No Facebook for the family.

[raffi at flossyourmind.com (Raffi Jamgotchian)]

agree.

most of us are tech evangelists in our families and probably do the  
cleanup on PCs from malware spread by facebook and myspace.  But if  
its not that its something else. Ultimately education is the best  
defense.  For example my nieces didn't know their profiles were  
completely wide open to the public.


On Mar 25, 2009, at 1:32 PM, xgermx wrote:

> I tend to spend more time educating family members about safe
> browsing/social networking habits opposed to scaring them away from
> the internet. Are there a lot of bad scary things out there? Yes. Is
> there a legitimate use for social networking. Yes.
>
> 2009/3/25 Nathan Sweaney <NSweaney at tulsacash.com>:
> > "I won't let <wife's name> use it."
> >
> > wow, that's a loaded sentence....
> > ________________________________
> > From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com
> > [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of  
> > Adsquaired
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:19 AM
> > To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> > Subject: [Pauldotcom] No Facebook for the family.
> >
> > It all started when I received a friend request from my mother.  
> > Helloooo..
> > I effectively got my sister and mother to cancel their Facebook  
> > accounts
> > with this email. hehehe.
> >
> > "I don't like that you guys are on Facebook.
> >
> > I won't let <wife's name> use it. Remember anything you post is there
> > forever. People can use anything you post to obtain information  
> > about you
> > and your family. It can also be used by spammers and other  
> > malicious users
> > to solicit you and trick you into clicking links that can possibly  
> > steal
> > your identity.
> >
> > When I use it I ignore all the silly requests sent by users and  
> > keep my
> > posts to a minimum. I only signed up to connect with people from high
> > school.  Besides, I know how to use the Internet (no offense) and  
> > have tools
> > in place to protect my computers. ;)
> >
> > <mom>, why do you need this?
> >
> > Ok that's my .02 cents."
> >
> >
> >
> > ad^2
> >
> > Avoid the Gates of Hell.  Use Linux
> >      -- unknown source
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Pauldotcom mailing list
> > Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
> > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
> _______________________________________________
> Pauldotcom mailing list
> Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.pauldotcom.com/pipermail/pauldotcom/attachments/20090325/eddf400a/attachment.htm