Okay, prodded by a request of an Australian friend, I signed up to Facebook last week.
And it is scary. It does indeed ask you for *a lot* of information. Plus, the only viable way I so far discovered to try to find people you know, is by uploading your full e-mail addressbook (or providing them access to your webmail!). In other words, that provides “them” with a full overview of your e-mail contacts too.
I always follow the same philosophy with any online site. I won’t put anything online that I don’t mind being out in the public eye.
LaMa, You can search for people just by first or last name, or email address manually. Allowing Facebook access to my contact lists in any way, shape or form is not something I was prepared to do. The only place that I enter my email passwords, is when logging into the accounts themselves.
Am I the only one who couldn’t actually access the site without having some STUPID US Visa pop-up appear?
If you want to get rid of a lot of advertisements etc, go here. Just copy/paste this in your hosts file (also the lmhosts and the hosts.msn) and suddenly all that shyet goes to nothing…
I always follow the same philosophy with any online site. I won’t put anything online that I don’t mind being out in the public eye.
Yes, that’s the same sensible strategy I follow.
LaMa, You can search for people just by first or last name, or email address manually. Allowing Facebook access to my contact lists in any way, shape or form is not something I was prepared to do. The only place that I enter my email passwords, is when logging into the accounts themselves.
Yes? How to do that? All I kept getting was that option to submit your full e-mail addressbook. Apparently that is what “they"prefer….
Oh and Carlotta: I’ll search you out as soon as I know how… :p
I always follow the same philosophy with any online site. I won’t put anything online that I don’t mind being out in the public eye.
Yes, that’s the same sensible strategy I follow.
LaMa, You can search for people just by first or last name, or email address manually. Allowing Facebook access to my contact lists in any way, shape or form is not something I was prepared to do. The only place that I enter my email passwords, is when logging into the accounts themselves.
Yes? How to do that? All I kept getting was that option to submit your full e-mail addressbook. Apparently that is what “they"prefer….
Oh and Carlotta: I’ll search you out as soon as I know how… :p
LaMa, its really not obvious. If you go to the Friends page and click the Find Friends button, it will always try to get into your address book. The way to search for one person at a time is to use the search box that is located under the Facebook logo on the upper-left of any page. Just type an email address or first and last name of someone and it will find them. Email is easier since only one person will turn up, for some names (like a friendf of mine names John Smith ) you will have to go through hundreds of entries to find the one you want.
Enter Email, hit search, if they’re on Facebook and using that Email address it’ll find them right away
Okay, prodded by a request of an Australian friend, I signed up to Facebook last week.
And it is scary. It does indeed ask you for *a lot* of information. Plus, the only viable way I so far discovered to try to find people you know, is by uploading your full e-mail addressbook (or providing them access to your webmail!). In other words, that provides “them” with a full overview of your e-mail contacts too.
They ask, but you don’t have to answer. Plus, I never did the email address thing. I just looked people up by name.
Okay, prodded by a request of an Australian friend, I signed up to Facebook last week.
And it is scary. It does indeed ask you for *a lot* of information. Plus, the only viable way I so far discovered to try to find people you know, is by uploading your full e-mail addressbook (or providing them access to your webmail!). In other words, that provides “them” with a full overview of your e-mail contacts too.
They ask, but you don’t have to answer.
Nope. That will be the case only once “they” have you safely at Gitmo….or one of those secret prisons in Yemen or Romania
) you will have to go through hundreds of entries to find the one you want. 
