But here's the thing that I can't figure out to save my life. I don't know this person who sent me the email, but look at the bottom of the invite. It suggests "people I might know on Facebook." Guess what? I KNOW EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. And I don't have a Facebook account, so how does FB know that I know these people? It doesn't have access to my email info, or my calendar, or my brain... truthfully, all these people aren't even in my email address book. So how does FB know that I know them?? Check it out: (last names removed to protect the innocent)
Does anyone else find this to be extremely creepy? I mean, I just don't get it.
Ellie: Celia and Paige's sister
Annie: Friend from Boston
Tristan: Friend from Utah
Angie: Her son was on Mika's football team
Belinda: I knew her in High School
Tammy: Her husband works with my husband
Katie: Friend I "met" through blogging
Elizabeth: She goes to church now with a friend of mine from high school; we met once
Brooke: She is in my ward. (and actually, I took that cute picture of her and her baby)
So how weird is that? Other than Ellie and Tristan, who know each other, these people have absolutely no connection to each other other than me. Wait, Annie and Elizabeth met when we all met each other for the first time, about 2 years ago. But really. How is this possible?? I'm sure there is some simple technological explanation, feel free to share it with me if you know it. But I've never even heard of this Gloria person. Am I to assume she knows these 9 people as well?
See? Facebook can be scary. There is way too much access. I can't believe the "legal" age for kids to join is 13. It should be 18! And people who sneak their kids on there are seriously irresponsible parents (yes, judgmental) because clearly there is some way that Facebook has of accessing your personal information.
How much longer do I have to wait until FB dies its inevitable death???
18 comments:
FB is haunting you. It knows your every thought. I'd be scared if I were you!
I think it has gone through all of those other people's email address books and found you in all of them.
And there I am front and center ;) It has access to your email because all of us have imported people from our gmail contacts to see if they are on FB. I'm to blame. So sorry. It is not evil. Just join. Love ya!!
Oh and I totally agree with you on parents who let their kids join that are under the age of 13. I know my nieces and nephews are on but their parents have full access to their accounts. But still, I don't think it is necessary.
Oh, and I have no clue who that Gloria is. That part is very strange I will give you that.
i dunno. i'm pretty sure i'm not in all these people's address books.
Facebook does ask if you would like to invite someone to join Facebook. I'm guessing they have all entered your name. Just a thought.
Hey, I don't like that! I don't even use my Facebook and I was pretty sure my account was set to private. Whateva! That Gloria is sneaky-don't befriend her.
if you joined it would no longer be a mystery and all the terrifying thoughts that you have now would be replaced with annoyances of notifications that "So and so just fed her fish" in Pet World or that "Jane Schmoe needs 4 more nails to complete her barn" in Farmville.
at least now you know some of what you are missing- intimate glimpses into the lives of "people you might know" and love.
sometimes when i blog i think, "andrea is going to be the only one that this isn't news to because i have already announced it via fb"- (ie- seth getting casted.) everyone else is merely reading to get the deets.
ps- i think that Gloria is a composite of all the "people you might know"
I am on Facebook, it makes my life a little easier, but it is an interesting phenomena. I heard this account on NPR a few months ago about how 2 teenage girls were exploring in sewage drains in Australia. They became lost and trapped and were in there for hours, they both had cell phones. The kicker is that instead of calling an emergency # (like 911) to come save them, they updated their fb status hoping someone would see. Someone eventually did and they were saved but it is an interesting cometary on fb and teen thinking.
Life isn't worth living unless it's on a stage apparently. Of course, the same could be said of a blog, and that is why I have issues with blogging, my life is no reality show.
That is so scary. I hope that Tristan is right and that is how it happened. *shudder* I would be freaked out, too.
Weird.
FB is icky.
Freaky!
I feel like it's too late for me to join now anyway. We can be the last two standing.
That is very creepy. NY Times has done some great articles about the implications of all sorts of personal information being in this one data base.
Gloria Martin, maybe?
Hah! I just saw Gloria's pic. Don't think so.
Oh no THEY KNOW WHO YOU KNOW!!!!! Eh, so what? tell me how this endangers you. I bet there are ten people out there right now, outside of Facebook, who also know who you know.
You're so paranoid.
I second the Happy Back.
Facebook is not evil. It's just a dumb place where people can waste time letting other dumb people know what they just ate for dinner.
You know. Kind of like blogs.
Facebook is a bulletin board. But it's one where you can choose who sees what you post, as opposed to the old fashioned kind, where any old neighborhood pedophile/pervert could wnader by and take a gander.
Hating Facebook is like hating a bulletin board. Or the phone. Or the internet. Or a a bullhorn. Or the newspaper. Facebook is a conduit. It's a wire. It's a void; don't hate the void, hate the idits filling it.
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