It's a closed group Daddy; if you look at the seen by, it only lists other members of the group. Your friends aren't able to see that you're a member of the group when they look at your profile.  I am however concerned by Mark Zuckerberg's competition with the NSA over who can gather the most information on members of the public.

With Facebook's policy of expose first and inform second I to choose to err on the side of caution, the primary income streams for FB are focused around selling your personal info - trust them at your peril.  I, myself, shall err on the side of caution.

Yeah, I'm not too keen on mixing my HS activity and my FB activity, and I can't see a reason to... as Georgie noted, I can socialize here if need be.

I liked hanging out there, but anything someone posts on the group will have your name in the "seen by" list forever, and all you have to do to end up on it is scroll down the wall.

Let's say some teen's sexting video goes viral because it's funny and/or scandalous. Do you really want to be logged somewhere as having seen it when the video could be criminal to view?

rcade wrote:

It strikes me as an exceptionally unwise idea to pair this crowd's love of dark humored and twisted Internet content with Facebook's insistence on real names and Mark Zuckerberg's love of tracking every move we make online.

Your recent bbs work history redaction was too hasty, or you've entirely forgot why anyone who mastered errorlevel exits launched their own system in the first place. You decide what the world sees.

Zuckerberg is no more than an irritating posterchild of the larger, all encompassing issue of privacy. You were general assignment for a while, right? Cut your teeth covering school board and council meetings, police blotter and obit rewrites? Imagine if you had that job now.

Between 2008 and 2012 I flushed almost every elected official and the police chief here out of public office  simply by wandering door to door around a village block at the crack of noon, barefoot in all weather, to collect a week's worth of riveting news in 15 minutes.  The town spent $150,000 or more in tax revenue trying to shut me up and I felt like a demented kid again. I even got to ask the Pantload-In-Chief on video if he was still beating his wife. Never again, but a lovely parting gift all the same.

Each and every one of my former sources assumes, maybe correctly, my communications are tapped and they will say nothing more. For good or ill, I'm done.

was it an image put there by Pale?

Oh that was Pale. yeah, not to my taste either.

Do tell.

Scotty wrote:

I have several friends that have family FB pages and then other ones with nicknames or whatnot so they can talk about all the weed they smoke.

Zuckerberg, the NSA and Gawd knows who else can access all of it instantly, and are likely fapping over someone's private business as we type.

tojo2000 wrote:

George Orr wrote:

Zuckerberg, the NSA and Gawd knows who else can access all of it instantly, and are likely fapping over someone's private business as we type.

Probably none of ours, though, because in the grand scheme of things none of us is fapworthy.

Some of the women here, I recall, could disrupt street traffic but you're right, most of us are on the back nine, declawed and house broken. Solid citizens. Good Germans. Obedient consumers. Sheeple, even... until we become business competitors, political adversaries or whistle blowers. Then it's good night Vienna and we're fucked. Guantánamo bunkmates? For refuseniks like us, because we're special, and unreeducable, they'll probably find some place colder.

Everyone who asks to befriend me on my real FB page gets the same response.  "I am friending you, but note that my profile has zero true information about me and I only check in once a week at the most.  If you want to contact me, do not send me a FB message and expect a response.  Send me an email or, better yet, call me."

Is anything more cruel and annoying than gloating about your absolute ignorance?

Let's see!

I've never seen Facebook. Evar. Early proprietary dialup services cured that curiosity 30 years ago. Can you recall Prodigy without gagging?

I have dispatched my minions to screenshot and scrape ill-advised Facebitch pitcher posts for local amusement.

And I have gleefully collected overly-attached-girlfriend / disgruntled-stalker stories for an as yet untitled horror novel.

From the outside looking in, fb is a rabid matriarchy. My all-time fave facebitch story, one I've documented more than a dozen times, is the doting boyfriend/husband who designs his sweetheart's new page and she promptly defriends him. That never grows old.

Finally, I don't negotiate with tourists. I smoke them out of their hidey-holes.

Heh, 

No need to gloat at my gloating. But never stop calling it like you see it. Looking at in another way world ruled by women looking out for opportunities to entertain getting (re)laid can't be all bad. Raging matriarchy it may be and such. At least till your number comes up to be defriended. Just keep trucking on after all.