NO FACEBOOK HERE!

Indeed and its sick how many DO NOT CARE!!!!!

Thank you Skip!!

 

There are also scam artists who use fake accounts... or scam photos and info from real accounts to try to trick you into "friending" them.... when you friend someone on facebook, not only do they get your personal info, they also get your entire list of friends to seek other people to scam.... these have always been males, they have always been people who are living or working in foreign countries, were either single or widowed at very young ages (men in their 40s and 50s) AND only wanted to contact me through facebook messenger... I told them to emai me to speak to me... that's MY firewall. If someone doesn't want to get to know me through email or longer than tweetish messages, they don't want to get to know me. FB messenger might as well be twitter. It doesn't support thoughtful longtime messenging. ONly way to use messenger is by staying live on facebook. Not in your spare time, and not with any kind of length, time investment or thought. Also, I was asked to leave FB to go to some other platform that required that I change my email of choice to gmail(my main email would be accessible, but secondary) and it was a video mail service I would have to pay for and had some kind of disturbing "remote access" feature that didn't sound kosher at all. Whenever I asked these "ghosts" to email me, NONE of them did. So these supposed people weren't sincere about getting to know me at all. It was about accessing my and others' information. I am not paranoid. I have an account. But I don't friend people at the drop of a hat. And I certainly don't answer their queries about "how can we tailor our ads to fit ads that you'd like to see more." I just check, I don't want to see that ad. Of course, I know ads pay for facebook or we'd have to pay a fee. But I'm not going to give them enough information to sell me more stuff! hahahahahaha. We just need to be careful..

 

Are we still Facebook free? I see this little button at the bottom of the page.

 

Facebook, Messanger, Instagram and What'sapp are all owned by meta and have many of the same policies, messenger is the worst of the lot from what I've heard though.

 

I didn’t realize they owned WhatsApp.

 

Facebook is aweful!!!!!!!

 

VPN's, I think is the way forward .

 

You are not wrong on that my friend

 

Try logging out of Facebook, then come here. I think only ppl logged in to FB see that button. I sure don't, and I don't have account there.

If you do, then perhaps it's them following you cause you're logged in. It's for FB people so they can share the link if they want. I thought the link was gone, but now maybe it's back or never went?

 

I only see it on my laptop, not on my phone. And it was there when I didn't have Facebook too. I have it for the moment because I just moved to a rural area and all their community pages seem to be on Facebook

 

I just double checked and my laptop isn't even logged in to FB right now.

 

You're right, its only on desktop version, which I rarely use.

Now I remember. It's only an optional link to FB, which requires login there if not already logged in. No data is sent unless you visit there. It's just the URL with logo as I recall.

Ok, I see it doesn't seem to work, so it'll be gone soon.

 

Thank you skip, your a star, as is the rest of the team.

Joe.

 

Thanks Skip!! ;-)

 

Excellent

 

When one looks at China and how the WWW is a tool of oppression it makes it easy to see that this thread is not paranoia. Yes, things can change for us politically.
Thank you for this thread.

 

Just dont..........

Mzzls

 

Thank you

 

There’s something I find really cool about this post.

Let me first say that my wife and I chose not risk our marriage by signing up for Facebook. We had heard the stories of couples contacting lovers from the past who ended up ruining their futures.it happened to a close couple friends of ours.
If I remember right there was another social media site before Facebook that lasted a very short time. Being more skeptical then your average guy I quickly understood how it was the biggest marketing scheme ever invented to monitor everything you do online.
No thanks.
The really cool thing is how many likeminded people belong to this forum.