Comments on: Would You Accept Freddi Stauer’s Friend Invitation on Facebook? http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2007/08/16/would-you-accept-freddi-stauers-friend-invitation-on-facebook/ Sharing ideas, business experience and tips for professionals working from home Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:16:55 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Getting Serious About Facebook http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2007/08/16/would-you-accept-freddi-stauers-friend-invitation-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-6019 Getting Serious About Facebook Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:52:16 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2007/08/16/would-you-accept-freddi-stauers-friend-invitation-on-facebook/#comment-6019 [...] And insofar as what I post about here on Thinking Home Business is a reflection of what I’m currently focusing on, you could be forgiven for thinking I haven’t paid any real attention to Facebook. And you would be right, as is evidenced by the fact that the last time I posted here about Facebook was just a month short of two years ago, about how careful we need to be with our online identities. [...] [...] And insofar as what I post about here on Thinking Home Business is a reflection of what I’m currently focusing on, you could be forgiven for thinking I haven’t paid any real attention to Facebook. And you would be right, as is evidenced by the fact that the last time I posted here about Facebook was just a month short of two years ago, about how careful we need to be with our online identities. [...]

]]> By: Des Walsh http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2007/08/16/would-you-accept-freddi-stauers-friend-invitation-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-650 Des Walsh Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:04:36 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2007/08/16/would-you-accept-freddi-stauers-friend-invitation-on-facebook/#comment-650 Good on you for insisting, Kathie. I think it is an appalling system, terribly open to abuse. And I can't see any justification for their scraping information from our LinkedIn profiles and making it their own without a by-your-leave. As the old soldiers say, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. So let's all be more vigilant about what these characters are up to. Good on you for insisting, Kathie. I think it is an appalling system, terribly open to abuse. And I can’t see any justification for their scraping information from our LinkedIn profiles and making it their own without a by-your-leave. As the old soldiers say, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. So let’s all be more vigilant about what these characters are up to.

]]> By: Kathie Thomas, A Claytons Secretary http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2007/08/16/would-you-accept-freddi-stauers-friend-invitation-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-649 Kathie Thomas, A Claytons Secretary Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:13:26 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2007/08/16/would-you-accept-freddi-stauers-friend-invitation-on-facebook/#comment-649 It is a worry, isn't it? Re the spock.com site - I found out that my information was on their site even though I never accepted an invitation sent to me by an unknown person. Seems that person had copied my profile from LinkedIn and placed it at spock.com without my permission. I had some discussion with spock.com saying I didn't want it there. They told me that it was going to public and then I could see what was listed. I told them until it was public then it had to be removed - I wasn't going to join just so I could see what information they had on me. I also told them that they should never have put my information up there before I agreed or accepted to join them and that at Linkedin your profile isn't developed till you accept to join and then build it yourself. I think this type of website is a leech - taking information elsewhere instead of building their own, and then accepting what anyone wants to add without verifying that the owner has knowledge of it. And who knows what others can put up there about yourself? Needless to say I wasn't happy - and they finally agreed to remove it. It is a worry, isn’t it?

Re the spock.com site – I found out that my information was on their site even though I never accepted an invitation sent to me by an unknown person. Seems that person had copied my profile from LinkedIn and placed it at spock.com without my permission. I had some discussion with spock.com saying I didn’t want it there. They told me that it was going to public and then I could see what was listed. I told them until it was public then it had to be removed – I wasn’t going to join just so I could see what information they had on me. I also told them that they should never have put my information up there before I agreed or accepted to join them and that at Linkedin your profile isn’t developed till you accept to join and then build it yourself.

I think this type of website is a leech – taking information elsewhere instead of building their own, and then accepting what anyone wants to add without verifying that the owner has knowledge of it. And who knows what others can put up there about yourself? Needless to say I wasn’t happy – and they finally agreed to remove it.

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