Two issues that drive me nuts about facebook are the use of fraudulent photos and people posting photos of you without your permission. My ex posted a picture of me and refused to take it down. Not cool. I also noted that her FB pic was about 20 years young and 50 lbs light.
 
I don't use social media, so I suppose this is standard behavior that many of you have dealt with. Can facebook be considered a weapon if it's used as a tool for extortion? This is the sort of question that lawyers will be looking at in the 21st century.

I've always assumed that everybody on FB was checking everybody else out all the time, so therefore, I've never put anything up that was the least bit controversial and/or political. It is a good way to keep up with people you don't see very often, or you might never see again.
Having said that, its startling how many people 'you might know' there are in your 'find friends section'.
 
Bert

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I've seen pics of a bunch of girls I went out with and dated back in the days - in some cases, I really wished things had worked out back then. Seing them after so many years, I am glad things turned out the way they did and it only reinforces my feeling that I am the luckiest bastard on the planet. :P

Same here, my high school sweet heart looked great back then but is a nightmare and big as a cow now !! Boy did I get lucky she dumped me !!! :) I hope the poor sucker she married is having fun paying all her bills !!!! Bwahahahaha !!
 
It's amazing how those sweet young things turn into old hags...
 
 
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Bert Guy
I've always assumed that everybody on FB was checking everybody else out all the time, so therefore, I've never put anything up that was the least bit controversial and/or political. 

You can rest assured that 90% of the folks who go on FB don't go there to check others.
 
I can't tell you how many times "old pals" chimed in asking me what I was up to and if I was still in my little hometown, back in Canada - when obviously, the answers to those questions are readily available to anyone who stumbles upon my profile; but people just don't read.
 
That's not mentioning those folks who simply send you a friend request w/o any message and never giving sign of life afterwards.
 
At any rate, you can always decide who gets to see what you post, on a per post basis. 

It's funny reading the comments that old friends make on the Facebook posts of news sites etc...you get an insight into the political and sometimes philosophical outlook of people whom you may not have discussed these things before. I once made a pretty lightweight political comment in a thread and all of sudden this guy, whom I'd been friends with for nearly 20 years and had never had a cross word with, wrote this scathing diatribe about what an **** he thought I was, how he always knew I was one of "them," and how I should stay in America and never come back home to England because I'm "not welcome there." It was so over the top it was funny. And this is a guy who has never had a proper job and has been on the dole for over 20 years because, you know, he didn't want to "sell out." So then I had other people, some of whom I didn't know that well, private messaging me in support and telling me that this guy is a total a-hole. It made my day. 

I do know for a fact that people you search for on fb (Who you have no mutual friends with) will eventually all show up on your People You May Know list a month or two later if you clicked to see their profiles. Also the people you don't know from Adam who fb keeps recommending to you are the result of you liking the same posts as they did, which explains why so many people from foreign countries are recommended to you. I don't know if people you "stalk" who are not your friends will suddenly see you on their PYMK lists but its fair to assume that will happen. Of course you don't show up on their list with the words "Stalking you!" under your name, so that person in reality has no proof you looked at their profile, especially if you are from the same city as that person, went to the same high school, e.t.c. as in their minds that could be the reason you popped up on their lists. On the other hand over the nearly 2 years I've been a fb user none of the old school chums, ex girlfriends, e.t.c. whom I've been passively "stalking" that whole time have ever blocked me nor ever tried to contact me, so maybe I never showed up on their PYMK lists. The only thing that happened was with a woman who I "kind of know" who I developed a huge crush on suddenly started acting really weird around me a few months after I had been habitually looking at her fb profile and then she deleted her fb profile a week or so after I noticed the change in her behavior around me so its possible she was alerted by fb that I was eavesdropping on her, but I also believe that this woman and I have developed a sort of psychic, telepathic connection and she found out about what I was doing because of that, but that's a topic for another day.

What always amazes me is complete strangers sending you friend requests because they like a comment you made on some page or other. I never really thought of Facebook as like Twitter where you have "followers" who probably don't know you in real life, but evidently some people do. For me Facebook was always about friends and family.

The more I hear the more I'm tempted to create a fake FB account and have fun with it. 

craigb
The more I hear the more I'm tempted to create a fake FB account and have fun with it. 

Way ahead of ya. Had one for years.

Each day I could add exciting material like:
 
- Took another nice dump this morning
- Feel asleep on the couch for an hour
- Noticed the sun came out today
- Trash day again!