Important - all Facebookers

[littlebluefish]

IMPORTANT- to everyone using facebook. Please pass this around to all your friends. Facebook has allowed a third party advertiser to use your posted pictures without your permission. To prevent this click on settings, beside the logout button. Select PRIVACY SETTINGS. Select NEWS FEEDS & WALL. Select the tag that reads FACEBOOK ADS. Theres a drop down box, select NO ONE, save changes, and your done. :-)

[TillieTrotter]

Only a rumour apparently.

[ianr]

This account seems considered enough to be credible. http://www.slaw.ca/2009/07/24/are-user-photos-being-scraped-for-ads-on-facebook/

[mockney piers]

We discussed this on another thread. It's in the terms of service you agree to whe you create an account. If like me you think it's a poor show then just don't upload any photos, I certainly don't.

But no point getting uppity about it if you put the little tick in the 'i agree' box ;)

[bigbadwolf]

I got into Facebook last year and in all honesty I really enjoyed it for about 6 months but then I realised I'd flogged a dead horse long enough and got bloody sick of it. I've only got one picture on my page and they're welcome to it.

Facebook also serves as a good reminder of how annoying girls can be sometimes.

[Kells]

Why's that, BBW?!

[Keef]

I like facebook for keeping up with certain people, but most of it is rubbish. I upload people photos, but wouldn't put "serious" photos on there.

[PeckhamRose]

Well anyway, littlebluefish, thank you very much for your advice and I have taken it.

I use Facebook quite a bit.

[bigbadwolf]

Kells Wrote:

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> Why's that, BBW?!

O.K, perhaps I jumped in head first on this one.

I know I don't have to read them but on my facebook girls my age (25) or there abouts are constantly updating their status and harp on about what they're doing i.e Emma is eating, Ayshe is picking her nose. This happens every 5 minutes to half an hour.

Pointless bordering on compulsive.

Fella's tend not to do this unless they're batting for the other team.

[SeanMacGabhann]

but why? it's meaningless. The number of people posting this "advice" on facebook is like a plague

it's not true

nothing has changed

and what do you think the messages mean when they say "by using this application you allow it to used your data to share with partner" or whatever it says?

people are spreading this message without discrimination and it scares me how quickly nonsense spreads

[Keef]

Sean Sean Sean, let it go man! You were anting about this a week ago, give youself a break, get dunk.

[Annasfield]

Keef - have you lost your r key?

[SeanMacGabhann]

pffft - I'll stop when people stop

it's not about facebook - it's the way people believe any old rot if it gives a sense of victimhood

[Keef]

Anna, yes, it keeps sticking for some reason.

[Annasfield]

You could always use w instead. ha ha

[PeckhamRose]

Get laid, Sean, lighten up a bit, yeah?

[RosieH]

Ooh, PR, tightly argued.

[SteveT]

You don't have to get laid Sean, you stick up for your self.

[Horsebox]

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Gah, stupid fingers.

It's nonsense. Go Sean.

womp womp.

[KoolBananas]

Let the weaker minded be sucked in. It's very much like the silly campaigns and chain messages concerning Facebook wanting to charge a membership fee and all that.

[Jeremy]

I won't worry too much.

I'd be astonished if anybody wanted to use my picture for an ad campaign.

[Asset]

There was a story recently about a clean-cut, blonde-haired, shiny-toothed American family whose picture was used in an ad campaign for an eastern European country's tourism industry. I think that was taken via Facebook.

[SeanMacGabhann]

this story

he had posted it to his blog and a number of different social networking websites - not just facebook

[bigbadwolf]

Just so that everyone know's in advance, me and the advertising execs that make the Churchill insurance ad are going to copy and paste Seans facebook pic onto the nodding dog. We feel that this will make a much more realistic platform for a company that always likes to lull it's customers into a false sense of security and then baffle them senseless futher down the line.

Just thought you'd like to know.

[Keef]

I guess it could in theory end up with a nice blond family of Americans being plastered on to a BNP leaflet or something.