The Caravan Club is coming to Facebook

It matters a great deal.

Have you noticed on Facebook the "People you may know" feature?  That is where people with whom you have had only email contact before suddenly get linked on Facebook.

This can only be done by Facebook accessing your email transactions. Just because your email address is hotmail, gmail, or whatever does not keep Facebook from accessing your data. I have read in reputable sources that they also access the content of the emails but have no personal proof.

It matters a great deal.

Have you noticed on Facebook the "People you may know" feature?  That is where people with whom you have had only email contact before suddenly get linked on Facebook.

This can only be done by Facebook accessing your email transactions. Just because your email address is hotmail, gmail, or whatever does not keep Facebook from accessing your data. I have read in reputable sources that they also access the content of the emails but have no personal proof.

It only matters if it worries you, while I try not to make it easy for websites to obtain more information about me than necessary, it does not worry me if they do. I have nothing to hide.

I think face book use the information you give. e,g what school or who you have worked for and your friends friends to see if you know a person and not your email address. There are more organisations out there that know more about you than FB. You have to weigh up the downsides as to the benefits you get out of it.

Even this page I am typing on has three trackers on it!

peedee

Well said peedee.  "People you may know " comes from let's say as an example me posting on a friends page it can then inform me of possible friends or  people who I might know from that persons Friends list! the same applies if I use a discussion group or organisation group, if you don't know them don't accept them, It doesn't and cannot  access my emails. 

It's sensible not to put too much personal info on any social web sites. No-one has to put their school etc on FB but if you do this will bring in a mass of other connections. Younger social media fans will migrate to the latest sites and use whatever is the latest trend. The CC are now taking part in the popular sites. Personally I'm more interested in the actual, real, caravan sites! Contact on here or elsewhere is a just a bonus.

I respect your views peedee and Kgas

Facebook takes far more than the information you freely offer by the clever use of computer algorithms its not what you put or what settings you have.

Nothing to hide? Tell us your bank details then.

Don't think I have ever broken the law (motoring offences excepted) and I had to have an enhanced disclosure done every few months because of my job but there are stacks and stacks of things I don't want everyone knowing about.

Cannot access e-mails? Yes they can, e mail is not secure unless encryped and as 128 bit encription has been recently broken  I wouldn't bank on that either.

Does it really matter? That's got to be up to the individual.

One thing (I Think) we are all in agreement on, is that CT should not fold and is a good source of chat, banter, information for a lot of people, but the CC needs to use as many media outlets as possible to contact, inform members and allow them to contribute. 

Agree with that Kgas provided members who all pay the same are not disadvantaged by choosing not to be on TwitFace.

I respect your view peede

Facebook takes far more than the information you freely offer.

Nothing to hide? Tell us your bank details then.

Don't think I have ever broken the law (motoring offences excepted) and I had to have an enhanced disclosure done every few months because of my job but there are stacks and stacks of things I don't want everyone knowing about.

 

Thanks but bank details are not the kind of thing you reveal on any public forum but I would bet on some knowing it, other than my bank. Hopefully they are not of the nefarious types and their databases are secure.

peedee

 

Thanks but bank details are not the kind of thing you reveal on any public forum but I would bet on some knowing it, other than my bank. Hopefully they are not of the nefarious types and their databases are secure.

peedee

Did someone say Banks, Databases and secure all in the same sentence? They are losing (us) millions through their miss handling of our data. Anyone remember the disks and laptop left unencrypted on a train

Anyway I am off for a brew.

Everything you do on the interweb is now being analysed somewhere...my communications are definitely not as sought after as some must be!