I'm not a Facebook fan. But to be fair to it, it has allowed me to catch up with a friend I hadn't seen for 30 years. And last year I took the 999 to visit him in Munich. Meant to be going again just as soon as I find any time. To reply to Pierre 66, Facebook recently came up with the wise idea that you can now separate your "friends" into real friends, family and other. So your daughter could post up stuff that family would not be able to see. It was crying out for this. Most of my Facebook friends are mere acquaintances who asked me to be their friend and it would have been impolite not to accept. Doesn't necessarily mean I want to be kept abreast of their thoughts and doings though. I thought this was pretty funny:
Both mine and t'other half's profiles were open to everyone - definite in previous facebook incarnations I had mine set on private tho! Must be why they keep fking around with it and releasing "new better" versions - everything gets reset... :wink:
I am not that interested in the minute details of my own life let alone other people's, the real difference between a forum like this and facebook is that we all present ourselves as we wish to be on a forum because we are, to an extent, anonymous. Facebook removes that, and what's more it's there forever, things that are truly funny at 19-25 years old are really not that funny when you are in your 40's, I think that people forget that.
My Paypal and ebay got hacked , I reported it and they didn't believe me!!!! There was a prefilled cookie so instead of my paypal details another persons came up so they could cream off the money! I reported it and it took two weeks of long long not free phonecalls and at one point abuse from one of their team! Eventually I pointed out I had got someone in IT to check it and it was a cookie from their end which was scary!!! I proved it by using a totally new laptop.... they said it was me filling it in or prefilled by me! What to scam myself?? Somebody at their end hmmmmmm.... no nowhere near as secure they make out and also when it is breached they don't care! When I finally said right look at this ....... they miraculously deleted the offending details
I lost £900 from my paypal account. It wasn't an error, someone had got into my account and added their own bank details, set up a fictitious auction, and fleeced about 20 other people including myself. Paypal were worse than useless, but thankfully my bank were on the ball and had already got their fraud dept involved before I even knew anything was amiss. I got all my money back. So I set up a new paypal account and tried to close the old one, except paypal wouldn't let me close it cos according to their records I was £900 in debt. It took a couple of solicitors letters and a threat of legal action to get them to close it. All well and good until I sold some stuff on ebay and the buyers couldn't make the payments...ebay were trying to send the money to the old, dead paypal account. Paypal had linked the old account to my ebay account in such a way that neither I nor ebay could unlink it, and they refused to unlink it because they still thought I owed them money. Utter wankers.
Just had an e-mail from LastFM stating they too have had a security breach and would I be kind enough to change my password etc. As already mentioned I also use the same password across various sites but I'm about to change my ways. Is nothing sacred? The tales of woe from e-bay and paypal are making me think quit while I'm ahead, life's too short to deal with corporate pillocks that can't/won't do their job properly. I won't tho, too much bling out there.
Well on paypal you can set up login with mobile security code. You log in as per normal so username and password. But next screen asks you for a security code, that code is unique each time you log in and is sent to your registered mobile.
We're inherently lazy though, so we won't use it cos it's a bit of a pain and might take a second of our precious time... Sucks to be human sometimes:frown:
