On 8/11/2017 11:29 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:37:16 -0700 (PDT), John H
wrote:

On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 6:38:51 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
I've had a Facebook page since 2009 that I use occasionally to touch
base with family and friends. Recently however, I started getting
notifications on my cell phone about things and people I have never had
contact with. I don't even have the Facebook App on my cell phone.

I checked all my settings on Facebook and all the notifications are
turned off. I have tried to keep access to friends and family only.

Then I discovered that somehow I also have an "Advertising Account". It
has my email address but it's something I never signed up for or even
knew about. If you use it, it charges $$ to a credit card or something.

Anyway, that was enough. Found the appropriate page and deleted my
Facebook account completely. It's getting too wacky and too
"collective" in terms of information on you.

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Haven't noticed anything like that.

The only strange thing I have seen was when I bought something on Ebay
and the next day an ad from a relative for that exact item showed up
in Mr Ed's timeline. He didn't have a clue and I am pretty sure Ed was
not shopping on Ebay. They had to have sniffed a cookie on my machine
when Ed was on Facebook.


Heh. I used to have a separate Facebook page for Sam Adams. I finally
deactivated it. That's the other thing about Facebook. If you
deactivate your account and page, it's still there but can't be seen by
anyone. All it takes to re-activate it is to log in.

I don't think Mr. Ed had any worries. The hackers and scam artists
probably don't even know what DOS or Windows 98 is. :-)