Attention Face Book Friends

[KG4CGC]

I'm dumping ya.
Yep. Little by little, I'm whittling down my FB account by eliminating about 2 to 6 friends a week and also little by little, pictures, notes and all else.
Over time, Google searches displaying my FB account will reflect these changes. If I dumped everything at once, the last snapshot of my FB acct would linger for a very long time.
It is unfortunate that I must do this as FB is very useful for staying in touch with some friends so maybe I will maintain a very small FB presence for them.
Anyway, that is my decision so if you've recently been dump please don't take it personally. If you haven't been dumped yet, rest assured, it's coming. Sorry.

Such is life.

[W3MIV]

Chicken.

[NA4BH]

Could be a niacin deficiency

[NQ6U]

Chicken.

Yeah. I just dumped my FB account all at once. Eff 'em. Of course, I only had like six friends...

[KG4CGC]

Chicken.
Yep.

[X-Rated]

All gud things gotta come to an end.

[X-Rated]

That one guy you had a run in with has dropped out of FB altogether. I sent you his biography and all. Anyway when we started on there, he was all like, "I can debate any Liberal and easily win. I have been on many boards and they all get cooked." But he found it difficult to argue against Obama's $300B tax cut and he finally dropped out when he was promoting Ford and I pointed out, using his reference, that Ford was amassing billions in welfare checks from us taxpayers.

[KG4CGC]

That one guy you had a run in with has dropped out of FB altogether. I sent you his biography and all. Anyway when we started on there, he was all like, "I can debate any Liberal and easily win. I have been on many boards and they all get cooked." But he found it difficult to argue against Obama's $300B tax cut and he finally dropped out when he was promoting Ford and I pointed out, using his reference, that Ford was amassing billions in welfare checks from us taxpayers.
Quite full of himself, wasn't he. He knew everything about me without even looking anything up on FB and I keep my FB 100% open to everyone. Because if ya got nothing to hide ....

[X-Rated]

Quite full of himself, wasn't he. He knew everything about me without even looking anything up on FB and I keep my FB 100% open to everyone. Because if ya got nothing to hide ....

Yeah. He got a lot a nerve.

[KG4CGC]

Yeah. He got a lot a nerve.
lulzy

[w2amr]

I'm dumping ya.
Yep. Little by little, I'm whittling down my FB account by eliminating about 2 to 6 friends a week and also little by little, pictures, notes and all else.
Over time, Google searches displaying my FB account will reflect these changes. If I dumped everything at once, the last snapshot of my FB acct would linger for a very long time.
It is unfortunate that I must do this as FB is very useful for staying in touch with some friends so maybe I will maintain a very small FB presence for them.
Anyway, that is my decision so if you've recently been dump please don't take it personally. If you haven't been dumped yet, rest assured, it's coming. Sorry.

Such is life.
I'm crushed :cry:

[W5RB]

I've tried to limit my friend list , while getting up to speed on FB . I'm thinking of sprouting a branch identity for the ham world . I've already done such for the local VE team , seems to work well enuff .I can see how a friend list could get out of control in a hurry , yet FB has been way useful to me so far .

[X-Rated]

I have a four hundred friends on there. It seems pretty manageable. So many of them hardly ever post. I am starting to keep up with dozens of people I grew up along side. Relatives keep in touch now where they didn't before. It's pretty informative to me.

[W3MIV]

I've tried to limit my friend list , while getting up to speed on FB . I'm thinking of sprouting a branch identity for the ham world . I've already done such for the local VE team , seems to work well enuff .I can see how a friend list could get out of control in a hurry , yet FB has been way useful to me so far .

I find it is very easy to limit the list. If you don't know the person, you don't add them. Seems simple enough to me.

Since FB makes its money selling ads, the emphasis is on having you add anyone and everyone to your pages so that the view totals climb. Understandable. They, therefore, push people you "might know" at you with the regularity of Manhattan cabs on Broadway. "Just say no" works. If I don't really know the person being pushed forward, I don't respond or flat-out reject the request.

I know a few FBers who are fascinated by huge numbers of "friends." One of these people now has a list of more than 1,000 "friends." The idea is ludicrous. Well, it is ludicrous to anyone save, perhaps, the moguls at FB who are selling the ads.

Interestingly enough, FB has brought forth a contact with someone I worked with back in the old MI days in Germany -- now some forty-five years ago. It is fascinating to share memories and images of those times, and it would never have happened were it not for FB. As with everything else on the internet, FB is a double-edged sword that must be handled with care.

[WV6Z]

Not surprised at all to see that I was in the first wave of trash to be dispatched by Charles. I do understand his actions regarding Facebook though. I am actually on my second account after being threatened because of my distrust of all government beyond the local level by some nutjob in NC. And of course there is always the other side of the coin too..... if you don't like someone, ditch em. I suppose to some that find social networking of ultimate importance, it's like getting in that last little dig as one waves good bye.

[N2CHX]

Well, I still have an account and anyone who wants to be friends, look me up. It'll be sad to see Charles go because he posts good stuff and I do consider him a real friend.

[WV6Z]

Charles is a great thinker and by far, comes up with some of the most awesome stuff I have ever seen, heard and etc.

He will be missed. Actually he already has been missed for quite some time now. But hey, people move on to other stuff and as long as Charles continues to be happy, that's all that really matters.

Farewell Charles and best of luck!

[PA5COR]

I can't be dumped.
No twitter, twatter, facecrook or any of that invasive stuff.
Mail account, done with it.

;)

[W3MIV]

Farewell Charles and best of luck!

Zooks! That sounds a bit too funereal. Just because FB now becomes just another dry county does not mean we shall lose his zaniness here.

[N7RJD]

Anyway when we started on there, he was all like, "I can debate any Liberal and easily win.

Folks like that give you the ammunition to fight them with by saying
things like that in one breath and saying you can't win a debate with
a liberal because they are too stupid or misguided to understand
in another breath.

It's folks like this that are pictured in the dictionary next to the word
ignorant.

[WV6Z]

Now that is true. <@ Albi>

One of my Google search concerns is quite the same as Charles has said, but, I do find it interesting that my foot prints here, verses everywhere else on the interwebz apparently, do not seem to show up on any searches.

Charles may be on to something and when I have time, I think I will start with my old Free Webs pages and start deleting the heck out of stuff. I do seem to have fared quite well this go around on Facebook though, as reviewing page after page after page of Google Searches nets absolutely nothing with any ties what so ever to my having a Facebook presence...... quite like this forum seems safe actually. Could it be because I do not participate in any of their games or apps?

[W3MIV]

Could it be because I do not participate in any of their games or apps?

You may be on to something, Tommy. I am fastidious about avoiding those traps that ask your permission to use your data elsewhere. Their purpose, no doubt, is purely commercial (and purely bothersome by way of future bombardment with offers of everything from vacations in Near-Nirvana to colon-cleansing aids), but I also suspect that the care with which such information will be maintained is less than reassuring. Again, "just say no" works for me.

I believe that Charles's gradual withdrawal -- sort of like the Red Witch fizzing and fazzing as she disappears from the Oz scene -- is meritorious as a tactic, but troublesome to the impatient. When I feel the time has come, unlike the elephant trudging inchmeal and painfully in some lento march to the end, I shall play the thing allegro and shut it all down of a sudden. Zu Ende!

But not yet. There is fun left I think.

[WV6Z]

Yeah, that's what I am thinking too. I did cease attempts to get my mother, sister and aunt involved in Facebooking though. Maybe that's a good thing. One must be careful to avoid that which lurks in the right hand column there.

[W3MIV]

Yeah, that's what I am thinking too. I did cease attempts to get my mother, sister and aunt involved in Facebooking though. Maybe that's a good thing. One must be careful to avoid that which lurks in the right hand column there.

Precisely. Crass commercialism is even more so on the internet. And, unlike the odd Electrolux booster, you can't merely slam the door in his f. once you have clicked the fatal link!

[WØTKX]

I just don't do much with FB. Some of my family does, but this place is my favorite social networking site. :yes:

[WV6Z]

Just for sh!ts and grins and for a bit of fun, I have just sent friend requests to about 60 Tom or Thomas Bailey named folk....... got acceptance notifications back for 2 already. ;)

[WV6Z]

Oh, I meant to say that I just axed my personal web page as well as The Upstate SC Amateur Radio Forum...... one got very few hits and the other died due to Facebook's popularity. The group on Facebook remains though...... http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=136723021336

[suddenseer]

I'm dumping ya.Such is life.Aw shoot. I finally gave in to my family and created an account. I was going to look you up. Everyone needs a bartender:wtf:

[KG4CGC]

No worries, Tom. You were not the first to be axed besides, you have my phone number.
As for search engines, after John started his "radium glow sheets" thread, I looked up the exact phrase and his thread was already at the top of the list, number 1.
As for myself, I'm too active on FB and after some background searches on myself, I have come to the possible conclusion that FB is standing between me and even the most meager of employment opportunities.
The other idea is to start another account and paint myself as perfect fodder. That's kind of a crappy thing to have to do though. I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that most BG checks now consist of DMV look ups and Face Book or whatever AND Face Book. My views and being open about them is not popular in this area. For chrissake, I make the Baby Jesus cry regularly.

Then you have relatives who want to be friends. That's awkward. Especially since most of my friends are internet contacts I know through a local message board (now defunct thank you FB) and most of us just like to cut up and be silly. Also consider that said relatives are staunch, hardcore conservatives who think Sarah Palin is sincere and you have a recipe for disaster. Last week I dumped an aunt and a cousin. I know, I'm cold.

[W3MIV]

Internet look-ups for BIs have been going on for a very long time; it has been a regular practice for some years. About five years ago, I was tapped by a not-for-profit to sit on a board. When I learned what they had found out about me via the internet I was shaken by the realization that nothing ever goes away. It is merely added to a sort of Fibber McGee's Closet where it awaits discovery by the persistent and clever. Persistent and clever, of course, are easily bought-and-paid-for services in the personnel market nowadays.

I declined the appointment, BTW.

[n2ize]

That one guy you had a run in with has dropped out of FB altogether. I sent you his biography and all. Anyway when we started on there, he was all like, "I can debate any Liberal and easily win. I have been on many boards and they all get cooked." But he found it difficult to argue against Obama's $300B tax cut and he finally dropped out when he was promoting Ford and I pointed out, using his reference, that Ford was amassing billions in welfare checks from us taxpayers.

I encountered a tea-bagger on Facebook who was arguing with me about the accuracy of drug testing and why it should be required for anyone on unemployment, welfare, food stamps, etc. He was arguing vehemently until I dropped some arguments about conditional probabilities and their relation to testing on him. The conversation ended there. I generally avoid politics on Facebook. I would have avoided Facebook altogether except I was invited by some old childhood acquaintances.

[n2ize]

No worries, Tom. You were not the first to be axed besides, you have my phone number.
As for search engines, after John started his "radium glow sheets" thread, I looked up the exact phrase and his thread was already at the top of the list, number 1.
As for myself, I'm too active on FB and after some background searches on myself, I have come to the possible conclusion that FB is standing between me and even the most meager of employment opportunities.
The other idea is to start another account and paint myself as perfect fodder. That's kind of a crappy thing to have to do though. I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that most BG checks now consist of DMV look ups and Face Book or whatever AND Face Book. My views and being open about them is not popular in this area. For chrissake, I make the Baby Jesus cry regularly.

Be particularly wary of what interests you post on FB and who you keep as friends. Case and point, there is one guy who is a definate paranoid schizo and at least 2 people I know have him as friends. Not a good person to have as a friend, at least in the eyes of employers. I try and keep a very generic set of interests and background. Mostly academic related interests and a few basic hobbies.

FB and the Internet can also be used too create the kind of image about yourself that employers and other persons of importance like to see. You can use it as a tool to enhance your popularity among risk takers or destroy your popularity. The choice is yours.

Then you have relatives who want to be friends. That's awkward. Especially since most of my friends are internet contacts I know through a local message board (now defunct thank you FB) and most of us just like to cut up and be silly. Also consider that said relatives are staunch, hardcore conservatives who think Sarah Palin is sincere and you have a recipe for disaster. Last week I dumped an aunt and a cousin. I know, I'm cold.[/QUOTE]

[X-Rated]

I encountered a tea-bagger on Facebook who was arguing with me about the accuracy of drug testing and why it should be required for anyone on unemployment, welfare, food stamps, etc. He was arguing vehemently until I dropped some arguments about conditional probabilities and their relation to testing on him. The conversation ended there. I generally avoid politics on Facebook. I would have avoided Facebook altogether except I was invited by some old childhood acquaintances.

I think that guy deserted FB from a thread he started and I ended.

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

FB is not bad, but not good.
What has stood between employment in the past, I got fired over this, was Amateur Radio.
We had a ham who would steal everything in sight.
He was stealing barricades and repainting them and selling them to the sheriffs office!
He stole the base station from the high school that was nearby.
Anyhow, he took the names of local hams who he knew were out and about, myself included, and tried to implicate them.
At one point the spray paint started to wear off the stolen barricades and an employee was the company name as he was driving by.
At that point the jig was up, and law enforcement was all over him.
I was formally cleared by law enforcement, but before that happened I was fired.
The company that does barricades wants nothing to do with me, the owner says that "where theres smoke theres fire".
Anyhow, yes, companies look at all of the negative first, no matter what the conditions are.
Once the economy picks up I will jump ship here, but not before I create a list of what to expect and where not to go.

[KØWVM]

There are certain people that I maintained daily contact with and sent a friend request to them. Don't acknowledge me at all and they most certainly remember who I am. At first I thought maybe they don't check their accounts often so I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Then I saw they do in fact keep up with things and ignored my request. I then did a blanket posting with what's on my mind last summer and told them (without naming off names that they do remember me). I then added if they don't want to accept my friend request, that's fine and just tell me in a PM. But not saying anything either is just as rude. There are some who I may drop as well but it will be very selective.

[W3WN]

Hello.

FB is not bad, but not good.
What has stood between employment in the past, I got fired over this, was Amateur Radio.
We had a ham who would steal everything in sight.
He was stealing barricades and repainting them and selling them to the sheriffs office!
He stole the base station from the high school that was nearby.
Anyhow, he took the names of local hams who he knew were out and about, myself included, and tried to implicate them.
At one point the spray paint started to wear off the stolen barricades and an employee was the company name as he was driving by.
At that point the jig was up, and law enforcement was all over him.
I was formally cleared by law enforcement, but before that happened I was fired.
The company that does barricades wants nothing to do with me, the owner says that "where theres smoke theres fire".
Anyhow, yes, companies look at all of the negative first, no matter what the conditions are.
Once the economy picks up I will jump ship here, but not before I create a list of what to expect and where not to go.
Rudy... presuming arguendo that there's a smidgen of truth in this and related stories...

If this sort of stuff keeps happening to you, have you considered that maybe it's you, not everyone else?

[ab1ga]

OK, I seem to have missed something here. I have a FaceBook account, which I opened for some single purpose, now overtaken by events. I added a couple of friends I already knew personally when prompted, but haven't even looked at the page since.

What happened over at FB?

73,

[KJ3N]

Rudy... presuming arguendo that there's a smidgen of truth in this and related stories...

If this sort of stuff keeps happening to you, have you considered that maybe it's you, not everyone else?

Ya think?!?!? :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[KG4CGC]

What happened over at FB?
It's everywhere.

[X-Rated]

I am so popular amongst the hams on Facebook that I amassed a quite a few. Then they apparently forgot to click on the "Maintain this FB friend" button every few weeks and we became unfriended. Sh*t happens.

[KA5PIU]

Rudy... presuming arguendo that there's a smidgen of truth in this and related stories...

If this sort of stuff keeps happening to you, have you considered that maybe it's you, not everyone else?

Hello.

Yes, there is quite a bit of truth to this.
When I had worked part time at Industrial Radio the boss flat out said that I was "hanging out with an odd bunch".
He was referring to the local hams.
The only ham club I had trouble with? has issues with local law enforcement.
So, yes, I have since reevaluated my life.
Do I want to associate myself with someone who has a criminal history, into dope, in a dead end job, the only thing in common is radio, but the guy does not even have a station?
Do I want to associate myself with a Neocon who lives at the local shelter?
In fact, safe to say, I should avoid half of the people who work in construction.
The only normal ones it would seen are the Mexicans and homos (Lesbians).
In fact, the ideal is to have it appear that I "Go out" with a lesbian equipment operator, and make the show real good.
That would confuse the rednecks all the way around.
And, I know dozens of Mexican drug cartel members, all of who think that taking drugs is the stupid deluxe.

[w2amr]

Hello.

In fact, the ideal is to have it appear that I "Go out" with a lesbian equipment operator, and make the show real good.

.

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk134/thingofme22/shocked.gif

[N7YA]

I have hundreds of friends on FB...many of which i actually know.

Not one ham.

[W3MIV]

Small is good. Few is better. Limits are to be blessed, not erased. There is something faintly threatening, indescribably malevolent about the way FB works. There is something sub rosa, something clandestine beneath the veneer of bonhomie, a shadow of phony bienveillance that is plainly worrisome. I have yet, however, to follow Charles's example of chucking the entire operation overside. For the present, I find it amusing and actually informative given the share-links for which I have opted.

I am mildly confused by the way FB "forces" people on you. Just because someone else knows John Q Dogbody does not in any way validate the idea the he, she or heshe is anyone I should clasp to my breast and cherish. I know a couple of people who now have lists of "friends" that exceed 1,000. To my way of thinking that is ludicrous. I also confess there are a few folks who pop up now and again whom I actively avoid.

[N7YA]

It depends on what you use it for and the filter settings you choose. Its just a simple networking site, easy stuff. I personally review all who make a request, if its porn or spam (not hard to tell), then its a no go. I am in entertainment, so its a great tool for me.


I never join groups, never download apps or games and basically only chat with folks i know and never had a problem aside from FB screwing up statuses and preferences on occasion. My wife uses it to talk to old friends, but she cuts down the list often. But ill admit, its probably time to go through the friends list and trim it down...dead links, spam that snuck through and that sort of thing.

[W3MIV]

I never join groups, never download apps or games and basically only chat with folks i know and never had a problem aside from FB screwing up statuses and preferences on occasion. My wife uses it to talk to old friends, but she cuts down the list often. But ill admit, its probably time to go through the friends list and trim it down...dead links, spam that snuck through and that sort of thing.

I agree about not downloading apps or games, though I find some of the "group" sites are a good way of staying informed on certain topics or issues. I have never ventured to the chat mode, though I see a number of folks who do so. Guess I'm still stuck in a cyber-swamp with the frogs and turkles on the logs.

[N7YA]

I think the removal of apps from that site is vital to a clean running computer, first above all! My mom is a FB addict, she also loves...i mean LOVES the games, but she has also had major puter issues ever since she got into it. I havent joined any groups because nothing has piqued my interest enough to venture further.

Either way, im waiting for it to become virus laden and uncontrollable like Myspace did. When that happens, ill just jump over to the next networking site to pop up. That is likely something we can count on.

[KG4CGC]

When that happens, ill just jump over to the next networking site to pop up. That is likely something we can count on.
You know, people have been trying to come up with the next FaceBook but there is nothing out there capturing the masses. FaceBook had the personal endorsement of Leo Laporte in 2005 on TechTV.
Friendster
MySpace
FaceBook
???

[NQ6U]

You know, people have been trying to come up with the next FaceBook but there is nothing out there capturing the masses. FaceBook had the personal endorsement of Leo Laporte in 2005 on TechTV.
Friendster
MySpace
FaceBook
???

AssBook.

Actually, I once had an idea for a Web site for ugly people: PaperBagOverYourFaceBook.com.

[KG4CGC]

To be blunt, there's already something like fuckbook out there.

[X-Rated]

AssBook.

Actually, I once had an idea for a Web site for ugly people: PaperBagOverYourFaceBook.com.

We liked the flag rather than the paper bag.

[KG4CGC]

SNL used to spoof a commercial, or was it MadTV?
The name of the dating service was called, "Lowered Expectations."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcj9WbHLjk

[n2ize]

SNL used to spoof a commercial, or was it MadTV?
The name of the dating service was called, "Lowered Expectations."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcj9WbHLjk

I never saw this before. What a strange person. That is a weird character.