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Facebook

ms traditional — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:13:31 GMT

in case you didn't see (from Business Insider):

Facebook made a bombshell admission about the security of its users´ personal information on Wednesday, in a startling revelation that´s almost certain to worsen the privacy crisis currently hanging over the world´s largest social network. "Most" of Facebook´s 2 billion users may have had their personal data skimmed from the site by "malicious actors," the company said in a blog post by Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer. Facebook said it has disabled the feature in its site´s search function that enabled the data scrapping, but the fact that so much user data may have been vulnerable was another setback...

Zuckerberg is before Congress next week - April 11, i believe.

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I am still oxox — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:15:49 GMT

The info I have on there can be found with any search engine

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kaydee50 — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:16:25 GMT

I have never used and will never use Facebook or any other "social media" that puts your information out to who knows who. I do not see the need or advantage to belonging to such sites. JMO!

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fthunt — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:18:08 GMT

Not for me....is what I said/thought when FB first came on the scene. I'll call my friends and relatives - don't trust the web in any way.

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gidgetgh — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:20:00 GMT

I still remain absolutely not concerned in the least about Facebook. At all. Not even on my radar.

I am worrried or concerned about many things in our lives but the whole Facebook thing isn’t one of them. If they looked at any of my info and posts they probably fell asleep from boredom.

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bonnielu — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:21:59 GMT

I don't think there are any secrets anymore. I can google myself and find out things LOL. Sign of the times.

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elizabethl123 — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:26:43 GMT

i never ever will use face book they post way to much info

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blackhole99 — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:34:23 GMT

I don't know what people expect when they put it all out there like that. It doesn't surprise me that this happened.It doesn't matter if you are an interesting person or not, those who are looking to, can figure you out by the things you post and use it to their advantage, whatever that may be. I googled myself and all it says is where I live and that someone else lives at the residence too. Doesn't even identify the person as my husband, just by name.

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ms traditional — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:35:32 GMT

there is a concern that with this malicious actors can match up other info they have found - e mail address, phone - with FB info (birthdate, hometown, etc) making it a lot easier to steal people's identities, for example. i am sure we will find out more next week.

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QVCPhobe — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 10:29:12 GMT

I downloaded the information on my FB and there are tons of it. I was amazed about all that I downloaded. I do not think that I was hacked because of who i vote for. (No politics please) but who knows? I post very little and I thought of deleting FB but if was hacked, the damaged has already been done. I am not going to worry about it for now. When one goes on social media these things can be expected. FB is just as greedy as ever.

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GSPgirl — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:31:44 GMT

I was only on there to see pics of my grandkids. I left FB because of the obviously biased news feed. Plus, I do not know how Zuckerberg sleeps at night knowing that his invention allows kids to bully without any consequences. Or as my 22-year-old says, Mom, FB is so yesterday.

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qbetzforreal — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:16:24 GMT

No one thinks QVC doesn't share information. Our nics are attached to our accounts and for a long time the forums and QVC.com were not secure.

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CherryHugs — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:38:24 GMT

What really gets me is have you ever just typed in your name and even maiden name etc in a search engine? You will see your address, age,a map of how to get to your place! Really its not right that any of this is online!

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Hippiified — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:33:00 GMT

Anything you put out there can be used, hacked, read by your boss, etc. including emails, bank records, medical records, games, texts, apps. This is what should have been expected. Personal info should never be posted anywhere.

Facebook will be sending letters to those who were affected by the Cambridge Analytica theft and illegal use of your info. The number has now been reported to be 87,000,000 instead of 50,000,000!

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wagirl — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:02:29 GMT

I'm not on any social things either. Always thought something like this would come back to bite us in the caboose--and I would be so infuriated to learn my info had helped with the sad state of the political results---would rather have a root canal with no numbing!!!

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Q4u — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:19:09 GMT

I only have a Facebook account in order to communicate with my neighbors (part of a community out in the country where we're separated by 5 acre plots). I hardly use it at all, but my personal info was given in order to get an account. That info can be mined. So can the info QVC has (including Credit Card).. so does eBay, or my Paypal account. As far as only Social Medias being compromised.... any site you have an account can be "scraped". We just have to have Faith that those we trust are up to the task of keeping our information safe.

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Trinity11 — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:23:42 GMT

Facebook mines information but the forums here do too. There are posters here that share almost everything but their Social Security number.

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CareBears — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:33:22 GMT

I am on Facebook, but I refused to list a phone number or hometown (not that people can find it anyway, and I only post non personal posts, National days of the week, never personal pictures, and I refuse any friendship requests of people I do not know, and only give access to my posts to the 2 friends that I have in my life. And unless someone wants to know which day of the week it is, and recipes, they are going to be quite bored of my posts!

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CareBears — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:37:45 GMT

And I would like to add Iused my maiden name with my last name listed first, so unless someone has known me my whole life, good luck finding any information on me on Facebook!

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Mj12 — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:48:12 GMT

@Trinity11 wrote:
Facebook mines information but the forums here do too. There are posters here that share almost everything but their Social Security number.

Very true, @Trinity11. Some posters give ridiculous amounts of personal info. And a few actually post "I just asked the vendor a question on FB about this topic or this TSV" which is not very smart to say the least, stuff like that is super easy to find.