[78-L] 78-L, FB and the Absolute Knowledge

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I wouldn't say COMPLETELY safe. It is a good idea to remain aware that things you post to social media sites are going out into cyberspace and may hang there longer than you would prefer. There has to be a corollary to Murphy's law regarding the chances of something posted still being accessible in the future having an inverse proportion to how much you do or don't want it to still be there.

Bearing that in mind, I have several e-mail addresses. One for friends and family, one for work, one for sites where I expect to get junk mail, one for sites where I expect to get adult junk mail, and one leading nowhere just for fun. The first two are not associated with any social media sites.

Jim
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I find Facebook to be completely safe, and the "people you may know" may not
even be remotely connected and certainly aren't out there looking for you. A
lot of knowledge and information is over there in a variety of groups devoted
to 78s, classical vinyl, jazz and big bands, old time radio, opera and more.
And you can easily unfollow groups or members (or block them).

78-L still exists but its activity is limited to spurts these days..like this one.

dl


On 10/20/2017 7:49 AM, Doug Duncan wrote:
> On 20/10/2017 12:14, Inigo Cubillo wrote:
>> ​Are ALL they in FB? Where are the Giordanos, the Mikes from Plovdiv, the
>> Biehls, the Rooneys, etc, etc, ...? Someone (probably Lennick) told me
>> everybody has switched to FB.
>>
>> I've been also tempted, and opened a FB account too. I applied for entering
>> to the 78rpm groups, was authorized by Biehl or some other colleague, and
>> eventually subscribed.
>>
>> But I got tired of FB pretty soon. Each time I opened it, I found hundreds
>> of suggestions to "make friends" with lots of people whom I have had no
>> relation since many years ago. Even people whom I've never written before,
>> but the web knows I know them by any casualty...
>>
>> I'm a bit horrified. This is not casualty at all... it is the NAWK... the
>> New Absolute Wisdom and Knowledge.
>>
>> This thing is taking from some unknown storage depot all the e-mail
>> adresses I've ever written to, and sending proposals of friendship from
>> people rarely related to me. Kind of making you ask.. "Where is this thing
>> taking my information from?" "How the FB has arrived to know that I'm
>> remotely connected to that person?"
>> Every bit of info searchable for is then used. So FB proposes me friendship
>> with people that makes one frighten about the web... Old deleted emails
>> from years ago are being used, and although you deleted them, they are
>> stored somewhere else...!!! They know everything about us.
>>
>> Help...!
>>
>> Inigo Cubillo
>> Madrid, SPAIN
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> Hi Inigo,
>
> I certainly don't hold a brief for Facebook but there are two things (at
> least) that you can to stop the infinite number of people requesting to
> be your friend.
>
> FB gets the e-mail addresses of all these people from your address book
> or books. If you are like me there are personal addresses in your
> (surprise) personal address book where presumably you added them some
> time ago but have not deleted them. Then there are all the addresses
> that were added to the collected address book. These are people to whom
> you sent e-mail possibly over a period of many years. Mine goes back to
> about 1997. It would be longer but I had a disk crash and lost
> everything then. If you purge these addresses Facebook will not know
> about them and will stop looking for them in its database. Then you can
> reject them as potential friends.
>
> The second thing you can do is to change the privacy settings and tell
> it that you will not accept friend requests from anybody. I find that is
> the safest thing.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Doug
>
> Doug Duncan
>
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