I'm agreeing with Mike on this: not only is FaceBook more trouble than it's worth, you would also be best served by making sure all of your family members would have at least two strong anti-virus programs as well as a good anti-malware program before visiting any FaceBook pages. And then be prepared for the inevitable hacking of your own pages. Try goggling "facebook hacks" and you get over 332,000 results.
You could try any of a number of FREE photo hosting sites. Go here for more info: http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/photo-hosting/photo-hosting-sites/ Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fry [mailto:mike...@iafrica.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:24 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Facebook & Images On 2010/03/11 01:08, Tom Thorpe wrote: > Wondering what others think of using Facebook photos and information > (e.g. birthdate, other family member names and FB links) that are > accessible to everyone in my genealogical software (Legacy). I have > several extended family members and their children who are on FB and > have posted photos for all to see, friends and non-friends alike. > I do not intend to publish the material but had hoped to include it all > in a book of descendants to be handed out at the next family reunion. For me, FaceBook is more trouble than it's worth! And as for linking your genealogical data to it, that sounds like a potential recipe for disaster. Living people might get their identities known and stolen. Details of children made available to paedophiles. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
