FACEBOOK … Over and Out

I know it’s been a long time since I posted the last entry on my blog, but now it’s the right time to break my silence.

I never was a huge fan of FACEBOOK, I never got into all those drinks, villagers and farmers. From the first time I opened an account there, something always kept me away from going deeper into this whole social network thing. All I did over the time that I was a part of this system, I posted some pictures and gave some general information about me. Every 3 or 4 months I looked into my account on FACEBOOK and deleted all the friends requests from people I hade no idea who there are or why they wanted to be friends with me. The next thing I did, was to delete all the invitations to what ever goes around on FACEBOOK, that took me always at least 20 minutes. At the beginning of this year I deleted everyone from my account who wasn’t family or a very important friend to me, from 50 people (or a little more) only 6 survived this cleaning action.

Also beginning of this year, my account started to write invitations on the walls of my friends to some kind of movie group I never heard of. My account did this all by itself. So I thought that someone had hacked into my account to write links on the Walls of my friends.
After this happened for the second time, I started to change my privacy settings, so only my friends could find my profile there and I thought everything would be fine from now on.

But I was wrong. A few weeks ago, my account started again writing on the walls of the few friends I still had there on FACEBOOK. So I found out I own a brand new iPad and as nice as I am, there was also a link included where you could get an iPad for free.

Hey, I haven’t talked to you on facebook in a while,
but I thought I would message you from my new iPad that I
just got for free. Don’t tell anyone but this site is
glitching and sending out free iPads to anyone that signs up, …

That was the time I deleted every bit of information about me. Even all the pics I posted there and set my birth date as January 1st 1900, because I had to give an answer for it.
I got in contact with FACEBOOK about this problem. Following is the answer I got a few minutes later after I sent them an email:

Hi,

Thank you for reporting this potential phishing link. Unfortunately, we are unable to respond to each of these reports individually, but we are reviewing them.

Please be cautious when clicking links on the site, even if they were sent by friends. Make sure that you always access the site from a legitimate Facebook page with the facebook.com domain. If something looks or feels suspicious, go directly to www.facebook.com to log in.

For more information on phishing and other security topics, please visit our Security page:

http://www.facebook.com/security

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

The Facebook Team

Today my account told my friends that I’m writing them a message on there wall from my new iPhone G4, which I don’t own,

OH MY GOSH! I know I shouldn’t talk about this here in facebook, but I
thought I would message you from my new APPLE IPHONE 4G that I just got for
free.
Don’t tell anyone but there is a website sending out free iPhone 4G
to anyone that signs up, …

Thats enough. No more FACEBOOK for me. I deactivated my account there.

FACEBOOK … OVER and OUT

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