When good friends never leave forever

[sundial]

I dunno. If someone in the UK can steal my identity then Facebook is open season in my book.

[Cataboo]

Hopefully your facebook doesn't list your social security number.

My facebook page says I was born in 1895 and I'm male with 8 children living in Zimbabwe. I don't list any of the Universities or schools I've attended. I do have a reasonably uncommon name, so anyone searching on the name might find me, but you can't just search on a school I attended between certain years 7 find me. My page & all contents on it are set to private, and most of the actual info on it is misinformation.

Once I'm on someone else's friend list... their friends are able to see "okay, this person has 80 friends & catriona is one of them" but they can't see my page, they can ask me to add them as a friend.

Now... if anyone can use the info that I'm a 114 year old male with 8 children in Zimbabwe to stalk me or steal my identity, that would crack me up.



I can't see worrying about cyberstalkers when you originally found this friend & a lot of information about her by googling her - which is basically what you're trying to avoid by avoiding facebook.

I do use my real first name around the web - but I am usually very careful to make sure that very little can be found about me on a google and if anything can be found, it's usually inaccurate.

[Cataboo]

I also have different levels set on facebook - so depending on which group I add a friend to, they can see varying amounts of what's on my profile - anyone that I don't care if they see pictures or wall posts - they get to see those, people that I don't think they should see it... they see a pretty restricted view.

[Zen]

I haven't found anyone through facebook nor have they found me.

I did find my old Army buddy on a site devoted to the 3rd Armored Division.
She found me, really. I posted that i was looking for her and voila!