Booted from Facebook by GCA's. Kinda laughing about it.

[RetiredUSNChief]

^^^^

Ah! Thanks, Cee Zee! I'll go do some reading up on this now.



Edit:

It's interesting to note that, for all the "public fury" over not just one, but several major security issues involving Facebook over the past few years, people STILL insist on posting tons of personal information about themselves, their families, and their friends on that site, as well as others.

Perhaps this is an indication that the majority of the people on Facebook aren't really all that concerned...or perhaps the majority of the people on Facebook aren't really all that intelligent.

Whatever...if they don't like it, quit patronizing them.

 

[Cee Zee]

Perhaps this is an indication that the majority of the people on Facebook aren't really all that concerned...or perhaps the majority of the people on Facebook aren't really all that intelligent.

Whatever...if they don't like it, quit patronizing them.

People have the right to sell out their own info if they want. It's a stupid thing to do but we have this thing called freedom in this country as I'm sure you know. I draw the line at involving people that don't give their consent to have their life documented. If someone keeps a record of all that you do, say or think they are going too far. I would think a sailor might have some things that happened in some faraway port that they might not want the world to know about. No one should be able to divulge those things without asking you about it first. There's a lot of people that agree with that. And yes a lot of people don't think about what they're doing when they join a social media site. My wife was told about it before she signed up but she did it anyway. She now regrets ever having done it after seeing what all they stick their fingers into. Maybe you don't have any secrets. Some people don't. But a lot of people do whether they're big important secrets or just run of the mill stuff about maybe losing money in a poker game and not telling the wife.

 

[PRM]

Any media has its own unique user issues. I would not post or "like" anything that I did not want to become public. As it has been pointed out, you don't own the site(s). It doesn't matter where you are, say something the folks running it don't agree with, or they deem contrary to their goals or beliefs, and see what happens. You have no right to communicate ideas outside of what those folks overseeing a site allow. You will be told very quickly to put up your own if you don't like it, and go elsewhere. If I did not have to use the internet for work, I would not even own a PC. Entertaining as some sites are, the day is approaching where that will be a reality.

 

[jrdolall]

Complaining about Facebook having your private info and posting those complaints on THR is a bit silly isn't it? ANY website you visit is storing your personal information and lots of them are selling that information. I have no doubt that there is some way to opt out of this practice with each internet site but I doubt that there is any way to verify that your opt out actually works. There is certainly no way to guarantee that THR can't be hacked just like any other site. I have a nephew that I GUARANTEE can hack into this site and pretty much any site he wants. That's why he makes huge money without a college degree protecting companies from hackers.

This isn't just internet sites. I had to turn the utilities on at a hunting camp a couple of years ago. Water, power and trash were all turned on in my name with all bills to be sent to my home address. All of these were done in person. Within a week I was getting mail from companies trying to sell me all manner of things like new windows, AC, satellite, carpeting and such for a cinder block house in the middle of nowhere.

If you put your info on the internet then it is available for someone to steal and use. In today's world we all use the internet so there it is. Hackers can get our information whether we post personal stuff on FB or sign up to participate on THR or do online banking. 20 years ago people were stealing checks out of the mailbox and 150 years ago they were robbing a train to get your stuff.

If you don't use the internet for anything then this post probably shouldn't worry you when you read it.

PS Facebook is soooo 5 years ago. I saw something today(it was online so it has to be true, bon jour) that only 23% of teens consider FB to be an important social site. They are moving on to newer sites.

 

[Cee Zee]

I'm sorry but it isn't true that you have to use the net to be worried about what Facebook is doing. They collect info from people's contact lists that do use the internet. So if your cousin uses Facebook and they have your phone number and address stored in their contact list Facebook has a file on you. You don't have to go anywhere near the net for that to happen.

Think about this. A lot of women are essentially in hiding from ex-husbands. The courts protect their information so that it doesn't become known to those ex-husbands because the result could be violent murder. You certainly can't go into a post office and get someone's address and phone number. It's a criminal act to give out that information. I worked at the post office for years. I know what that's like. You see a lot of very angry people trying to track down their ex-wives who they may have beaten in the past or they may have taken off with the children with the court's approval because they could have abused those children.

Now here comes Facebook gathering up that exact type of information and putting it into a a database. Their defense was people agreed to let them access their contacts list. Who the heck are they to give away my address or the address of some battered ex-wife or abused child? I know people will do almost anything to get that info. I've seen them try it.

Facebook messed up and sent out a bunch of ghost profile information to people who knew the same people in their contacts list. That could have been sent to an ex-spouse or the info could have been sent about abused children or the could even give out info about people in the witness protection program or people on the hit list of one of America's thousands of gangs.

Yes that was a mistake that the info got sent out. But the point is that some of that info is incredibly sensitive. If they sell that data and the next group sells that data how long before it gets around to someone who will use it to hurt someone?

Some people have legally protected data but that doesn't stop some moron from thinking it was all overblown or that the wife beater ex-husband deserves to know where his kids are anyway. Why is it the post office is forbidden to share such information but FB can?

I guess my training at the post office is what makes me aware of the dangers of giving out personal information about people.

 

[jrdolall]

Interesting FB situation.
A friend of mine called and told me that her Ex-husband had contacted several of her FB friends and sent friend requests. 6 of her friends contacted her and asked what was going on. She has been divorced from the guy for 6 years and they live 5 hours apart in different states now. She has had no contact at all from the guy and apparently he was a druggie and ran up insane credit card bills by applying for cards in her name, yadda yadda yadda.
Yesterday she got a call on her cell phone from the sheriff's office where the guy currently lives asking if she knew his whereabouts. She has no idea how they got her cell number since, as I said, she lives in another state(which is where they lived while married)and he moved to this county. Where did they get her number? How did they associate the two of them since their last names have been different for 5-6 years now? Just in case you think your private info is actually private.

 

[Sentryau2]

To tell you the truth? I'm ashamed to admit it but I got suckered into believing the BS about how they never do this or that. I knew they logged IP adresses, with a pc that dosent bother me. Its the mobile phone, with it they can know your exact location using GPS and what time you were at that location

Facebook keeps their data base, they say its "deleted" but its not. They still store this information. Messages, likes and posts are still kept. THR is different THR is an information form, FB is a social networking website. Two different websites much different circumstances. FB messages can be highly personal.

I no longer trust any website, or government agency that makes glitter filled promises. I also dont care to hide anything from the internet anymore. The NSA if they wanted could lock me in a whole. I've probably searched things that every JIHAD has. My pc looked liked it belonged to some psychopath. chemical weapon formulas, explosive formulas,poisons,city build plans etc. I still have this info, not because I plan to use it maliciously but simply because I can have. Its comforting to know, and it intrigues me. I am not shocked, I was at 16-17 tho. Till I woke up and realized what was happening.

I had let people make me think that my concerns were just "tin foil hat conspiracies"

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

I have a Facebook page I started because I had to troubleshoot a game my wife liked to play and it wouldn't work right. I am a mikado steam locomotive born in 1910 at ALCO (American Locomotive Co.) in Schenectady, New York. I am now retired after working over 40 years for ATSF Railroad. It sure throws a monkey wrench in their system for sure.

 

[TennJed]

and took the bait of being able to contact friends and family every day and all at once). I posted a response to his post using my wife's account (the only time I've ever used FB in any way - I just wanted my good friend to think for a minute). Well not only did he not want to listen but he did the standard gun grabber move of accusing me of being insensitive to the deaths of those children. He had argued that no one needed the kind of firepower the AR gives them and I had pointed out that even more powerful guns had been around and in use for over half a century (like the M1) and he reacted like a typical gun grabber in the face of actual facts - he went ballistic, banned my wife from his page, and spouted all sorts of hateful garbage about me. too well with him. I don't know. It's pretty .

Sounds like you took the Facebook bait too. If this person was you cousin (and possibly friend) I assume you could have gotten his phone number if you didn't already have it. If you wanted him to think, pick up the phone and call or text him.

Facebook has never forced me to post anything. I am in control of what is posted under my profile. If you fall victim to a pointless argument with someone that is your own doings. If I see a friend or relative talking nonsense either I know them well enough to pick up the phone or if I don't know them well enough to call them I ignore it,

You are in control of your Facebook account. If it ends badly like it did for your wife, falls on your shoulders

 

[barnbwt]

"You are in control of your Facebook account"
Terms and Conditions. You don't control jack squat on Facebook; you offer yourself in exchange for free distribution you (also) have no control over . Not unlike reality TV

"ANY website you visit is storing your personal information and lots of them are selling that information"
I choose to believe that THR simply isn't good enough to compile info as effectively as a multi-national multi-billion dollar corporation (forgive me if I'm wrong, mods ). I've never been creeped out here by all-knowing targeted ads (if I forget to delete my cookies) like I do Amazon. Besides, it's not like people are encouraged to share info they shouldn't nearly as aggressively (asking for pics of guns you've already said you own is about as pushy as we get around here ).

"Can I get a list of ya'lls' addresses and the guns you own?" is a lot less plausible around here than the millions of dupes who post up their address, show off expensive possessions, post pictures of their family members, and relay their daily routine to mind-numbing tactical detail (schools, restaurants, departure times, etc.)

I unplugged about a year ago, and I still get offers to rejoin and reactivate my profile, for those of you who think your digital self lacks permanence

TCB

 

[buck460XVR]

I have a FB account to keep in touch with friends and family all across the country. Over half of the posts made by me or directed at me are about firearms or hunting. NRA is there as is GOA and many other pro-gun organizations. I continuously get pro-gun post from them and many other groups and individuals....I have yet to have any problems. Folks I know that have been banned have been so because of language or personal attacks directed at individuals who then reported them. I have yet to know of anyone or any organization censored/banned because of their pro-gun posts. Same with the anti-Obama posts. Seems it's not the subject of the posts that get folks banned but the personnel insults to other individuals that does it or at least the accusations of such.

 

[BBQJOE]

A guy posted this on FB.
Believe it or not, he lives in NY.

 

[Officers'Wife]

People on the net are suspicious of me because I've never had a facebook account. I see no reason to have strangers accessing my family photos.

 

[armsmaster270]

I sent a friend request Robert L. Nichols

 

[Robert]

Since this seems to have drifted into internet security let's call It done.