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Done with Facebook
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 $$ to a credit card or something. Anyway, that was enough. Found the appropriate page and deleted my Facebook account completely. It's getting too wacky and too "collective" in terms of information on you. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
Done with Facebook
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:38:43 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: I've had a Facebook page since 2009 that I use occasionally to touch base with family and friends. Recently however, I started getting notifications on my cell phone about things and people I have never had contact with. I don't even have the Facebook App on my cell phone. I checked all my settings on Facebook and all the notifications are turned off. I have tried to keep access to friends and family only. Then I discovered that somehow I also have an "Advertising Account". It has my email address but it's something I never signed up for or even knew about. If you use it, it charges $$ 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. If you are not paying for the product, you are the product. I only have to see that tag line on your posts to see how you are paying for your free anti-virus by spamming your friends. I hope it is not going any deeper into your PC but be aware when you authorized AV software, it runs at the administrator level. As for Facebook, I don't fool with it but Mr Ed still has an account, that has been taken over by "Deuce" (Mr Ed II) Neither of them have any credit cards. |
Done with Facebook
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Done with Facebook
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Done with Facebook
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 21:06:31 -0400, wrote: As for Facebook, I don't fool with it but Mr Ed still has an account, that has been taken over by "Deuce" (Mr Ed II) Neither of them have any credit cards. === That you know about. :-) - show quoted text - .... LOL |
Done with Facebook
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 $$ to a credit card or something. Anyway, that was enough. Found the appropriate page and deleted my Facebook account completely. It's getting too wacky and too "collective" in terms of information on you. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com Haven't noticed anything like that. |
Done with Facebook
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:37:16 -0700 (PDT), John H
wrote: On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 6:38:51 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote: I've had a Facebook page since 2009 that I use occasionally to touch base with family and friends. Recently however, I started getting notifications on my cell phone about things and people I have never had contact with. I don't even have the Facebook App on my cell phone. I checked all my settings on Facebook and all the notifications are turned off. I have tried to keep access to friends and family only. Then I discovered that somehow I also have an "Advertising Account". It has my email address but it's something I never signed up for or even knew about. If you use it, it charges $$ 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com 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. |
Done with Facebook
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 $$ to a credit card or something. Anyway, that was enough. Found the appropriate page and deleted my Facebook account completely. It's getting too wacky and too "collective" in terms of information on you. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com Haven't noticed anything like that. The only strange thing I have seen was when I bought something on Ebay and the next day an ad from a relative for that exact item showed up in Mr Ed's timeline. He didn't have a clue and I am pretty sure Ed was not shopping on Ebay. They had to have sniffed a cookie on my machine when Ed was on Facebook. Heh. I used to have a separate Facebook page for Sam Adams. I finally deactivated it. That's the other thing about Facebook. If you deactivate your account and page, it's still there but can't be seen by anyone. All it takes to re-activate it is to log in. I don't think Mr. Ed had any worries. The hackers and scam artists probably don't even know what DOS or Windows 98 is. :-) |
Done with Facebook
On 8/11/17 11:29 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:37:16 -0700 (PDT), John H wrote: On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 6:38:51 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote: I've had a Facebook page since 2009 that I use occasionally to touch base with family and friends. Recently however, I started getting notifications on my cell phone about things and people I have never had contact with. I don't even have the Facebook App on my cell phone. I checked all my settings on Facebook and all the notifications are turned off. I have tried to keep access to friends and family only. Then I discovered that somehow I also have an "Advertising Account". It has my email address but it's something I never signed up for or even knew about. If you use it, it charges $$ 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com 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. Time to burn that computer and everything in the room it is in...damn...a cookie...the horror of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcAYMb5uk4 |
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