rogerthat
Member of DD Central
Posts: 2,048 
Likes: 1,994
|
Post by rogerthat on Oct 26, 2019 11:18:41 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by michaela on Oct 26, 2019 14:09:28 GMT
I am keen to join the Action Group but I do not have Facebook or any other social medium. Is there a way of joining the Action Group without subscribing to Facebook (which I prefer not to do), or of replicating the Action Group in some other forum ?
|
|
michaelc
Member of DD Central
Say No To T.D.S.
Posts: 5,722
Likes: 2,987
|
Post by michaelc on Oct 26, 2019 14:58:39 GMT
Can understand some having a reluctance to join Facebook. Probaby several reasons. If its giving away too much info as far as I know all you need is an email to join and that email could simply be a new throw-away one. I think no picture is required or anything they FB or others could harvest.
Worth doing IMO
|
|
mrk
Posts: 807
Likes: 753
|
Post by mrk on Oct 26, 2019 15:01:13 GMT
I am keen to join the Action Group but I do not have Facebook or any other social medium. Is there a way of joining the Action Group without subscribing to Facebook (which I prefer not to do), or of replicating the Action Group in some other forum ? Not a fan of using Facebook either, especially for sensitive information like my finances. There are alternatives, like ProBoards that hosts this very same forum. But I'm still thankful to the organisers for setting up an action group.
|
|
mrk
Posts: 807
Likes: 753
|
Post by mrk on Oct 26, 2019 15:04:08 GMT
Can understand some having a reluctance to join Facebook. Probaby several reasons. If its giving away too much info as far as I know all you need is an email to join and that email could simply be a new throw-away one. I think no picture is required or anything they FB or others could harvest. Worth doing IMO That's not so simple these days because of Facebook's real-name policy. You may find your account disabled after a short time with no explanation.
|
|
trium
Member of DD Central
Posts: 384
Likes: 304
|
Post by trium on Oct 26, 2019 15:16:01 GMT
Can understand some having a reluctance to join Facebook. Probaby several reasons. If its giving away too much info as far as I know all you need is an email to join and that email could simply be a new throw-away one. I think no picture is required or anything they FB or others could harvest. Worth doing IMO It hadn't occurred to me - I'm on FB and simply joined the group. I had not thought about how me wearing silly hats in Benidorm might undermine the image I prefer to project here.
|
|
michaelc
Member of DD Central
Say No To T.D.S.
Posts: 5,722
Likes: 2,987
|
Post by michaelc on Oct 26, 2019 15:29:20 GMT
Can understand some having a reluctance to join Facebook. Probaby several reasons. If its giving away too much info as far as I know all you need is an email to join and that email could simply be a new throw-away one. I think no picture is required or anything they FB or others could harvest. Worth doing IMO That's not so simple these days because of Facebook's real-name policy. You may find your account disabled after a short time with no explanation. That's a good point. Hasn't affected me in many years. Suspect FB devote more resource to where the money is. Nevertheless a good point.
|
|
Mucho P2P
Member of DD Central
Posts: 946
Likes: 1,635
|
Post by Mucho P2P on Oct 26, 2019 15:38:49 GMT
It certainly is. Please join and support.
|
|
|
|
Post by eascogo on Oct 26, 2019 16:19:06 GMT
I am keen to join the Action Group but I do not have Facebook or any other social medium. Is there a way of joining the Action Group without subscribing to Facebook (which I prefer not to do), or of replicating the Action Group in some other forum ? Keen to join the group but will do so only if joining in FB is not required.
|
|
phil
Posts: 190
Likes: 165
|
Post by phil on Oct 26, 2019 20:02:23 GMT
Can understand some having a reluctance to join Facebook. Probaby several reasons. If its giving away too much info as far as I know all you need is an email to join and that email could simply be a new throw-away one. I think no picture is required or anything they FB or others could harvest. Worth doing IMO It hadn't occurred to me - I'm on FB and simply joined the group. I had not thought about how me wearing silly hats in Benidorm might undermine the image I prefer to project here. It hadn't occurred to me either and it shouldn't...the focus is on an easy way to communicate with each other and make sure our interests are robustly represented
|
|
mrk
Posts: 807
Likes: 753
|
Post by mrk on Oct 26, 2019 20:51:33 GMT
It hadn't occurred to me - I'm on FB and simply joined the group. I had not thought about how me wearing silly hats in Benidorm might undermine the image I prefer to project here. It hadn't occurred to me either and it shouldn't...the focus is on an easy way to communicate with each other and make sure our interests are robustly represented Not so much a question of what image you want to project, more like of who will end up using your data and for what purpose. Search for Facebook data breach and you'll find some interesting results.
|
|
arby
Member of DD Central
Posts: 910
Likes: 959
|
Post by arby on Oct 27, 2019 8:40:54 GMT
It hadn't occurred to me either and it shouldn't...the focus is on an easy way to communicate with each other and make sure our interests are robustly represented Not so much a question of what image you want to project, more like of who will end up using your data and for what purpose. Search for Facebook data breach and you'll find some interesting results. Of course everyone is free to take whatever security measures they feel appropriate, but my name, a fake birthday, and a list of people I occasionally interact with is the extent of information a Facebook breach could give away. There are literally hundreds of other sources of actual sensitive information out there about me (banks, insurers, employers, every website I've ever purchased from or created an account on, kids' school, most apps on my phone, the NHS, hmrc, any tradesman I've contracted, any visitor to my home, pfishing, rubbish collector, etc), but I'm happy to live my life taking those risks so I'm more than happy with taking the risk of having a Facebook account.
|
|
kaya
Member of DD Central
Posts: 1,150
Likes: 718
|
Post by kaya on Oct 27, 2019 9:18:18 GMT
A Facebook 'breach' arby? It might be Facebook policy!
|
|
arby
Member of DD Central
Posts: 910
Likes: 959
|
Post by arby on Oct 27, 2019 9:31:56 GMT
A Facebook 'breach' arby? It might be Facebook policy!
Three observations: 1. The implications of that article clearly aren't based on fact, rather very extensive conjecture. 2. Even if the conjecture is correct, how does that change my point that the only information I lose to Facebook is my name, and how is that worse than the hundreds/thousands of extensive sources of data on me which people don't seem concerned about? 3. This isn't really the spot for a Facebook security/privacy discussion so I won't be replying more to this thread (to help keep it focused), but obviously anyone is free to start a specific Facebook privacy discussion if so inclined.
|
|
mrk
Posts: 807
Likes: 753
|
Post by mrk on Oct 27, 2019 10:46:18 GMT
Of course everyone is free to take whatever security measures they feel appropriate, but my name, a fake birthday, and a list of people I occasionally interact with is the extent of information a Facebook breach could give away. Most people enter way more information than that. Facebook is designed to encourage users to share as much as possible. They make money from targeted advertising, the more they know about each user the better. Other sources like banks and government agencies are more restricted in what they collect and how they're regulated. They don't expose an API that lets anyone extract user data. Facebook is simply not designed for privacy. Yes you can work around it by entering fake data and being very careful, but at that point why choose Facebook in the first place when there are other options? I certainly agree with your first sentence though, everyone is free to do whatever they want.
|
|
