Anyone know about a good source of info about Facebook?

[Xairbusdriver]

"Hot" it is!!!

My mention of AV software was only to show how intermingled we are when using the interwebz for communications. I agree that the only use a Mac user has for it is to delete attachments that may come in an email you want to forward. But it means that, even without extra stuff you may post on social netwrks, any Windows user can easily let your addy get sucked into the great Scam Pit. FB just makes it easier to say things that might be more interesting to more people - the more there are, the less secure that info becomes.

The concept of FB as a 'network' of friends is fine, I even made contact with a couple of relatives I hadn't seen in ~20 years, not to mention a few old girl friends!! But the black cloud inside the silver lining is well disguised...and for a very important reason. "Buyer be carefull! Don't buy a pig in a server!" Or something like that!

Take care! Stay cool!

[gunug]

Thanks ABD for the sage advice; stay cool!

[RHPConsult]

I'm glad to see this, onaccountbecause I have been curious (as opposed to interested) in FB for some time.

My 40-something daughter is a BIG fan, having used it to find (and maintain contact with) long lost HS girlfriends, etc. However, we never seem to have the time (maybe because she's the wife-of-one and mother-of-two and running top speed most of the time) and tutoring me takes t-i-m-e!

I, too, would like to see if I have any HS friends (sensate, ambulatory, taking nourishment) who also possess and exercise rudimentary computer skills (after all, my 65th anniversary of HS graduation is next June) who perhaps can be located via FB.

I'll do some more reading on the site, but, after perusing this thread and its exhibits, it does seem that one's "choices" as to privacy are limited and easily (maybe) overcome, overruled, over-something. Daunting.

[jcarter]

Thats how our HS reunion was done, thru FB.
It was in Ft. Lauderdale, and I didn't attend, but got to see all the videos and pictures.

Our kids use it too, to communicate with old friends.
But I only use it occasionally. I would rather email my friends, and do a web page of our pictures and whatever we want.
Here is an example, the text will be different later, I just used the dog's names, but the owners will have more for me to put in. Like perhaps where the puppy came from and more.
http://www.jcdouglass.net/yellow-labs/sam-bruno.html
Jane

[gunug]

I'm not sure that you can "win" against Facebook!  I've locked mine down to "friends only" and apparently the trick is that you lock yourself out of other peoples Facebook by restricting access to your own page!

[dboh]

Here's something I can't figure out. It used to be you'd click "Like" on a page, and it would appear on your Info page as part of a list of Pages. Now, it seems that many of these "Likes" are showing up as "Activities" on the Info page. I've figured out, from Kimmer's post above, how to delete pages showing up as Pages, but I can't seem to get rid of Activities. I've Googled, and all I'm coming up with are ways to delete recent activity on my Wall, which isn't what I want to do.

Has anyone figured out how to delete these Activities?

[Xairbusdriver]

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Has anyone figured out how to delete these Activities?

Other than canceling your account? Your problem is one of the reason FB got such low scores on a recent survey of social networking sites; the place is a nightmare of user-UNfriendliness and almost constantly changing how things work. Sounds like it's still being run in that college dorm room. It is amazing to me what people will put up with. OTOH, the majority of people still use Windows...

[dboh]

Yes, it would be an understatement to think of Facebook as unintuitive. Often, I've felt Facebook was designed by PC guys with no sense of how the average person would navigate a site. (I remember using Lotus 123, where instead of there being an exit or quit command, you had to use the abort command. Even though I knew nothing was wrong, I always felt a tiny bit of anxiety having to go for what sounded to me like a warning of an impending plane crash! Who else but an engineer or programmer would think that that was useful language?)

[kimmer]

QUOTE(dboh @ Jul 28 2010, 04:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Has anyone figured out how to delete these Activities?

I think this will work:

Go to FB, far right-hand side and click and hold on the ACCOUNT "tab".
You should see a link to APPLICATION SETTINGS (although I didn't at first, I actually had to go try to join an application).
If you have this link, select it and you should wind up at a page that shows all your FB applications.
Click the X for those you wish to remove.

If you don't have that menu link, try this page:
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=apps

Let me know if this works for you, please.

[gunug]

Thanks Kimmer it turns out that your insight "helps" me as well.  If I get really hacked off at this sort of thing I'll dig into it this weekend when I'm supposed to be cleaning out the basement for stuff for a future garage sale!

[dboh]

QUOTE(kimmer @ Jul 28 2010, 08:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Let me know if this works for you, please.

It didn't show up as an Application, so neither of your methods worked. I did figure it out, though:

From my Profile page, I clicked on the Info Tab, then on Edit Settings. In the Activities section, there was a little blue button with the Page's name (which I guess I hadn't clicked because I thought it would take me to that page). I clicked on the button, and under the page's profile picture to the right, a "Remove" link appeared. Save changes, and voila!

Hope this makes sense.

[Xairbusdriver]

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Hope this makes sense.

I'm sure it does to the developers at FB.

[kimmer]

gunug, best of luck.

dboh, glad you were able to figure it out.

abd ...  

[RHPConsult]

That about covers it!  

[Frances144]

My beef with FB is that there is absolutely no way to contact them.

If your complaint/discussion/whatever doesn't fit into one of their little boxes, you are basically left high and dry.  There is no Department you can email and they don't do anything if you do complain - not even get back to you.

I found someone stealing my photos, removing the watermark and boasting about it on FB and they did nothing.  I can do nothing apart from whinge and tbh it has left a very nasty taste in my mouth.  I seriously considered giving it up, but having said that FB is a very useful tool in my networking.  I have even sold a pony to someone via FB!

So, I suppose you pays yer money and you makes yer choice.

I wonder how long it will take before others cotton onto the fact that they have alot of information on a very faceless website?