[dba-Tech] Any Way To Escape Facebook?

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 11:21:56 CDT 2013


Good for you, and I'm happy that it works well for you. Not so good for me
at least, and who knows how many others that I represent in one dot on
their map? Although my surname is Fuller, I do NOT want fuller breasts.
Although my given name is Arthur, I do NOT want ads about books concerning
an alleged king whose principal locale was Camelot.

For the sake of an invited friend, who proposed that I was famous, which I
disputed, but at her insistence I googled myself, and was shocked at the
number of hits. It was about 24M, most of which are derived from
translations of things I wrote into other languages. So, divide that number
by 100, which doesn't even begin to factor in the number of languages in
China or India,


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been using Facebook for a few years. I don't get ANY emails from
> anything related to Facebook. I keep my stuff there pretty well locked
> down.
>
> I've reconnected with friends I had lost touch with for 30 or more years
> that without this tool I would not have been enjoying these renewed
> friendships. I have friends there who I have never met in person - much
> like my AccessD and DBA-OT friends.
>
> To each their own. I think you could have just adjusted your security
> settings to stop notifying you on anything and to not allow anyone to see
> any of your info and you would have been fine with it.  Change the email
> address to a bogus one. Tell your current email system that anything coming
> from there is spam.  Gmail seems pretty good at catching that kind of
> thing.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I thought that I had escaped this evil witch, but apparently not. I
> >
>
> --
> Gary Kjos
> garykjos at gmail.com
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