Facebook again

Kennine replied on 29/09/2018 08:56

Posted on 29/09/2018 08:56

Facebook is playing down it's latest breach of user security.  Only 50 million poor users have been affected.  The damage has now been done and cannot be corrected as users private details are now in the public domain.  Will the number stay at 50 million, it has been suggested that there are millions more.  Has Facebook had it's day ?.

K

 

 

Cornersteady replied on 29/09/2018 17:50

Posted on 29/09/2018 16:21 by Tinwheeler

"The only people that complain about Facebook are those that for some reason seem to have dislike for it."

That's rather a strange statement, David. How do you know that?

People can be content with something, even like it, but still complain. Caravans spring to mind as an example.

Posted on 29/09/2018 17:50

and the club is another great example, complain, complain, then still go to it's sitessmile

Another non FB user and +1 to M's first post

replied on 29/09/2018 18:04

Posted on 29/09/2018 18:04

Facebook has its uses. Not a suitable discussion forum in my personal view. 

redface replied on 30/09/2018 20:58

Posted on 30/09/2018 20:58

Facebook has its uses. Not a suitable discussion forum in my personal view. 

Does that mean we can discuss politics and interesting subjects on face-book? Something we cannot do here.

brue replied on 01/10/2018 10:07

Posted on 01/10/2018 10:07

They can "censor" their own FB site so you probably won't see anything contentious on there.

Tammygirl replied on 01/10/2018 11:26

Posted on 01/10/2018 11:26

Facebook is useful as DK pointed out for our hobby. We are members of a group who helped us resolve an issue with our mh when in Spain a few years ago. The dealer tried but failed, yet the group were able to take us through it one step at a time. This enabled us to continue our holiday rather than return home. Lots of very helpful/knowledgeable folk on there.

We also use it to chat to family and friends, if set up correctly its a useful tool. 

Groups are good as they are generally safe, we are a member of my eldest grandaughter's school group for families. Its great we can see what they have been involved in, see photos and view events planned. Parents etc can arrange car shares for weekends out +lots of other useful info. Wish we had had it when ours were there.

brue replied on 01/10/2018 14:09

Posted on 01/10/2018 14:09

There are so many security breaches across the internet, we're all at risk somewhere. Much depends on how interlinked we are with other people, which most of us are, even if unintentionally. We're totally dependent on things working safely and sometimes they won't, the internet has never been totally secure.

jennyc replied on 05/10/2018 10:25

Posted on 05/10/2018 10:25

I’m afraid that we are way past the point of being able to hide our secrets despite all efforts to the contrary. Although I have a Facebook account, I rarely post on it. And though much of what is posted may be trivial, there’s valuable posts too. Company losses may amount to $billions, but there are many more $billions left. The biggest danger to the public who use internet based systems, is themselves. The woman who supplied her account details to a scammer who pretended to be PayPal, complained about PayPal when she lost money. Account hacking and identity cloning happens in many more systems than Facebook. We all agree that security breaches are very undesirable, but shunning Facebook won’t stop them I’m afraid.

Navigateur replied on 05/10/2018 12:30

Posted on 29/09/2018 15:49 by cyberyacht

It's very much a format that lends itself to "this is me shampooing the hamster" pics rather than an information exchange/discussion medium.

Posted on 05/10/2018 12:30

Except that it does not let one look back for that photograph some time later if one does not remember which of ones "friends" was involved in the original posting.  CT is possibly not a lot better in this respect though!

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