Beware of joining Facebook!

My wife joined Facebook against my advice.
Now almost every night even as late as 8 pm people keep coming to our front door asking for donations for EVERY THING YOU CAN IMAGINE!!!

All of those agencies and "non profit" groups know if they join Facebook they can get all those names.
Then all they have to do is type your name into Google (also connected with Facebook) and Intellus will have your address.

 

It's a stalker's best friend.




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Well, yes and no. You don't have to provide any address info to FB, and even if you do, you don't have to make it public. To quote people more to the right of me: "guns don't kill people..."

 

This is why I refrain from using my real name online for the most part kiddies...................... Go ahead, steal my alias and try to find me, steal my credit, have at it.

 

Huh, I've been pretty active on FB now for over a year and I've had no such problems at all. And if you type my name in on the internet, there's all kinds of stuff if people REALLY wanted to find me and come knocking on my door. My guess is, whatever started this, may be something other than her joining FB... or perhaps she entered too much information and didn't set her privacy settings appropriately.

 

So called charities and non-profits have been selling lists of contributors to one another for years. It ya wanna have some fun look up some of the operating costs of of some of these outfits and see how much of the pot goes to operating expense and how much goes to the actual charity recipients. Even more fun is to take a cruise of listed charitable organizations in your respective states and the requirements to become same. Some of y'all may crap your nappies.

When the ladies get Emails about penis enlargement pills. potions, and assorted mechanical divices, theres a chance of randomness there IMO. No offense to anyone in the Chaz Bono fan club.

 

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Facebook isn't your problem. It's just as safe as VFRWorld. I'm guessing those people got your address from some other means and it's just a coincidence that it happend right after joining FB.

or....

You know there are those things you can join on FB that offer freebies and stuff. Maybe she made the fatal mistake of stepping into the trap of those?

 

Been on Fb for a while and linkedin as well, no door to door solicitations here.

Something else is at work there.

Or you are just trolling again.

 

I you have an "o" in your name, use a "0" instead so if someone googles the names, nothing pops up.

 

The one thing they do not have is my middle initial.
There are other people with my same name.

I called the "non profit" that came to our door last night and told them i thought it was a mistake to be coming to peoples houses at 8 pm at night. The person on the phone said." Can I have your information to file a report ?" I said no. They already had my
phone number with caller ID.

One guy came one night after dark and wanted to sell us something in a spray bottle to wash mold off of the outside of our house. I would not open the door.
I am afraid because of the recent home invasion robberies that have taken place.
I bought a stun gun now, and keep it handy.

 

LOL!!!

Dadzurn it!!! That magic computer box is at it again!

 

Equating the "safety" of any or all of those social engineering sites and this forum is far fetched. Does anyone doubt for even a nannosecond that the revenues generated from any site is some kind feelgood shit and not from ad sales?" The trick is to live with it. To deny the existance because of some loonytoons idea that the damn things are there just for fun is not real smart.

Don't think I be wantin to be pounding on Don's door after the sun goes down anytime soon.

 

Kind of defeats the purpose of "networking" with people...

Or you can just realize this is all just BS

 

Pretty sure showing up at 8PM is illegal in CA, or that may be a local law. And many communities or counties have licensing rules, where by if someone is going to sell door to door you have to have and readily display their license, see if that applies in your area. And if it does, call the cops evertime you get a solicitation.

As far as I can tell, I am the only one in the whole country with my first and last name. Makes it much easier for people to find me on fb ;-)

 

California Laws:

Animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.

Bathhouses are against the law.


It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.

Women may not drive in a house coat.

No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.

City Laws in California

Alhambra

You cannot leave your car on the street overnight without the proper permit.

Arcadia

Peacocks have the right of way to cross any street, including driveways.

Baldwin Park

Nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool.

Belvedere

City Council order reads: “No dog shall be in a public place without its master on a leash.


Blythe

You are not permitted to wear cowboy boots unless you already own at least two cows.

Burlingame

It is illegal to spit, except on baseball diamonds.

Carmel

A man can’t go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do not match.

Ice cream may not be eaten while standing on the sidewalk. (Repealed when Clint Eastwood was mayor)

Women may not wear high heels while in the city limits.

Cathedral City

It is prohibited to sleep in a parked vehicle.



Persons may not ride their bicycles through the “Fountain of Life”.



One may not bring their dog to school.



Cerritos

All dog “waste” must be removed from any yard within seven days.


Chico

One must obtain a permit from the city to throw hay in a cesspool.

 

Perhaps Facebook inexplicably linked up with them infernal dadgum fuel injection compooters and now yer person info is being used to remap mopeds in Malaysia. Don, we love you, but you gotta stop being such a Luddite.....

I just hope you dont wake up to some noise in the middle of the night and stun gun the living shit out of your wife by accident.

On second thought, that might be fun

Im assuming the irony of getting on a message board you've joined to complain about a social networking site is not lost on you.

Catch phrase for today is: Fucking fuel injection

 

Once again St. Bear The Devine blesses the lowly with yet another eliptical sermon from the mount.

Luddites in the original sought by violence to destroy technology. Sort of like Harleydoods who sell the brethren three whacks with a sledge hammer to a bike made anywhere but America. I submit that with all the friends one can accumulate on sites such as Facebook and the new Google thing, some folks may not need friends but enemas. I was gonna say that some here are full of shit but since I am using a techological marvel to communicate, let us say that Reform Luddism is the more to the point than technophillia. Besides, telling someone even if they have been taken by the Holy Spirits that they are full of shit, is almost sacreligious. Almost anyway.

I hope Don has his camera when he zaps the dudes who come a-knockin after hours. If we had some pix of that we could start a whole new thread on technological epiphanies.

 

sorry i didnt feel like readin through all this, but i did catch the fuel injection part lmao....
did your wife really put your address and phone number on face book, and not set her profile to private?! really?!