Facebook Faceplant
Anonymous wrote:
Some 7 years ago I worked for a large International Defense Contractor ( not in the USA) for about 9 years. The work invovled was sometimes of a restricted nature and I was under the official secrets act and therefore not to discuss anything related to the type of work we did, which I have never dislosed to anyone, then or now, outside of the people involved.
Having a Facebook account (knowing full well the sewer it is) and not being a radical poster, just keeping in contact with friends, I kept my details to a minimum and had no problems for years.
I did not give them my cell phone number and only used it when required, usually having it turned off. Then they started to pester me continually for my phone number which I would not reveal.
Next they start to ask me questions about an American Pen-Pal I had some years ago who was fairly well off and a successful businessman. How did I know him? Where did we meet? etc. I did not respond.
Next I started to get requests from Facebook to invite me to contact/make friends with people they had found that I had worked with many years before and they even had their phone numbers,both cell and landline!
They suggested people that I hadn't seen for years,did not at anytime socialise with, did not know their home addresses or ever have their e-mail or phone numbers! But they knew it all.
So I have concluded that it does not matter what you do to regarding your own privacy because whether it is phones, e-mails or anything else, they know it all!
Welcome to 1984! Simple cure? Get rid of Facebook!
Anonymous wrote:
Some 7 years ago I worked for a large International Defense Contractor ( not in the USA) for about 9 years. The work invovled was sometimes of a restricted nature and I was under the official secrets act and therefore not to discuss anything related to the type of work we did, which I have never dislosed to anyone, then or now, outside of the people involved.
Having a Facebook account (knowing full well the sewer it is) and not being a radical poster, just keeping in contact with friends, I kept my details to a minimum and had no problems for years.
I did not give them my cell phone number and only used it when required, usually having it turned off. Then they started to pester me continually for my phone number which I would not reveal.
Next they start to ask me questions about an American Pen-Pal I had some years ago who was fairly well off and a successful businessman. How did I know him? Where did we meet? etc. I did not respond.
Next I started to get requests from Facebook to invite me to contact/make friends with people they had found that I had worked with many years before and they even had their phone numbers,both cell and landline!
They suggested people that I hadn't seen for years,did not at anytime socialise with, did not know their home addresses or ever have their e-mail or phone numbers! But they knew it all.
So I have concluded that it does not matter what you do to regarding your own privacy because whether it is phones, e-mails or anything else, they know it all!
Welcome to 1984! Simple cure? Get rid of Facebook!