I've heard that...

ANYBODY OVER 30 YO ON FAECEBOOK IS A STALKER.

Mark _australia said...

Decrep,

>>>>>>

Seriously though.... that is a worry - Facebook must have your email addressbook as the person who invited you cannot possibly list all the people you know who are also on Facebook.

Don't see how they could have my address book, I'm not on facebook, and my wife's friend wouldn't know the other people listed.
If they do have it, I agree it's a huge worry.
I think it's possible there's some sort of record somewhere of internet traffic, but some of it must be years old.

I guess it's possible they have the address books of the other people listed, who are on facebook. They would all have my address in them. Think that makes more sense but it's still a worry.

Commentator, I agree, don't want anything to do with it, especially after this.

When you add friends it allows you to do them via email contacts,Any email address not on the facebook will recieve a letter saying that you have a friend on there and please join... Nothing to worry about decrepid.

decrepit said...

Mark _australia said...

Decrep,

>>>>>>

Seriously though.... that is a worry - Facebook must have your email addressbook as the person who invited you cannot possibly list all the people you know who are also on Facebook.

Don't see how they could have my address book, I'm not on facebook, and my wife's friend wouldn't know the other people listed.
If they do have it, I agree it's a huge worry.
I think it's possible there's some sort of record somewhere of internet traffic, but some of it must be years old.

I guess it's possible they have the address books of the other people listed, who are on facebook. They would all have my address in them. Think that makes more sense but it's still a worry.

Commentator, I agree, don't want anything to do with it, especially after this.

are you a Gmail or Hotmail user? if so then probably yes they have mined your account.

I was on Facebook, joined just to find out what everyone was on about.
Then I deleted it, which was a mission to actually delete an account.
THEN my son decided to go overseas for a year, so now I back on the bloody thing as its the easiest way to stay in contact with him

To me its a sad reflection of society.
Even one of the Google founders reckons that all teens should be allowed to change their name at 20 (or somewhere near) so that they can be disassociated with all the rubbish they have posted on social networks ........ how sads that!

Coffee in hand and a poor wind forecast - then read on...
First up consider the internet - who and how is the vast structure being funded?
Back in the very early days - it was public but now it is big business.

There are a few very big players in the background running server farms on mind boggling scales. The owners of the OPERA browser are one, Google has mirrored the complete internet. And then there is the ability to plug into leaks and soft spots.

Security on the internet boils down to vested interests (Banks, government agencies etc). How far does your personal vested interest go?

Before going on think at how rapidly the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption algorithms have grown.. 48 bit dead buried 128 bit should be dead and buried, 256 bit is common and 1056 bit on specific protocols. Basically it is what protects your data by churning it up when it leaves your PC to the destination where the reverse occurs. There is a reason - those soft spots...

What can you do with out being a total geek...?
YOUR SOFTWARE / HARDWARE
1) on the home front protect the front door (your adsl router to the internet) at a minimum set a password not the default.
2) For your LAN / PC review this it will give you an insight at the least..
(although controversial and taken over by a bigger concern it appears to still run on being impartial)
www.matousec.com/index.html

3) Optionally go for anonimity on the internet... read this...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion_Router
www.torproject.org/overview.html

You end up saying you have to trust someone - but do not under any circumstances sign-up for unsolicited PC protection products without at a minimum doing 15 - 30 minutes googling for 3rd party opinions...

YOUR HABITS or but willing to learn or ring in for allcomers...
The subject of safe habits.... ah perhaps someone else wants to run with this...
Where is that wind???

Gorgo said...

Don't worry about it. Just make sure you don't go putting personal stuff up on the net.

And there in lies the rub.... How many times have you typed something and then later wished to take it back .... toooooo late, its out there.

Not a problem for Decrep, but how many of you have "friended" workmates or worse your boss, then bragged about a big night out and not turned up for work the next day??????

I know I'm probably being overly paranoid, but more and more people are going to get burned by this stuff.

decrepit said...


I find this a bit of a worry, am I paranoid, or does it worry anybody else????

The question isn't whether you're paranoid. The question is; are you paranoid enough?

Not suspicious at all part

There is a "Friend finder" application.

You consent to it.

You give it your password for gmail.

It looks at people addresses in your account (both to and from).

It asks if you want to be friends with those who have accounts and asks you to invite the others to facebook.

You choose.

possibly suspicious part

It stores this for everyone

When the other end of the pairing (the person that mailed you or you mailed) logs onto facebook, it uses your email info to offer them possible contacts.



What happened in your situation seems to be that your geneology contact went through the same process, but didn't add you as a friend. Now facebook is using his email info to encourage you to invite him.

deXtrous said...

Don't think you're crazy for having that thought decript, here's a message from someone on a different forum I visit, which I thought was maybe a coincidence until I read this thread. He posted it yesterday (Thursday).

nice1 said:
I sold some games on ebay last week. I log into my facebook and it is suggesting me to be friends with guy I sold the games to.

1. I don't know this guy
2. I've never linked my facebook to my ebay or paypal in ANY way
3. This guy lives at the other end of the country to me, nobody I know would know him


Seriously, how the **** does facebook get the name from an ebay transaction then start suggesting me to be friends with him?

Its definately the same guy because I checked his full name & address on both site.

****s worrying because I never gave facebook access to my ebay or paypal.

Weird indeed.

I think Nice1's counterparty has linked his email address...

nebbian said...

Ok speaking as a web geek here, something you might not know is how all this happens. Put simply, when you visit a site, your computer sends the address of the last site you visited to the new site. This has been in place since the start of web browsers, as a way to easily figure out how to display the "go back" links you sometimes see.
What has started to happen recently is that this information has started to be mined by companies such as google and Facebook, as a way of figuring out who you are connected with. So let's say you visit a friend's page on facebook, then do a google search. Google will know that you just visited their page, and this information will be stored against your google profile. It doesn't take much of a leap of faith to figure out the connections that can be made. My guess is that some algorithms have just come online that can join the dots, and determine the connections between you, your friends, Facebook , Seabreeze, Gtc, the list goes on. There's a lot to be said for unplugging once in a while and seeing what sunlight feels like on the skin:-)
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Seabreese should be advertising me hot sucking blonde lesbian babes when i log in ;-)

busterwa said...

nebbian said...

Ok speaking as a web geek here, something you might not know is how all this happens. Put simply, when you visit a site, your computer sends the address of the last site you visited to the new site. This has been in place since the start of web browsers, as a way to easily figure out how to display the "go back" links you sometimes see.
What has started to happen recently is that this information has started to be mined by companies such as google and Facebook, as a way of figuring out who you are connected with. So let's say you visit a friend's page on facebook, then do a google search. Google will know that you just visited their page, and this information will be stored against your google profile. It doesn't take much of a leap of faith to figure out the connections that can be made. My guess is that some algorithms have just come online that can join the dots, and determine the connections between you, your friends, Facebook , Seabreeze, Gtc, the list goes on. There's a lot to be said for unplugging once in a while and seeing what sunlight feels like on the skin:-)
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Seabreese should be advertising me hot sucking blonde lesbian babes when i log in ;-)

Yes but that does not explain how when Decrep has never used Facebook that when he got a friend request emailed to him he later got one that included his whole email address book (well all the ones of Facebook anyway.
From how he describes it they must have read his email address book so thus the friend request includes a data miner

And that is a worry.

How good are those 'I facebooked ya Mum' T Shirts.

Very good is the answer to that particular question me thinks.

PS How good is stamp at noticing typos...

I read his reply and still thought, what the hell is he on about, for a little second. haha