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Thread ID: 112233	2010-08-28 22:41:00	Facebook - privacy query	Scouse (83)	PC World Chat

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1132589	2010-08-28 22:41:00	Hi Folks. I am not a Facebook subscriber. Yesterday I got what looks like an automated invitation to be a "friend" of a recent casual aquaintance. That I can cope with and just ignore. However, part of the incoming message had photographs and names of 7 people who, it was suggested, might also wish to be friends of mine. One was from China (unknown), one was a woman (unknown) and the 5 others were some of my adult grandchildren - none of whom has the same surname as myself and two of whom live in Australia. None of the grandchildren would be known to the first mentioned aquaintance. How does this work? How was the link between this man's message and my family members made? Advice appreciated before I go round and sort him out.	Scouse (83)
1132590	2010-08-28 22:43:00	Because they don't have a real privacy policy on Facebook, I refuse to be a member either due to privacy concerns. SWMBO just got one of them, she is finding it a real pain apparently it is a new feature	gary67 (56)
1132591	2010-08-28 23:03:00	You can go through and set everything to private. When someone who isn't my friend stumbles onto my page, all the see is that I'm a male and my profile picture. They don't have access to my wall, my photos or my information. You can also set it so that people cannot add YOU as a friend, you have to add them. (Not sure if you can do that anymore) Thirdly, you can set certain details so that they are visable to NO ONE. Only yourself. Facebooks privacy settings are set low by default, but after some fiddling around and exploring, you can get it set as you want. Anyway, photo below of how my profile "should" look to anyone who isn't my friend.	xyz823 (13649)
1132592	2010-08-28 23:40:00	As for your grandchildren, they may have added your name as relations somewhere, there for facebook would have suggested them as family members. either that or it found some random cross reference to you or it was coincidental, then agian the interwebs are never coincidental	The Error Guy (14052)
1132593	2010-08-28 23:44:00	Probably doesn't apply in your case as you know at least some of the people mentioned in the email asking to be friends with you. But there is the odd spam/scam email which makes out it is from facebook wanting to be your friend with links. Considering I am not even on facebook..........strange that people have somehow found my facebook page and want to be my friend and share there naked pictures with me...........Spamcop shows the links going back to China (usually) and the spambot being anything other than the real facebook.	PinoyKiw (9675)
1132594	2010-08-28 23:46:00	Hi Folks. I am not a Facebook subscriber. Yesterday I got what looks like an automated invitation to be a "friend" of a recent casual aquaintance. That I can cope with and just ignore. However, part of the incoming message had photographs and names of 7 people who, it was suggested, might also wish to be friends of mine. One was from China (unknown), one was a woman (unknown) and the 5 others were some of my adult grandchildren - none of whom has the same surname as myself and two of whom live in Australia. None of the grandchildren would be known to the first mentioned aquaintance. How does this work? How was the link between this man's message and my family members made? Advice appreciated before I go round and sort him out. Your grandchildren may have 'tagged' you in a photo that you were in that they uploaded to facebook. Facebook then knew the name of this unsubscribed person in the photo. When this aquaintance invited you (probably they handed their email password to facebook to let it invite everyone in his email address book) and when facebook saw in his list of contacts, your email address and name, it matched your name with photos tagged with the same name, on one of your grandchildren's facebook accounts. It found a photo one of your grandchildren had, and realised that you were the person in that photo, and that you had some connection. Facebook compiled a list of people you may know, based on who had the photo of you and who facebook knows is part of their family. Facebook made a booboo somewhere and threw in a random chinese dude. Thats just my guess.	jareemon (5207)
1132595	2010-08-28 23:59:00	Facebooks privacy settings are set low by default, but after some fiddling around and exploring, you can get it set as you want. Until they change their privacy system (again) and reset your settings to default (again) and let you know about it after (again), by which time all your "private" stuff (which they own, by the way) is open to the world, and has been archived by Google, to be made freely available to everyone forever...:annoyed:	fred_fish (15241)
1132596	2010-08-29 02:56:00	Until they change their privacy system (again) and reset your settings to default (again) and let you know about it after (again), by which time all your "private" stuff (which they own, by the way) is open to the world, and has been archived by Google, to be made freely available to everyone forever...:annoyed: Which is precisely the reason I also do not have a facebook account. Facebook should be called Stalkbook because thats what it gets used for. I had someone come up to me and say they same me on facebook then gave me a little bit of verbal. Turned out someone is using my name and a photo from god knows where. Tried to get the account closed but no thats impossible to do as well unless you got a facebook account. Even then who the heck do you contact to say hey thats me but not me:annoyed:	coldfront (15814)
1132597	2010-08-29 05:22:00	Are the suggested people (your grandchildren) on your email contact list? I also thought it just went through the persons email (the one they signed up with) list	--Wolf-- (128)
1132598	2010-08-29 05:38:00	Well they are probably on your list and following that, the randoms are recommendations based on them being friends of your grandkids.	Cato (6936)
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