Mary is now friends with……………….
John is now friends with……………………
Harry became a fan of…………………….
Jane became a fan of…………………….
Mary and Jane are now friends.
So enough of that! Facebook Lite!!!
Then Facebook Lite won’t let me sign in. AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
Who needs Facebook!
Martha
Why is it so important to so many folks to have hundreds of friends on Facebook?
By far the majority of these folks don’t have a clue who all of the ‘friends’ really are and I suspect they don’t care. They just say ‘OK’ and ‘befriend’ anyone who asks.
I think that pretty much says it all.
Martha
With the advent of the Internet, soon came the ability to shop online. Sites like Amazon.com became the darlings of online ordering. (Amazon is one of my favorites!) Online ordering became a major way to get goods delivered to a customer’s home with little effort. (Except maybe when it came time to pay the bill.)
But unfortunately, sometimes unscrupulous merchants try to boost their bottom line by using practices that while maybe are not illegal, but are certainly shady.
One way customers are sucked in to a shady practice is the promise of a rebate for shipping. Notice this is NOT the same as an order code for free shipping that many reputable sites offer.
Most customers are intent on what they want to order and fail to read all fine print on the site where they will order. Sometimes the fine print is in a much lighter shade and is located below the ‘Order Now’ button. An example of this is on this site: Plaque Attack
Notice the Free Shipping logo at the top of the page has a small wording, After Rebate. Now scroll to the bottom of the page and in a box with light gray text, read the Offer Details. In order to get the free shipping, the customer is signing up for a ‘free trial’ of the ‘Insider’s Club’. Curious, I went to the site FreeShipping.com mentioned in the order details and nowhere could I find what the price would be after the free trial ends.
So now what happens? Customers sign up to join to get the free shipping. What they may not realize and most don’t, after the ‘free trial’ they will be billed a monthly fee and nowhere does it say what that fee will be until it’s too late. Then when they get their credit card statement or bank statement they learn the awful truth. (Never ever use a debit card to order online!) Trying to get this unwanted service canceled and a return on their money can be a very frustrating experience, sometimes almost impossible.
Unfortunately there a lot of sites like this. Just check out the posts on the Complaints Board.
There are so many deceptive practices on the Internet. A lot of them are pure scams, but the sites like the one above cover their you know whats by putting disclaimers or confusing wording on their sites so when the customers dispute the charges they can claim the customer was notified in advance. So while these sites are not actually illegal, they are in cahoots with sites that are certainly out to scam the customer.
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and who knows how many more social networks are out there.
Very soon we will be able to see just what you post on Twitter! Yahoo! and Twitter give wings to your social world.
OK, that’s what Twitter is about, but what about the secure way you set up your Facebook? Facebook Pages Now Part Of Google’s Real-Time Results.
Is it only a matter of time before your Gmail messages show up in searches? It could be if you didn’t turn Buzz off!
I hope my ISP doesn’t decide to be a social network!
Martha
What a contradiction! The Internet has taught me not to trust anything!
I learned a long time ago not to trust stuff in email, especially from strangers. Spam loaded my inbox and I quickly learned not to open it but to just delete it unopened. It’s a good thing too because it wasn’t long before email came bearing unwelcome stuff besides folks just trying to sell me something. Virus was first, then Trojans, worms, phishes, etc., ack! Email became dangerous!
As if that wasn’t enough, so called trustworthy sites began to put stuff on our computers to spy on us. My favorite tax program put spyware on our computers! I will never use anything by that company again! Although they apologized, the trust I had in them is now gone.
I found out a music company did more or less the same thing! They put a dangerous application called a rootkit on computers when a music CD was played on a computer. A rootkit is very hard to detect. That company also makes computers and how can we trust that those computers are not ‘infected’?
I suspect those companies learned their lesson and probably won’t try such tactics again, but I am suspicious. I tend to remember “fool me once, shame
on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”.
Since companies don’t want to lose customers, they generally will not try stuff like that again. But there are other things that can ‘bite’ us if we don’t beware.
Some ‘free’ downloads are not free if you don’t watch out when you install programs. When I installed my pdf reader (not that piggy Adobe), there
was an option to also install the Ask toolbar. The box was already checked to install it, so if I hadn’t learned a long time ago to actually read what’s
going to happen during the install I would have ended up with an unwanted toolbar. Other downloads have done the same with the Google toolbar.
Now Gmail has lost my trust with this thing called ‘Buzz’. I like Gmail, for email. Just email and nothing more. I don’t want my email to be a social network.
I saw someone on TV talking about Buzz and how she likes it. She can share so much like links and photos. The first thing that came to mind was ‘wow, a new way for scammers and phishers to suck people in to getting spyware, worms, trojans and the like, as if there isn’t enough of this already’.
I turned Buzz off in my Gmail and I am going to go one step further. I am going to remove all email contacts as well. Who knows what Gmail may try
next?
After much soul searching and deliberation, some time back I finally decided to join Facebook. (And no I didn’t give up my email password!) At first it seemed to be ok until my cohorts in common decided to join some of the games that Facebook seems to think we need. Everyday someone is planting something, cleaning something or finding something, all while playing in one of these Facebook apps.
One of the most annoying is the notice that someone commented on something someone else posted. Why on earth is that necessary? I really don’t need to know about all those comments that are not very informative.
I finally found something I can become a fan of, it’s ‘I dont care about your farm, or your fish, or your park, or your mafia!!!’
I know I am perhaps a party pooper here and if some folks get enjoyment from all of the silliness, I guess that’s okay, but I just can’t see myself farming online or cleaning fish tanks!
Martha
When you joined Facebook, (or ANY other social network site) did you give them the password to your email? Why for heaven’s sake did you do that? Did you actually want Facebook to send an invitation to your bank? Did you want them to send an invitation to anyone and everyone in your address book? (And remember, some email programs will save every email address for anyone you ever sent an email including replies.)
Oh, you didn’t know they would do that? What exactly did you think would happen when they said ‘Find friends using your email account?’ Did you think they would know exactly who your friends are and wouldn’t send invites to anyone you didn’t want to receive an invitation? Really, did you think that?
I suspect you didn’t think at all, you just blindly followed and gave them your password. For shame! Don’t you know you shouldn’t give your email password to anyone? Even your ISP won’t ask you for your email password! Your bank, your credit card company, Paypal, etc., none of these will ask you for your email password, so why on earth would you give a stranger your password?
Oh, you say, Facebook isn’t a stranger. Really? Do you know who lurks behind the site that is asking for this information? I bet you don’t!
If you did fall for that ‘Find friends using your email account’ and now that everyone in your address book has been spammed at least once, all those
folks that didn’t join you on Facebook are going to spammed again to remind them of the ‘invitation’ to join you. This fact makes me wonder about the
validity of the blurb below the box to enter your password. You know, the one that says ‘we won’t store your password’. Then how do they manage to send out ‘reminder’ spam?
I would guess it’s because your password is still there. I would remove it if I were you. Then you should go to where ever your email is hosted and change the password for your email account. And for goodness sake, don’t ever give away your email password again! Ever!
Martha
Why Firefox is no longer my default browser. I still use Firefox (I really need some of those extensions) but all of those ‘Firefox cannot find the server’ messages when going to websites finally just made me decide to make Opera default. Opera finds those sites just fine.
Sometimes I had to press the Retry button 3 times to get to what I know is a valid site.
At first I thought it was just my computer, but then I tried on other computers and it is the same. Then I found I am not the only one with this problem.
I looked on the Moilla forum for answers and all I got was ‘you must have spyware’, it’s your firewall’ or some such nonsense. Sorry, I think it’s a bug in Firefox that somehow is overlooked by all of those folks that contribute. Too many people are experiencing this problem. (Some from as far back as 2005) If it is a security thing, why doesn’t it happen for all sites?
Even some Linux users have this problem.
You know what? Opera is faster and renders pages much better.
Martha
I just hate updating Word Press!
The newer versions of WP are supposed to have this automatic update feature, but it never works for me. Once upon a time there was a plugin for automatic update and that worked pretty well for awhile, but then it stopped working and the fun? began for me.
First I try to get it to automatically backup. It goes as far as downloading the new version and then it just stops. No more, nada. (I keep hoping, but it just won’t work) At least I don’t have to update my database version every time!
I backup the site, verify the backup, de-activate the plugins and download the new version. Then I have to hunt for the instructions because I have this memory problem and follow the instructions all the while hoping it will work and I won’t have to use that backup. So far I haven’t had to use the backup, but you never know.
Then I have to remember to re-activate my plugins, check every thing to make sure all is ok and say a silent prayer.
So if anyone has an idea why that automatic thing doesn’t work, please let me know!
Martha
In case you are sitting on a sunny beach somewhere and you haven’t read any news, just about everywhere in the US is covered by an arctic blast and most of us here in the Texas and other southern states are freezing our you-know-whats off.
I read it’s darn cold in Europe as well.
I haven’t felt this cold in many a year! It’s just downright cold and there are no other words for it. I want this arctic blast to go back to the Arctic.
It’s really hard for me to think we have global warning when the weather is like this!
When it’s this cold I want to do is stay at home where it is reasonably warm. But then my little dog wants to go for a walk and so my parka that hasn’t been used in a long time comes out of the closet and away we go.
Martha
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