In message , Martin
writes
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:42:00 +0000, Chris French
wrote:

In message , Stephen
Wolstenholme writes
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:43:57 +0000, Broadback
wrote:

Well I gave it a go, but it is so invasive. I am constantly getting
emails telling me that I have more friends than I realise, I have never
heard of them, they are not friends, they are contacts of contacts of
contacts ad nauseum. So into touch it gets kicked.

That was and still my experience with Facebook. They won't let me go
so I assume other people are getting messages about me being their
friend.

I don't think I've ever had emails telling me about potential friends.
In fact I don't really get any emails from Facebook at all.

Everyone I ask about their use of Facebook says the same thing about
it trying to make people into friends but they all continue to use it!


I'm no great fan of Facebook, but a few pictures on the website saying
you may know these people isn't exactly trying to make people into
friends though is it. It's easily ignored

Not when most are pretty women, who are half my age. :-)

Friend them, then it will probably offer you more :-)
--
Chris French

On 2015-10-28 16:28:27 +0000, Martin said:

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:25:24 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:51:08 -0400, S Viemeister
wrote:

On 10/28/2015 11:43 AM, Broadback wrote:
Well I gave it a go, but it is so invasive. I am constantly getting
emails telling me that I have more friends than I realise, I have never
heard of them, they are not friends, they are contacts of contacts of
contacts ad nauseum. So into touch it gets kicked.

I turned off email notifications.

So did I but I still get them.

I don't.

Nor I. It's important to use Facebook as YOU want it to be. Like
newspapers, it makes money from those who advertise on it, it costs us
nothing. So you will receive a variety of posts when you're new and
haven't set your security or likes and dislikes. Beside each post is a
little downward pointing arrow which gives you the choice of seeing
more similar posts to those you've received, less or none. And there
are other options, too.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On 2015-10-30 09:07:49 +0000, Muddymike said:

In message , Stephen
Wolstenholme writes
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:43:57 +0000, Broadback
wrote:

Well I gave it a go, but it is so invasive. I am constantly getting
emails telling me that I have more friends than I realise, I have never
heard of them, they are not friends, they are contacts of contacts of
contacts ad nauseum. So into touch it gets kicked.

That was and still my experience with Facebook. They won't let me go
so I assume other people are getting messages about me being their
friend.

I don't think I've ever had emails telling me about potential friends.
In fact I don't really get any emails from Facebook at all.

Everyone I ask about their use of Facebook says the same thing about
it trying to make people into friends but they all continue to use it!


I'm no great fan of Facebook, but a few pictures on the website
saying you may know these people isn't exactly trying to make people
into friends though is it. It's easily ignored

Those fascinate me. Several are people I have known but it baffles me
how Face Book made the connection. Often with no friends in common.

Mike

They may have looked for you so Fb has a record of that. Just a guess.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On 2015-10-29 09:03:04 +0000, CT said:

Broadback wrote:

Well I gave it a go, but it is so invasive. I am constantly getting
emails telling me that I have more friends than I realise, I have
never heard of them, they are not friends, they are contacts of
contacts of contacts ad nauseum. So into touch it gets kicked.

Facebook is what you want it to be. Eventually.

I like it, but then I stopped all emails & notifications straight away,
locked down my privacy settings, and over time have blocked the things
I don't want to see.

Of course, all this takes a little time to get into place and I can see
that "out of the box" it can appear very intrusive but IMO the pros
outweight the cons (which for me, now, are few & far between).

I think that's a very good explanation of it. You can select who sees
your posts and separate them into distinct groups, too.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon