facebook, anyone?

[cheapdiva]

I have a friend who doesn't email, uses her cell phone with disdain and isn't worried about keeping up with technology. Imagine my surprise when she asked me why I wasn't on facebook. I didn't think she would know what facebook was!!:p

She tells me this is how she is going to keep up and stay in touch with people. Then the other day I went to a seminar on how to use social networking sites to help grow your business, get exposure, etc. I like to think that I am pretty tech savy (for a non-pro) - I mean I have an itouch, a macbook pro (with a dual processing system), a host of other electronic gadgets and I'm always "syncing" something. How come I wasn't on facebook?

Well I am NOW! And it got me thinking about all of you and how many of my C&B (hard getting used to not saying CL) buds are on facebook? I don't know how many of you want to put your full name on this board for us to search for you in facebook land, but I would be willing to put a list together and send it out via pm for any interested parties.

If you want to list your C&B buds as friends on facebook, send me a pm with your full name. I will then forward that onto everyone on the list and you can add those folks as friends on facebook.

[annielinz]

Hanging head in shame yes I am on facebook :rolleyes:. One of the teachers at school got me on it. I really don't utilize it as I should but I'm signed up.That would be fun.

[Gigi]

Honestly- I was-then wasn't-then didn't...gosh all these online gadgets are just amazing :D

[CohenCottage]

I am on facebook!!

[cheapdiva]

okay - cohencottage sent me her "real" name so I could find her on facebook and there are about 300 people with her name! Thinking there couldn't possibly be as many people with my name I did a search. There are over 100 people on face book with my name - one from my home town even and several from Ireland (where my family is from!).

soooo . . .
if you want to be on your C&B friends facebook pages - pm me with your email address because that way we'll know it is you and not some other Jane Doe!

[Zuzu's Garden]

Just read an article What's Next for the Conficker Worm? (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10206784-83.html)

Back when I worked in software, I tested online banking, online credit account, and online bill payment software. Personally, for security reasons, I don't use any of it. Nor do I send tax info online, post my email addy, use my real name, and so on.

You may already know about all of this. Just wanted to say be careful what you put online.

Zu

[annielinz]

Wow:eek: that is scary stuff. Makes you reconsider getting on the computer at all.

[Zuzu's Garden]

It is scary. I mentioned this because of what the article said about Facebook.

The newest targets of worms are social networking sites. Trilling demonstrated to Stahl how it might work. Looking at a real Facebook page, Trilling explained, "We added your friend and colleague Morley Safer, you can see down there on the left." He says a worm can crack into a Facebook account, like Morley's, and send a message to anyone on his friends list. It's a message a friend or colleague, like Stahl, would be sure to open since it comes from a trusted friend. Stahl took the bait and clicked on what looked like Morley's video link. "Something looks a little off," Trilling remarked. "You're already infected." As Trilling demonstrated on a second screen, the hacker "owned" Stahl's online movements. "From here on out, everything you do, gonna show up on the hacker's machine," he explained. So when Stahl typed her username and password into a bank Web site, it appeared instantaneously on the hacker's screen, along with her bank account details. "Every single keystroke you hit, in fact, if you make a mistake and hit a backspace, that shows up in the window," Trilling explained. The hacker then followed her around, as she browsed the Internet from CBS News to Amazon.com "So, if I buy something, they're gonna have my credit card," Stahl remarked. Everything you type in, your address, your credit card, it's all gonna show up in that window," Trilling warned.

I've seen this software that "controls your computer" in use by Customer Service to assist customers to configure software. It's been out there for years.

Zu

[cheapdiva]

for those of you who have responded, I will send out info today. Have been sick with some awful bug since Saturday - too sick to even look at my computer.

[ChapterTwo]

cheapdiva - So sorry you've been under the weather. I hope tomorrow finds you feeling much better!