Catters on Facebook

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: bubblyrat
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 05:22 AM

I have been on Facebook for a while now,and have many "friends",both musicians and " 'catters", and I enjoy things like the Scrabble-type games (against "Jenny O" !), although the "poking" and "throw a sheep at,,,,," features are a bit tedious !(Bill McKinnon likes them,though !!). It is actually a good way of being kept up to date on the movements,appearance dates,latest CD releases etc. of a host of people in the "folk" world (in my case,Harriet E,Mary H,Jonny D,Vicky S,Anne L,Annie I,Jim Mc,George P (of course !),Paul S,Eddie U,Jo F,.....and loads more! Log on to see me posing at Henley regatta ! ( Roger Vaughan Mills ),,,see you there !

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Cats
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 01:55 AM

Ho folks, just joined up. I'll happily have you as Friends Havn't found the mudcat section yet!

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Nov 08 - 10:07 PM

I've been on it for a few months. It's a good way to stay (and find & get back) in touch with scattered family and friends.

Because e-mail is just so difficult.   ;)

But it IS easier to find old friends if they're on FB.

Just joined the Mudcat group.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Nov 08 - 03:06 AM

Ruthless Robin Plunders The Seven Seas!

AAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Nov 08 - 10:27 PM

If you get the following request


This is Robin from The Mudcat

User name Foolestroupe


That is me - I've now found the Mudcat group - I don;t intend to ask EVERYONE in it to be a friend straight away :-) - but you are free to ask me.

Robin

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: JennyO
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 12:07 AM

Thanks for the compliment, Brendy. You're not so bad yourself ;-)

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Darowyn
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 04:24 AM

I found a use for it. One of my students is a Facebook addict, and has befriended the entire course, and all the musicians in the area.
Her friends list makes a perfect contacts list for me.
cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Brendy
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 11:44 PM

You're a gas woman, Jenny.... :-)

B.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 11:11 PM

I've never even thought of using it for shopping. There are plenty of other things to do there that don't cost money - unless you consider pirate coins to be money. Then I buy pistols and monkeys and messages in bottles - ARRRR!

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Brendy
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 08:15 PM

Just don't use the place for shopping...

B.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 08:36 AM

I read on wikihow that you can disable 'beacon', which is the shopping-tracking thing.


Dani

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 06:24 AM

i much prefer myspace.com. it's too easy to tell the wrong people private things on face book.

sal

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 04:44 AM

Joined Facebook a number of weeks ago after receiving invites from people. Finally got round to playing around with it. Look for Catherine Jayne Pettigrew.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 07:19 PM

My apologies if this has already been posted. I don't do facebook, but remembered this thread and thought the following might be of interest/concern to those who do:

When you buy a book, movie, or gift online, do you want that information automatically shared with everyone you know? Last week, the social networking site Facebook began doing just that. Private purchases made by Facebook users on other sites were posted on Facebook for people's co-workers, friends, and random acquaintances to see.1 Why? To benefit corporate advertisers.

Other sites are looking at Facebook's example to see if they can get away with similar privacy breaches. We need to draw a line in the sand—making clear that the wish lists of corporate advertisers must not come before the basic privacy rights of Internet users.


There's more, incluidng a petition, etc. if anyone is interested at Move On.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Anne Lister
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 04:50 AM

As some of you have found out, I'm a relatively new face on Facebook, but using my real name. Hope you'll all become friends!

Anne (Lister)

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Rasener
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 07:42 PM

If you haven't already joined then I have

The Villan AKA Les Worrall

Do become a friend :-)

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Gulliver
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 07:04 PM

I joined a few weeks ago and now all these women want to be "my friend"--rarely happens in real life!

Don

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Alice
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 11:44 AM

I should have written search for
"Mudcat cafe"

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Morticia
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 11:12 AM

A small problem with that maybe that people are using their real names on Facebook and not Mudcat names. Could people perhaps sign up on the Mudcat group with their Mudcat names so others can find you, should you want to be found of course.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Alice
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 10:45 AM

I took mouldy's advice and removed birth date and made info more secure on my facebook page. But... I'm still there! Reach out and be a friend if you want. Search for Mudcat on facebook to find catters.

Alice

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Barry Finn
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 10:43 AM

I just got there, trying to suss it all out

Barry

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: JulieF
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 07:08 AM

Hi JeZeBel

Your friend request did throw me initially but I saw that you were already friends with JennyO and another folkie friend of mine so I worked it out.

Must admit I have gone back and taken out the year from my date of birth .

I don't tend to play so much on facebook - Can't get it at work anyway.   But there are bits I really like and I like looking at friends' statuses as a snap shot of what is happening. My daughter and I have decided not to be friends to keep bits of our lives private but we seem to have a lot of mutal friends.

J

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 05:45 AM

Hi JeZeBeL! I didn't know who you were at first, but I guessed you might be a Mudcatter, so I looked and found you in the Mudcat group. I've added you as a friend.

What Sandra says is true - that I have been spending much more time on Facebook than Mudcat lately. For some reason it suits me fine, and it's a lot of fun. I haven't seen anything yet that requires me to buy anything, and if there was, I wouldn't add it.

I've been hooked by Pirates - I spend ridiculous amounts of time on it. Also, one of the rather unexpected lovely things is that I have got to know some Mudcatters much better!

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: mouldy
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 05:40 AM

As a precaution (not from shame!) I have removed my date of birth from the visible bit. However, as I understand it, the main risk is with regard to those who accept anybody who asks as a friend. I go by the rule that if I can't relate them to me, either by acquaintance, or something like Mudcat, they don't get accepted. Let's face it, it DOES give you the option.

The other thing is not to give too much away about your movements.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 05:28 AM

Who's been removed from who's friends list??? I'm all confuddled???

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Jim Lad
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 03:23 AM

OUCH!
JeZeBeL: You're only the second one to be removed from my "Friends" list.
Sorry.
Jim

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 08:02 PM

so who's karen then?

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From:
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 03:46 PM

I'm with weelittledrummer up above.

With the audio sites that are available now we
must be able to do a lot better than this.

Oh for the days of Hearme then Paltalk.

Jack

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 02:29 PM

Face Book is a bloody weird site, but then again all those social/dating sites tend to be slightly on the weird side

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 01:17 PM

someone called karen smiled at me, whose karen then?

bloody weird site!

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 01:11 PM

6A THE WICHITA EAGLE - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2007 [Wichita, KS, US.]

(N)ew program lets companies tap ongoing conversations by alerting users about friends' activities through the feeds. About 48 Web sites have decided to embed a free tool from Facebook, known as a Beacon, to enable the marketing feeds.

Facebook shows users' purchases to friends

BY ANICK JESOANUN
AND RACHEL METZ
Associated Press

NEW YORK— Some users of the online hangout Facebook are complaining that its two-week-old marketing program is publicizing their purchases for friends to see.

Those users say they never noticed a small box that appears on a corner of their Web browsers following transactions at Fandango, Overstock and other online retailers. The box alerts users that information is about to be shared with Facebook unless they click on "No Thanks." It disappears after about 20 seconds, after which consent is assumed.

Users are given a second notice the next time they log onto Facebook, but they can easily miss it if they quickly click away to visit a friend's page or check e-mail.

"People should be given much more of a notice, much more of an alert," said Matthew Helfgott, 20, a college student who discovered his girlfriend just bought him black leather gloves from Overstock for Hanukkah. "She said she had no idea (information would be shared). She said it invaded her privacy."

The girlfriend was declining interviews, Helfgott said.

Lots more words in the article, but the above is most of the content, I think. This is one of a series of recent "improvements" made by Facebook, several of which seem to be not known by many of their users.

I'd suggest keeping a sharp eye on the greedy bastards management.

John

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Jim Lad
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 11:37 AM

Got it:
          "You are now friends with Emma Jane Kitchen"
Cheers!
Jim

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 08:47 AM

I went on the mudcat cafe group today and added lots of you...so apologies if you've all got requests from an Emma Kitchen....

It's just me :)

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 08:31 AM

I joined last week - by accident as well; however since thereare a few names there that I know I have decided to stay. Plus, as others have already said, it will keep me in touch with the kids - and they both still live at home!

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 03:44 AM

JennyO has mentioned that she spends a lot of time on Facebook & she certainly hasn't posted here very much in the past week!

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Brendy
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 01:13 AM

It's a crazy place, alright... ;-)

B.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: john f weldon
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 12:47 AM

I notice that since joining Facebook I make much less use of Mudcat. I drop in on Facebook several times daily. Of course, if I had a serious topic to discuss, I'd go to mudcat.
Facebook seems more like a wild party with an open bar.
Mudcat is a church social with tea and biscuits.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Y_Not
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 08:16 AM

BE CAREFUL ABOUT THE INFO YOU PUT ON YOUR PROFILE.

I watched an episode of watchdog on TV last week, two guys who had put their details on Face Book agreed to a computer fraud expert see what he could do with the info they had put about themselves in their profile.

They had both given their real names, date of birth and the district where they live.

From this he was able to find out their home address and their birth certificate details, which gave him their mothers maiden name something which is used a lot for passwords with banks.

He was able to open a bank account in their names on line.

The advice was, if you join any of these contact websites don't give to much info about yourself.

Stay safe it's a big www out there!

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: mouldy
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 06:38 AM

I was using facebook anyway, as it's another means of keeping in touch with my son who has recently emigrated to New Zealand. He more or less ordered me to join! You put on as much or as little information as you want.

Unfortunately I have had to list my status as single, as although there is a slot for divorcees, there isn't one for widows!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 11:51 PM

I'm lurking mostly, taking it all in. And for now, I have a questionmark instead of a photo. I'll find something to stick up there after a while.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 02:21 PM

Mudcat Facebook Group.
Giok

Sorry I think you have to be a member to view it.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Brendy
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 02:02 PM

After a few invites to join both, over the past months, I eventually succumbed to the younger generation peer pressure, and enrolled in Facebook.
Again, don't know quite what to do now, but I'm up there somewhere anyway...

B.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 10:26 AM

I joined a couple of weeks ago at the request of a coworker. In some sense this seems a dangerous site--it's everything we didn't want our kids posting online about themselves when they were little. But this started for college students at Yale and spread. The Internet is such an open space that this seems different than what we used to caution the kids against, and I've rediscovered a number of friends I haven't seen in ages.

I'm using my own name. Nice to know there is a Mudcat linkage. I don't go there often, but need to post an event or something tomorrow.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 10:14 AM

I accidentally joined Facebook some time ago (exactly how I can't remember) & have already got one friend, although (as yet) there's nothing about me up there as such.

I find the prescriptive terminology quite as off-putting as the self-seeking sycophancy of MySpace which strikes me as entirely perverse. That said, I am thinking of joining that as well...

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: Alice
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 10:09 AM

I'm on Facebook and in the Mudcat group there.
Just search groups for "Mudcat cafe".
Alice

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: LeTenebreux
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 09:56 AM

PM me if you want to find out my facebook name (which is my real name, in fact)

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: john f weldon
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 06:58 AM

I just joined after a certain amount of cajoling from my kids.

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: GUEST,Barnacle (at work)
Date: 18 Oct 07 - 06:31 AM

I've never talked so much to my kids since I joined Facebooks. I think they go to "chat" to their mates and realise that "the folks" still exist. I have had one or two sarcastic comments such as "mother, how can keep one's street cred, with you around?", but it was they who invited me, so...

Join, it's good fun and bit by bit, friends of years ago are starting to creep out of the woodwork. I reccomend it, wholeheartedly

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From: RTim
Date: 15 Oct 07 - 01:54 PM

Facebook is Password Protected - However it is now possible to set yourself up with a web address that shows your "Profile"
Should anyone wish to try mine (I don't know if it works as I only set it up yesterday) Please PM me and i will send you the link.

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Catters on Facebook
From:
Date: 15 Oct 07 - 12:21 PM

Didn't know there was a Mudcat group there. Will check it out later in the week! Thanks, Jim.