The Caravan Club is coming to Facebook

Not superior at all and to suggest that is very insulting. Perhaps however some are better informed and have extensively researched the matter. 

Kaenergas, it's personal choice and we each make our own decisions. How can you possibly think there is some sort of superiority being suggested here? I completely agree with Fysh and stand by my statement that it is naive to believe FB don't collect data even from the act of logging in. 

Well done the club for opening up another channel of communications, don't ever recall seeing  that they will be considering stopping CT, FB is a means of communication that many people use and have no problem with it. It's very simple you use it or you dont, and it's rather insulting that some members of this forum think there are superior to suggest that they are some of the sensible people who don't use it.

All I recall saying is that I had no intention of using it. Why is that regarded as being insulting or superior?

I rarely use facebook simply because I greatly dislike the format and find it much less user friendly than either a forum or e-mail

As some on here know, I am only 12 months out from a 3 yr full time degree course at a uni as a mature student.

All my young collegues (about 45 of them) were/ are exceptionally bright young people who have grown up with Tech in a way I suspect most of CT have not. I fully expect to be reading about some of them in the future as captains of industry and commerce. They were very very clued up about most things Tech.

When I first started in 2012, everyone was on facebook and I was encouraged to join in order to facillitate the social scene. I was very sceptical but I wasn't quite sure why. So, like many others I joined with a false account (sorry facebook)

By the time I had finished my course,(last year) very few (if any) were stilll on facebook, almost everyone had moved on to different social media apps. 

Why?  Two reasons, The main one was the degree of data harvesting of personal information. Not even these bright young things could outwit the facebook engineers. Secondly it was the degree facebook had been adopted by corporate big business as a marketing tool.

So that's why I don't and won't use it today.

It's up to the individal of course but the danger as I see it is that the CC will choose to do much of it's work via facebook because its is so easy and cost efficient for them to do so. We have already seen differential marketing with the New Zealand  comp and a special offer.

Where does this lead is my real concern not if an individual CT poster choses to use facebook or not.

Easy T is right by the way, the young 'uns have dumped facebook and e-mails and forums are a darned sight easier to use

A point that obviously some people do not know is that Facebook logs every action you take.  For every log-in it records the IP address used against the account. Even if you register a ficticious user name each contact is logged.

  If a relative uses the same IP address then the two accounts get linked. Most IP addresses are geographically identifiable so it knows your movements.

I could go on but that is enough for now.

Not a lot different from CT then!

surely exactly the same. you choose how much or how little you input and hence reveal. Not 100 % sure what the concerns are. 

Because FB data harvest and sell it on no matter what settings you have set up 

It how they make their money 

This is why i don't and will not use Facebook. Look at the profit it makes.

A point that obviously some people do not know is that Facebook logs every action you take.  For every log-in it records the IP address used against the account. Even if you register a ficticious user name each contact is logged.

  If a relative uses the same IP address then the two accounts get linked. Most IP addresses are geographically identifiable so it knows your movements.

I could go on but that is enough for now.

Correct NAV. They can even track you with a dynamic IP address, how, I have no idea which is why I am on CT and Mark Zucherberg is on a beach on his own island in the Pacific

A point that obviously some people do not know is that Facebook logs every action you take.  For every log-in it records the IP address used against the account. Even if you register a ficticious user name each contact is logged.

  If a relative uses the same IP address then the two accounts get linked. Most IP addresses are geographically identifiable so it knows your movements.

I could go on but that is enough for now.

Correct NAV. They can even track you with a dynamic IP address, how, I have no idea which is why I am on CT and Mark Zucherberg is on a beach on his own island in the Pacific

What website doesn't and does it really matter?

peedee

Yes, it matters. (Well, it does to me and a lot of others)

It's my personal and private information they are selling on and no one has the right to sell or use my information without my express permission.

But in a way you are right, a lot are trying it on now but facebook are leaders in this field (Google are not bad at it either) and are(probably) the most successful at getting at your personal details.