When I joined Facebook in 2010, I looked at all the privacy settings, and turned off its ability to post to search engines. I also don't allow anyone to add me except a friend of a friend. It's very hard to find my Facebook page. If you're simply going to read and not post, you may not have to set very many of these privacy settings, but you might work on it bit by bit, in case you decide to post. I'm on a wide-ranging set of Facebook groups, which have mostly replaced my email lists.
The only way Facebook can gain access to your contacts is if you tell it to find your friends. In the native iOS app, you can simply read posts one after the other. You would have to interact with them to comment and do other actions with the posts. Also, I have set up email notifications for myself. This even allows you to reply via email, whether it's a message or a comment. HtH,Teresa "We can see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with the brain is often called imagination."--Oliver Sacks > On Dec 13, 2014, at 11:46 AM, RobH. <bobs...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > The native app does that in truth; I'm not an adict, so get and do just the > bit you said. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Otten" <motte...@gmail.com> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2014 5:57 PM > Subject: Efficiently using Facebook > > > I am someone who has steadfastly refused to join Facebook. However, I find > that there are a few individuals or groups I would like to follow, and they > are posting only to Facebook. So, the question. What is the most efficient > way, using an iPhone or a Mac, to read things you want to read, minimize the > junk, and minimize privacy problems? What app works best? I don't want to > post. I just want to follow those few individuals or groups whose ideas and > posts interest me. Any help is greatly appreciated. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
