So I just undeleted my Facebook account (Meiss panics, water still wet)

Melding

I pretend to be a dinosaur, family members who read it seem to have gotten into this thing with me.

My sister now claims to be a unicorn.

pillow

my boss is on facebook

I said "ACK" and that's it. Not like she'll every be on my friends list. Problem....solved.

beavotron

pillow wrote: »

sometimes I update my status with things along the lines of "i just scratched my butt crack and it felt amazing" and then I remember my grandmother is on my facebook. (she is the only older family allowed)

and then she'll leave something like "oh, why do you have to be so stupid"

my grandparent's bdays are today and tomorrow (so romantic i know) they are 72
so we're over at their house and this conversation happens:

Me: nanny, what are you and grampy gonna do for your birthday? play skip-bo?

Nanny: Have unprotected sex.


oh my family!

Blake T

Meiss I am so fucking disappointed in you.

I mean sure delete your facebook account for personal reasons. Big stand there!

But then undelete it 20 minutes you.

Veretas

I'll be honest. This did make me go through and do some spring cleaning on stuff I don't really want people to find on me.

GreasyKidsStuff

beavotron wrote: »

MH79 wrote: »

Facebook is essentially my replacement for e-mail and any kind of IM between friends. And it keeps me in touch with any that may have moved away. I don't use any of the goofy ass applications, and I tend to block anything that I don't want. I got my privacy settings worked out for the most part so people I don't want to see stuff won't see it.

The whole privacy thing does kinda worry me a bit but really now, what could they actually do with some of it? Oh they know I like a certain thing, SHIT DAWG BETTER HIDE

I dunno. I'm not too elitist about this whole social networking thing.

i think the big thing people hate is the catered advertising
and people are all butt hurt over the fear of having their email addresses sold to mass marketing companies
which is why my facebook email address is one that i have made purely for junk mail

i don't even check it, it just exists.
anything i sign up for, i sign up using that, it's glorious.

I don't get anything ad-related from Facebook in my e-mail at all so....

Orikaeshigitae

also, wam, i said this on facebook but huge congrats

mega high fives in your own right

Meissnerd

#pipe wrote: »

Meissnerd I love how you backflipped within like ten minutes.

Viscount Islands

pillow wrote: »

my boss is on facebook

I said "ACK" and that's it. Not like she'll every be on my friends list. Problem....solved.

I hope you have your privacy settings so you have to be friends to view pictures.

World as Myth

Blaket wrote: »

But then undelete it 20 minutes you.

blake sometimes I think maybe you're the chinese one

what does this even mean

Kusuguttai

World as Myth wrote: »

Kusuguttai wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

Kusuguttai wrote: »

son i am disappoint

100%

hi kate how are you
who won that indie game package thing
was it me

no it was somebody else (valikriss from the guild)

i don't know who that is.

Octopus Melody

I never got around to putting any pictures up on my facebook but someone I played World of Warcraft with years ago put a screenshot up and tagged my character so it's the only picture that comes up under my name. That's pretty bad.

World as Myth

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

also, wam, i said this on facebook but huge congrats

mega high fives in your own right

thanks, let's swap high fives for an hour

#pipe

WaM I am probably gonna make a video response this weekend

watch out

Viscount Islands

Meissnerd wrote: »

#pipe wrote: »

Meissnerd I love how you backflipped within like ten minutes.

Wait I thought you were kidding.

Wow.

pillow

Viscount Islands wrote: »

pillow wrote: »

my boss is on facebook

I said "ACK" and that's it. Not like she'll every be on my friends list. Problem....solved.

I hope you have your privacy settings so you have to be friends to view pictures.

Well yes I'm not special

even so it's not like I got one of them real jobs; my boss knows full well that I do lots of stupid things in my spare time.

beavotron

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

beavotron wrote: »

what i don't understand is why people are so fucking paranoid

it's as easy as not putting information you don't want the general public to know about you on the internet

if facebook asks you what your favorite movie is, and you tell them it's star wars, what on earth do you think are the implications of that?
oh no! a potential employer is going to find it and realize you're a nerd! oh no!

now if facebook asks you for your credit card info or your sin number to add farmville to your account, clearly an alarm should go off. and you should just maybe not do that....

i just really don't get any of this
it seems so simple to me. I've added all of my clients to facebook, that's sometimes the easiest way to get a hold of me. I don't put anything personal that I don't want to share on there because why on earth would anyone do that ever?

"oh but my boss might see pics of me drinking"
if you are over the age of 21 in the USA it is legal to drink, they cannot fire you for that
"oh but my boss might see pics of me getting high"
why the fuck did you let people take pictures of you doing something illegal in the first place? okay so you did... that's dumb of you untag them
"but my boss might find out that last saturday instead of going to work i went to the renaissance fair and neckbearded out"
that's your own fault for being dishonest, and again... if you skipped off work, why would you post about it on the internet?

i just don't get it
i never will i don't think. people are hilariously paranoid, and paranoia is infectious it seems.

Beavo, if a teacher has pictures of themself drinking and the kids parents see it, they will complain about the teacher.

And if the teacher gets complaints, they will be the first on the firing squad when it comes to complaints.

During a tough economy when layoffs are gonna happen, being considered a liability at all by your boss is a bad thing.

do you not see what's wrong with this?
i'll tell you

it only applies to teachers
meiss is not a teacher
lots of people on here are not teachers

actually... i don't think ANYONE is a teacher

this is ONE INSTANCE where pictures of yourself drinking could be a problem
also, if you were a mormon and your...mormon leader were on your facebook.

and if in fact you ARE a teacher or a mormon, simply untag the pictures or ask your friends not to put them up in the first place

World as Myth

Kusuguttai wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

Kusuguttai wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

Kusuguttai wrote: »

son i am disappoint

100%

hi kate how are you
who won that indie game package thing
was it me

no it was somebody else (valikriss from the guild)

i don't know who that is.

uhhh he was another guy too, he was like main tank

maybe this was a guild that didn't suck

GSM

Looking back, deciding to never join a social networking site was mostly a pretty good idea.

Except for when a friend decided to impersonate me.

Luckily, he was unconvincing.

Blake T

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

beavotron wrote: »

what i don't understand is why people are so fucking paranoid

it's as easy as not putting information you don't want the general public to know about you on the internet

if facebook asks you what your favorite movie is, and you tell them it's star wars, what on earth do you think are the implications of that?
oh no! a potential employer is going to find it and realize you're a nerd! oh no!

now if facebook asks you for your credit card info or your sin number to add farmville to your account, clearly an alarm should go off. and you should just maybe not do that....

i just really don't get any of this
it seems so simple to me. I've added all of my clients to facebook, that's sometimes the easiest way to get a hold of me. I don't put anything personal that I don't want to share on there because why on earth would anyone do that ever?

"oh but my boss might see pics of me drinking"
if you are over the age of 21 in the USA it is legal to drink, they cannot fire you for that
"oh but my boss might see pics of me getting high"
why the fuck did you let people take pictures of you doing something illegal in the first place? okay so you did... that's dumb of you untag them
"but my boss might find out that last saturday instead of going to work i went to the renaissance fair and neckbearded out"
that's your own fault for being dishonest, and again... if you skipped off work, why would you post about it on the internet?

i just don't get it
i never will i don't think. people are hilariously paranoid, and paranoia is infectious it seems.

Beavo, if a teacher has pictures of themself drinking and the kids parents see it, they will complain about the teacher.

And if the teacher gets complaints, they will be the first on the firing squad when it comes to complaints.

During a tough economy when layoffs are gonna happen, being considered a liability at all by your boss is a bad thing.

This is fixed by not being friends with your students.

I have a no work-mates policy for this reason.

Orikaeshigitae

World as Myth wrote: »

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

also, wam, i said this on facebook but huge congrats

mega high fives in your own right

thanks, let's swap high fives for an hour

alright, i'm limbering up

Kuribo's Shoe

fortytwo is a teacher, just off the top of my head

World as Myth

#pipe wrote: »

WaM I am probably gonna make a video response this weekend

watch out

oh em eff you better, you son of a bitch, not coming to pax

FirmSkater

For some reason facebook keeps suggesting a Prof. from my university.

And its not just a random Professor its one that I actually had before. We have no friends in common or anything.

Her picture is her holding a big ass glass of beer.

Kusuguttai

World as Myth wrote: »

Kusuguttai wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

Kusuguttai wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

Kusuguttai wrote: »

son i am disappoint

100%

hi kate how are you
who won that indie game package thing
was it me

no it was somebody else (valikriss from the guild)

i don't know who that is.

uhhh he was another guy too, he was like main tank

maybe this was a guild that didn't suck

oh from shambler milk
i know that guy

Kusuguttai

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

fortytwo is a teacher, just off the top of my head

forty two is a number shoe
you're silly

unintentional

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

fortytwo is a teacher, just off the top of my head

I think Houk and Lost Salient both teach English as an additional language in Asia?

World as Myth

I'm a teacher

and I'm gonna take you all to school

(this is where I fight you)

Kuribo's Shoe

the forumer fortytwo

god don't you know anything why is everyone dumb but me

Koshian

I got all of college ahead of me plus I'm not really going into an industry known for its INTENSE PROFESSIONALISM, so facebook isn't too worrying to me

i twitter more often than facebook anyway

2 Marcus 2 Ravens

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I really just don't care about the whole facebook privacy thing. I'm not too worried about any of my information being...whatever is supposed to happen to it.

Maybe I'm just too lazy to care. Is that a thing?

Veretas

World as Myth wrote: »

I'm a teacher

and I'm gonna take you all to school

(this is where I fight you)

*whack*

beavotron

wam, you play in shambler milk?
i play in shambler milk!

pillow

unintentional wrote: »

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

fortytwo is a teacher, just off the top of my head

I think Houk and Lost Salient both teach English as an additional language in Asia?

well that will only be a problem if they are both really good english teachers

Kuribo's Shoe

IT'S GETTING TO BE A REAL PROBLEM

#pipe

World as Myth wrote: »

#pipe wrote: »

WaM I am probably gonna make a video response this weekend

watch out

oh em eff you better, you son of a bitch, not coming to pax

whelp

George Fornby Grill

First: requisite bookface pimping http://www.facebook.com/heyitscrawford
Second: This really seems like a lot of fear mongering about facebook privacy. People need to learn that whatever they're going to put on the internet, especially a social networking site, is pretty much public material.

Orikaeshigitae

if eyesock can be a teacher i don't see why anyone else would have a problem

Munkus Beaver

beavotron wrote: »

do you not see what's wrong with this?
i'll tell you

it only applies to teachers
meiss is not a teacher
lots of people on here are not teachers

actually... i don't think ANYONE is a teacher

this is ONE INSTANCE where pictures of yourself drinking could be a problem
also, if you were a mormon and your...mormon leader were on your facebook.

and if in fact you ARE a teacher or a mormon, simply untag the pictures or ask your friends not to put them up in the first place

Clearly you have never worked in a job that requires you to be a public face of a company or business.

Or a 'community leader' type role or public office.

Or anything involving kids ever.

And if someone is gonna fire you because of some reason related to seeing your drinking pictures, they can generally find another reason to fire you. Unless they are stupid. See also the terrible, horrible layoffs.

World as Myth

beavotron wrote: »

wam, you play in shambler milk?
i play in shambler milk!

I did play in shambler milk for a time, but I've been wow-clean for three months or so now

or I was, until today, when I started playing the cataclysm alpha awww yiss