Agreed again. I don't use Facebook or Myspace, but when my wife jumped into it head first, I made sure she knew what she was getting into. It taught her some lessons in access control, and self-control when it comes to what you post and what you accept and click on. Those lessons have now also spread to her sister, mother and friends, as well as other aspects of her day to day computing. Let someone else be the low hanging fruit for another Facecrook.
When she needs to connect to the odd open wireless access point, ssh to our home network, and proxy her web browsing through it, she can still call me ;-) PJ From: ra...@flossyourmind.com To: pauldotcom@mail.pauldotcom.com Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:50:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] No Facebook for the family. agree. most of us are tech evangelists in our families and probably do the cleanup on PCs from malware spread by facebook and myspace. But if its not that its something else. Ultimately education is the best defense. For example my nieces didn't know their profiles were completely wide open to the public. On Mar 25, 2009, at 1:32 PM, xgermx wrote: I tend to spend more time educating family members about safe browsing/social networking habits opposed to scaring them away from the internet. Are there a lot of bad scary things out there? Yes. Is there a legitimate use for social networking. Yes. 2009/3/25 Nathan Sweaney <nswea...@tulsacash.com>: "I won't let <wife's name> use it." wow, that's a loaded sentence.... ________________________________ From: pauldotcom-boun...@mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:pauldotcom-boun...@mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of Adsquaired Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:19 AM To: pauldotcom@mail.pauldotcom.com Subject: [Pauldotcom] No Facebook for the family. It all started when I received a friend request from my mother. Helloooo.. I effectively got my sister and mother to cancel their Facebook accounts with this email. hehehe. "I don't like that you guys are on Facebook. I won't let <wife's name> use it. Remember anything you post is there forever. People can use anything you post to obtain information about you and your family. It can also be used by spammers and other malicious users to solicit you and trick you into clicking links that can possibly steal your identity. When I use it I ignore all the silly requests sent by users and keep my posts to a minimum. I only signed up to connect with people from high school. Besides, I know how to use the Internet (no offense) and have tools in place to protect my computers. ;) <mom>, why do you need this? Ok that's my .02 cents." ad^2 Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux -- unknown source
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