Facebook?

[question everything]

I got an email from a friend inviting me to become a friend on the Facebook Profile. However, it appears that I have to sign up for one which I really do not feel like it. I prefer to limit the pages on the Internet that know who I am, etc. Yeah, I am a dinosaur.

Is this really the only way to view that page? By signing up?

Thanks.

[harmonicon]

1. yeah, but don't bother

I ignore all of that crap. I got an email today from a friend who I haven't seen for a long time asking me to sign up to something about career networking, that I take is not unlike facebook or any number of things that I'm not involved with. I just wrote back and said that I'm glad to hear from him, but if he wants to catch up, he'll just have to send me an email.

[Lex]

2. it's easy and fun

but not for everyone

you do probably have to have an account to view the pages within FB though

[Zavulon]

3. My girlfriend is on Facebook and

has been pestering me to join for weeks. I'm not giving in.

I can tell you that even if you have an account, you need to be confirmed by someone as his or her friend to see that person's profile.

I don't see the appeal, myself.

[question everything]

4. Thanks. This is what I thought

I am amazed at the amount of private information that people are willing to post to the world.

Thankfully, I have a common name that googling will drive the googler crazy.

[Zavulon]

5. We've actually fought over this.

Her last name is rare enough to be the only one (combined with her first name, I mean - there are two others with her last) to show up during a search. People on her friends list can see her date and year of birth, both of her e-mail addresses, her cell phone and our landline. I have a big problem with the latter, since the landline is actually in my name.

[Lex]

6. she can easily make all that info private

even from her friends if she wants to

[Zavulon]

7. Didn't know that, but

she probably does. She's way, way too trusting. She just loaned $300 (which is fairly big cash for us) to her alcoholic friend, as one of many examples.

But I digress. Thanks for letting me know. I'll run it by her, but I think I know how it'll turn out.

[Lex]

8. No problem, just tell her to go to

"settings" ---> "privacy" ----> "profile" and she can control who sees what information, or make it all private (birthday, email addy, phone number). Heck, I didn't even enter that information in the first place when I set up the account. It's optional to put all that in.

[Zavulon]

9. I'm copying and pasting your post into an e-mail and

sending it to her as I write this. Much appreciated.