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My family in Trinidad have Facebook accounts, so I decided to get one, to keep in touch. Well, what a time-sucker is all I'll say. It works great for pushing information outward to all your "friends" - a one-liner on your wall and they all see it, but it is very time-consuming when all your friends post something of their own on their walls which you see. I wish I could find a way to see only what my friends post and not the responses of their friends who I don't know! And I'm not even talking about the gifts, invitations and other miscellaneous things my friends send me. On the upside, I've reconnected with school buddies that I haven't spoken to in about 20 years!!

I told one of my cousins that he has too much information on his (public) Facebook profile, to which he responded, "..and you have none". Well you see, it's because I have an IT background. I can only too easily imagine worst case scenarios (even my former corporate employer has lost some of my personal data - and they're an IT company!). If someone hacks the account of any one of my friends, they get access to my email, and my correct name and potentially my date of birth. Hmmmm.

Maybe I need to go back and look at my Facebook account! In the meantime I am up to 38 friends in 2 weeks!
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Unknown said…
I agree. And what i find interesting is that lots (really - lots) of people post up EVERYTHING about themselves on FB. Maybe it's a generational thing - who knows.

Kevin
30 June 2009 at 14:03
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