Facebook Places - Dangerous or not

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This is a dangerous online utility if there is anyone of your facebook friends that you do not trust fully. And this is not to mention all of those that your kids have selected to be a facebook friend. I don't know about you but I don't want the world knowing where my kids are simply because they make use of facebook mobile.

I agree. Someone that I never knew, or even heard of, "invited" me to be their friend on Facebook, through my Windows Live account. I do remember that the person was female, and young. Her group of "friends" included my stepson.

I don't know if it may had possibly been a setup or not, but a stranger sending me an invitation like that seemed a little weird. And out of the tens of millions of others who could have her friends, my stepson being one of them seemed to be more than a coincidence. I was having marital issues at the time.

Needless to say, I didn't even bother to acknowledge her "invitation". I'm not into the internet socializing scene, and don't care to be, either.

C_C, you're right, Facebook can be a dangerous place to be on. I don't blame you the first bit.

Cat

I would not at all surprised if the NSA didn't have their grimy little hands in this one.

You really don't have any privacy anyway online. All these bits can be easily processed and stored regardless of any privacy statements.

Now that is a MOST startling revelation! My God what is the world coming to?

I'm not going to argue that point with you, but whatever OS you use has nothing to do with it. I've used the link in your signature bar myself, as well as the latest version of Mint. While it's good to play with and kill time, it's not a real life solution. Only 1% of users totally depend on Linux OS's for their needs.

If a version of Linux could work with everything (plug n play) and was more easier to use as an everyday solution, then perhaps it would be worth more consideration. Like I said, I've used it, still do, but I won't get on this forum and suggest it to the world that it will cure your privacy issues. While I agree that it may be more secure, no OS is perfect.

Especially in social networking sites, they are among the most dangerous of all. That is the OP's point of his thread.

And as the regulars here knows, I wouldn't dare to post a link to any version of Linux on this forum, and suggest to try it instead of properly configuring Windows 7. This does happen to be a Windows 7 forum. If you prefer to use it, that's your choice. But we don't provide links to other OS's around here.

That's spamming.

Cat

Storing information and broadcasting information is different. And in this example, broadcasting personal locations.

This feature should not even be a feature unless the person decides they want it.

You would call an alternative choice as spam? A choice which is free in all senses from DRM down to price and proprietary software? The sig has nothing to do with any post and is only there as a choice. Linux is valid for anything 7 does, bar gaming and some apps, whether you use Gentoo or Ubuntu.

I've not heard of Facebook Places before, so thanks for the heads up. It looks like it's a US only feature for now and it needs to be manually activated.

As long as it's an optional feature, I don't really mind .

True, though, how once your on the net you leave traces of yourself everywhere. When I've googled my name for instance I still find bits of postings and photos I submiittted in other forums that I have not visited for years.Ones I'm not even a member of anymore.