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But it is hard for a duplicate account to really pretend to be you. To be believable, they'd have to add enough of your friends - and some of your friends will be idiots and add him, but if even a couple of them don't, he won't be able to send out any more friend requests and Facebook will get suspicious of the account.
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While it is true that the name can be duplicated, the "username" is unique (Try it out, go to https://www.facebook.com/zuck to go directly to Mark Zuckerberg's account), as is (are) the email account(s) associated with said account. I signed up for quite a few services for the same reason, to secure my username. My Facebook account went unused for years before I realized that I could reconnect with people I had lost touch with over the years.
Also, I find it ironic that people are complaining about an online forum (Facebook) on an online forum. 
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Have to agree. I use FB a lot. I even found old girlfriends on other continents. Getting in touch with them after years was nice. 
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You do know that more than one person can have the same name?
Both in real life and Facebook.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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You mean...I'm not a GUID? 
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I don't have an account, OG, because I can't stop pretending to be me.
From my pov (aged, weakening eyes): FaceBook, Twitter, Linked In, Google+, etc., are all to the quality of public discourse as the Black Death was to medieval Europe, but, unfortunately the so-called "social networking sites" only leave people in PVS (Persistent Vegetative State), "virtually dead," rather than physically dead.
However, we are learning some very interesting things at this time, about what consciousness is by observing brain activity in people in PVS: [^].
What are we learning from the mass extinction of the quality of thought from FaceBook et. al. ?
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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BillWoodruff wrote: are all to the quality of public discourse as the Black Death was to medieval Europe,
As Lynne Truss says in her seminal work "Eats, Shoots and Leaves":
"Thirty years ago we assumed that television was the ultimate enemy of literacy and that, under the onslaught from image and sound, the written word would rapidly die out. Such fears, at least, have been dissipated. With text messaging and emailing becoming such compulsive universal activities, reading and writing are now more a fact of everyday life than they have ever been. The text message may be a vehicle for some worrying verbal shorthand ("CU B4 8?"), yet every time a mobile goes "Beep-beep; beep-beep" annoyingly within earshot on the bus, we should be grateful for a technological miracle that stepped in unexpectedly to save us from a predicted future that couldn't read at all."
And when talking about social media:
"...by tragic historical coincidence a period of abysmal undereducating in literacy has coincided with this unexpected explosion of global self-publishing. Thus people who don't know their apostrophe from their elbow are positively invited to disseminate their writings to anyone on the planet stupid enough to double-click and scroll."
Interestingly, Google chrome doesn't like that last quote: it insists it should be "under education" rather than "undereducating", and I'm afraid I have to agree with the Large Company rather than the grammatacologist... 
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BTW: I share your pain regarding the "aged, weakening eyes" - I now have three pairs of glasses: "Walk about", "Reading", and "Computer" without which I am well and truly stuffed.
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adriancs wrote: tired of Facebook
Friends don't let friends Farcebook.
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Yeah, right. And the article have a big Like button just under the title, plus others (I don't know what they are, twitter and some others).
"Control yourself, general." (Starship Troopers)
That's what you need to do on Facebook. Or anywhere else.
Nuclear launch detected
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I have been on Facebook for years. I visit my Facebook account once a year in case I have missed something important.
So far, nothing.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Not a bad list of things not to do on FB, but he forgot thing-not-to-do 0:
0: Log in.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Apart from maintaining a company page, I have no Facebook account. I have never had the slightest desire to have one either.
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"App Requests" is a little tricky. You may not want to use that app but at the same time you do not want to hurt the feeling of your friend.
TOMZ_KV
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If I saw this I'd click the like button so hard the facebook servers would poop!
Punched the wife on that one!
If it moves, compile it
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I wish I had come up with this idea: honest tech headlines[^]
A few:
- This Is About 10% As Important As We're Making It Sound
- Let's All Pretend Smartwatches Are A Great Idea
- Based On This Title, It's Time To Head Straight To The Comments Section To Call The Author An Idiot
- We Know This Thing Is Not True At All But Pageviews So Question Mark?
- Report Commissioned By Company Makes Company Look Fantastic
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TTFN - Kent
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Good one. I thought this was funny too:
"Another Story About How You Gave Enormous Companies All Of Your Information And Expected The Government Not To Want It"
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Or
"I Can't be Ar$ed Today, So Here Is Another Page Full Of Nothing."
"I'm not an Apple Fanbois Honest, But the Industry Benchmarks Must Be Wrong and iPhone is Still A Winner."
"Cloud Computing, Big Data, Irrevelant Buzzwords that I Needed to Use In This Article"
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That they're shutting down due to lack of interest?
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Mike Hankey wrote: That they're shutting down due to lack of interest?
I don't know if I'd call that "interesting". More like, "delightful".
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TTFN - Kent
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It only took seven years for an interesting one to emerge?
That's surprising. I thought it would take at least nine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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