[[Protesters Hijack Hundreds of Facebook Groups, Pointing Out Weakness In Social Networks

Hundreds of Facebook groups have been hijacked in recent days by users pointing out what they say is a weakness in how the social-networking site handles the administration of its groups. By Tuesday morning, 286 groups had apparently been renamed Control Your Info and had a new message posted to their walls.]]

more here-
http://cyberinsecure.com/protesters-...cial-networks/

10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know

[I figured that many people would benefit from a thorough overview on how to protect your privacy on Facebook. Below is a step by step process for protecting your privacy.]

http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/


more-
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...f5ed7994d722e7

another problem -

http://cyberinsecure.com/botnets-new...acebook-users/

a snippet of the info -
[Koobface accomplishes these malicious activities by automating Internet Explorer to perform the task of creating and registering an account. However, it does not proceed and will terminate the process if the affected user is using Internet Explorer 6. Moreover, it employs a check if it has already reached the maximum friend requests set by Facebook or not. Hence, it keeps itself under the radar and does not cause any alarm to Facebook administrators.

The messages posted through Facebook’s wall contain a link that leads to the usual fake Facebook or YouTube page hosting the Koobface loader component.

Facebook users are advised to be careful and security conscious. For more tips on using Facebook, users may opt to visit Facebook’s safety and security pages: http://www.facebook.com/safety and http://www.facebook.com/security.]

Oh, man! Thanks for the tips. I think Facebook is just too complex for ME. But I do play the games sometimes.

We have the maximum privacy settings on our acct there. I don't trust it at all. No pics, no personal stuff, NADA...just so I can converse with friends there now and then. This "need" to have so many friends...this escapes me.

I am with you on this crazy activity of collecting friends, causes, etc... the amazing paradox of collecting "friends" on your computer. Yet this site offers such great support and friendships, intimate yet also impersonal. Technology is amazing these days, and will likely evolve beyond our imagined potentials in our lifetimes. Glad for it and sad for the "need" to have virtual friends. Best wishes to you Mrs D from Tinglyltoes.

You know, one of the reasons we moved way out here to North Dakota from my lifetime home in the PNW was because my physical problems made it just too hard to keep up with the "busy life" out there. However, it is really, really quiet out here, and people here don't really like us, because we didn't convert and follow the rural social expectations (I couldn't). They have a habit, here, of isolating people who have physical problems. Anyway, facebook has allowed me to get back in touch with and stay in a genuine kind of daily contact with people who were very important throughout my life. The joy is, we get to share our lives with each other, but I don't have to "go out" to do it. I can be "normal" in that setting. On top of that, I added a load of people I don't know because I played the games for a while. That has been really enriching. They are from every corner of the world, and I screened them based on the info they presented, and their communication with their friends/family that I observe backs up what their info represents about them. This whole facebook experience has been a joy for me, and allowed me to live a very normal life in a very limited situation :-).

As far as privacy goes: There isn't any. I grew up with a lot of people who are now at the top of the tech food chain, and they have explained it to me carefully enough that I get it. I am unreasonably careful with my financial info, but as far as every other bit of personal statistical info, it's all out there, whether or not I want it to be. Cordless phones are also a big security issue, but, oh well. I see my interaction on facebook as a kind of "going out in public (with friends)", and I act accordingly. I don't hide my face, and I converse openly, but my "out in public" boundaries are in place.

Just another POV about facebook. :-)

Linn

Hi Lin, I am sorry that your local community chooses to shun you due to their lack of experience in how to be with those who suffer chronic debilitating conditions. I too experience this, even from communities associated with spiritual practices related to yoga.

I am enjoying the connection with others on this forum, who know without resisting the reality, and are able to offer compassionate witnessing, actively seen as normal for each individual within our unique process.

Facebook doesn't do much for me since it usually presents mostly the idealized picture others wish was true about themselves. Rather one dimensional. Whereas in this forum the depth and caring are genuine and profound. The more I open to share the more I receive in return.

Not many places where this happens in my life, since isolation is the main result of chronic, debilitating, long term conditions. Cultural expectations that everyone is entitled to good health and what I refer to as "Health Bigotry" to believe there must be something "wrong" with a person if this does not hold true.

Whether I like it or not this seems to be the prevailing pattern. The only folks who taught me differently were the staff at the stroke rehab place and a school setting with a program for post rehab recovery into every day activities and socialization. Three years there allowed me to transition to take community college courses. Now I take one art class every semester. All I can handle. Credit/no credit and just do what I can and let the instructor know my status from the beginning.

This has allowed me the inclusion into life just enough to have something to relate to others with. I have fun when I can do the work, and most of the time struggle. But it gives me a sense of self esteem being creative, mostly empowering unless I push too much and get symptomatic again.

And here is one more place I can add to my recourse bag to feel like a fully engaged human being. Good news! Thanks for writing TT