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Rick Granick

Rick Granick

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Frequently when I log onto facebook, at the top of the window there is a message saying:

Please update your email address
Our systems have detected that xxxxx@xxxx.xxx is no longer a valid email. Facebook requires all users to maintain an active contact email. Please enter and confirm a new contact email below:
New Email:

If you believe you have received this message in error, please reconfirm your current email.

This seems to come up often. There have been no changes to the email. What is up with this?
:nuts: Rick
 
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Rick,

I've never seen this, and I have used FB often on both persona and business accounts - makes me wonder if you have some spyware operating on your PC - perhaps a possibility? :shrug:

Did you hit there help pages, which typically uncover known issues.

John
 
Rick,
That same message appears on my FB page on a fairly frequent basis. I have always ignored it without issue. I'm also relatively anal about security and keeping all the detection applications up to date, so it's pretty safe for me to say that there is no funny stuff on this computer.

Maybe they have some fancy detection system because the email address that I used for the FB accounts can receive email but it cannot send email, so I wouldn't be able to confirm any of their message without a bunch of setup on my part.
 
My email is an address @ one of my domains and I use the catchall email address for viewing instead of creating a specific account. I use those email addresses to see who is selling email address lists.

ex: homedepot@mydomain.com wcaf@mydomain.com etc.
 
The email address I use for facebook is not my regular one, but a hotmail account. It has been fine, and I have made no changes to it. I'm on a Mac platform so I seriously doubt there is any spyware involved.
:shrug: Rick

Another exasperating new change with facebook (besides the substitution of "liking" for "fans"), is the automatic linking of the information in your personal profile to the pages of outside organizations THEY consider related to your details. The thing I object to is that if you try to opt out of this linking, it does so not by eliminating the links, but by REMOVING THE INFORMATION FROM YOUR PROFILE. So if you don't want the universe of those outside pages looking at your personal interests, then your friends can't see them either.
 
I get this frequently. They ask me to log in, and the first time I get an error message. So I just do it again, and the second time it works fine with the same e-mail and password. Their software is just garbage.
 
I get the feeling that the whole user interface is a work-in-progress being written by a bunch of clueless geeks making things up as they go along with no beta testing or focus group input as to desirability. It's exasperating. This new outside linking business seems to me an attempt to create a cross-referenced database that can be mined for sale to advertisers.
:kaffeetrinker_2: Rick
 
That's exactly what it is. Average age over there is probably 23. There is absolutely no culture of quality or excellence in the computer industry, hardware and software. If we put out the kind of shoddy product they do, would we all be millionaires too?
 
I have discovered to my great embarrassment that I have become a fan of 156 pages on FB, granted, probably half of those are Grumblers shop pages - but the other hald are stupid whimsical things that I would just as soon get rid of.

I can't seem to find any way to stop being a fan or Unlike or whatever they are calling it today.

Jim - those are really illuminating articles you have linked there. Thanks!
 
I think they are both equally evil but at the moment I find FB far more useful to my reclusive lifestyle than Google.

And at least there are ways of tightening down one's privacy on FB - Google offers no such options - they are just railroading over the landscape.
 
Mar, if you go to the individual pages that you "like", there is a button on the left near the bottom to "unlike" the page.
You have to look for it, but it's there.
 
Jim3535 said:
Have you guys been keeping up with facebook stories? It seems like every time I look, there's another story about how facebook is making some change to screw users and make money.

Facebook's "Evil Interfaces"
Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info
Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public
Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data

And that's only in the last month...
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Thanks for posting these links, Jim. I just found out
about this last week, and changed my privacy settings
right away. It's unconscionable for them to let people
choose their privacy settings, then undermine it by
adding features to allow data mining. But whoever said
Facebook had a conscience? Grr....

I have a question for you guys. My friend, Janice has a
facebook page she wants to erase. A well-meaning friend
of hers set up a page on her behalf, but she never wanted to
have one. Now she had over two hundred messages
from people wanting to be her 'friends' there. Most of
them are people she knows, but she just doesn't want
to be on there. Is it possible to cancel an 'account'?
 
Facebook definitely doesn't have your best interest in mind. They seem to just throw these crazy changes out there and see what sticks. If people don't protest like crazy, they don't backpedal.

I went back to grab a few more stories off slashdot. This isn't inducing any of the "feds/employer/boss/insurance company/etc. watching facebook and people getting in trouble" stories.

Facebook Goes After Greasemonkey Script Developer
Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email
Facebook Patents the News Feed
Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Forget Privacy
EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy
Facebook Founder's Pictures Go Public
Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface
Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead
After Canadian Prodding, Facebook To Change Privacy Policy
Facebook App Exposes Abject Insecurity
Facebook Faces the Canadian Privacy Commissioner
Facebook Lets Advertisers Use Pictures Without Permission
Facebook Violates Canadian Privacy Law
The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes
Facebook Reverts ToS Change After User Uproar
Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout
Facebook's New Terms of Service
Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You
Facebook A Black Hole For Personal Info
Facebook Sharing Too Much Personal Data With Application Developers
Facebook Caves To Privacy Protests Over Beacon
Facebook Beacon Privacy Issues Worse Than Previously Thought?
Facebook Users Complain of New Ad-Based Tracking
 
shayla said:
Is it possible to cancel an 'account'?
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Yes, it is. But probably what you want to do is Delete it - that's different...

From Facebook Help:
If you deactivate your account from the "Deactivate Account" section on the Account page, your profile and all information associated with it are immediately made inaccessible to other Facebook users. What this means is that you effectively disappear from the Facebook service. However, if you want to reactivate at some point, we do save your profile information (friends, photos, interests, etc.), and your account will look just the way it did when you deactivated if you decide to reactivate it. Many users deactivate their accounts for temporary reasons and expect their information to be there when they return to the service.

If you do not think you will use Facebook again and would like your account deleted, please keep in mind that you will not be able to reactivate your account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added. If you would like your account permanently deleted with no option for recovery, log in to your account and then submit your request by clicking [here].

If you are currently unable to access your account, you will need to reset your password in order to log in. In order to do so, click the "Forgot your password?" link that appears above the field where you would normally enter your password. Once you’ve followed the instructions to reset your password and can log in, you can deactivate or delete your account using the steps outlined above. http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=13016
 
I just had a message pop up on Facebook asking for alternate email addresses.
They asked if 3 different addresses were mine. One was and two weren't.

I ignored it but am wondering what this is about?

It's a fee service so we have to expect some shenanigans.
It's been a useful business tool but am beginning to wonder about it.
 
Wow, Jim, that is some scary article!

We all have to be on top the these FB changes - and the fact that they have retained all these beltway lawyers, Zuckerman knows he is in for a fight about this privacy issue.
 
AnneL said:
Back to the original question, what was the conclusion? Is it something to ignore when the email question pops up or is something more malicious at work? Gary just got it when he went to log in to Facebook.
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I still haven't found an answer either. I've been ignoring it.
:cool: Rick
 
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