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Anyone thought of starting an MJ12 Group on Facebook?
JP
Anyone thought of starting an MJ12 Group on Facebook?
JP
We're on Yahoo.....hadn't heard of Facebook until you brought it up. What would Facebook have that Yahoo doesn't?
..well, other than possibly fewer spambots.
Well my wife is on Facebook, it's more like a forum.... or something... I don't know actually.
Well my wife is on Facebook, it's more like a forum.... or something... I don't know actually.
From the info page:
About Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Anyone can join Facebook
All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To connect with coworkers or classmates, use your school or work email address to register. Once you register, join a regional network to connect with the people in your area.
Discover the people around you
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Do more
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Log on here:
www.facebook.com
Its an excellent tool for keeping in touch.
(I'm on it, and so is Josh....so how can it be a bad thing?) 
JP
Isn't Facebook limited to those with a .edu e-mail account?
Isn't Facebook limited to those with a .edu e-mail account?
Originally it was, but they've since opened it up to everyone.
Up here in my region, its use has absoultely EXPLODED. I can't believe the number of people I've lost touch with that I've found on facebook.
A designated MJ12 'group' would go a long way toward us getting to know each other here as people and friends.
Just think; just 2 clicks to upload a gaming convention photo into the MJ12 facebook album, and we can have an unlimited amount of them. That alone is worth the price of logging in to facebook. (Which is actually free.)
JP
I've taken it upon myself to start the ball rolling. For those who wish to sign up, do a search for MJ12 Games on the group search in the Global network.
(Or send me your e-mail address and I'll invite you directly)
jpcrough@sympatico.ca.
Dan: I used the MJ12 logo on the title page. If I have your permission retroactively then....cool. If you'd prefer it not be there, I can take it down.
JP
Cancel my last.
Hosting a MJ12 group should be in an official capacity should the time be right.
JP
Well then howzabout an "Unofficial MJ12 Facebook"?
Dang it, ya got me all curious...
Well then howzabout an "Unofficial MJ12 Facebook"?
Dang it, ya got me all curious...
Well, if you get on facebook, look me up (Justin Crough, Toronto Network) and I'll add you to my friends list.
Then you can see my 4 photo albums, read about my hobbies, and you can post some pictures you'd like to share, and we can overall just keep in touch. lol.
From there you can link to josh, and he might add you to his friends list...and so on.
JP
Alright, at the expense of ANOTHER password to remember, I'm on Facebook....
Seems a bit .....phobic.
Well, I just created, considered, and then deleted a facebook account.
I can't believe I got through registration without some sort of psychosomatic deafness from all the metaphorical alarm bells ringing, jangling, clanging, and eventually just smacking out a lively tempo on my face.
If this turns out to NOT be the world's largest and most elaborate credit card/ identity theft scam, you be sure to let me know.
Well, I just created, considered, and then deleted a facebook account.
I can't believe I got through registration without some sort of psychosomatic deafness from all the metaphorical alarm bells ringing, jangling, clanging, and eventually just smacking out a lively tempo on my face.
If this turns out to NOT be the world's largest and most elaborate credit card/ identity theft scam, you be sure to let me know.
It's not.
What makes you think it would be?
JP
smokingwreckage wrote:Well, I just created, considered, and then deleted a facebook account.
I can't believe I got through registration without some sort of psychosomatic deafness from all the metaphorical alarm bells ringing, jangling, clanging, and eventually just smacking out a lively tempo on my face.
If this turns out to NOT be the world's largest and most elaborate credit card/ identity theft scam, you be sure to let me know.
It's not.
What makes you think it would be?
JP
Well, they seemed to want an awful lot of information about me, "Smoking" was probably about as wary (if not more so) than I was.
I understand needing to know some of what they wanted, but I can lie about everything if I'm a spammer.
Got your invite, let me see if I can figure out how to respond to it.
Has anyone else signed up?
Required information was too high, anonymity too low, networking and groups too restrictive, and the additional information on who, what and when you'd like to screw creeped the bejesus out of me.
With the required info and only a little creativity, you'd be able to mess with my phone account. From there you'd be able to intercept my mail, and from there the sky's the limit. Honestly, I'm not a real crafty guy but if I had the info in your facebook account, all your identity would belong to us.
Edit: the groups functionality is crap and unmoderated, so if you browse groups there's about 10,000 that start with "aaaaaaaaaaa" to get to the top of the list- including the one that's called "gaping distended vagina" and the one that's called "babies are evil, let's abort them". The interface annoys the hell out of me at almost every turn. The changelog displays virtually every change you make to your profile, so your online activity is not only public, it's broadcast. The Search for Contacts function defaults to inviting everyone in your contacts, which is abysmal treatment of their privacy, yet I'm supposed to trust the privacy ethic of this organisation?
In short, it looked novel to begin with, but the further in I got the less novel and the more sloppy, irritating, invasive and untrustworthy it got. I deleted my account but really can't be sure if the info I gave is being stored and I'd bet my thumbs that even if it's not being stored as is, it's been aggregated. The only way I'd keep an account there is under a pseudonym or persona, and only then because my IP is not fixed and is reasonably difficult to trace past my ISP.
Required information was too high, anonymity too low, networking and groups too restrictive, and the additional information on who, what and when you'd like to screw creeped the bejesus out of me.
With the required info and only a little creativity, you'd be able to mess with my phone account. From there you'd be able to intercept my mail, and from there the sky's the limit. Honestly, I'm not a real crafty guy but if I had the info in your facebook account, all your identity would belong to us.
Go here:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=534957734
Tell me if I put up too much information.
I did experience some trepidation myself, but I either withheld the information, put in something very general, or simply lied.
They're crazy if they think I'm gonna give them all THAT information.
Required information was too high, anonymity too low, networking and groups too restrictive, and the additional information on who, what and when you'd like to screw creeped the bejesus out of me.
With the required info and only a little creativity, you'd be able to mess with my phone account. From there you'd be able to intercept my mail, and from there the sky's the limit. Honestly, I'm not a real crafty guy but if I had the info in your facebook account, all your identity would belong to us.
Edit: the groups functionality is Carp and unmoderated, so if you browse groups there's about 10,000 that start with "aaaaaaaaaaa" to get to the top of the list- including the one that's called "gaping distended vagina" and the one that's called "babies are evil, let's abort them". The interface annoys the hell out of me at almost every turn. The changelog displays virtually every change you make to your profile, so your online activity is not only public, it's broadcast. The Search for Contacts function defaults to inviting everyone in your contacts, which is abysmal treatment of their privacy, yet I'm supposed to trust the privacy ethic of this organisation?
In short, it looked novel to begin with, but the further in I got the less novel and the more sloppy, irritating, invasive and untrustworthy it got. I deleted my account but really can't be sure if the info I gave is being stored and I'd bet my thumbs that even if it's not being stored as is, it's been aggregated. The only way I'd keep an account there is under a pseudonym or persona, and only then because my IP is not fixed and is reasonably difficult to trace past my ISP.
Well, to each his own I suppose. I didn't find the info required to be invasive, and there are many options to keep strangers from seeing any info you don't want them to.
I've never had to actually go search for a group myself.
I heard people talking about it and didn't think it'd be something I'd ever use. Then eventually I got an invitation to sign up in my e-mail. i ignored it for a while. Then someone else sent me one. I eventually signed up.
So i had my one friend for about an hour and i looked at his friends list. There were a few people on their list that i also knew. So i clicked on them and clicked the 'friend request' button. This sends that person a notice that someone wants to be recognized as a friend.
They each accepted the request, and filled out where they new me from (optional). That allowed me to see their friends list (which is optional on their part).
Some of them knew people I knew...and so I clicked their friends request buttons...
Then someone I knew invited me to join a group. It was a group devoted to my extended family. (Invitation only).
So now, i have 84 friends and belong to groups such as:
▪SPSS is my Alma-Mater
▪ St. Peter's Secondary School!!
▪ Remembering Dave Mailhot
▪ Crough Family
▪ Hasty p's
▪ Support Canadian Troops in Afghanistan
All of which I was invited to, none of them I had to search for.
5 of my friends I'd actually rank as 'acquaintances' so I restrict the amount of info they can see on my profile.
Yes there is a constant update. Every time I log on, I get a summary of any changes any of my friends have made to their profile, and I see if anyone has posted any comments on any of the photos or pictures I have posted. This is remarkably effective at keeping up to date with people.
Above all, its a social thing, as opposed to this forum, which is more...business oriented.
In my humble opinion, with the hundreds of thousands of people using facebook, you have less chances of someone trying to do something nefarious with your data as you have of being physically mugged in the real world.
Like how many people have used a credit card online?
JP
My 'puter went "fritz" in the middle of posting earlier today. Fixed now.
Basically I don't think it's stupid to use Facebook, just that I personally am uncomfortable with it. If I were to fill out all the details a hacker could, were s/he to obtain my profile, make the rest of my life hell pretty much till the day I died. A hacker with my CC number is more limited than one with my name, photo, birthdate, location, and a list of info commonly used to confirm ID.
I am considering going back and making a profile more to my liking, now that I'm more aware of the cumulative effect of the data required, if I manage to get over the initial paranoia- and getting over paranoia is not my strong suit.
EDIT: also, facebook is slower than hell over my link.
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