't have any experience with it, but those who use it properly get much enjoyment out of it and few have any trouble. ;)

Just remember there are people who say exactly the same thing about forums. ;)

PS - 3 of the people who have commented on this thread so far are my "friends" on facebook. ;)