Re: New Facebook Warning

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

@Marp wrote:
IMO the biggest problem with FB privacy is "friends of friends". It would make me very happy to be able to have "friends" see things but not "friends of friends".

Ohmigosh, yes! I've got some of those in Outer Mongolia. I don't even know anybody in Canada or Mexico..................

♥Surface of the Sun♥

NYC Susan · ‎03-13-2010

@LilacTree wrote:
My niece sent me this, a new Facebook warning. I may completely delete my FB if this is the next big issue. Facebook should have ways of preventing this. I complied with this on my FB page.

Almost all Facebook accounts are being hacked. The profile picture and your name are lifted and used to create a new Facebook account - appearing to be you. Your friends think it's you and accept. From this moment, the pirates can write what they want under your name, and harvest your duped friends info! I want you to know I have no plans to open a new account, so please do not agree to a 2nd invitation from me!! Copy this message on your wall so that all your friends will be warned!

❣Do not share - copy and paste

This has been floating around for a long time, and it's ridiculous to believe that "almost all Facebook accounts have been hacked". That is absolutely 100% not true. Almost all? Really?? If that were the case, Facebook would have been gone a long time ago.

Some accounts have been hacked, yes. But overwhelmingly, not most. If people are diligent, there is far less chance. You really can't believe everything that you read. There are too many things out there designed to incite fear.

It all comes down to educating ourselves about what we use and what we do on the internet. Facebook is no less than safe than anything else, and the vast majority of people on Facebook have never been hacked and have never had any serious problems. Emails get hacked and hijacked and all of that too. Nothing on the internet is 100% safe, including posting here or paying online. (I've actually had my email hacked twice, but in the ten years I've been active on Facebook, I've never had one single problem.)

Don't believe everything you read! Do your own research! Just because someone posts something on the internet doesn't mean it's true. There is probably more misinformation floating around about Facebook than pretty much anything else.

NYC Susan · ‎03-13-2010

@SydneyH wrote:
Agreed, Sunshine, none of this is new. Hackers have always had the ability to clone and my friends would want to know why the
need for a 2nd friend request if they still have the first imo.

Exactly. I got a friend request from someone I was already friends with, so I asked her if she had set up a new account. She said she had, so all was well. But if she said she hadn't, I would have ignored the new friend request because I would have known it was not her. It's really pretty simple.

My FB friends are people I know. I'm not there to meet new people. My privacy settings are tight. I use "friends" when I post, never "friends of friends" and never "public". My friends list is not viewable to the public, and even my friends only see the friends that we share ("Mutual Friends") You can also post so that just a specific group of people can see it (your family, or college friends, whatever). Not even people on my friends list can see everything, and the public sees practically nothing.

If you're smart about it and use common sense, there really is little need to worry.

NYC Susan · ‎03-13-2010

@Moonchilde wrote:

FB wants people to be able to find people. That's what they are about. If they hid the names of peoples' friends, half of their purpose would be rendered impossible.

You can hide the names of your friends. That's a setting I chose a long time ago. The public sees no friends listed at all. (It says, "No Friends to Show"). That's the way I wanted it, and that's how it's been for years.

I also have my settings so that my friends only see the friends we have in common. No one can see my entire friends list except for me.

LilacTree · ‎03-25-2012

Sorry folks. Stupid of me to post that warning. I apologize. Please just ignore it.

Formerly Ford1224
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986

NYC Susan · ‎03-13-2010

@LilacTree wrote:
Sorry folks. Stupid of me to post that warning. I apologize. Please just ignore it.

No, it wasn't stupid. Please don't think that way! If you have a concern, it's certainly okay to bring it up as a topic here. And it's a good thing to talk about. If you were concerned about that warning, then for sure lots of other people were too.

IMO opening something up for discussion is usually a very good thing to do! I hope that your mind is at ease about this now, and hopefully others got some good information here too. It's always a good idea to be dligent. :-)

LilacTree · ‎03-25-2012

@NYC Susan wrote:
@LilacTree wrote:
Sorry folks. Stupid of me to post that warning. I apologize. Please just ignore it.

No, it wasn't stupid. Please don't think that way! If you have a concern, it's certainly okay to bring it up as a topic here. And it's a good thing to talk about. If you were concerned about that warning, then for sure lots of other people were too.

IMO opening something up for discussion is usually a very good thing to do! I hope that your mind is at ease about this now, and hopefully others got some good information here too. It's always a good idea to be dligent. :-)

Thanks NYC Susan. I've always been somewhat naive. Guess aging hasn't cured that!

Formerly Ford1224
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986

CouponQueen · ‎10-21-2010

I have found that a lot of the Facebook warnings that are circulating are not true. I find them on Snopes all the time. When I see a new one posted to me I debunk it with a snopes link.

Especially the one about the owner of Facebook giving his money away and if you copied and posted the post to your Facebook Page you would get some too..

I could not believe the number of people who you would think had a brain lol, posted it..

NYC Susan · ‎03-13-2010

@LilacTree wrote:
@NYC Susan wrote:
@LilacTree wrote:
Sorry folks. Stupid of me to post that warning. I apologize. Please just ignore it.

No, it wasn't stupid. Please don't think that way! If you have a concern, it's certainly okay to bring it up as a topic here. And it's a good thing to talk about. If you were concerned about that warning, then for sure lots of other people were too.

IMO opening something up for discussion is usually a very good thing to do! I hope that your mind is at ease about this now, and hopefully others got some good information here too. It's always a good idea to be dligent. :-)
Thanks NYC Susan. I've always been somewhat naive. Guess aging hasn't cured that!