"Bobble" wrote in message
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On 11/13/2011 4:23 PM, Bobble wrote:

That's *exactly* the problem I have with Facebook. I don't have to
want to be invited to join. It reminds me a lot of moderated
newsgroups and web forums where people can decide what you can and
cannot post. With rpca on usenet, I can easily killfile someone (and
vice versa) if I don't like the things they're posting.

Jill

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Agreed. In addition, Facebook is notorious for sharing information.
The r.p.c.a. group seems to be an "invite only" group, but even that
would require members to use personal information to sign up.
Facebook has a history of changing their "rules" in ways that may not
be acceptable to users.

MaryL


Mary, you don't have to use real information on Facebook. Not even your
real name, age, date of birth, etc. Write whatever info you want, and
you can even open a yahoo/hotmail/etc. email account just for Facebook
and never use it once it's opened. At least 2 people on FB rpca use made
up names, and we're fine with that.

Boble

It wasn't like that in the beginning. To join Facebook you had to use a
real name, age, and not have a Hotmail or Yahoo or any other free email
account. It rejected my signup at first because I have an unusual last
name that could be misconstrued as being a joke, and I had to email the
admins so they could personally allow it.
After all these years I'm not going to to re-join just to be "anonymous".


Your account is probably still there, unless you went through the
complicated process to erase it completely.

Bobble

It is! I'm on FB several times a week, to keep up family, friends, bands,
etc.