Teenage stupidity and facebook...

pulliptears

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Yes but some people just do not care. I have experienced so many cases where people have posted in anger and sometimes innocence and caused family/friends rifts for example.
Someone I know had to come off there as they were told by their employer that everyone associated with a certain person would be investigated.

But this isn't the fault of the site is it, it's the fault of the individual who posts.



I have also heard of accounts being hacked into. I would rather avoid all this and maintain my privacy.

I have to say in all the years I have been on there I have never known any of my friends to have their accounts hacked. I've seen several friends leave their pages open and have funny statuses posted about them, but that has been their fault.

StrongWork

Esqui wrote: »

If you don't like Facebook, then post your account number and sort code here to show your solidarity

Hermia

pulliptears wrote: »

Just seen a status on one of my younger facebook friends profiles, it's basically one of these generic 'copy this to your status' things, but its asking how good a friend are you.

What is my middle name, date of birth, eye colour, pets name, favourite instrument,mothers name etc etc

I had to explain gently that the things her friends were posting to her very public profile were all a sure fire way to have her identity stolen, emails hacked etc etc

Got to love teens, zero sense of danger.

I work in a library and just cringe when I see what the teenagers post on the internet (e.g. full name, DOB, full contact details etc). But, when I try to point out that that isn't very wise they just think I'm an old fuddy duddy!

I have seen a surpising number of young girls (pre-16) putting very risque and even topless photos of themselves online (I do stop them if I catch them, but I am sure they just go off and do it elsewhere). I always try to explain that it could come back to haunt them when they are older, but they can't imagine that they will one day care what some boss is going to think. I also explain that they don't know who will look at it, but they think that only cute boys will be looking.

Malory

pulliptears wrote: »

I have to say in all the years I have been on there I have never known any of my friends to have their accounts hacked. I've seen several friends leave their pages open and have funny statuses posted about them, but that has been their fault.

Same here.

Not sure how letting people know my eye colour is going to put me in grave danger. - You can see my eyes on my profile picture.

KierNet

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Facebook is a dangerous thing thats why I stay away from it.

Not at all, it only knows what you put on, if I didn't want anyone to know that at 00:23 I farted and it smelt of eggs, I wouldn't put it on.

Sublime_2

I've only recently made mine private, and now use a little used email address, as kept getting poked/friends invites from people I don't know.

Facebook for me is ok, as long as I stick to the tried, and trusted few. Got my ugly mug up, but as now private, am fairly safe from those sort of things. Perhaps something for others to think about?

bosseyed

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Facebook is a dangerous thing thats why I stay away from it.

Paranoid! Its not dangerous.

Facebook is rubbish, thats why I stay away from it. Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with people you don't actually like or ever want to see

POPPYOSCAR

bosseyed wrote: »

Paranoid! Its not dangerous.

Facebook is rubbish, thats why I stay away from it. Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with people you don't actually like or ever want to see

No not paranoid. I am speaking from personal experience of family and friends who have had enormous rifts created by what has been posted on there and I know of several people who no longer go on there because of the trouble it has caused.

Unintentional

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

No not paranoid. I am speaking from personal experience of family and friends who have had enormous rifts created by what has been posted on there and I know of several people who no longer go on there because of the trouble it has caused.

So facebook caused an argument within your family, that's not dangerous, your familys decision what they post on there.

bosseyed

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

No not paranoid. I am speaking from personal experience of family and friends who have had enormous rifts created by what has been posted on there and I know of several people who no longer go on there because of the trouble it has caused.

Hardly Facebooks fault is it? Facebook is a tool, it doesn't tell you what to write on there, or what pictures to put up. If your family or friends wrote something unsavoury that caused big rifts, then thats their responsibility isn't it. You may as well blame Tim Berners-Lee for rending your family asunder by creating the internet.