Catters on Facebook

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Genie
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 09:18 PM

Interesting discussion of potential pitfalls of FB.   I didn't know about the "clones" of one's identity.

I've avoided a lot of these issues by simply not posting things like my address, phone number or even actual birthdate at FaceBook -- "private" or otherwise.    Anyone who wants to know these things can send me an email or PM and I can decide whether I want to share such info or not.   (I gave a birthdate very close to my real one but just different enough to be useless to anyone attempting identity theft, etc.)

I also discovered recently a very good way to regulate who gets to see things that I "share" on Facebook. In addition to categories like "Everybody," "Friends," and "Friends Of Friends," you can set up as many other categories as you like. E.g, you can have "College friends," "Work friends," "Mudcatters," "Folkie Friends," "Right wing zealots," "My left-wing friends," "Men I've slept with," "People I owe money to," etc., etc.   Every FB "friend" you accept can be in as few or as many of those sub-groups as you like.

So when you post something on your page, you can click where it says "Share" and select "Custom." Then one option it will give you is "Specific People." Select that, and it will ask you for the names of people OR GROUPS of people.   If you select, say, "College Friends" and "Men I've slept with" it will make your post (or link, etc.) available to anyone who is in EITHER group.   If you just want to share something with your work colleagues, just select only that group.

This not only can save some headaches as to who has access to the information & opinions you post, but it can make your FaceBook page a LOT easier for many of your friends to navigate.
E.g., if I'm engaged in a political discussion, I may not want to "bother" some of my folk music friends with those posts.   If I'm sharing folk music, it may not be of interest to some of my non-music friends.

I'm getting better at navigating FaceBook as I get more familiar with it.

Now to just ration the time I spend there. ; D

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 07:27 PM

"My feeking on all this"

Oh - PLEASE don't go around feeking in public.... :-)

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 07:12 PM

Be careful when responding to this Falco character.

He/she/it put in a friend request to me, and when I checked by clicking on the photo, it linked to one of the fake profiles placed by supporters of the BNP.

You have been warned!.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Maryrrf
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 11:53 AM

That's crazy! Even a depressed person can smile for a picture!

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,Falco
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 10:53 AM

Canadian insurance firm Manulife has reportedly cut a depressed womans benefits because photos showing her happy were posted on Facebook.

The woman, Nathalie Blanchard, said she cannot understand how Manulife was able to access her account because she had adjusted her privacy settings so that only friends could see her posts.

Blanchard was on leave from her company IBM for over a year after she was diagnosed with depression. She claims she was having fun on her doctors advice in order to forget her problems.

Manulife confirmed it uses Facebook to investigate clients.
Facebook has already proved its use to managers who have also been found to use Facebook to check up on employees.

Facebook will share information to prevent fraud or other illegal activity. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 12:50 PM

Naah! You got that wrong Bruce.

That's a photo of her prettier sister.

Don T

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 04:53 PM

My stalker on a good day.

LOLOL

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 04:12 PM

"I see Canada seem to have enough problems of their own."

Now, to spend a few moments correcting the English you say you love.

Either pluralize 'seem' or make 'Canada' Canadians.

If you make it Canadians, then the use of 'their' is fine. If not, then make 'their' its. If you want to send me your posts before you put them on Mudcat, please do so. I'd hate for you to appear as illiterate as you do. However, I think it's the booze that's getting to you.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 04:08 PM

Helen, unlike you I don't drink. You on the other hand become a slut after a few beers--or so I hear. So, get back to your glass and get shagged. You need it.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 03:43 PM

My feeling on this is that they should be fought every damned step of the way. IMO, they will not exist as a political party within two years.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Lox
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 08:15 AM

My feeking on all this is that the BNP lot should be ignored.

Libel is of course a terrible thing, but for it to have any real effeect it needs to be read by someone who cares.

Sam Hudson etc should not be confused for the Sun newspaper.

The focus should be on attarcating interest to FAF, growing it and ensuring your names are firmly attached.

If any of us become famous enough for people to care what political views we hold we can direct them there.


In the meantime I think the clones are of no more significance than a lonely person in a dark room shouting at the walls.


The battle to fight is the one that exposes the truth about BNP ideology and misinformation.

Anything else is a distraction.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 09:49 PM

After I discovered my id had been 'cloned' - I invited all those 'nice people' to be my friends, and sent them LOTS of invites to EVERYTHING (note that this is NOT spam according to FB TOS!) ... and now they have all gone away...

sob, sob, sob...

:-0

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 05:13 PM

Hi, Lynne. Good to 'see' you.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: MBSLynne
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 05:10 PM

I just read my posts on this thread from 2 years ago. My how things change! I now have 230 friends on Facebook and go on it several times every day. Don't do all those silly quizzes and applications though

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 04:48 PM

Well, it keeps the Lisas and Helens off the streets.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: LilyFestre
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 01:22 PM

There's also a preference file where you can restrict the use of your photos for your own use only. The default is set to allow FB to use your photos in advertisements..part of the Terms of Agreement unless you deactiviate it.

Michelle

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 01:19 PM

A reminder as to prophylaxis on Fakebook. Restrict who can see your posts, wall, and profile (in privacy settings) to YOUR friends only. If you get a "friend" request from an apparent 'catter, PM the real one on Mudcat to make sure that the request is not from a BNP fakebook clone. If you get a "friend" request from someone you do not know, look through their friends and their friends' friends for signs of BNP or other neonazi tendencies - and for known fake profiles (mostly of me, Don, and John, at the moment). Check Sam Hudson's profile and Leah Green's profile and Helen Butcher's profile and the fake mudcat: If your wannabee friend knows any of the people there - he she or it is another bit of neonazi slime.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 11:09 AM

Essex Girl, you need to understand a Facebook wall. The best way will be to get a young relative to show you some time.

The "Wall" shows a timeline of matters.

So at 12.27 Monday Lisa Garvey-jones purported to relate that (a) Peace had been telephoning her and "talking crap" and also that (b) I had made obscene telepohne calls to her. Bot pure invention, natch.


Then there are some other "thoughts" of Sam.

Then at midnight on Tuesday Leah Green purported to relate that I had made an indecent proposal to her. No doubt she attracts some people, but you for example know that she is not the type to my taste, and of course I did not contact her in any way.

Almost immediately "Don England" (anothern BNP clone of Don) posted a garbled rephrasing of a post of mine from the Maidstone Folk against Fascism group.

Can you see it now?

But yes, they are not brain surgeons are they?

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 09:00 AM

How very amusing. Sam is incredibly good at inventing invisible friends, but a genuine Bill-No-Mates in reality.

One look at the actual Sam Hudson friends list would suggest that Sam's BEST friend hasn't been doing the job.....P.U. The odour of racism does repel decent people rather well.

Of course, poor Sam IS educationally challenged, and that must deter would be friends. It must be a real chore for them, having to read all those reams of material, so that Sam will know what's going on in the world.

Sam was even so desperate for friends, that he/she invited ME to be his/her friend. Maybe nobody bothered to read out the bit, below my profile picture which states that I am a Committed Member of "Folk Against Fascism". GET IT, SAM?.......ANTI-YOU!

Don T.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,Essex Girl
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 08:56 AM

Richard what on earth is this? It doesn't make any sort of sense either logically or grammatically, it's just complete rubbish.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 08:06 AM

I suppose I should sympathise with the mentally handicapped - so here for you to sympathise too is the latest bunch of infantile invention from "Sam Hudson"'s wall



"RECENT ACTIVITY
Sam joined the group Towersey 09. · Join this GroupSam joined the group Mudcat cafe.Sam and Daniel Hristovski are now friends.

Don England Well, I play and sing and did a 20 minute slot at Pig's Ear earlier this year, and a 40 minute supporting Sara "airbags" Spade at the Good Intent recently, but really I'm an amateur - mostly hard-core folk. John Barden(Gary Glitte...r) plays festivals up to national level and is semipro singer-songwriter. Clive Leverdong and do some paid gigs and a lot of comic material. Marion (Bra Buster) Rodgers is excellent and versatile within the gamut of folk. Dave Kendal is perhaps the best guitarist in Kent and one of his bands Russ and Meyer covers a range of folk and stuff (Janet ( big rack) Baker sings the blues with them). He has a jazz band doing sort of Django stuff too. Davey Rumsey I always thought was brilliant, there used to be a MySpace page for the David James Rumsey Band. Geoff Cole is a totally terrific clawhammer guitarist and singer with a range of contemporary folk and blues shading into country - when his meds are right. Jumbo Gumbo do cajun. There is another very good band (ifRead more
12 hours ago

Leah Green Horny old Richard Bridge is back on Facebook again and has now invited he for a dirty weekend and a free nights drinking in the Nags Head Lower Stoke ! Christ does this old fart never give up creating fake pages ? Hard to believe a man that age hasn&...#039;t something better to do with his time. Folk Hoff Richard !!!Read more
Yesterday at 23:59

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Sam and Oi Skinheads are now friends.Sam and Clarissa Zies are now friends.Sam is attending Moseley Folk Festival After Party. · RSVP to this eventSam and Gordon Metcalfe are now friends.Sam and Offer New are now friends.Sam became a fan of BRITISH ARMY. · Become a FanSam and Don Thompson are now friends.Sam and Andrew Jolly are now friends.
Sam and Katherine Coffey are now friends.Sam and Jason Wilson are now friends.Sam and Kathleen Coffey are now friends.
Sam joined the group Canadian Folk Musicians. · Join this GroupSam joined the group European Folk Musicians. · Join this Group
Sam wrote on Mudcat's Wall.Sam discussed BEST OF BRITISH TO YOU ALL on the Mudcat discussion board.Sam wrote on Mudcat's Wall.Sam became a fan of Mudcat. · Become a Fan

Sam Hudson So glad to see "Folk musicians supporting the BNP" have sent the Prime Minister a letter calling for Britain to limit the number of "free loaders" entering the UK. Great to see latest figures show support for the BNP is on the ris...e, up 23% in the first six months of this year. Best of British to you all.Read more
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Lisa Garvey-jones What a wonderful weekend, old Bruce Murdoch the failed has been musician kept emailing me through the bottom of a glass and talking crap. Dirty old man Richard "Hoff" wanted me to talk dirty to him ! Christ, what is it with old guys, do all folk musicians end up, washed up and lonely ??
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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 06:20 PM

I disagree with you, Joe. However, don't tempt the fates.

Facebook will be made to cough up the addresses of the people doing the theft, and it ain't about the money we WILL win. It's about the names we WILL get. Then they have some serious shit to face.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 06:15 PM

Looks like my identity, if any, is not worth stealing. If you're not worth bothering with, you're not worth bothering. %^)

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,Larry Boy Pratt
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 03:58 PM

I'm on, so is my wife and the kids are on three different social websites !
It's a great way to keep in touch with old friends from home or college. I give it a 10 + rating never had any problems.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Brakn
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 03:46 PM

I'm on facebook and have had no bad experiences yet.

Michael Bracken

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 02:33 PM

Well, I made the break. I deactivated my facebook account, immediately after reporting the BNP group as racist and threatening to me and some of my facebook friends.

The constant theft of people's IDs, photos and personal info was just too much. I feel better being out of it.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 04:26 AM

Some new material up this morning. Reported already. Also some material that may expose some of their other friends to being removed.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: jeddy
Date: 23 Aug 09 - 06:50 PM

i think i got dupedby Gareth, but it wasn't the sort of message to light up warning bells, i wonder whether alot of the names used are clones or stolen? and maybe the one i got was real?

facebook has stopped me reporting stuff, i have just tried again and whatever i put in, it tells me i have done it wrong.

jade x x x x

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: jeddy
Date: 23 Aug 09 - 06:22 PM

richard, i have looked for the fake don and you but they are no longer on public search. you will find them on sam hudsons friend list.

i got a message from gatareth too but this one wasn't nasty and he had about 176 ish freinds and none of them were names i have recoginised. gareth was very nice and was wondering if i had been sending messages to his freinds. so i am wondering whether he has now been cloned for asking too many questions. i am just about to look for sam h. on the fake mudcat, if i can get it to work.

take care all

jade x x x

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Aug 09 - 04:15 PM

Don, send to "[e-mail]"

Bebo, use the snailmail addresses in the letter I copied you on.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 Aug 09 - 02:51 PM

Tried to report the latest fakes, but Farcebook are taking a new tack.

When I report and submit, I get the message "You have already reported this page", and it aborts the report.

No mention of when they might DO anything about my reports.

And Bebo are completely ignoring my complaint.

What else is new?

Don T.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Aug 09 - 11:26 AM

Gareth Mark Baugh sent me a message on Facebook...


"Subject: leave my friend leah alone ok grandad"

Assuming he means Leah Green, who sent me a friend request that I declined, two of her friends are BNP created fakes Donald Thompson and Richard Hoff Bridge.

Oh, and I have at no time sent her any message.



So subtle and polite, aren't they?

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Aug 09 - 04:39 AM

I am reminded of a quote from "The Island of Dr Moreau". "Day by day the stubborn brute flesh grows back".

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 10:21 PM

I've stuck in my toe a couple of times, although I've corresponded with just three people so far. I'm still not convinced that it has anything over email.

Odd feeling though to find my ex in there, along with his current wife. We're 'friendly' as in all the heat gone and polite but I don't anticipate being friends with either. We share a lot of friends and relatives though. His brothers still call me 'Sis'; a little confusing, I suppose. It's been more than 40 years.

It is nice seeing my 19 year old twin grandchildren on there. I've not seen them for two years and it is amazing how much the girl resembles her mother.

Question: What kind of grammar is this? "Merle only shares certain information with everyone."

Almost enough to make me close the faceBook.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 04:26 PM

Jeddy please pm me links to the fake Dons - I thought they ahd all been lifted.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: jeddy
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 02:53 PM

i have just had a message from someone asking if i have been sending PMs on fakebook, so i asume i have yet another clone.

I AM HAPPY i must be really annoying someone.

oh something worrying, i treid to report one of the fake don T profiles and it wouldn't go through. saying that i hadn't fill in the form properly.

take care all, we will get em yet!!

jade x x x x

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 02:48 PM

""Good kicking for Bebo in post""

Ditto delivered this evening on line.

I now have a Bebo account, so will be shouting loudly about any fakes I come across.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 08:48 AM

Good kicking for Bebo in post.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 05:12 AM

Working on Bebo now

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 04:07 AM

As of today Fakebook seems to be down to two fakes: -

One Fred McCormick

And one Mudcat

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: jeddy
Date: 16 Aug 09 - 06:02 AM

i still have my clone on bebo, it is my photo but not me, just to make sure you all know.

have a great day everyone
jade x x x x

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 15 Aug 09 - 08:03 PM

I think not, "Chris".

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,Chris
Date: 15 Aug 09 - 07:56 PM

Bruce, Last Wednesday you said you would let me know by Thursday, any word from Lisa ?

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 15 Aug 09 - 05:48 PM

Good choice. They have tried to get lots of people sucked in.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Aug 09 - 05:30 PM

BIZARRE. Glad I ignored the friend request.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 15 Aug 09 - 05:22 PM

The BNP is a British Nazi organization.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 15 Aug 09 - 05:21 PM

Very likely.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Aug 09 - 04:41 PM

What is BNP? And is this "Sam Hudson" trying to friend me some sort of fake as well?

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 15 Aug 09 - 04:24 PM

That was written by Aneurin Glyndwr.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 15 Aug 09 - 04:22 PM

"BNP

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Loud and Proud? More like ashamed

It seems that the BNP members are ashamed of themselves. Party leader Nick Griffin sent around an email telling members to "try and avoid" owning up to being a BNP supporter. Griffin urges members to send letters of complaint to the General Teaching Council as two BNP "super activists" face being struck off the teaching register.

In the email Griffin states:
"We need all our supporters to contact the General Teaching Council and protest in the most determined way,"

"When complaining, please be articulate, polite and sensible and try and avoid stating that you are a BNP supporter."

Come on Nick aren't you loud and proud of your beliefs?"