Cidu Bill on Apr 29th 2010
About once a week, I get a “friend request” sent to my CIDU Facebook account. This account actually existed for about 15 minutes before I abandoned it, and I don’t even know the log-in password anymore. I’m not ignoring anybody — I simply can’t get into the account to confirm any requests, and there’s no account to confirm to anyway. I can’t even contact most of the people, because their Facebook names aren’t the same as the nicknames they use on CIDU, so I don’t know who exactly they are.
I do have a Facebook account under my own name.
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Cidu Bill on Jul 14th 2009
Everybody with a Facebook account should buy the August issue of PC World, for an article about how the the companies that create Facebook aps, and advertise those ubiquitous “Which Disney character are you?” and “How long will you live?” quizzes, mine and use information about you. It’s worse than you think. It’s even worse than I thought, and my paranoia about these things is no secret.
There’s also an article about adjusting various Facebook and Twitter privacy settings.
The articles don’t seem to be online, by the way, though it’s possible they’ll be added to the archives in the future.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Facebook, Twitter | 23 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jun 28th 2009
Filed in Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, Bizarro, Cornered, Curtis, Dan Piraro, Facebook, Far Left Side, Francesco Marciuliano, Mark Parisi, Mike Baldwin, Off the Mark, Sally Forth, Scott Hilburn, Transformers, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, movies, xkcd | 16 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Mar 9th 2009
Filed in Bill Bickel, Close to Home, Facebook, John McPherson, Leigh Rubin, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, Rubes, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach Weiner, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol | 6 responses so far
