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Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@dooBdoo wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@Nicknack wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:

No - your FB is as private as you choose to make it. It can be set to Friends only and can even be set so that Friends of your Friends cannot see your posts, photos, etc. If she knows what she's doing and has FB properly configured, no one but her (FB) Friends can see her posts or photos. One of them would have to tell a stranger here whereabouts or pass photod of her kids around in order for her privacy to be breached.

@Moonchilde My concern is that she has at least 500 Facebook friends--maybe more. They can't all be that close to her. I hope she has her privacy settings set correctly. I ought to ask her to let me look at them and double check. She may actually know all those people, but just not well.

That is a different issue, and as far as children are concerned, I share your concern. But people do what they do :-( I don't think others can convince them

BUT - one can have different *groups* of friends, and all friends won't see every post. Example - close friends and family are in Group A and business associates & online friends are in Group B. If she posts family info only to Group A, Group B will not see them. But that is up to her to set up.

Now that the privacy settings have changed, it's more difficult to restrict who sees your posts. In the settings (under "who can see my stuff?"), we can choose one default, but then we can change the "audience" each time we add a post if we want to. I really doubt that this person is modifying the audience for each post that might indicate they're out of town, etc.

I didn't say it was convenient to do ;-)

It's the price of making the post separation. I used to do it but it was a PIT* even with the number of my friends (hundreds fewer than 500). Now I just make a custom post and leave out a few people, i.e. everyone but so-and-so and...etc. But then you have to remember to switch is back to your default. Like I said, nor convenient but can be done. And no, with 500 friends, it ain't happenin'.

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muttmom · ‎11-28-2012

@VanSleepy wrote:
It took me about 10 seconds once to find a poster's name and her family member's name and address. Now some may think it's creepy that I even looked, but it was a thread like this that prompted it, and I wanted to see if it really was so easy. I certainly wouldn't divulge or do anything with the information.

I have a feeling I know who you are talking about. A picture she posted had her daughter's name on it. She's said many times where she lives and within moments someone posted they'd found her daughter's information and she should take that picture down. Instead of thanking people she turned it around to people were jealous of her or posters stalked her.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@muttmom wrote:
@VanSleepy wrote:
It took me about 10 seconds once to find a poster's name and her family member's name and address. Now some may think it's creepy that I even looked, but it was a thread like this that prompted it, and I wanted to see if it really was so easy. I certainly wouldn't divulge or do anything with the information.
I have a feeling I know who you are talking about. A picture she posted had her daughter's name on it. She's said many times where she lives and within moments someone posted they'd found her daughter's information and she should take that picture down. Instead of thanking people she turned it around to people were jealous of her or posters stalked her.

I remember that. Even when she said "thank you for your concern" it was sarcastic.

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VanSleepy · ‎10-05-2010

@muttmom, I don't really want to say more, but since you mentioned a specific person, I will just say no. I don't want that person to think I'm talking about her

september · ‎03-09-2010

@VanSleepy wrote:
It took me about 10 seconds once to find a poster's name and her family member's name and address. Now some may think it's creepy that I even looked, but it was a thread like this that prompted it, and I wanted to see if it really was so easy. I certainly wouldn't divulge or do anything with the information.

Yes, it's very easy. One poster posted quite often about her job at a small northern CA airport. Since there aren't many airports in that part of the state...I knew exactly which one she worked at, and I've flown through there, in the past. And they likely don't have more than a few female TSA agents.....so id'ing her would be a snap.

Lila Belle · ‎01-24-2013

@muttmom wrote:
@VanSleepy wrote:
It took me about 10 seconds once to find a poster's name and her family member's name and address. Now some may think it's creepy that I even looked, but it was a thread like this that prompted it, and I wanted to see if it really was so easy. I certainly wouldn't divulge or do anything with the information.
I have a feeling I know who you are talking about. A picture she posted had her daughter's name on it. She's said many times where she lives and within moments someone posted they'd found her daughter's information and she should take that picture down. Instead of thanking people she turned it around to people were jealous of her or posters stalked her.

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I have no idea who you're talking about and don't understand why you'd bring this up again if she still posts here. What is the point and what is gained by posting this ?

I really don't get it.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

On a related note, Baidu, which is China's answer to a combo of Google, Facebook and Twitter, has just been outed for collecting all sorts of personal info on its users, but UNENCRYPTED or so badly encrypted a 6 year old could hack it. And its pervasive in most of their apps.

I would imagine there are some people in the US who use it. Oops!

https://boingboing.net/2016/02/23/baidu-browser-isnt-just-a-su.html?utm_content=buffer56d16&utm_medi...

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justmyopinion · ‎11-23-2015

For those of you who are using a profile photo of yourself, pets, grand-kids, etc.,, all one has to do is right click on your image and scroll down to "search for image on google" and quite often google finds your facebook page or other social media outlets if you're using the same photo. Use a stock photo to protect your privacy.

Sister Golden Hair · ‎03-09-2010

@Sooner wrote:
I figure a lot of what we read here is simpy lies anyway don't you? I have a few posters in mind who tell some pretty big ones. And we know that by just reading what they've written over the years.

They there are the ones with alternate identities who sometimes slip up and post under the wrong nic and usually get outed by some smartie here!

I'm tall, thin, beautiful, an Olympic Gold Medal athlete and wealthy like "some others" here, but never been known as "easy." What am I doing wrong????

@Sooner Or the poster that had one drama event after another.

Those stories were crazy.

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

@ChynnaBlue wrote:
@hoosieroriginal wrote:
I haven't seen anyone post anything like that. I think our posters are smarter than that.
I've seen it. I even reported one post to the mods to delete because it contained someone's complete name and address. The poster appeared to think that she/he was talking directly to one of the vendors, not posting on a public forum, if I recall correctly.

Not everyone is computer or internet savvy.

Whaaaaattttt?

I've seen this on FB too. Someone goes on a company page or public figure page and put their full address and phone number right there for everyone to see. SMH