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Catters on Facebook

Richard Bridge 06 Aug 09 - 03:42 PM
Don(Wyziwyg)T 06 Aug 09 - 03:11 PM
The Fooles Troupe 06 Aug 09 - 08:38 AM
Amergin 06 Aug 09 - 06:05 AM
Richard Bridge 06 Aug 09 - 05:45 AM
Joe_F 05 Aug 09 - 10:52 PM
Peace 05 Aug 09 - 07:14 PM
Peace 05 Aug 09 - 07:07 PM
Richard Bridge 05 Aug 09 - 03:36 PM
Don(Wyziwyg)T 05 Aug 09 - 02:17 PM
CarolC 05 Aug 09 - 11:23 AM
GUEST,Captain Jack Sparrow 05 Aug 09 - 02:08 AM
Lox 04 Aug 09 - 06:15 PM
katlaughing 04 Aug 09 - 06:13 PM
Lox 04 Aug 09 - 06:07 PM
Lizzie Cornish 1 04 Aug 09 - 05:49 PM
Will Fly 04 Aug 09 - 02:55 PM
Ron Davies 04 Aug 09 - 01:43 PM
Ron Davies 04 Aug 09 - 01:42 PM
GUEST,hg 04 Aug 09 - 10:55 AM
Lizzie Cornish 1 04 Aug 09 - 03:41 AM
Richard Bridge 04 Aug 09 - 03:30 AM
Crow Sister (off with the fairies) 04 Aug 09 - 03:01 AM
VirginiaTam 04 Aug 09 - 02:55 AM
CarolC 03 Aug 09 - 11:45 PM
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CarolC 03 Aug 09 - 11:03 PM
Beer 03 Aug 09 - 11:01 PM
GUEST,quokka 03 Aug 09 - 10:56 PM
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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 03:42 PM

Snork!

I am (on behalf of unnamed clients, in the interests of client confidentiality) in correspondence with Messrs Orrick (etc) - at least I have written to their clients and thereby know of Orricks. I can go no further than that because of professional confidentiality.

Now that this train of thought is public, I would point out two things.

First, an importantly, we must not conspire by any legal wrong to do harm to Facebook. If anyone chooses to wrote to any member of Orricks it is that complainant's act, not a collective one.

Second, there is a way that Fakebook can prevent the accrual of legal fees as a result of emails to Orrick - but I am not going to set out on a publicly accessible forum what it is.

Finally, Fooles Troupe - PM me for important information about copyright.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 03:11 PM

Messrs Orrick & Co have been inadvertently very obliging. They like to boast about...er, advertise the well known clients they represent.

To that end there is a list of their associates and partners who have handled Facebook work, and from that one can glean not only names but E-Mail addresses as follows:-

Neel Chatterjee                      nchatterjee@orrick.com

Yvonne Greer                         ygreer@orrick.com

Julio c Avalos                         javalos@orrick.com

Monte Cooper                         mcooper@orrick.com

Justin M Lichterman                jLichterman@orrick.com

Aaron Rubin                           agrubin@orrick.com

Thomas J Gray                            tgray@orrick.com

Mark W Seneca                           mseneca@orrick.com

Guy Hopkins                              

Stephen J Venuto                        svenuto@orrick.com

Mr Hopkins, who was a partner, seems to have dropped out of the E-Mail list, but the rest are current.

What fees, I can't help wondering, might be charged to Facebook if some person or persons, incensed at the foot dragging attitude exhibited by Facebook, should decide to contact their lawyers en masse, demanding a rapid response.

Responding to letters, and passing on the message would IMO constitute legal service to the client, and I would bet that Orrick don't work for peanuts.

Don T.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 08:38 AM

Thank you for advising me that my id has been faked on Fakebook
I reported it - I also contacted mssrs Orrick etc and pointed out to them that I hold the copyright for "The Fooles Troupe" as I am the author, thus this now involves matters of copyright infringement.

:-)

It's nice to have friends....

Robin


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 06:05 AM

Like I said before it has enabled me to get in touch with people I haven't seen in years...and also helps keep me in touch with my sister in law, she is living in Illinois, while my brother is deployed.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Aug 09 - 05:45 AM

Joe - We can only communicate via mudcat when it is working. When it isn't, the fakebook page is handy.

As to secirity in general, if all members here had to give a verifiable email address to join or post, and validate via email, it would be easy to use www.spamarrest.com http://www.spamarrest.com/ (adding some additional user terms) to verify the sender identity and assert US based legal jurisdiction.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 10:52 PM

I just joined Facebook yesterday, and having been alerted to the Mudcat group's existence by this thread, joined it today, out of curiosity, tho I do not see the point of it -- surely Mudcatters can communicate with each other adequately on the Mudcat!

I joined Facebook in order to be beFriended by a terminally cute, and kind, man. To my surprise, it turns out that the place is crawling with folkies I know, so that almost immediately they outnumbered queers among my Friends. I am, of course, marginal in both groups.

I do find it annoying to be repeatedly invited to *poke* people. How vulgar!


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 07:14 PM

Fighting, burn-out and depression: life as a BNP activist

Leaked document reveals how the far-right party is showing signs of strain in the run-up to elections

By Jane Merrick, Political Editor

Sunday, 26 April 2009

The BNP's annual Red, White and Blue festival. The party's success in local elections has caused alarm

Senior members of the British National Party are "burning out", a leaked document drawn up by leaders of the far-right organisation has revealed.

Long-serving activists are prone to fits of depression, picking fights with other members and "irrational or erratic behaviour", the BNP party manual says. It tells members how to spot someone with signs of "burn-out" and reveals that the BNP is dogged by in-fighting.

The details will come as some comfort to MPs who have cautioned that the BNP poses its biggest electoral threat for years as it attempts to capitalise on economic hardship.

Harriet Harman, spearheading Labour's local and European election campaign for 4 June, said that many people were not aware that the BNP was fielding such a large number of candidates.

This month the BNP took second place in a council by-election in Manchester.

Under the heading "Burn Out" the activists' and organisers' handbook, which was leaked to the anti-fascist organisation Searchlight, reads: "Occasionally, a previously hard-working and constructive activist or official will 'burn out' and either go into an inactive fit of depression or, even worse, will start picking fights with colleagues or the leadership as an 'excuse' to drop out.

"The little factional squabbles that break out every few years in all political organisations always act of [sic] magnets to people in this unfortunate position. Although it's not very common, because we have so many officials doing so many great jobs, it's inevitable that a few will always be vulnerable." Signs of burn-out include "raised levels of irritability, irrational or erratic behaviour, depression and loss of hope".

The manual goes on: "If it happens to you, if by chance the time should come when you've had enough and have nothing more to offer, then please, please don't undo all the good work you've done and lose the friendship of people who have come to trust and admire you.

"Instead of picking fights or blaming other people for your decision to go, just tell your most trusted colleagues that you need some time out, shake hands and walk away with your head held high. That way you'll be welcome back at any time you want to get involved again, and in any case you can always be proud of your past efforts."

The booklet also warns activists not to set up official party blogs because "they can't write proper English" and describes some members as "oddballs".

A Searchlight spokesman said: "Everyone knows BNP members are irrational, erratic, hopeless people who like picking fights and blaming others, but it's surprising to hear them described that way in their own training manual.

"This proves that if any of this rabble were to be elected they wouldn't be fighting Britain's corner in Europe; they'd be fighting each other."



Interesting article.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 07:07 PM

Harpgirl, thank you.

To reiterate: I do not belong to or post to Facebook.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 03:36 PM

There are I think various models for legal liability of providers of websites like Fakebook.

Negligence is discussed above. I am not sure that the UK position would be the same and I am by NO means sure that an individual would have to go to the USA to sue Fakebook in tort if they were (plainly) in the UK and harmed in the UK. I doubt whether the traditional double actionability rule would exclude UK action if the harm was suffered in teh UK.

Contract may be another - the user terms require various things, and so if Fakebook fails to require those things of others they may have contractual liability to YOU if you are a member.

I believe however that Fakebook immunity under US law from defamation liability (and saying someone is a member of the BNP when they aren't, or is an old tart, etc is defamatory in my view) depends on so - called "safe harbor" legislation which requires the host to make available the identity of the abusive user. I should value a US lawyer's reading of that position.

In the UK, there is a recent judgment of Mr Justice Eady that I have not yet read in full but I believe is consistent.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 02:17 PM

They ripped a still from a video of mine on You-tube.

They can get our pics from all over the place.

Don T.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 11:23 AM

They've changed everyone's settings back from "no one" to "my friends". Anyone who wants their setting to be "no one" will probably need to go back and fix it again. A box will pop up saying not to worry. Just kill the box and then reset the preference.

(Rumors or not, I always keep my settings as private as possible.)


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,Captain Jack Sparrow
Date: 05 Aug 09 - 02:08 AM

You might want to read this.

Facebook Blog about use of photos


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Lox
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 06:15 PM

Sorry to hear that Kat - that sounds pretty rough.

I'll have a look at my mudcat account to see what I let people know all those years ago.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 06:13 PM

Thanks, Lox, that is fine and useful info, but in my case, at least, my photo was taken from Mudcat.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Lox
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 06:07 PM

Folks.


FOLLOW THIS ADVICE


When you are on facebook go through the following procedure to protect your pics, personal details etc.

1. Hover the mouse over "settings" and a drop down menu will come down.

2. Click on Privacy settings.

3. You will see a page with 4 blue clickies.

Click on the third line saying "News feed and wall"

4. You will see a new page with two tabs at the top

click on the right hand tab saying "facebook ads"

5. Scroll down and you will see various drop down menu's.

On each one select "no one"


This will make your info and photo's unavailable to be abused.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 05:49 PM

Hmmmmmm...

So, just out of interest, I googled 'Lizzie Cornish Facebook' to see how many pages came up (I only have one, but I know of one fake Facebook ID, there may be more)....and this site came up as No 2 on the list:

123people

It seems I've 3 more myspace pages than I thought, that I'm also either 24 or 103, have only Tom as my 'friend' AND...apparently, I visit an Over 40s social site er...undercover!

Gee whizz, I must do that in my sleep....and I sure as hell hope that I'm dressed half way decent in my undercover garments, because I have no recollection of doing that at all...YIKES! Senior moments in Social Sites...I guess it comes to us all, huh! LOL

'They've' also traced a myspace page I was thinking of doing called The Folk Clubs of England, but it never went any further than the title and photos...so how they tracked that one I've no idea, as it was never 'released' into the great wide world...

You guys should try googling your names with 'Facebook' after it, in the same way, and see what happens. Maybe you're all undercover with me, and we're all having one helluva time socially networking in the nuddy together!

Ain't the internet weird?

But I'm very pleased to see that the word SMILIE is showing up in the link words to me, as is Seth Lakeman..although 'They Who Must No Longer Be Mentioned' won't be too pleased!   ;0)


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Will Fly
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 02:55 PM

Facebook doesn't even begin to check identities - real or false. I signed up under a pseudonym some weeks ago, with a real mail address (I own my own web domain so I can create up to 500 email addresses) and inserted a false name and age. I looked at the site activity for a few days, just to see what it was all about and how it worked, and then stopped my account. My opinion was (and is) that Facebook is a waste of space.

Absolutely no check on me whatsoever, by the way. Today I logged on to the pseudonymous account as if nothing had happened - and got an email which said:

Hey ----,

The Facebook account associated with -------@----.net was recently reactivated.

If you were not the one who reactivated this account, please visit our Help Center (http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=420).

Thanks,
The Facebook Team


Obviously a computer-generated message to my pseudonymous email address. The potential for doing all sorts of anti-social things on Facebook is huge, as some 'Catters have found to their cost, and I shall avoid it like the plague in future.

But, even having ceased the account, it will apparently still lie there... fallow...


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Ron Davies
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 01:43 PM

"Texas court"


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Ron Davies
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 01:42 PM

In the US at least, those who want various websites to be held liable for abuse of their sites are not being supported in court. Even if the crime is serious.

WSJ:   28 Mar 2009:   "In February 2007, MySpace won an important court victory when a Texax court dismissed a lawsuit by the mother of a 14-year old girl who was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old she met on MySpace.   The widely publicized lawsuit charged MySpace with negligence and fraud for failing to take reasonable safety measures to keep young children off its site" .

In another case which went to the Supreme Court, Justice Stevens wrote for the majority on the issue of anonymity--obviously pre-Facebook-- in a 1995 opinion:   "...The right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. But political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse."

But the same article also stated that Facebook now requires people to use real identities--(and it traces its recent explosive growth to this policy.)

Obviously this is not the case--the "real identities" people have to use are not in fact always real identities of the people submitting them . The crucial question is clearly: how does Facebook ensure that the identities are actually real?--since whatever method Facebook is employing to assure this is not working.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 10:55 AM

I got conned into adding Bruce Murdoch and I suggested him to several others. It was a fake and now they have taken down his photo and put up a BNP photo but people are still adding him as a friend. I alerted Facebook and all the folks to whom I suggested Bruce. I am sorry Bruce but I got conned. I hope this gets cleared up soon.

harpgirl


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 03:41 AM

"Has Lizzie seen the new one of her?"

I've seen *one* of them, Tam. They sent it to me, to ensure I'd realise. At present I can't access Facebook as it shuts my computer down, but there's a message in there for me, which I can't access, which is probably another fake page with an abusive message inside.

I'm in FULL agreement with Dan's (old dude) message above, that the time has now come for Joe and Max to seriously reconsider the whole Guest posting situation. I know that it wouldn't stop these bastards reading Mudcat, but it sure would stop them posting abusive and 'wind up' comments on here, without having to worry about being traced.

If you want to write on Mudcat, then you should be traceable....and yes, Joe, before you come and say...."But YOU have had umpteen Guest names, Lizzie" ...you know that the only reason I've had those was because I couldn't write under Lizzie Cornish...and that since being allowed back on here, I've never once used a Guest name.

These guys need to be traced.

Facebook are looking into it...and I'm going to write to Facebook's lawyers on the link Richard provided, above....send them this thread and the BNP one too. The more of you who do the same, the more power it will have.

Mudcat is a Community, and that Community is now under attack BIGTIME, so we should all band together to ensure that at the very least, they can't write on here any longer without being traced. That's not taking away their freedom of speech, it's ensuring that Mudcat retains its dignity and looks after its Community.

These people are shits. They don't care what they say, who they say it about or to, and the one thing they want is to drive discussion of the BNP off this board, because they so desperately want to use the English Folk World to infiltrate the minds of people who aren't aware of what they're really about.

What is happening on Facebook shows how disturbed they are, not just in their own minds, but in the mind of the BNP as one 'animal'...

FAF has put the absolute shite up them and incensed them beyond belief, as have all the other ideas people are coming up with to counteract their evil intentions.

What I find so sickening is how they attack each person differently, trying to find the deepest way to hurt them, personally. Whoever is doing this has so much hatred in their soul, so much anger. I've ended up almost feeling pity for them, because to want to cause such hurt to other people...? Well, it's beyond my understanding of what the human soul should be about.

But my anger gets the better of pity, because I see the fallout of what they're doing.

United we stand. Divided we fall.

And that goes absolutely for Mudcat, those who post on it, and those who run it.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 03:30 AM

The other place you can find the fakes is also on Facebook, namely the "Folk against Fascism" group ("FaF"). The mods there have tightened up, much better than Facebook, but every so often a post that supports the BNP will appear from someone you might almost think you know here. Usually it's a BNP piece of identity theft.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 03:01 AM

I wonder if it's in part, an attempt by some BNP supporter/s to pressure Mudcat to ban the whole BNP topic (I recall a couple of weeks ago, Joe mentioned possibly banning future discussions on BNP, *I think* because of the "bad profile" some of these discussions - when they become less civil - might appear to give Mudcat)? Especially as considering that the owners & mods are all American, and thus will have less probable personal interest in such a specifically Britain-centric topic. Kat in particular being targeted, makes me wonder about the motive of some of the identity theft, which I *suspect* is in part intended to generate division and antipathy here.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 02:55 AM

I think it is time now to not comment publicly on this any longer.

We have to stop feeding the little prick.

Keep all comments to PMS and let this thread fade.

Refresh now and then for the sake of others who may become victims so they know they can PM others suffering same.

If you find a new fake profile of a another mudcatter, simply PM them.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: CarolC
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 11:45 PM

Thanks


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: bobad
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 11:15 PM

"How are people finding these fake profiles that are using their pictures?"

Check out the Mudcat Cafe group on Facebook.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: CarolC
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 11:03 PM

How are people finding these fake profiles that are using their pictures?


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Beer
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 11:01 PM

Something is happening. I can open facebook nor can I enter My Space.
Beer (adrien)


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,quokka
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 10:56 PM

Damn it Dan, I added Bruce as well. I guess I should have pm'd him first to check but I've been offline for a while and knew nothing about this.
Quokka


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 09:50 PM

The pics on the SH page change each time you view it, with different 'catters each time.
VT, it's not your face either and there is an unreality to all the engineered pics.
Someone is very sick, devoting quite a bit of time and effort to all this.
Al


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: olddude
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 09:47 PM

I am more than PISSED OFF, I added Bruce as a friend on my facebook before I read this thread. My family is on facebook ... what do I see a fucking BNP using my brothers name. I also got the invite using Bruces image that is on Youtube from his first record. Now I don't lose it normally but if these bastards are going to remain on mudcat I am gone. People who know me can get a hold of me through bruce or Susan or a host of others but this crap has got to stop someplace and someone has to stop it. I know facebook is not the cat but it is our friends we are talking about here ...and I have had enough political crap to fill the great lakes.

Pissed off beyond belief

Dan


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:47 PM

Thanks, Don, I will, after tomorrow. No need to trouble you any further whilst you take care of your dad.

I think we have two wankers doing this as mine has had nothing in common with others except Mudcat and the latest smacks of gargoyle's "cutesy" takes on my Mudcat user name. Wonder if he's gone off his meds and/or if he's been eating tomatoes this summer. Either way it is pretty pathetic.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:39 PM

""Also, I am going to look THIS OVER to see if it would be appropriate to write to them.""

No point Kat. I've had a look, and this toothless lion will simply pass on your complaint to guess who?

YEP! Bloody Facebook.

Pm me if you will, as per my last posts.

Don T.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:31 PM

No hurry, Don. You take care of yer Dad before we all get into this.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Peace
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:30 PM

Message on the way, Don.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:29 PM

Please note that there may be a twenty four hour delay in responding, as tomorrow will be largely devoted to my father's funeral.

DT


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:27 PM

I've been doing a little research.

It's all gone rather well, thanks to the fact that Facebook's legal representatives just lurv to boast about their connection with this uncaring bunch of tossers.

Please PM me for a list, and a suggestion as to how you might help to give Facebook a jolt they will NOT ignore.

Don T.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 06:16 PM

I'm on Facebook - but this one - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000005573894 - isn't me; it's a fake profile put up by the BNP. Don't you just love their little cuddly ways?


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 06:14 PM

Thanks for the alert, Abdul. I have written to them about that one, too. I find this interesting, from their legalese:

Where confidential complaints are made through this site reporting tool, Facebook will do its best to remove the offending content or conduct and to warn or, as appropriate, to bar from the site those transmitting such content or engaging in such conduct within 24 hours of receiving your complaint.

I have been asking to block this person from the getgo.

Also, I am going to look THIS OVER to see if it would be appropriate to write to them.

Poppa, what's stupid and sad about the whole thing is the lack of trust it engenders on Mudcat, too.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Tootler
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 06:14 PM

I got an email today with the header "Reminder: two of your friends have invited you to join Facebook"

I was not really happy, but I decided to have a look at the email and of the two "Friends", one was someone who I really do know and other was someone I don't. There was also a little photo gallery "Other people you may know on Facebook". Of the six little photos there was one other person I know, one who I think I have met at some time and I don't know any of the others.

I do not have a Facebook account, and I have tended to stay away from it, though I have considered joining because of the Mudcat group. However after receiving this email I decided to have a quick look through this thread, and after what I have read in the latter half of the thread I think I will continue not to have a Facebook account.

In the context of what I have just been reading, I find the email a little worrying. Is this a new trend and are Facebook using this to try and solicit new members or is it a form of Phishing? Needless to say, I did not click on any of the links in the email.

Geoff


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 03:29 PM

Abdul

Just an hour or so ago, that pic on the Sam Hudson profile was used for another fake profile titled Mudcat.

Just for the record I want to state that the pic on my fake profile simply cannot be me.

1 I don't own a black swimsuit.
2 I don't go out in public in swimsuit (only been in my brother's pool).
3 While my mid section (in the last 3 years) has probably grown that big, my legs have not. They are getting skinnier.

4 My hair is darker than that (except the white ones).

and the most important one definitely

5 I HAVE NOT HAD A FRINGE (BANGS) SINCE I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL.

Sometimes ya gotta laugh.

Has Lizzie seen the new one of her?

Why couldn't I have a cool one like that.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: PoppaGator
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 02:59 PM

I'm saddened to hear of all this brouhaha, and especially the BNP's ultra-sleazy involvement. Facebook can be a lot of fun for those of us who haven't run into this kind of headache/heartache, and can also serve to make important and positive real-world connections and reconnections.

I wish I could still recommend it to one and all without reservations, but I can't now that I know about these incidents.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 02:58 PM

Well, it all seems to be still there.

Seems to revolve around a Sam Hudson page eh?

http://www.facebook.com/people/Sam-Hudson/100000128680678

Al


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 02:30 PM

I signed up some months back just so I could see a page that some local students put up in honor of an old friend who is a teacher. I pretty much forgot that I had even signed up. In the last few days I've gotten friend requests from a couple of our younger relatives, so I've been looking in an exchanging a few words. I'm under my real name, Dean Elkins, and someone decided that I'm from Flint, which is close enough.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 01:59 PM

Got this in an email just now:

After reviewing the reported abuse, we have removed all offending content based on our Terms of Use.

Off to check, now, to make sure they did.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 12:13 PM

They have changed the picture on the fake profile of me. It is not a pic of me or anyone I know, and Virginia Tam is only my mudcat id, so I guess they have covered themselves.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 09:52 AM

follow the friends on that link Richard and you will find another of you

http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-McCormick/100000005573894


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: bankley
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 08:19 AM

I cancelled my 'account' about a year ago for personal reasons....
I wasn't really active anyway,. Now that I hear of the dirty happenings, the only thing I feel that I'm missing is the bullshit...

I have other 'walls' to deal with....


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 08:03 AM

This Russ Meyer profile http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=100000032357264 now uses my picture as if I were leering at the girls who typify the girls in real Russ Meyer films.


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Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 08:01 AM

The Fooles are still Troupe-ing there... ;-)


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